STAND. COM. REP. NO.  195

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1009

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1009 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to provide a settlement for three pending class action lawsuits between the substitute and part-time teachers and the Department of Education (DOE) for retroactive salary adjustments beginning from July 1, 1996 to restore goodwill and better serve Hawaii's public school students.

 

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Alston, Hunt, Floyd, and Ing Attorneys at Law, and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Hawaii Carpenters Union, Local 745 supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and DOE opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1009, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1009, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair