STAND. COM. REP. 2494

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2061

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2061 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make technical conforming amendments to the interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, and Hawaii Association of Independent Schools.

Your Committee finds that, as teacher licensing activities have shifted from the Department of Education to the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, there is a corresponding need to make the necessary technical conforming amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes that reflect this transition. This measure does so by making the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board the official agency for the State in matters of teacher licensure and reciprocity agreements.

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. 2061 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair