STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2309

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3083

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3083 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL ATHLETICS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for and authorize additional full-time equivalent permanent or temporary positions for the Department of Education's school athletics program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; ILWU Local 142; Athletic Directors and Coaches Association of Hawaii; Pūlama Lānai; Hawaii State Teachers Association; and twenty-five individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that as a result of the recession of 2008, the Department of Education's school athletics program suffered serious cut backs in funding and positions.  School athletics is an important part of many public school children's lives and teaches teamwork, sportsmanship, and commitment.  This measure will help restore resources to the Department of Education's school athletics program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Department of Education is authorized to create, fill, and fund additional coaching and assistant coaching positions, rather than full-time equivalent permanent or temporary positions; and

 

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $2,000,000.

 

     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. 3083, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair