Report Title:

School Supplies; Textbooks

Description:

Requires the DOE to: provide students with textbooks, workbooks, equipment, apparatus, and other supplies; and provide each principal with $250 per teacher to reimburse teachers' out-of-pocket expenses for supplies, necessary for students to perform the required school work and master the curriculum.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

666

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

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 department of education shall provide students with textbooks, workbooks, equipment, apparatus, and other supplies in sufficient number and of appropriate quality necessary for each student to perform the required school work and master the curriculum, as determined by the principals in association with the teachers.

SECTION 2. The department of education shall provide each public school principal with an allocation of $250 per teacher in the principal's school for the purpose of reimbursing teachers' out-of-pocket expenses for supplies necessary for their students to perform the required school work and master the curriculum.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $        , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, to carry out the purposes of this Act. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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