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. 1668 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Education to rehire retired teachers in teacher shortage areas. The retired teachers who are hired shall:

1. not earn retirement service credit;
2. not contribute to the retirement system;
3. not gain additional retirement system benefits; and
4. continue to receive entitled normal retirement benefits without penalty.

The Lieutenant Governor, the Hawaii Business Roundtable, the Department of Education, HSTA, HAIS, and the Hawaii Congress of Parents, Teachers and Students supported the bill.

Your committees find that this bill could help alleviate the teacher shortage in Hawaii. It also ensures that qualified teachers remain in the school system.

Your committees have amended this bill by changing the eligibility from "retired for one calendar year" to "three calendar years".

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. 1668, as amended herein, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1668, H.D. 1.