STAND. COM. REP. NO.  137

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 237

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 237 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS FOR JUVENILES INVOLVED IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide additional educational support for juveniles involved in the justice system by appropriating an unspecified amount in general funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of Education for alternative schools in the Honolulu School District and Leeward School District to facilitate the ongoing education of this group.

 

     The Department of Education, Office of Youth Services, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language making reference to a grant-in-aid;

 

     (2)  Including other youth, age 14 or older, who are not able to achieve in a traditional school setting, among those who are eligible to attend the alternative schools;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Education to develop enrollment criteria and a referral and placement process for the alternative schools funded by the appropriations in this measure; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 237, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 237, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair