HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1070 |
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that certain public schools have geographical features,
such as streams or rough terrain, on or adjacent to their property and have
been required to expend their own school funds to maintain these features. There are currently twenty-four public schools
with streams and one hundred thirteen schools with other types of terrain, which
these schools need to pay to maintain. The
legislature further finds that these schools' financial resources could and
should be better spent on actual education-related needs. In addition, because not all public schools have
streams or rough terrain on or adjacent to their property, schools that do should
not be unfairly disadvantaged.
The purpose of this Act is to prohibit
public schools from being required by the department of education to expend any
school funds to maintain any geographically disadvantageous land, including
streams and rough terrain.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A-
Maintenance of geographically disadvantageous land; expenditure
of school funds; prohibited. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a public
school shall not be required by the department of education to expend any school
funds to maintain any geographically disadvantageous land on or adjacent to its
property.
(b) As used in this section:
"Geographically
disadvantageous land" includes rough terrain and streams.
"Rough terrain" means
land that is uncultivated, undeveloped, and unsuitable for educational purposes
and that may be covered by scrub or boulders.
"Stream" means natural, altered, or improved channels that have seasonal or continuous water flows as a result of either surface stormwater runoff or groundwater influx, or both. Streams include channels, streambeds, stream banks, drainage ways, and stream mouths."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Schools; Geographically Disadvantageous Land
Description:
Provides that a public school shall not be required by the Department of Education to expend its own school funds to maintain any geographically disadvantageous land on or adjacent to its property.
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