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. 2352, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive occupational validation study of its educational officers

Your Committees received testimony in support from the Department of Health. Your Committees received testimony in opposition from the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Your Committees received comments from the Department of Education.

Your Committees find that the Department of Education has been remiss in its obligation to provide the Legislature with a report on the salary structure of educational officers within the department prior to the 2002 regular session, as required by Act 188, Session Laws of Hawaii, 2001. Therefore, some further means of requiring the department to comply must be created. However, with regards to the contents of the study the measure remains too detailed and prescriptive, does not adequately involve all of the stakeholders in the educational field, and fails to look at the issue holistically, considering the department as an overall organizational entity.

Your Committees have amended the measure by:

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. 2352, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2352, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.