HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

237

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

Urging the Department of education to hold students financially accountable for lost or damaged textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, and supplies.

 

 

WHEREAS, school books, including textbooks and library books, and instructional materials that include equipment and supplies are essential to the education of students; and

WHEREAS, public schools cannot afford to replace textbooks, library books, instructional materials, equipment, or supplies that are lost, damaged, destroyed, or broken; and

WHEREAS, current law allows the Department of Education to assess and collect special fees from students who negligently break, damage, lose, or destroy school books, equipment, or supplies; and

WHEREAS, requiring public schools to assess fees from students for breaking, damaging, losing, or destroying these items will help to relieve schools of these replacement costs and will encourage students to respect and take proper care of the school books, including textbooks and library books, equipment, and supplies provided for their education; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Education is requested to exercise its statutory authority to hold students financially accountable for the loss, destruction, breakage, or damage of school books, equipment, and supplies; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Superintendent and the Chairperson of the Board of Education.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Urging the DOE to hold students financially accountable for lost or damaged textbooks or instructional materials