STAND. COM. REP. NO. 106-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2036
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2036 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the physical
education of students by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Budget and Finance and the
          Department of Education to consider and to include the
          funding of coaches' salaries, athletic health care
          trainers' salaries, athletic equipment and supplies,
          and the transportation of athletic teams as standard
          workload increase items when planning and budgeting for
          new public schools; and
     
     (2)  Mandating that the Department of Education conduct a
          study of the implications of setting coaches' salaries
          in the same manner as other teachers.

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association and a concerned
individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.
Comments were submitted by the Department of Education.  The
Department of Budget and Finance submitted testimony in
opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Education has
the flexibility, through the lump-sum budgeting concept, to fund
athletic programs and personnel if they feel that such programs
are important to their educational goals.

 
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     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended the bill by
deleting the provisions requiring funding for athletic programs
to be considered and included as standard workload increase items
when planning and budgeting for new schools.  Technical,
nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity and style. 

     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 H.B. No.
2036, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair