STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2140

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2470

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2470 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATION TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require all public schools, including charter schools, to implement a minimum of two hundred days of classroom instruction per school year.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was submitted by three private organizations.  One state agency had concerns on the measure, and one private organization submitted comments.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that this measure helps maintain a standard of quality for the education of Hawaii's students.  However, your Committees also find that section 4 of this measure, which added a new section to chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, interferes with public employees' right to collective bargaining under article XIII, section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.  Accordingly, your Committees have amended the measure as follows:

     (1)  By removing section 4 of the measure; and

     (2)  By making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to change formatting.

     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. 2470, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2470, S.D. 1, 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