STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1144

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 161

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 S.B. No. 161 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the statutory provision relating to teacher salary ranges because teacher salary schedules are negotiated through collective bargaining.

     The Department of Education and Department of Budget and Finance supported this bill.

     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. 161 and recommend that it pass Second Reading 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