Bill Text: HI SB497 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB497 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB497-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 161
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 497
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2009
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 497 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Establish an advisory committee to provide oversight of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and provide the Governor with lists of nominees for appointment to the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board;
(2) Require an annual report of the advisory committee to the Board of Education and the Legislature; and
(3) Authorize the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to hire an executive director.
Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by three state agencies. Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 83, S.D. 1, 2008, requested the Auditor to conduct a study of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, including:
(1) Organizational placement of the Board as an administratively attached agency to the Department of Education;
(2) The functions and operations of the Board and its similarity to other agencies;
(3) The Board's long-range planning in relation to appropriate policy foundations, benchmarks, and accountability mechanisms;
(4) The Board's appeals process; and
(5) The capabilities of the Board's web-based system, implemented in 2006.
Your Committee understands that the Auditor expects to submit a final report to the Legislature in February 2009. Until the final report is available, your Committee believes this measure provides a vehicle to promote further discussion.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Designating the majority of existing provisions contained in the measure as received by your Committee as part I;
(2) Adding to part I, from S.B. No. 142, a provision that repeals the July 1, 2009 sunset date on the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board's authority to suspend its policies, rules, and standards when required by extenuating circumstances, and adding additional language that allows the board to determine how it collects license fees;
(3) Establishing a part II, using language from S.B. No. 204, authorizing the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to coordinate an effort that creates a data interface network to promote the free interchange of information among public and private Hawaii teacher education institutions and the Department of Education, and appropriating funds for the network;
(4) Amending the effective date to July 1, 2050, for the purpose of encouraging further discussion; and
(5) Making technical amendments to correct drafting errors.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 497, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 497, 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 and Housing,
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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