STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2588

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2652

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve compensation for substitute teachers, who are excluded from collective bargaining.

     Specifically this bill provides for periodic wage adjustments for substitute teachers of the Department of Education that are comparable to the wage adjustments negotiated for teachers in bargaining unit 5.  The measure also makes an appropriation for wage adjustments for substitute teacher pay.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, the Hawaii Carpenters Union, and Alston, Hunt, Floyd, and Ing, Attorneys at Law.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair