STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2201

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2652

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2652 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the minimum hourly and per diem rates for substitute teachers set forth in section 302A-624, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and repealing the statutory requirement that substitute teacher wage adjustments shall be based on teachers' pay and subject to legislative approval.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide the Board of Education and Department of Education with the flexibility to determine pay rates for substitute teachers.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2652, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair