Bill Text: HI HB2061 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-06 - The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2061 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2061-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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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 the current state of interscholastic sports in Hawaii does not address situations where a student is unable to participate in school sports simply because their school does not offer the athletic program the student is interested in. The legislature further finds that this gap in accessibility disproportionately impacts students who attend public charter schools, which may not have the resources to offer a variety of athletic programs. The absence of athletic programs in these schools can hinder students' physical, emotional, and social development and deprive them of potential scholarship opportunities.
SECTION 2. This act shall be known as the "Access to Athletics Act".
SECTION 3. Section 302D-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302D-31
Athletics. The department
shall provide students at charter schools, including students enrolled at
charter schools whose curriculum incorporates virtual education, with the same
opportunity to participate in athletics as is provided to students at
department schools. If a student at any charter school wishes to participate
in a sport for which there is no athletic program at the charter school,
the department shall allow that student to participate in a comparable program
at [the] a department school in the [service] complex
area in which the student resides[.]; provided that if the department
school in the service area where the student would attend, if the student was
not otherwise enrolled at a charter school, offers an athletic program for the
sport in which the student wishes to participate, the student shall participate
in the athletic program at that department school and may not participate in an
athletic program at a different department school within the same complex area. All charter school students participating
in athletics shall abide by all rules, regulations, and policies of the
athletic league, association, and program applicable to the department school
in whose athletic program the student is participating."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2024.
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Report Title:
Department of Education; Charter Schools; Athletics; Comparable Programs
Description:
Allows a public charter school student who wishes to participate in a sport for which there is no athletic program at the student's charter school the ability to participate in a comparable program at any department school in the complex area where the student resides. Specifies that if the department school in the student's service area offers the student's desired athletic program, the student must participate in that athletic program and may not participate in an athletic program at a different department school in the same complex area.
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