HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	500
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023
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 legislature finds that surfing is of significant cultural, social, and economic value to the people of Hawaii, as well as the many visitors who travel to the State for surfing. The legislature recognizes the extraordinary accomplishments of Carissa Moore - a Palolo resident who won the gold medal in the first ever women's surfing competition in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo – and the many other Hawaii surfers who have dedicated themselves to honoring and preserving the sport and spirit of surfing in Hawaii.

The legislature additionally finds that since surfing was sanctioned by the department of education in 2004, only one of five local athletic leagues have sponsored surfing. The lack of interscholastic surfing programs limits opportunities for inspired students to pursue competitive surfing.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to the department of education to promote and support surfing as an interscholastic sport.

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 2023-2024 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the promotion and support of surfing as an interscholastic sport.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2023.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

DOE; Surfing; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds to DOE to promote surfing as an interscholastic sport.

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