Bill Text: HI HB247 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Referred to EDU, WAM. [HB247 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-HB247-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SCHOOLS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that hot classroom temperatures in Hawaii's public schools can adversely affect students by making them drowsy, irritable, and unmotivated. Hawaii's overheated classrooms can also cause students to suffer headaches, nausea, and heat rashes.
The legislature further finds that classroom temperatures even over eighty degrees can lead to students' decreased concentration and decreased performance on testing.
The legislature finds that heat abatement in Hawaii's public schools is becoming a necessity for students to learn and enjoy their time in school. During the fall of 2017, the State fulfilled its promise to install air conditioning in more than one thousand classrooms in eighty-eight public schools across five islands. However, there continues to be a need to install air conditioning in public school classrooms as some classrooms remain without air conditioning units.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the installation of air conditioning in Hawaii's public school permanent classrooms and portable classrooms that have not yet received air conditioning units; provided that the school principal designates the installation of air conditioning units as the school's top priority.
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 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the installation of air conditioning in those Hawaii public school classrooms that have not received air conditioning units; provided that the school principal designates the installation of air conditioning units as the school's top priority.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Public Schools; Air Conditioning; Appropriations
Description:
Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project. (HB247 HD1)
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