STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2140

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2867

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2867 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 statutory provision for salary step increases for teachers.

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

     Your Committee finds that the statutory provision for step increases for teachers was originally enacted in 1953.  Since then, step increases have entered the purview of collective bargaining.  As a result, the statutory provision for step increases for teachers is obsolete and no longer necessary.

     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. 2867 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair