STAND. COM. REP. NO. 126

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 161

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Labor, 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 measure is to repeal salary ranges for teachers in the Department of Education.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that pursuant to section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, teacher salary schedules are negotiated.  As a result, the salary range table contained in section 302A-622, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is outdated and does not reflect the current bargaining unit negotiated salary ranges.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Labor 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 Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Labor,

____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair