STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2541

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2873

       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 Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2873 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt teachers from the Code of Ethics to allow teachers to provide instruction, for compensation, to current, future, or former students when special circumstances exist.

     Your Committee finds that the school furlough situation has resulted in students and teachers in Hawaii spending fewer days in the classroom than in any other state.   Teachers have tried to ameliorate the absence of instruction by offering to provide paid instruction on their own.  However, the Code of Ethics prevents teachers from providing paid services to students on furlough days.  This measure addresses that predicament by removing the potential for ethics conflict.

     Your Committee also finds that this measure is a result of the imposition of school furloughs.  In light of this finding, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting a sunset date of July 1, 2012, in anticipation that furloughs would cease by then.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2873, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2873, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair