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. 2428, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Administrator Standards Board.

The bill, among other things:

Your Committee finds that Act 249, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, mandated the Department of Education and the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to develop recommendations on the establishment of an independent body to set and monitor standards for education administrators and to report their recommendations to the Legislature.

The working group determined that sixty-four per cent of the Department of Education administrators did not support the idea of an education administrators licensing board in place of the current certification system used by the Department. The working group made this recommendation after balancing the concerns of the administrators against several factors as discussed in the bill. Your Committee is supporting the working group's recommendation by recommending passage of this bill.

Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style. Your Committee would also like to note that the effective date of this bill is defective as received by your Committee and that it has not been changed.

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. 2428, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2428, S.D. 2.