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. 1044 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

The State Auditor supported the bill. The Board of Education supported the intent of the bill. The HGEA opposed the bill.

Your committees find that this bill addresses and will rectify the concerns brought up by the April 2000 State Auditor’s Report.

Your committees have amended this bill by changing the date of adoption from July 7, 2002 to twenty days before the twenty-second Legislative Session.

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. 1044, as amended herein, recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1044, H.D. 1 and be referred to the Committee on Finance.