Report Title:

Education

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for a 12-month (year-round) student activities coordinator for each public high school. (HB3 HD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

3

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that student activities coordinators plan, direct, coordinate, and implement a student activities program as an integral part of the educational experience of students at schools. Almost all high schools have student activities coordinators who are employed on a full-time basis. However, the demands on student activities coordinators are so great that part-time positions have been found to be inadequate to effectively handle the sweeping scope and responsibilities of the student activities program. In addition, the job of the student activities coordinator is, in reality, a twelve-month job because student activities are not (and should not be) limited to the traditional ten-month school calendar.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds so that each public high school has a full-time student activities coordinator hired on a twelve-month basis.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002 for student activities coordinators so that each public high school has one full-time student activities coordinator hired on a twelve-month basis.

SECTION 3. 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, 2001.