Report Title:

Home-Schooled Students; Extracurricular and Co-Curricular Activities; DOE

Description:

Allows home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities of the public school to which the home-schooled student would be assigned, in accordance with the department of education's school attendance area policies. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2805

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.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. Extracurricular and co-curricular activities, including but not limited to competitive interscholastic sports, academic teams and clubs at the public schools are important for the holistic development of students.

The purpose of this Act is to allow home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities of the public school to which the home-schooled student would be assigned, in accordance with the department of education's school attendance area policies.

SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302A-   Participation of home-schooled students in extracurricular and co-curricular activities. (a) A home-schooled student shall be eligible to apply to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities, including but not limited to interscholastic competitive sports, academic teams, and clubs, of the public school to which the home-schooled student would be assigned, in accordance with the department's school attendance area policies. The home-schooled student may not be granted a geographic exception for this purpose.

(b) Eligibility and participation requirements for home-schooled students in extracurricular and co-curricular activities of their assigned public school shall be determined by rules to be adopted by the department under chapter 91.

(c) A public school may charge a home-schooled student participating in an activity a participation fee as a prerequisite to participation, if the enrolled student is also required to pay a participation fee as a prerequisite to participation. The fee amount that the school may charge a home-schooled student for participation in a particular activity shall be equivalent to the fee amount the school charges an enrolled student to participate in the same activity; provided that if any fee is collected pursuant to this subsection for participation in an activity, the fee shall be used to fund the particular activity for which it is charged and shall not be expended for any other purposes.

(d) The department shall not be responsible for transportation of the home-schooled student from the student's home to the site of the extracurricular and co-curricular activity.

(e) The State shall not be liable for any incident occurring or injuries sustained by the home-schooled student during the period of time the student is in transit from home to the site of the extracurricular or co-curricular activity.

(f) The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the purposes of this section."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.