STAND. COM. REP. NO.  39-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2204

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2204 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal statutory sections related to annual increment and longevity step salary increases for Department of Education teachers and educational officers that have become obsolete because these increases are determined through collective bargaining.

The Department of Education and the Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.  One individual testified in opposition.  One individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2204, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2204, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair