Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3197 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish that the compensation of substitute teachers shall be tied to the salary or wage increases provided to licensed class II teachers of the Department of Education.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three individuals. The Attorney General, the Department of Education, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds that the failure to link substitute teacher pay to increases negotiated for full-time teachers has created a great deal of tension in the past, has fueled harmful litigation, and should be rectified by this measure.

Your Committee amended this measure to set forth a pay scale different from that included in the original draft.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3197, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3197, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.