Bill Text: HI HB2683 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 2683

Bill Title: Relating To Access To Learning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-19 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. [HB2683 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2683-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2683
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO ACCESS TO LEARNING.

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

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to clarify and make adjustments to part V of Act 46, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, based on data and information from the university of Hawaii at Hilo college of Hawaiian language program.

SECTION 2. Act 46, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, as amended by section 13 of Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, is amended by amending section 16 to read as follows:

"SECTION 16. The standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requirements established by this Act shall not apply to any laboratory school program of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo [~~until July 1, 2026~~]; provided that all child care centers at any applicable college shall be licensed by the department of human services prior to accepting children into care."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.

Report Title:

UH; Hilo; Hawaiian Language; Exemptions

Description:

Makes permanent the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requirements. Takes effect 7/1/3000. (SD1)

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