STAND. COM. REP. NO. 947

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 953

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 953, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the Department of Education with flexibility to recruit qualified individuals for certain leadership positions within the Department by changing the salary cap for the Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, and Complex Area Superintendents from eighty percent of the Superintendent's salary to one hundred percent of the Superintendent's salary.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that existing statutory limits on the salaries of the Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, and Complex Area Superintendents create a challenge in recruiting for and filling these positions.  Removing salary caps on these positions will make the positions more competitive and will enhance the ability of the State to recruit the most qualified and experienced individuals.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 953, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair