STAND. COM. REP. 2457

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3231

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3231 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a master corps in the Department of Education.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Education and Director of Finance.

Your Committee finds that there is a need to tap the professional and life experience of people aged fifty-five years and older to facilitate student achievement.

Your Committee has amended the measure by clarifying that public schools may pay stipends for tutors, volunteers, and other who help schools before, during, and after school hours, provided that such stipends shall not be considered income for the purposes of the state income tax and that these individuals shall not be considered employees of the State of Hawaii.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3231, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3231, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair