STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1000-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2428

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2428, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is to establish the Hawaii Administrator Standards Board to develop licensing standards for educational administrators.

For the purpose of receiving public testimony, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version of this bill. The purpose of this proposed H.D. 1 is to enable substitute teachers to be paid according to their qualifications by requiring them to be compensated according to a classification and compensation system established by the Board of Education (BOE).

The Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and an individual supported the proposed H.D. 1. Two individuals opposed the proposed H.D. 1.

Your Committee notes that currently, all substitute teachers are paid at the same rate, regardless of differences in experience or level of education. This bill will enable BOE to ensure that substitute teachers are paid according to a system that takes these criteria into account.

Your Committee has amended the proposed H.D. 1 by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

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. 2428, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2428, S.D. 2, 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