Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2609 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure fair and equitable salary and benefit packages for New Century Charter School employees by:

The Board of Education, Charter School Administrative Office, and Hawaii Government Employees Association supported this bill. The Office of Collective Bargaining and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2609, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2609, H.D. 1.