STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2240

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2071

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2071 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STIPENDS FOR ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AND COACHES EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for pay increases for assistant athletic directors and coaches.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education and Athletic Directors and Coaches Association of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that funds were appropriated by Act 315, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, to increase the base stipend paid to coaches of students participating in Department of Education athletic activities for fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Your Committee further finds that funds were not appropriated to fund further increases in stipends for fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 as required by Act 315. In addition, your Committee finds that pay increases for assistant athletic directors and coaches, based on the current teachers' collective bargaining agreement, were not funded for fiscal years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. Your Committee finds that these pay increases should be funded.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2071 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair