STAND. COM. REP. NO. 38

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 809

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 809 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for public school positions and the Hawaii teacher standards board.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System, Hawai‘i Teacher Standards Board, and Hawaii State Teachers Association. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that funding for public school positions and the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board will help to increase alternative pathways to teacher licensure and more effectively allow out-of-state teachers to gain licensure in the State. This measure will help increase the number of licensed teachers in Hawaii and, thereby, reduce the current teacher shortage.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

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. 809, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 809, S.D. 1, 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