STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1396

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 310
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 310, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING AND BUDGETING FOR
     NEW SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require funding for coaches'
salaries, athletic health care trainers' salaries, athletic
equipment and supplies, and the transportation of athletic teams
to be considered standard workload increase items when the
Director of Finance plans and budgets for new schools.

     In addition, this bill requires the Department of Education
to:

     (1)  Study the implications of setting coaches' salaries in
          the same manner as other teachers;

     (2)  Study the implications of increasing coaches' salaries
          in the same manner as A-Plus site supervisors and
          drivers education instructors; and


 
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     (3)  Report its finding and recommendations to the
          Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular
          Session of 2000.

     Your Committee finds that students who attend new schools
have a right to participate in appropriately funded athletic
programs from the first day of the school year.  While it is
unrealistic for new schools to have--or expect--a full complement
of athletic facilities on the first day of school, it is clear
that appropriate funding for coaches' salaries, athletic health
care trainers' salaries, athletic equipment and supplies, and the
transportation of athletic teams should be available on the first
day of the school year--if not sooner.

     Your Committee also finds that athletic coaches have not had
a pay increase since September 1, 1990.  Part of the problem-
-aside from the lack of money, is that there is no mechanism
(such as collective bargaining) for awarding coaches regular pay
increases.

     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.
310, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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