Report Title:

Education; Children with Disabilities

 

Description:

Provides parents of children with disabilities with additional flexibility in choices relating to education.  (HB1648 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1648

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

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 purpose of this Act is to provide parents of children with disabilities with additional flexibility in choices relating to education.

     SECTION 2.  Section 302A-1143, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§302A-1143  Attend school in what district.  All persons of school age shall be required to attend the school of the district in which they reside, unless enrolled in a Hawaiian language medium education program, or unless it appears to the department to be desirable to allow the attendance of pupils at a school in some other district, in which case the department may grant this permission[.]; provided that a child with a disability shall be granted permission to attend a school outside of the district in which they reside, upon request by the parent or guardian of the child with a disability, and in the same manner provided to children without disabilities."

     SECTION 4.  Section 302B-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  The department shall collaborate with the office to develop a system of technical assistance related to compliance with federal and state laws and access to federal and state funds.  The department and the office shall collaborate to develop a list of central services [that the department may offer for purchase by a charter school at an annual cost to be negotiated between an individual charter school and the department.  The] and the department shall enter into a contract with [a] the charter school to provide these services, which shall be renegotiated on an annual basis."

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.