Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 3098, H.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify certain rights and benefits of new century charter school employees.

Specifically, this measure:

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor, the Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD), and the Hawaii Business Roundtable. Comments in support of the intent of this measure were received from the Charter School Administrative Office and the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA). Comments were received from the Board of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and the Ho`okako`o Corporation.

Your Committees find that per the testimony of the HGEA and DHRD, exempt civil service employees should be entitled to the rights and benefits of other exempt civil service employees.

Your Committees have amended this measure by incorporating the above finding, by making the effective date July 1, 2006, and by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3098, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3098, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.