STAND. COM. REP. NO.  173

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1690

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1690 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amendments made by Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, by requiring unlicensed individuals hired on an emergency basis prior to July 1, 2008, to attain licensure within four years and demonstrate active pursuit of licensing in each year of employment.

     The Department of Education testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that unlicensed individuals hired on an emergency basis prior to July 1, 2008, attain licensure within four years, and instead specifying that unlicensed individuals hired on an emergency basis after June 30, 1997, but prior to July 1, 2008, may be employed on an emergency basis for no more than four years; and

     (2)  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 H.B. No. 1690, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1690, 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,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair