Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 209 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to public employment.

Your Committee finds that when schools changed to a multi-track schedule it became necessary for counselors to be provided on a year-round basis. Therefore, your Committee determines that to meet the needs of students attending multi-track schools, counselors must be present at all times during the academic calendar.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this short form measure by inserting provisions that appropriate $60,000 for each year of the 2003-2005 fiscal biennium for the conversion of ten-month counselor positions to twelve-month counselor positions for multi-track schools.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the action to report out S.B. No. 209, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 209, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Labor, for further consideration.