Report Title:

Hawaiian Language; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds to establish a preschool and junior kindergarten program in the medium of the Hawaiian language.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1532

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to hawaiian language EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

 

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

SECTION 1. The State of Hawaii has two official languages, Hawaiian and English, and has a constitutional mandate to promote the study of Hawaiian. The State has established a Hawaiian language public education system and a Hawaiian language college to provide for education through the use of Hawaiian language. The legislature sees a need to provide parallel support for preschool education and pre-kindergarten through the use of the Hawaiian language.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to establish a preschool and junior kindergarten program in the medium of the Hawaiian language.

SECTION 2. The college of Hawaiian language at the University of Hawaii at Hilo shall provide a program of preschool and junior kindergarten education in the medium of the Hawaiian language through its laboratory school program, in cooperation with other public and private entities as appropriate.

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 2005-2006, to establish a program of preschool and junior kindergarten education in the medium of the Hawaiian language.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii at Hilo for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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