STAND. COM. REP. 2994

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1924

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1924, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committees find that annual incremental step movements are critical to keeping Hawaii's teacher salaries competitive, making it a necessary tool for recruitment and retention. This is all the more important of late, in light of the teacher shortage.

Your Committees have amended the measure by changing the effective date from July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2005.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1924, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1924, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair