Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1041 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to restore annual increments or longevity increases for teachers upon satisfactory service and performance.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the bill. The Department of Education (DOE) supported the intent of this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development and Hawaii Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students testified in opposition.

Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, which deals with civil service employees' compensation "pay for performance" principles is an issue with respect to transformation of the DOE toward accountability incentives and recruitment of teachers in our educational system. Although this compensation subject is normally within the purview of collective bargaining, your Committees believe that teachers need to be recognized and rewarded due to the shortage of teachers in our State.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill to take effect on July 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1041, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1041, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.