Bill Text: HI HB688 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Keiki Caucus; Bullying
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-11 - (H) Act 214, on 7/11/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). [HB688 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-HB688-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A‑101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding three new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Bullying" means any written, verbal, graphic, or physical act or acts that:
(1) A student or group of students exhibits toward another student or group of students;
(2) Cause mental or physical harm to the other student or group of students; and
(3) Are sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive to create an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment.
Bullying includes conduct that is based on a student's actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, physical appearance and characteristic, or socio-economic status; or a student's association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
"Cyberbullying" means an act or acts exhibited by one student or group of students to another student or group of students that:
(1) Are conveyed by electronic transmission via the Internet, a cell phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a wireless hand-held device;
(2) Cause mental or physical harm to the student or group of students that receives the electronic transmission; and
(3) Are sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive to create an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment.
"Harassment" means harassing, bullying, including cyberbullying, annoying, or alarming a student or group of students by engaging in conduct that includes:
(1) Striking, shoving, kicking, or otherwise touching a student or group of students in an offensive manner or subjecting that student or group of students to offensive physical contact;
(2) Insulting, taunting, or challenging another student or group of students in a manner likely to provoke a violent response;
(3) Making verbal or non-verbal expressions that cause another student or group of students to feel uncomfortable, pressured, threatened, or in danger because of reasons that include the student's or group's actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, physical appearance and characteristic, and socio-economic status, or association therewith, that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational environment, or interferes with the education of a student or group of students, or otherwise adversely affects the educational opportunity of a student or group of students;
(4) Name calling, making rude gestures, insulting, or teasing another student or group of students who, as a result, feels humiliated, intimidated, threatened, or embarrassed;
(5) Making a telephone call without the purpose of legitimate communication;
(6) Making repeated communications anonymously, at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language on campus or other department of education premises, on department of education transportation, or during a department of education-sponsored activity or event on or off school property;
(7) Causing fear as to prevent other students or groups of students from gaining legitimate access to or use of school buildings, facilities, services, or grounds such as restroom facilities; and
(8) Physically harming, physically restraining, threatening, or stalking, or a combination thereof."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2030.
Report Title:
Keiki Caucus; Safe Schools Act; Bullying
Description:
Defines "bullying", "cyberbullying", and "harassment" in Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the public schools. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB688 HD2)
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