STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3483

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2204

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2204, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent 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 because these increases are determined through collective bargaining.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Education, Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of the Attorney General, and one individual.

     Your Committees find that the statutory sections related to annual increment and longevity step salary increases were enacted in 1953, before public sector collective bargaining was established.  Your Committees further find that in 1986, annual salary increments and longevity steps were made mandatory subjects of negotiation in collective bargaining.  As a result of this change in the law, the statutory provisions related to annual increment and longevity step salary increases are no longer necessary.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2204, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair