STAND. COM. REP. NO. 264-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1882

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1882 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to hire additional career counselors for each public high school, based on school enrollment.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying that the appropriation is intended to provide for wages, eligible benefits, and a stipend for supplies for newly-hired counselors; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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 H.B. No. 1882, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1882, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair