STAND. COM. REP. NO. 149

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1586
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1586 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to set coaches' salaries and
require budgeting for athletics when budgeting for new schools.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Athletic Directors and Coaches Association, and the Hawaii State
Teachers Association.  The Department of Education submitted
testimony in support of budgeting for athletics in new schools,
but with reservations about setting coaches salaries.

     Your Committee finds that athletic programs are an integral
aspect of school curriculums, and should be properly funded as
part of the basic criteria for the funding of new schools so that
students entering a new high school can have the same
opportunities as students in other high schools.

     It is certain that many coaches have great positive impacts
on students and give them positive alternatives to drugs and
delinquency.  However, the Department of Education had
reservations regarding setting coaches' salaries.  Your Committee
believes that the issue of how to properly compensate coaches for
their work must be studied in depth, and all the implications
must be determined before legislating set salaries.


 
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     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure to
delete section one, which mandates setting coaches' salaries, and
instead has added a new section requiring the Department of
Education to study the implications of the issue and report its
findings back to the legislature before the next regular session.
Your Committee also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1586, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1586,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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