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 S.B. No. 2071 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for previously approved pay increases for coaches and assistant athletic directors.

Your Committee finds that funds were appropriated by Act 315, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, to increase the base stipend paid to assistant athletic directors and coaches for fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Your Committee further finds that funds were not appropriated to fund further increases in stipends for fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 as required by Act 315.

Your Committee further finds that pay increases for assistant athletic directors and coaches, based on the current teachers' collective bargaining agreement, were not funded for fiscal years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. The funds appropriated by this measure will fulfill the State's previously established obligations to coaches and assistant athletic directors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 S.B. No. 2071, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2071, S.D. 1.