STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3526
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1862
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1862, H.D. 2, 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 allow the Department of Education to employ retired licensed teachers to teach full-time in teacher shortage areas and serve as mentors for new classroom teachers.
Your Committee finds that as more "baby-boom" teachers in Hawaii and across the nation retire, the task of recruiting highly qualified teachers is becoming more challenging each year. Consequently, finding sufficient numbers of highly qualified teachers for shortage areas is becoming more difficult, and teacher shortages are expected to grow as more "baby-boom" teachers retire through the remainder of the decade. This measure addresses the teacher shortage problem by authorizing the hiring of retired teachers to fill anticipated teacher vacancies.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Placing the hiring authorization to hire retired teachers into part III of chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than leaving it situated in uncodified law;
(2) Changing the effective date from July 1, 2006 to July 1, 2050 to facilitate further discussion;
(3) Repealing the hiring authorization in five years, on June 30, 2011;
(4) Including parallel references to employees' contributions under the Employees' Retirement System Hybrid Plan; and
(5) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments to reflect the placement of the substantive provisions of the measure in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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 H.B. No. 1862, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1862, H.D. 2, 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 |
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