STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 105-22
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2022
RE: H.B. No. 2129
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2022
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2129 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee finds that professional development for teachers is a vital way to ensure teachers can use the best, research-based educational practices within their classrooms. Your Committee further finds that in the collectively-bargained agreement between the Board of Education and the exclusive representative of bargaining unit (5), representing teachers, there was a memorandum of understanding that allowed for twenty-one additional hours to be added to the teachers' workday without students. These twenty-one hours were to be used for job‑embedded professional development to provide benefits, including a formalized structure for organizing training and learning time, reducing the need for substitute teachers, and eliminating teacher absences from classes for training. However, this memorandum of understanding expired on June 30, 2021, and because funding was not available, the memorandum of understanding was not renewed. This measure will provide the funding for the twenty-one hours for teachers to use for professional development.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified amount;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Education respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $16,600,000 for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one hours of professional development for teachers.
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 H.B. No. 2129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2129, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Tourism.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair |