STAND. COM. REP. NO.1058
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 382
S.D. 3
H.D. 1
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. 382, S.D. 3, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide adequate salary incentives to recruit and retain qualified public school employees by requiring annual incremental or longevity salary increases for employees of Bargaining Unit 5 who have performed satisfactorily.
The Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of this bill. The Department of Education offered comments, and the Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.
Your Committee finds that employees of Bargaining Unit 5 include classroom teachers, State and District Office teachers, ROTC instructors, school librarians, registrars, counselors, and psychological examiners.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Placing the new provisions dealing with teacher compensation in chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), instead of chapter 77, HRS;
(2) Designating July 1, 2003, instead of July 3, 2003, as the date that movement between incremental and longevity steps within the salary range for employees in appropriate Bargaining Unit 05 shall be specified by law; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correcting drafting errors.
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. 382, S.D. 3, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 382, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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