STAND. COM. REP. NO.  779-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2873

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2873, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CODE OF ETHICS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt Department of Education (DOE) teachers from the Code of Ethics to allow teachers to provide private instruction or tutoring, for compensation, to current, future, or former students when special circumstances exist, such as the furlough of teachers or the lengthy illness of a student.

     DOE and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii State Ethics Commission opposed this measure. 

     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. 2873, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair