Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1044, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee heard testimony in support of the measure from the Board of Education and State Auditor. Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee finds that the measure implements certain recommendation stated in the State Auditor's Report No. 00-13 "Comparison Study of the Salary Structure of Educational Officers in the Department of Education." Such a restructuring would foster greater fairness and equity among the salaries of educational officers.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the provision requiring the Board of Education to obtain the assistance of the Department of Human Resources Development, and adding an appropriation section. Your Committee also made technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity.

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