Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 14 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to employ retired school administrators to fill principal and vice principal vacancies without penalty to their retirement benefits.

The Department of Education (DOE) and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that the DOE faces a serious administrator shortage over the next five years. The use of retired school administrators to fill principal and vice principal vacancies provides a temporary solution to the shortage until the DOE can train sufficient numbers of new administrators to permanently fill these vacancies. This measure will allow the DOE to hire retired school administrators without jeopardizing the retirees' receipt of retirement benefits already earned.

Your Committees have amended this measure:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 14, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 14, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.