Report Title:

A+ fees; Department of Education

Description:

Creates the after-school programs special fund into which fees from after-school programs are deposited, to be administered by the department of education.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

929

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO aFTER-sCHOOL PROGRAMS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 302A-408, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§302A-408 After-school and weekend programs. (a) The department and the appropriate county agencies may establish and regulate programs of after-school and weekend community-school activities for children, including but not limited to child-care programs, arts and crafts, hula, ukulele, and other recreational projects, wherever feasible, at public school and public park facilities. In addition to any appropriation of public funds, reasonable fees established by the agencies operating the programs may be collected from children enrolled, in the furtherance of particular programs. The appropriate agencies may obtain from time to time the services of persons in a voluntary or unpaid capacity, exempt from chapter 76, as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this section, and may regulate their duties, powers, and responsibilities when not otherwise provided by law. Any person whose services have been so accepted, while engaged in the performance of duty under this section, shall be deemed a state employee or an employee of a political subdivision, as the case may be, in determining the liability of the State or the political subdivision for the negligent acts of these persons.

(b) There is established in the state treasury the after-school programs special fund, into which shall be deposited all fees collected for after-school programs operated at all public schools. The legislature may appropriate general funds into the special fund to support the operations of the after-school programs.

(c) Moneys in the fund shall be used to pay the expenses of the after-school programs, including salaries, personal services contracts, supplies, and other operating expenses. The fund shall be administered by the department of education."

SECTION 2. 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, to be paid into the after-school programs special fund established in section 302A-408, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the after-school programs special fund, the sum of $          , for fiscal year 2003-2004 to be expended by the department of education for the purposes of the fund.

SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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