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. 1671 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, rather than the Department of Education, responsible for the licensing and credentialing of teachers.

The Lieutenant Governor, Hawaii Business Roundtable, HSTA, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board supported the bill. The Hawaii Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students and the Department of Education supported the intent of the bill.

Your committees find that this bill strengthens the teaching profession by making it accountable for who becomes and remains a teacher.

Your committees have amended this bill by adding:

1. on page 10, line 9 that "hiring, except in emergency circumstances as described in this bill, licensed teachers to teach in their fields of licensing";
2. on page 11, line 7-8 that "governor" and "the legislature" shall be deleted;

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. 1671, as amended herein, recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1671, H.D. 1., and be referred to the Committee on Finance.