STAND. COM. REP. NO. 58

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1631

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1631 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER LICENSURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement that the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board shall notify the court that the individual being tried by the court for a sexual offense is a teacher.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.

     Your Committee finds that during the rulemaking process, the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board determined it was not able to comply with the requirement to notify the court that the individual being tried by the court for a sexual offense is a teacher.  The Board noted that as not all who teach are licensed by the Board, the Board would not have that information, which would be more appropriately supplied by the attorneys involved.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1631 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair