STAND. COM. REP. NO. 142

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 151
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which
was referred H.B. No. 151 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for
promoting teaching as a career to attract more people to the
teaching profession.

     Testimony in support of the bill was submitted by the
Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers Association,
and the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board.  While in support of the
bill, the University of Hawaii (UH) suggested expanding the ways
the appropriation may be used so that public service
announcements are an example of promotional efforts.

     At the same hearing your Committees also heard H.B. No. 251,
H.B. No. 253, and H.B. No. 428, all of which contain
appropriations to improve the quality of teaching in the schools.
Your Committees support these appropriations, but has decided to
hold these bills and incorporate them into H.B. No. 151 since
they all relate to teaching.

     Your Committees have amended the bill by deleting its
substance and:


 
 
 
 
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     (1)  Appropriating $660,440 for FY 1999-2000 for permanent
          faculty positions in the UH College of Education to
          expand teacher training in shortage fields;

     (2)  Appropriating $577,600 for FY 1999-2000 and $471,600
          for F 2000-2001 to expand teacher training in shortage
          fields;

     (3)  Appropriating $503,202 for each year of fiscal biennium
          1999-2000 to recruit, prepare, and retain teachers in
          geographic areas that have shortages of teachers;

     (4)  Appropriating $1,296,000 for each year of fiscal
          biennium 1999-2001 for the teacher induction program;

     (5)  Appropriating $50,000 for each year of fiscal biennium
          1999-2001 for integrating technology into teacher
          training;

     (6)  Appropriating unspecified amounts for fiscal biennium
          1999-2001 for the Kahuawaiola Professional Teaching
          Certificate Program in the College of Hawaiian Language
          at the University of Hawaii at Hilo; 

     (7)  Appropriating unspecified amounts for fiscal biennium
          1999-2001 to expand professional development
          opportunities to teachers in primary and secondary
          schools;

     (8)  Appropriating unspecified amounts for fiscal biennium
          1999-2001 to promote teaching as a career; and

     (9)  Reflecting the changes made in the purpose section.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to
this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 151, as amended herein, and recommend that it
pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 151,
H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Higher Education,

                                   

 
 
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DAVID MORIHARA, Chair              KEN ITO, Chair