Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2163 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Education to rehire teachers who have been retired for at least one year, and to extend this authority for an additional two years, through 2007.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and Hawaii Business Roundtable.

Your Committees find that the current law requires a teacher to be retired for two years before the teacher may be rehired and to date, the Department has rehired only thirty retired teachers under that provision. This measure will provide additional flexibility and allow the Department to utilize this critical educational resource more effectively.

Your Committees have amended this measure to make the effective date July 1, 2005.

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 H.B. No. 2163, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2163, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.