Bill Text: HI SB3093 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Official School Business.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. [SB3093 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB3093-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO OFFICIAL SCHOOL BUSINESS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to provide increased protection for educational workers to conduct school business by establishing the offense of harassment of an educational worker.
SECTION 2. Chapter 711, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§711- Harassment of an educational worker. (1) A person commits the offense of harassment of an educational worker if, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm an educational worker, that person disrupts or interferes with the administration or functions of any school, school administration office, or school board.
(2) Harassment of an educational worker is a
misdemeanor.
(3) For the purposes of this section:
"Educational worker" means any
administrator, specialist, counselor, teacher, or employee of the department of
education or an employee of a charter school; a person who is a volunteer, as
defined in section 90-1, in a school program, activity, or function that is
established, sanctioned, or approved by the department of education; or a
person hired by the department of education on a contractual basis and engaged
in carrying out a department of education function.
"Person" means a person who has reached the age of majority and does not include a minor who is enrolled as a student at the school in which the offense of harassment of an educational worker occurred."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.
Report Title:
Harassment of an Educational Worker; Misdemeanor
Description:
Creates a misdemeanor offense under certain circumstances for disrupting or interfering with the administration or functions of any school, school administration office, or school board. (SD1)
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