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 S.B. No. 2652 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to preserve the rights and benefits of the civil service employees of new century conversion charter schools by permitting them to retain their civil service status in the department of education human resources civil service system.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Waimea Middle School and Ho`okako`o Corporation. Comments in support of the intent of this measure were received from the Departments of Education and Human Resources Development, the Charter School Administrative Office, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Your Committees received comments from the Board of Education.

Your Committees find that preserving the civil service status of charter school employees is an important step in supporting education and charter schools.

Your Committees have amended this measure by including language suggested by the Hawaii Government Employees Association, 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 S.B. No. 2652, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.