Bill Text: HI SB2124 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Restoration of Instructional Days; Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-25 - (S) Act 143, 5/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 601). [SB2124 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2124-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  730-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2124

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to restore the remaining public school instructional days for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years that would otherwise be lost to furloughs pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with the Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Specifically, this bill appropriates funds from the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to the public schools, including a proportionate amount to charter schools, provided that:

 

     (1)  The funds shall only be released upon completion of all negotiations of all parties necessary to execute the restoration of instructional days; and

 

     (2)  The collective bargaining agreement contain a provision to relinquish at least one planning day for every two lost instructional days due to furloughs once the instructional days are restored.

 

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Board of the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Association of REALTORS; and a concerned individual opposed this measure.  The Department of Education, Charter School Administrative Office, and a concerned individual offered comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair