Bill Text: HI SB820 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Board of Education; Student Representatives; Public Schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB820 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-SB820-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	820
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the Board of Education.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 302A-121, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  Pursuant to section 302A-447, the state student council shall select [a] two nonvoting public high school student [representative] representatives to the board."

     SECTION 2.  Section 302A-123, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  The term of [the] each student representative shall be one year.  [The] Each student representative may be selected for one additional consecutive term; provided that [the] each student representative shall be a student at the time of selection and shall be a student for the majority of that term."

     SECTION 3.  Section 302A-447, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The council shall determine whether it shall directly select the student [representative] representatives to the board or whether it shall run an election to select [that individual.] those individuals."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Board of Education; Student Representatives; Public Schools

 

Description:

Increases the number of public school student representatives on the board of education from one to two.

 

 

 

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