Bill Text: HI SB238 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Instructional Hours

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Failed to pass Third Reading with 21 Ayes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Awana, Belatti, Cachola, Choy, Evans, Ichiyama, Jordan, Kobayashi, Luke, Mizuno, Nakashima, Nishimoto, Ohno, Onishi, Oshiro, Rhoads, Saiki, Souki, Takayama, Takumi, Yamashita; 30 Noes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Aquino, Brower, Cabanilla, Carroll, Cheape, Coffman, Cullen, Fale, Fukumoto, Hanohano, Har, Hashem, Ing, Ito, Johanson, Kawakami, C. Lee, Lowen, McDermott, McKelvey, Morikawa, Say, Takai, Thielen, Tokioka, Tsuji, Ward, Woodson, Wooley, Yamane ; and 0 Excused Rep.(s) none. [SB238 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB238-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1003

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 238

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 238 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide additional guidance to the Department of Education by amending the definition of student instructional hours for elementary and secondary schools to include specified activities and all other activities to which a related general learner outcome is attached.

 

     The Department of Education, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Special Education Advisory Council, and IMUA Alliance supported this bill.  The Hui for Excellence in Education supported this measure with amendments.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association and several concerned individuals opposed this bill.  Three concerned individuals provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that statutorily specified student instructional hour requirements are minimum requirements;

 

     (2)  Narrowing the definition of student instructional hours for secondary schools by removing unspecified activities to which a general learner outcome can be attached; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 238, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 238, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

		____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair