STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1587

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 875

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 875, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the purpose of settling lawsuits against the State relating to the wages of substitute teachers.

Furthermore, this measure authorizes the Legislature to establish per diem rates covering substitute teachers for fiscal year 2005-2006.

Your Committee finds that the per diem rate for substitute teachers is currently set by statute to piggyback the salary schedule negotiated under collective bargaining. Your Committee finds that pending lawsuits over the wages of substitute teachers suggests inadequacies in the current law, which this measure addresses and attempts to resolve.

Your Committee has amended this measure by authorizing the Legislature to establish wage classifications rather than per diem rates covering substitute teachers for fiscal year 2005-2006. Your Committee has also amended this measure by broadening the purposes of the appropriation to cover the entire measure and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050.

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 H.B. No. 875, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 875, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair