STAND. COM. REP. NO. 359

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1638
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Education and
Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1638 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL OFFICERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to address inequity of pay
for educational officers.  The measure also establishes a
classification system for educational officers.

     Testimony supporting the intent of the measure with
reservations was received from the Department of Education (DOE),
the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA), and the
Principal of Solomon Elementary School.

     Your Committees find that, as the testifiers on this measure
pointed out, this measure does not resolve the pay inequity
issues for educational officers.  Your Committees are in
agreement with the testifiers that the DOE and the exclusive
representative for educational officers should review, study, and
make recommendations to the Legislature regarding the educational
officers concerns.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing the
contents of the measure with language requiring the DOE and the
exclusive representative for bargaining unit 6 to study the
inequity of pay for educational officers.  The DOE and exclusive
representative shall also submit a report, including findings,

 
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recommendations, and any draft legislation to the legislature
prior to the 2000 regular session.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Education and Technology
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1638, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1638, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Education and
                                   Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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