STAND. COM. REP. NO.  92

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 953

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 953 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for the required flexibility to recruit qualified individuals for certain leadership positions within the Department of Education by repealing the Board of Education's authority to set the salaries of the deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and complex area superintendents, and repealing the salary cap imposed on these positions.

     The Department of Education supported this bill.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Maintaining the Board of Education's authority to set the salaries of the specified positions;

     (2)  Removing the 80 percent cap on salaries, thereby setting the cap at the Superintendent of Education's salary; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 953, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 953, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair