STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2143

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2434

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2434 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the salary caps of the Superintendent of Education, Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, Complex Area Superintendents, and State Librarian.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides the Board of Education with greater flexibility in determining salaries for top-level administrators of the Department of Education.  However, your Committee also finds that salaries should be commensurate with job duties and responsibilities.  Presently, the salaries of some school principals and other school-, district-, and state-level administrators are higher than that of the Superintendent of Education.

     Your Committee has made the following amendments to this measure to encourage greater parity and fairness across salaries of school, complex area, and statewide leadership positions within the Department of Education:

     (1)  Amend portions of the purpose section;

     (2)  Set the cap on the Superintendent of Education's salary to the salary of the highest paid school-, district-, or state-level administrator in the Department of Education;

     (3)  Set the cap on the salary of the Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, Complex Area Superintendents, and State Librarian at ninety per cent, eighty-five per cent, eighty per cent, and eighty per cent of the Superintendent's salary, respectively; and

     (4)  Insert an effective date of July 1, 2050, to ensure further discussion on this measure.

     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. 2434, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2434, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair