STAND. COM. REP. NO.667

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 14

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 14, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REHIRING RETIRED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow retired principals and vice-principals to be reemployed by the Department of Education at up to one hundred per cent full-time equivalents in shortage areas identified by the Department of Education.

In addition, this measure:

(1) Requires these principals and vice-principals to have been retired for at least one year before they are reemployed by the Department of Education;

(2) Prohibits retired principals and vice-principals from earning retirement service credit, contributing to the retirement system, or gaining additional retirement system benefits as a result of their reemployment;

(3) Allows retired principals and vice-principal to receive their entitled normal retirement benefits without being penalized as a result of their reemployment;

(4) Requires vacant principal and vice-principal positions to be advertised when there are no applicants for the vacancies; and

(5) Requires a retired principal or vice-principal to be reemployed at the entry level pay rate for the vacant principal or vice-principal position.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 14, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair