STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1820

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1276
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
1276, S.D. 1, H.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 raise the Superintendent of
Education's (Superintendent) salary to national standards by
authorizing the Board of Education (Board) to set the
Superintendent's salary.

     The Board testified in support of the intent of this
measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the Board's authority to set the
          Superintendent's salary;

     (2)  Authorizing the Superintendent to receive additional
          compensation from private sources rather than having
          the Board set the salary; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity
          and style.


 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1276, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1276,
S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair