Bill Text: HI SB242 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Adult and Community Education; Vice Principals

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-07 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB242 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB242-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 118

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 242

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 242 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that the compensation of vice principals of adult and community education schools be payable over a twelve-month period without proration.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from McKinley Community School for Adults, Hawai‘i Educational Policy Center, and four individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Education and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that adult and community education schools, like multi-track schools, operate during the entire year on a trimester system.  This measure will allow vice principals of adult and community education schools to be compensated for the administrative responsibilities and duties they are currently performing over a twelve-month period, including the supervision of twelve-month staff assigned at each campus, and serving as their schools' academic officers in the administration of tests.

 

     While your Committee understands the concerns raised by the Department of Education pertaining to the equal treatment of all public employees within a collective bargaining unit, as this measure moves forward, your Committee encourages the Department to continue working with the Department of the Attorney General to address those concerns.  It is the hope of your Committee that both short- and long-term staffing strategies can be identified to support the adult and community education schools, which are clearly unique within the public education system and serve students year-round.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

 

     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. 242, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 242, 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,

 

		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair