STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1324

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 95

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 95, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACANT POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal obsolete provisions that allowed the Department of Education (DOE) to reallocate existing vacant positions so long as this results in positions being transferred from the state and district offices to individual schools and learning support centers.

     DOE testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 95, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair