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,
____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair |
____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |