STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1188

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1638
                                     S.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No.
1638, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of
Education and the exclusive representative for bargaining unit 6
to conduct a study on the issue of compensational parity for
educational officers of the Department of Education.

     Specifically, this bill requires:

     (1)  A review of the educational officer classification/
          compensation plan and position descriptions;

     (2)  An examination of the compensational parity
          implications of the movement of a teacher from the
          teacher salary schedule to the educational officer's
          salary schedule;

     (3)  An assessment of whether implementing a salary
          classification system for educational officers similar
          to the teacher salary classification system is
          appropriate;


 
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     (4)  An assessment of whether educational officers should be
          similarly compensated for continuing educational
          achievement in the same manner that teachers who earn
          additional educational credits are compensated;

     (5)  Recommendations for addressing the issue of providing
          compensational parity between long-time educational
          officers and newly-hired educational officers who have
          transferred over from high-level teaching positions;

     (6)  A review and evaluation of the classification and
          compensation schedules of adult education educational
          officers as to whether they are appropriately
          compensated when compared to K-12 educational officers;
          and

     (7)  The Department of Education and the exclusive
          representative for bargaining unit 6 to submit their
          report, findings, and recommendations, and any
          necessary draft legislation to the Legislature before
          the Regular Session of 2000.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Department of Education and the Hawaii Government
Employees Association--the exclusive representative for
bargaining unit 6.

     Your Committee finds that the issue of compensational parity
for educational officers should be addressed through the
collective bargaining process to the maximum extent allowed by
law.  Those matters that cannot be resolved to the mutual
satisfaction of the Department of Education and the exclusive
representative for bargaining unit 6 can then be presented to the
Legislature and the Governor for final resolution outside the
scope of the collective bargaining law.

     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.
1638, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.


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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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