Report Title:

Education; Career Counselors

Description:

Appropriates funding to hire additional career counselors for each department of education high school, based on school enrollment.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

62

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to education.

 

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

SECTION 1. Hawaii places great emphasis on providing students in the public school system with an education so that they can become mature, independent, productive, and responsible members of our society. In addition to the classroom education, career and college guidance are key elements in helping students to meet the challenges of life. As there are many and various careers and pathways for students to follow, as part of their public education, students need guidance to help them make more informed and better educational and career choices.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funding to hire one career and college counselor for every three hundred senior students enrolled in public high schools.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, to hire one career and college counselor for every three hundred senior students who are enrolled in a public high school to provide them with college and career preparation assistance, including career and college planning, college visitations, scholarship coordination, and career assessment and development.

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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