STAND. COM. REP. 2419

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2055

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2055 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Provide that the salary schedules of principals and vice-principals and of all other educational officers shall be based on a twelve-month term of service; and

(2) Provide retention bonuses for principals and vice-principals.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and Hawaii Government Employees Association. Your Committees received comments regarding the measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committees find that principals, vice-principals, and other educational officers typically work through most if not all of the summer months. It is unfair to expect them to essentially work for free. They should be placed on a twelve-month term of service in order to compensate them appropriately. Nevertheless, the cost of placing all such employees on twelve-month terms of service would be prohibitive, in addition to the fact that some elementary and middle schools tend to be smaller than high schools and may not have enough volume of work to justify the shift.

Your Committees have amended the measure by placing only high school principals on twelve-month terms of service.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2055, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2055, 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 Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair