STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2875

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2652

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2652, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to preserve the rights and benefits of the civil service employees of new century conversion charter schools.

The measure accomplishes this by establishing that Department of Education civil service employees whose school has become a new century conversion charter school are to retain their civil service status in the Department of Education's human resources civil service system.

The measure also establishes that Department of Education employees who are exempt from civil service and who also work at a school that has become a new century conversion charter school shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of other civil service employees of the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that preserving the civil service status of charter school employees is an important step in supporting education and new century conversion charter schools.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity and to correct a formatting error.

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. 2652, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, 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