STAND. COM. REP. 339

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1088

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1088 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable teachers to exclude violent or disruptive students from their classrooms.

The Governor supported this bill. The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of the measure.

Your Committee finds that students cannot learn when violence or disruption perpetrated by other students occurs during instructional time. This bill would insure that learning occurs in a safe environment by authorizing the teachers to immediately exclude violent or disruptive students from the classrooms.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1088 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Education,

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair