Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1924 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that teachers receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of this measure. The Department of Education supported the intent of the measure. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1924, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1924, H.D. 1.