SB2358

Report Title:

School Supplies; Textbooks

Description:

Requires a sufficient amount of textbooks and equipment for students; provides teachers with a $250 allocation to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses for supplies; appropriates money.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2358
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
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 2002-2003, for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________