Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 475 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

BOE submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that the deputy superintendent is treated equitably, since the BOE already has the authority to set the salaries of Department of Education officials.

Your Committee has amended this measure by providing that effective July 1, 2001, the salary of the deputy district superintendents shall not be less $72,000 and not more than $115,000 a year.

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. 475, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 475, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.