STAND. COM. REP. NO.  17

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 20

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 20 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to remove the provision that any position reallocated within the Department of Education (DOE) must be redirected from the state and district offices to the individual schools and learning support centers.  Under the Reinventing Education Act of 2004 (Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004):

 

     (1)  Schools can now determine the number and type of                   positions required by the school; and

 

     (2)  DOE now has the authority to transfer positions within         DOE.

 

     DOE testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 20 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

 

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair