Bill Text: HI HB2705 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public Education; Physical Education; Working Group; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-17 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB2705 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2705-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that it is important for children to develop healthy lifelong habits while they are young. Schools, and the communities they serve, must be involved in encouraging those healthy habits.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to establish a working group to assess the sufficiency of physical education resources and opportunities in the State's kindergartens through elementary grades in public schools. The working group shall also examine ways to involve the communities that are served by those schools, including community and nonprofit organizations, to seek solutions that are widely acceptable.
SECTION 2. (a) The department of education shall convene a working group to assess the sufficiency of physical education resources and opportunities in the State's kindergartens through elementary grades in public schools, including but not limited to:
(1) The number of available and filled positions related to physical education;
(2) The sufficiency of resources available for physical education;
(3) The utilization and effectiveness of resources available for physical education;
(4) Whether opportunities for physical education should be increased; and
(5) Whether the number of positions related to physical education should be increased.
(b) The working group shall comprise sixteen members, including:
(1) The superintendent of education, who shall serve as chairperson;
(2) The complex area superintendent of each of the State's fifteen complex areas;
(3) A representative of the state public charter school commission; and
(4) A physical education teacher.
(c) The working group shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2017.
(d) The working group shall be dissolved upon the submission of its report.
SECTION 3. 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 2016-2017 for the work of the working group convened in section 2 of this Act.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2016.
Report Title:
Public Education; Physical Education; Working Group; Appropriation
Description:
Establishes a working group to assess physical education in kindergarten through elementary grades in public schools and report to the Legislature. (HB2705 HD1)
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