STAND. COM. REP. NO.670

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 24

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 24, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to base the salary schedules of principals and vice-principals of high schools and combined schools (i.e., kindergarten to grade twelve) on a twelve-month term of service rather than a ten-month term of service.

In addition, this measure:

(1) Specifies that the salary schedules of principals and vice-principals of public elementary schools are to be based on a ten-month term of service;

(2) Specifies that the salary schedules of all other educational officers (i.e., excluding principals and vice-principals) are to be based on a twelve-month term of service;

(3) Requires principals and vice-principals who commit to and complete five consecutive years of service to be paid a retention bonus, in addition to the salary increases and incentives provided by law; and

(4) Appropriates an unspecified sum for the additional two months salary for educational officers who are presently ten-month employees and whose salary schedule will be converted to a twelve-month term of service.

Your Committee has amended this measure by basing the salary schedules of all principals and vice-principals, including elementary and middle school principals and vice-principals, on a twelve-month term of service.

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. 24, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 24, 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