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. 6 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,000,000 in general funds to pay coaches' stipends pursuant to section 302A-633.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee finds that Act 315, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, increased the base stipend for coaches employed by the Department of Education in two annual increments over the fiscal biennium 2001-2003. However, your Committee finds that to date, only the first increment has been funded. This measure appropriates funds to provide the second increment.

Your Committee has amended this measure to provide an unspecified appropriation amount in order to continue discussion on the matter.

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. 6, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 6, S.D. 1.