REPORT TITLE:
Student Identification Cards


DESCRIPTION:
Requires the DOE to establish an identification system for
students in middle, intermediate, and high schools to improve on-
campus security.  Allows the student identification system to be
used by the DOE to monitor school success.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.724        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO A STUDENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  (a)  The department of education shall establish
 
 2 an identification system for students in middle schools,
 
 3 intermediate schools, and high schools.  Subject to the
 
 4 availability of funds, the department may also establish an
 
 5 identification system for students in elementary schools.
 
 6      The purpose of the student identification system shall be to
 
 7 improve on-campus security.  Subject to the availability of
 
 8 funds, the student identification system may also be used to
 
 9 monitor school success.
 
10      (b)  The student identification system shall consist of a
 
11 durable, inexpensive, tamper-resistant identification card; a
 
12 photograph of the student; the student's unique identification
 
13 number; and such other information that the department determines
 
14 may be relevant to improving on-campus security.
 
15      Subject to the availability of funds, the student
 
16 identification system may also consist of such other information
 
17 that the department determines may be relevant to monitoring
 
18 school success.
 
19      A student's unique identification number shall not be, nor
 

 
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 1 shall it include, the student's social security number.
 
 2      (c)  Subject to the availability of funds, the department
 
 3 may utilize bar codes, magnetic strips, optical discs, and such
 
 4 other media that would enable a student identification card to be
 
 5 used as a debit or stored value card for the purposes of the
 
 6 school lunch program, the student transportation program, student
 
 7 activities and co-curricular programs, and such other programs
 
 8 and activities that the department determines may be relevant to
 
 9 the mission of the public school system.
 
10      (d)  The department of education shall adopt rules in
 
11 accordance with chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, governing
 
12 the use of information contained in the student identification
 
13 system, including information contained on student identification
 
14 cards.
 
15      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $        , or so much
 
17 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, and the
 
18 sum of $        , or so much thereof as may be necessary for
 
19 fiscal year 2000-2001, for a student identification system,
 
20 including student identification cards.
 
21      SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
22 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 

 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 3                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________