STAND. COM. REP. NO.  16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 592

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 592 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to attract, retain, and reward quality and excellence in educational assistants by appropriating funds to the Department of Education to implement and maintain a career ladder program for educational assistants.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 592 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair