STAND. COM. REP. 3023

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1928

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 Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1928, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Business Roundtable. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board must be given the staff resources it needs to carry out its crucial responsibility of establishing and maintaining high standards in the issuance and renewal of teacher licenses in Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount from $1 to $347,228; and

(2) Authorizing the conversion of not more than two existing positions to permanent status.

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. 1928, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1928, 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 Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair