Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3008 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to delay by one year the transfer of personnel responsibility for teaching assistants, educational assistants, school psychologists, speech pathologists, and other classes of education-related civil service employees from the Department of Human Resources Development to the Department of Education.

In addition, this measure:

Your Committee finds that an additional year is required to ensure the orderly and efficient transfer of teaching assistants, educational assistants, school psychologists, speech pathologists, and other classes of education-related civil service employees from the Department of Human Resources Development to the Department of Education. Because of the enormous numbers of employees involved in this transfer, your Committee finds that the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Education may actually be increased, rather than decreased, by delaying the transfer until July 1, 2003.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity.

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. 3008, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3008, S.D. 1.