Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 69 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include a representative of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board (HTSB) on the membership of the Teacher Education Coordinating Committee (TECC).

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the University of Hawaii College of Education, and the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board.

Your Committee finds that the present structure of the TECC does not formally include the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, even though they are the official licensing entity of all teachers in the State. Your Committee further finds that the TECC chairs have invited the HTSB to participate in TECC meetings and thus HTSB should be named as an official member of the TECC.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 69, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 69, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.