STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2295

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2380
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2380 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require teachers that
receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase for a
year of satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase
in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as
otherwise provided by law.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association. 

     Your Committees find that the last incremental and longevity
pay raises for teachers was in the 1976-77 school year.  The
salary structure was replaced by negotiated pay raises and a step
movement.  Currently, changes in teacher compensation are
governed under the collective bargaining provisions of section
89-9(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which provides that the number
of incremental and longevity steps, amount of wages to be paid in
each range and step, and movement between steps within the salary
range be negotiated.  This structure is detrimental to Hawaii's
ability to attract new, as well as experienced, teachers in order
to address the teacher shortage in this State.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by:

 
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     (1)  Making the provision of the normal annual increment or
          longevity increase subject to negotiation;

     (2)  Allowing for the possibility of a teacher receiving
          both the normal annual increment or longevity increase;
          and

     (3)  Deleting section 2 of the measure, which amended
          section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the
          scope of negotiations in collective bargaining for
          public employees.

     Your Committees believe that the amended measure will
provide an economic incentive for current and prospective
teachers to excel in their vocations.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and Environment
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2380, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2380, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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