STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2600
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2663
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. 2663, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to make clarifying changes to the membership and nomination process of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and increase board accountability.
More specifically, the measure:
(1) Increases the number of teaching professionals on the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and defines the term "teachers regularly engaged in teaching";
(2) Requires the Board to include information on income and expenditures and supporting data in its annual report; and
(3) Provides funds for the Board's data and information management efforts.
The Department of Education and the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board submitted comments.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Increasing the number of "teachers regularly engaged in teaching" on the board from seven to eight, for a total of fifteen members to provide the board with an odd number of members;
(2) Removing the requirement that network interface partners implement SOAP-based web services or turnkey translation solutions, and instead directing the board and its partner agencies to select a mutually acceptable data transfer method; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of 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. 2663, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2663, 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 |
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