Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 523 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the statutorily set salary for the Deputy to the Superintendent of Education.

In addition, this measure authorizes the Board of Education to determine the salary of the Deputy Superintendent.

Your Committee finds that this measure provides equitable treatment to the Deputy Superintendent, considering that the Board of Education already holds the authority to set the salaries of department officials who are subordinate to the Deputy Superintendent. Your Committee also finds that the salary range set for the deputy district superintendents by statute may be out of step with the salary ranges for the officials whose salaries are determined by the Board.

Your Committee has amended this measure by repealing the statutorily set range of salaries for the deputy district superintendents.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 523, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 523, S.D. 1.