Report Title:

DOE; Physical Education Positions

Description:

Appropriates funds to provide full-time physical education positions in the DOE.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2148

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that a strong physical education program in the schools helps keep children physically fit, reducing obesity and increasing their overall wellness. This, in turn, enhances academic performance and provides a firm basis to facilitate their overall physical, emotional, social, educational, and moral development. The legislature further finds that the mutual interdependence of these elements must be enhanced by enacting an integrated approach that incorporates physical education into the regular classroom curriculum by the physical education teachers providing in-service training for classroom teachers.

The legislature recommends that these physical education positions be funded at $2,200,000 per year over the course of five years, for a total of $11 million.

The purpose of this Act is to provide funding to the department of education for full-time physical education positions that may be assigned to schools or school complexes throughout the State, provided that these positions are prioritized by the department to serve school complexes with high levels of obesity.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $2,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, to provide for full-time physical education positions to be assigned to schools or school complexes throughout the State.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

s SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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