STAND. COM. REP. NO.770

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 382

S.D. 3

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 382, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require annual incremental or longevity salary increases for teachers who have performed satisfactorily.

Your Committee received favorable testimony from the Superintendent of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committee finds that in order to recruit and retain qualified public school teachers, the State must provide adequate salary incentives. An annual incremental salary increase for teachers based on satisfactory performance is a step in that direction. In nearly every other school district in the nation, teachers receive annual incremental salary increases for experience. This bill will help in placing Hawaii's public school teachers in parity with their mainland counterparts and also provide an incentive for newly hired teachers to remain in the teaching profession.

Your Committee has amended the bill by changing the effective date of the new subsection added by section 3 of the bill to July 3, 2003, and by making a technical change that has no substantive effect.

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. 382, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 382, S.D. 3.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair