Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2551 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to preserve the rights, privileges, and benefits of civil service employees of conversion charter schools by allowing them to retain their civil service status when promoted to another civil service position.

The Hookakoo Corporation, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Kualapuu School, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure. The Department of Education (DOE), Department of Human Resources Development, Charter School Administrative Office, and Hawaii Government Employees Association supported the intent of this measure. The Board of Education offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2551, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2551, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.