STAND. COM. REP. 2763

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2256

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2256 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund ten full-time personnel clerk positions within the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that due to the lack of adequate staffing in the Department of Education, public school teachers experience unreasonable delays in the processing of their reclassifications upon qualification for a higher class of service. This results in a corresponding delay in the receipt of teacher salary increases. Your Committee believes that adequate staffing is necessary to reduce overtime hours for personnel staff and to ensure that teachers are being reclassified and paid their salary increases in a timely manner.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2256 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair