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 S.B. No. 1385 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to implement certain recommendations of the Auditor with respect to inequities in the salary structure of educational officers by requiring the Board of Education to adopt a classification and compensation structure that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

The State Auditor testified in support of this measure. The HGEA opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that the recommendations of the State Auditor in the Comparison Study of the Salary Structure of Educational Officers in the Department of Education, Report No. 00-13, need to be implemented. The inconsistencies and irregularities of classification and compensation of educational officers need to be addressed.

To further expedite the classification study and implementation, your Committee has amended this measure by requiring that the board of education adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed twenty days before the 2002 legislative session.

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 S.B. No. 1385, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1385, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.