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. 640 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide salaries for Board of Education members, and to require them to serve full-time.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Education.

Your Committee finds that the duties of Board of Education members are extensive and merit a salary. The responsibilities of the board have grown over the years to demand a time commitment that should be fairly compensated.

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

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. 640, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 640, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.