Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1250, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist substitute teachers of the Department of Education (DOE) by:

Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, attorneys at law, a law corporation, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill with amendments. DOE supported the intent of the measure. The Attorney General submitted comments.

Substitute teachers provide a valuable service to the State's educational system. However, these individuals are currently without any form of representation within the public school system. Your Committees recognize that substitute teachers were recently forced to file a class action lawsuit to recover back pay from DOE and that the development of a classification and compensation plan for substitute teachers by the BOE may have mitigated the need for such action by the substitute teachers.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1250, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1250, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.