STAND. COM. REP. NO. 220

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1664

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1664 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow new century charter school employees to participate in the State's workers' compensation system.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Charter School Administrative Office, Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Kualapuu Elementary School, Kamehameha Schools, and Hookakoo Corporation.

Your Committees find that although charter school employees are state employees, they are not covered under the State's workers' compensation system as are other state employees. This measure would alleviate this oversight, ensuring that charter school employees are allowed to participate in the state system provided that the charter schools are responsible for compiling the preliminary claim.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Establishing that the Department of Human Resources Development will administer the claims for charter school employees;

(2) Providing funding to the Department of Human Resources Development for the increased workload; and

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010 to ensure further discussion on this topic.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1664, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1664, 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 Military Affairs and Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair