REPORT TITLE:
Education; Laboratory Fees


DESCRIPTION:
Allows the department of education to assess and collect special
fees and charges from pupils for laboratory classes, including,
but not limited to science, home economics, photography, and band
classes.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPECIAL FEES AND CHARGES.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 302A-1130, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended as follows:
 
 3      1.  By amending subsection (a) to read:
 
 4      "(a)  No equipment, material, or other fees shall be
 
 5 assessed against any pupil in any school, except that the
 
 6 department may assess and collect special fees and charges from
 
 7 pupils for [co-curricular]:
 
 8      (1)  Co-curricular activities [and from pupils who
 
 9           negligently break, damage, lose, or destroy];
 
10      (2)  The negligent breakage, damage, loss, or destruction of
 
11           school books, equipment, or supplies[.]; and
 
12      (3)  Laboratory classes, including, but not limited to,
 
13           science, home economics, photography, and band classes.
 
14 Any pupil found to be responsible for the loss, destruction,
 
15 breakage, or damage of school books, [which shall include]
 
16 including library books and textbooks, of equipment, or of
 
17 supplies, shall make restitution to the school in any manner,
 
18 including the payment by the pupil or the pupil's parents or
 
19 guardian of the actual replacement costs."
 
20      2.  By amending subsection (e) to read:
 

 
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 1      "(e)  Special fees and charges collected from pupils for co-
 
 2 curricular activities and laboratory classes shall be deposited
 
 3 into insured checking or savings accounts and expended by each
 
 4 individual school under rules adopted by the department pursuant
 
 5 to chapter 91."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  This Act shall apply to school years beginning
 
 7 after its effective date.
 
 8      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 9 New statutory material is underscored.
 
10      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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12                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________