STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2485

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2124

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys from the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to restore the remaining public school instructional days for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years that will otherwise be lost to furloughs pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that a total of $86,100,000 is required to restore the remaining furlough days scheduled for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years.  Your Committee also finds that if nothing is done to prevent the loss of these instructional days, public schools in Hawaii will have the fewest number of instructional days in the nation.  Your Committee believes that the loss of instructional days will have a detrimental long-term effect on Hawaii's public school students.

 

     Your Committee received one written comment in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees' Association.  The written comment may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the total amount of the appropriation of moneys from the Hawaii hurricane relief fund from $36,000,000 to $86,100,000;

 

     (2)  Specifying that:

 

          (a)  For fiscal year 2009-2010, a total of not more than $22,960,000 shall be appropriated as follows: $22,000,000 to non-charter public schools; and $960,000 to charter schools; and

 

          (b)  For fiscal year 2010-2011, a total of not more than $63,140,000 shall be appropriated as follows: $60,500,000 to non-charter public schools; and $2,640,000 to charter schools;

 

     (3)  Providing that funds appropriated for the 2009-2010 school year shall not be carried over to 2010-2011 school year;

 

     (4)  Requiring the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers), to agree to relinquish at least one planning day for every two lost instructional days that are restored with moneys appropriated by this measure; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     Your Committee intends that the breakdown of the funds as specified in this measure represent the ceiling on the amount of money to be appropriated to the non-charter schools and charter schools in the Department of Education.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair