STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1302

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1276
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




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.
1276, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
     EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of
Education to set the salary of the Superintendent of Education
until July 1, 2004, when the Legislature shall set the salary.

     The Board of Education (BOE) and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association submitted testimony in support of the bill.

     According to the BOE, the current $90,041 salary of the
Superintendent is inadequate because of the magnitude and
complexity of the job.  Nationally, it is not uncommon to find
superintendents of school districts with enrollments of about
1,000 with salaries of about $115,000 per year.  

     Authorizing the BOE to set the Superintendent's salary will
improve its recruitment and retention efforts.  Also,
accountability can be promoted by lining salary with performance.

     The BOE suggested deleting the five-year sunset of the bill,
assuring the Legislature that it will act responsibly in setting
the Superintendent's salary.


 
 
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     Your Committee agrees with the BOE and has amended the bill
by:

     (1)  Deleting the five-year sunset; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to the approval date rather
          than August 1, 1999.

     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.
1276, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1276, S.D.
1, 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