STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2753

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2541

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is allow employment issues relating to public education to be negotiated through the collective bargaining process, by repealing various statutes covering these employer-employee issues.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that all existing rules, ordinances, executive orders, directives, or collective bargaining provisions are to be modified to conform to this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair