STAND. COM. REP. 2753

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2065

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require public schools to finalize teacher hiring before the end of the preceding fiscal year.

This measure will expedite the hiring process and will provide more preparation time for these teachers before the school year begins.

Your Committee has amended the bill by:

(1) Providing that the deadline for hiring teachers does not apply to teachers hired due to retirement, resignation, or other unforeseen causes;

(2) Deleting sections 3 and 4 of the bill that provides an appropriation and expending agency which are vestiges of an earlier draft that have no relevancy to the present purpose of the bill; and

(3) Making technical changes that have no substantive effect.

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. 2065, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair