HB2778

Report Title:

Charter Schools

Description:

Increases the statutory limit of charter schools from twenty-five to fifty.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2778
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

rELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 302A-1182, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Up to a total of [twenty-five] fifty schools may be established as new century charter schools. These new century charter schools may be established by:

(1) The creation of a new school pursuant to subsection (c);

(2) An existing public school pursuant to subsection (b); or

(3) The creation of a new school, comprising programs or sections of existing public school populations and using existing public school facilities pursuant to subsection (c).

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1. 2002.

 

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