Bill Text: HI SB299 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 299 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To The Board Of Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-22 - Referred to EDU, JDC. [SB299 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB299-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	299
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the board of education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

PART I

SECTION 1. Section 302A-1106.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§302A-1106.5 Board of education; community meetings. [~~The board shall hold not less than one community meeting annually in each county in~~] In addition to their regular meetings, the board shall hold no less than six community meetings annually to discuss and receive input from the community on public education and public library issues[.]; provided that the board shall hold at least one community meeting in each county. The board chairperson shall designate board members to attend the community meetings. These community meetings shall not be held for the purpose of formulating educational policy. The community meetings shall be exempt from sections 92-2.5, 92-7, 92-9, and 92-41; provided that the board shall give written public notice of each community meeting. The meeting notice shall indicate the date, time, and place of the meeting, and shall be filed in the office of the lieutenant governor and in the board's office for public inspection six calendar days before the meeting. The notice shall also be posted at the site of the meeting."

PART II

SECTION 2. At any public meeting properly noticed pursuant to chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the board of education shall include an open forum at the end of its meeting agenda to afford all interested persons an opportunity to present oral testimony on any matter not on the agenda; provided that the testimony is related to matters over which the board of education has supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power.

SECTION 3. The board of education shall report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2020 on its efforts to amend its polices to include an open forum at the end of its meeting agenda to afford all interested persons an opportunity to present oral testimony on any matter not on the agenda.

PART III

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, 2019; provided that section 2 shall be repealed on June 30, 2024.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Board of Education; Public Meetings; Oral Testimony; Community Meetings

Description:

Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community meetings each year; provided that at least one meeting shall be held in each county. Requires the board of education to allow public testimony on items not on a public meeting agenda if certain requirements are met. Repeals the public testimony requirement on June 30, 2024. Requires the board of education to report to the legislature.

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