STAND. COM. REP. NO. 300-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2386
                                     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.
2386 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide the members of local
school boards of new century charter schools with the same
immunity from and indemnification for civil liability as persons
who are appointed to serve on temporary or permanent state
boards, rather than persons who are elected to serve on a board
or commission.

     In addition, this bill:

     (1)  Creates a new collective bargaining unit for all
          nonsupervisory and supervisory blue-collar and white-
          collar positions and teachers at new century charter
          schools;

     (2)  Allows collective bargaining agreements reached between
          the employer and the exclusive representative for the
          new collective bargaining unit to be in the form of a
          master agreement for all charter schools or separate
          agreements for each charter school, or a combination of
          both; and


 
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     (3)  Requires all employees in collective bargaining units
          (1) to (5), who obtain employment at a charter school,
          to become part of the new collective bargaining unit
          upon the expiration of their current employment
          contracts.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the
collective bargaining provisions of this bill from the Hawaii
State Teachers Association, the Hawaii Government Employees
Association, and the Department of Education.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
provisions relating to collective bargaining.

     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.
2386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2386, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committees on Labor and Public Employment and
Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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