Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 530 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals at the school level, encourage them to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover, and encourage exemplary teachers to become vice-principals.

Your Committees heard testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, and in opposition from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that a shortage of school administrators is looming on the horizon. This requires the Department of Education to begin taking proactive steps to increase the pool of qualified administrators and place them in the schools that need them most.

Your Committees have amended the measure by requiring principals to have served at least three years as teachers, by not requiring salary incentives be subject to collective bargaining, and by delegating the development of the definition of "exemplary teachers" to the Department of Education in consultation with the exclusive bargaining representative for Unit 6.

The current requirement that any principal, vice principal, or other educational officer on a ten-month work year must earn at least six credits within a three-year cycle in order to receive an increment or longevity step increase in the third year of the three-year cycle was repealed. Also, the language in the measure establishing an administrative rule requiring principals and vice principals to provide advance notice of six months of their intent to transfer, not return from sabbatical, or resign was deleted.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 530, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 530, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.