STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1286-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2652

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure fair payment for substitute teachers by:

     (1)  Requiring the Board of Education (BOE) to provide, and appropriating funds for, wage adjustments for substitute teachers comparable to the across-the-board wage adjustments negotiated for teachers in collective bargaining unit 5; and

     (2)  Allowing BOE to adjust the hours, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment for substitute teachers.

     The Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Carpenters Union, Local 745, testified in support of this bill.  Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, representing Hawaii's substitute teachers in Garner v. DOE and Kliternick v. Hamamoto, supported this measure with amendments.

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

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