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 S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to confer the same rights, privileges, and benefits of:

This bill also ensures that civil service employees at new century conversion charter schools who are promoted or take a voluntary demotion to another civil service position within DOE receive the same rights, privileges, and benefits of continuous, uninterrupted civil service.

The Board of Education, DOE, Department of Human Resources Development, Charter School Administrative Office, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hookakoo Corporation, and Hawaii Business Roundtable testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.