STAND. COM. REP. NO.167

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 56

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 56 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL SECURITY GUARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a mandatory basic training program for secondary school security guards.

The Department of Education and four individuals testified in support of this measure.

Currently, Department of Education school security attendants (SSAs) require no certification or prior security experience as a precondition of employment. Your Committee finds that requiring secondary school SSAs to undergo basic security guard training will enhance the safety and security of Hawaii's secondary school students and enable SSAs to more effectively perform their duties. Therefore, this measure appropriates funds to establish such a training program.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 56 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair