STAND. COM. REP. NO.307

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 24

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 24 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to bifurcate the educational officer class to establish twelve-month salary schedules for high school principals and vice-principals and ten-month salary schedules for all other educational officers.

Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education. The Hawaii Government Employees Association Local 152 supported the intent of the measure, with amendments. The Governor's Office of Collective Bargaining submitted comments.

The measure also enables the Board of Education to award retention bonuses to principals and vice-principals who work in their respective capacity for at least five consecutive years.

Your Committee finds that the responsibilities of high school principals and administrators of multi-level schools essentially require that they work year round, yet they are only compensated based upon a ten-month schedule. Your Committee further finds that this is an issue of fairness and these ten-month administrators should be justly compensated for working beyond a ten-month schedule.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Delineating a ten-month salary schedule for elementary school principals and vice-principals and a twelve-month salary schedule for high school and kindergarten through grade twelve principals and vice principals;

(2) Delineating a twelve-month salary schedule for all other educational officers;

(3) Adding an appropriation for the additional two months salary for educational officers whose salary schedule shall be converted to a twelve-month term of service; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 S.B. No. 24, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 24, S.D. 1, 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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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair