Bill Text: HI HB2077 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of Education; High School Student Age Limits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-06-03 - (H) Act 163, on 6/3/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 380). [HB2077 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2077-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 240-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2077
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2077 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the age limits for high school by requiring that:
(1) No child 19 years old or older be admitted to the 11th grade of a public four-year high school; and
(2) No child 20 years old or older be admitted to the 12th grade of a public four-year high school.
The Hawaii Disability Rights Center and Autism Society of Hawaii opposed this bill. The Department of the Attorney General offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing the provisions that currently exist in law, as well as the clarifications listed above, with provisions that limit the age of admission to a public school to 20 years of age as of the first instructional day of the school year. An individual that reaches the age of 21 during the remainder of the school year would continue to be eligible for the full school year.
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. 2077, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2077, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair |
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