Bill Text: HI HB797 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; Student Instructional Time
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. [HB797 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB797-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to student instructional time.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-251, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-251 School year; instructional
time. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, beginning with
the [2011-2013] 2015-2016 school [years,] year, all
public schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall
implement a school year of one hundred eighty days, excluding professional
development days and other non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to
chapter 89.
[(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary:
(1) For the 2011-2012 school year, fifty
per cent of all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter
schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that
includes nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours; and
(2) Beginning with the 2012-2013 school
year, all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter schools and
multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes nine
hundred fifteen student instructional hours.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2014-2016 school years, all public secondary schools,
excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a
school year that includes nine hundred ninety student instructional hours.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2016-2018 school years, all public schools, excluding charter
schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year of one
hundred eighty days, excluding professional development days and other
non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89, that shall include
one thousand eighty student instructional hours for both elementary and
secondary school grades.
(e) The board, in its discretion, may grant
a waiver to any individual school subject to the student instructional hours or
one hundred eighty day school year requirements in this section. The board
shall adopt policies and procedures to grant a waiver under this subsection.
(f) For purposes of this section,
"student instructional hours" means student learning time during
which students are engaged in learning activities including regularly-scheduled
instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum, and does not
include lunch, recess, or passing time.
(g)] (b) The department of
education, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in
consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units,
shall submit to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the
convening of the regular sessions of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, a
report on its progress and efforts to meet the requirements of [subsections (a),
(b), (c), and (d).] this section."
SECTION 2. Act 167, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, is amended by repealing section 4.
["SECTION 4. The department of
education shall, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in
consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units,
submit to the legislature, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the regular session of 2012, a plan to implement a school year of one hundred
ninety days, excluding professional development days and other
non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, that shall include one thousand one hundred forty student
instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades at all
public schools, except charter schools, for school years beginning with the
2015-2016 school year. For purposes of this section, "student
instructional hours" shall have the same meaning as in section 302A- ,
Hawaii Revised Statutes."]
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Education; Student Instructional Time
Description:
Repeals student instructional hour requirements.
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