STAND. COM. REP. NO. 952

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1642

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1642, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish various programs to encourage teacher retention and recruitment.

Specifically, this measure establishes, among other things, a teacher cadet program, a two-year teaching program, additional university faculty positions, an educator loan forgiveness program, a teacher induction program, alternative licensure routes, and tax credits.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing all appropriation figures to unspecified amounts and changing the effective date in order to promote continuing discussion on the matter. Your Committee has also amended this measure by requiring the Department of Education to certify to the Department of Taxation as to which teachers and which state senatorial districts are subject to the various new education-related tax credits. Your Committee has also made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 1642, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1642, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair