STAND. COM. REP. NO.685

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1072

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1072, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ISPED CLERK TYPISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds for para-professional positions with the Integrated Special Education Database (ISPED) system of the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the database system was created pursuant to the Felix Consent Decree to improve communication and collaboration between the Department of Education and the Department of Health in ensuring appropriate and timely provision of services to students with special needs. Your Committee also finds that the persons who have been inputting the data, often during their own personal time, are the special education teachers themselves.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to increase productivity by relieving special education teachers from data inputting tasks and allowing them to devote more of their time to teaching.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to a blank amount for the purpose of promoting continued discussion on the matter.

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. 1072, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1072, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair