STAND. COM. REP. NO. 756

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1250

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1250, 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 clarify laws relating to the Department of Education's emergency hiring and teacher licensure requirements.

     Specifically, this measure requires that the maximum consecutive length of time during which an individual may be employed by the Department of Education on an emergency basis shall be three years; provided that unlicensed individuals who have been 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 consecutive years.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides necessary clarifications to further align Hawaii's teacher licensure requirements with the criteria for highly qualified teachers, as prescribed by the No Child Left Behind Act.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1250, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair