STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1152

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 519
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 519, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS
     BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide more continuity
and stability in establishing teacher licensing and credentialing
standards by staggering the terms of the members of the Hawaii
Teacher Standards Board beginning in 2001.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Teacher Standards
Board, in ensuring that qualified teachers are employed to
educate Hawaii's students, is essential to the improvement of our
public school system.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to delete its
contents in their entirety, and replace them with the contents of
S.B. No. 41, S.D. 1, which has been previously heard in your
Committee.  As amended, this measure staggers the initial terms
of the seven members to be appointed to the Hawaii Teacher
Standards Board after June 30, 2000, and extends the sunset date
of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to June 30, 2010.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 519, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 519,
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 and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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