STAND. COM. REP. 2267

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2202

 

 

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. 2202 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, fifteen teachers, and two counselors. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that annual incremental step movements are critical to keeping Hawaii's teachers' salaries competitive, facilitating teacher retention and lessening the teacher shortage.

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. 2202 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair