CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.48
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 1212
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to give the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board the authority to license teachers, rather than the Department of Education.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the definition of "credential" in section 302A-501, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS);
(2) Clarifying the definition in section 302A-501, HRS, of "teacher" to mean a licensed employee of the Department of Education paid under the salary schedule contained in the unit 5 collective bargaining agreement;
(3) Adding a definition in section 302A-501, HRS, that "emergency hire" means an unlicensed employee of the department paid under the salary schedule contained in the unit 5 collective bargaining agreement;
(4) Deleting provisions requiring that beginning July 1, 2002, all references to the terms "credential" and "credentialing" to read "permit" and "permitting" and adding a new section requiring the removal of all references to "credential" and "credentialing" in sections 302A-410, 302A-610, 302A-802, 302A-803, and 302A-807, as well as the phrase "teacher's or" from section 302A-616(a)(4);
(5) Adding provisions to sections 302A-602 and 302A-603, HRS, allowing the department, beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, to employ unlicensed individuals as emergency hires pursuant to sections 302A-801 to 302A-808, HRS;
(6) Deleting in section 302A-618(b), HRS, the classification of teachers; and
(7) Adding a provision to section 302A-803(4), HRS, that, from the 2007-2008 school year onward, the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board's shall submit a summary report every five years of the board's accomplishment of objectives, efforts to improve or maintain teacher quality, and efforts to keep its operations responsive and efficient;
(8) Eliminating a requirement in 302A-807, HRS, that requests be filed with the board through the Department of Education;
(9) Making numerous replacements in sections 302A-602, 302A-602.5, 302A-603, 302A-610, 302A-616, and 302A-618, HRS, of the words "certificate" and "credential" with "license," "department" with "board," and "1997-1998" with "2002-2003";
(10) Adding a provision transferring a personnel specialist from the Department of Education to the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board on April 1, 2002; and
(11) Adding an appropriation for $86,807 and $347,228 for the fiscal years of 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 respectively.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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____________________________ BERTHA C. KAWAKAMI, Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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