STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1325

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 98

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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 Health and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 98, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this bill is to improve the efficacy of school health functions by:

 

     (1)  Repealing the transfer from the Department of Health (DOH) to the Department of Education (DOE) of public health nurses who supervise school health aides;

 

     (2)  Repealing the School Health Services Program currently operating within DOH;

 

     (3)  Creating a School Health Services Program within DOE; and

 

     (4)  Requiring DOE to provide career pathways development and training opportunities for school health aides in the school health services field and other fields within DOE to ensure their opportunity for continued employment within DOE.

 

     DOE, DOH, the Department of Human Resources Development, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committees wish to clarify that while the School Health Services Program will be repealed from chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the civil service members who currently occupy school health aide positions will not be subject to a reduction in force.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Health and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 98, S.D. 1, 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 Health and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

 

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair