Report Title:

BOE; Student Members

 

Description:

Adds a second student member on the BOE and changes the first student member from a nonvoting to a voting member, to establish the senior member to be the voting member each year.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

12

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to education.

 

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

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article X, section 2, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to increase the number of public high school student members on the board of education from one to two and to change the status of only the earlier selected student member from a nonvoting to a voting member.

SECTION 2. Article X, section 2, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"BOARD OF EDUCATION

Section 2. There shall be a board of education composed of members who shall be elected in a nonpartisan manner by qualified voters, as provided by law, from two at-large school board districts. The first school board district shall be comprised of the island of Oahu and all other islands not specifically enumerated. The second school board district shall be comprised of the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Kahoolawe, Kauai and Niihau. Each at-large school board district shall be divided into departmental school districts, as may be provided by law. There shall be at least one member residing in each departmental school district. The Hawaii State Student Council shall select [a] two public high school [student] students, only the earlier selected member to serve as a [nonvoting] voting member on the board of education[.]; provided that the voting student member shall not be permitted to vote upon matters regarding personnel."

SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

SECTION 4. Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New constitutional material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This amendment shall take effect upon

compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of

the State of Hawaii.

INTRODUCED BY:

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