CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 36

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2011

RE:    S.B. No. 806

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 806, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Allow teacher and educational officer members of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board who retire during a term to continue to serve the remainder of their term up to three consecutive three-year terms;

     (2)  Add the timely payment of fees to the requirements for license renewal;

     (3)  Extend the term of the renewable advanced license from five to ten years;

     (4)  Allow the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to develop a full career and technical education license for those with appropriate industry experience who meet certain criteria; and

     (5)  Authorize the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to be responsible for approving teacher education programs that have attained national accreditation from a teacher education program approved by the United States Department of Education and the Board.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that that this measure will enhance the professionalism and stability of Hawaii's public school teachers. 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing section 4 of this measure, which allowed the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to approve teacher education programs that have attained national accreditation from a teacher education program approved by the United States Department of Education and the Board;

     (2)  Adding language to allow for the automatic forfeiture of a teacher's license for failure to timely renew that license, pay all fees, or comply with any other requirements provided by law or administrative rule;

     (3)  Clarifying that the payment of all fees shall be done in a timely manner to avoid the automatic forfeiture of a license; and

     (4)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 806, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 806, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Co-Chair	____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair
____________________________ MARILYN B. LEE, Co-Chair	____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair