Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 209, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to convert ten-month certificated positions to twelve-month positions, as needed, for multi-track schools.

Your Committee finds that, as more schools are moving to a multi-track system in which school is taught year round, support services need to be expanded to a year round schedule too. The bill will facilitate conversion of ten-month certificated positions to twelve-month positions for multi-track schools that need them.

Your Committee has made the amount of the appropriation blank for the purposes of further discussion.

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. 209, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 209, S.D. 3.