STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.165

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 6

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 6 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COACHES' STIPENDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds for stipend increases for coaches of the department of Education (DOE).

The DOE and the Athletic Directors and Coaches Association testified in support of this measure.

Section 302A-633.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, mandates an increase in the base stipend of all DOE coaches, effective July 1, 2003. This measure appropriates $1,000,000 in general revenues to fund this increase.

Your Committee notes that while assistant athletic directors are not covered under the aforementioned law or this measure, an increase in their stipends is also warranted in order to more adequately compensate them for time spent in assisting students in athletic activities.

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. 6 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair