STAND. COM. REP. NO.  817-16

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2204, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal statutory provisions that are 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 Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Education, and Department of the Attorney General provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association provided testimony in opposition.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2204, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair