Bill Text: HI HB2306 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; Salaries; Performance Bonuses
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2010-04-16 - (H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-21-10 2:00PM in conference room 329. [HB2306 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2306-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to salaries.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that existing laws authorize the board of education to set the salaries of the superintendent of education, the state librarian, deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and complex area superintendents. However, the legislature also finds that the board of education's flexibility in setting these salaries is restricted by the statutory caps on these salaries.
The legislature finds that the salaries of the deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and complex area superintendents are capped by statute at a percentage of the superintendent's salary. The legislature further finds that it is a challenge to recruit and fill state and complex area leadership positions because the salaries are not competitive with or in the range of the salaries of other administrative leadership positions at the school level. The cap on the superintendent's salary was last established in 2000; the cap on the state librarian's salary was last established in 2001.
The legislature finds that repealing the salary caps of the superintendent of education, state librarian, deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent, and complex area superintendent positions will provide the board of education with the authority and latitude to establish these leadership position salaries commensurate with various factors, including the breadth of responsibilities and duties of those positions, and the experience and skills the individuals bring to their respective positions. Furthermore, the legislature finds that repealing the salary caps will also provide the board of education with the flexibility it needs to attract and retain individuals to support a strong statewide public education system and statewide public library system.
The purpose of this Act is to authorize the board of education, as the appointing body of the superintendent and state librarian, with full flexibility to establish the salaries of the superintendent and the state librarian, as well as the deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and complex area superintendents, by repealing the salary caps on these state and complex area leadership positions.
SECTION 2. Section 26-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§26-52 Department heads and executive officers. The salaries of the following state officers shall be as follows:
(1) The salary of the superintendent of education
shall be set by the board of education [at a rate no greater than $150,000 a
year];
(2) The salary of the president of the University of Hawaii shall be set by the board of regents;
(3) Effective July 1, 2004, the salaries of all department heads or executive officers of the departments of accounting and general services, agriculture, attorney general, budget and finance, business, economic development, and tourism, commerce and consumer affairs, Hawaiian home lands, health, human resources development, human services, labor and industrial relations, land and natural resources, public safety, taxation, and transportation shall be as last recommended by the executive salary commission. Effective July 1, 2007, and every six years thereafter, the salaries shall be as last recommended by the commission on salaries pursuant to section 26‑56, unless rejected by the legislature; and
(4) The salary of the adjutant general shall be $85,302 a year. Effective July 1, 2007, and every six years thereafter, the salary of the adjutant general shall be as last recommended by the commission on salaries pursuant to section 26‑56, unless rejected by the legislature, except that if the state salary is in conflict with the pay and allowance fixed by the tables of the regular army or air force of the United States, the latter shall prevail."
SECTION 3. Section 302A-621, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-621 Salary; deputy
superintendent, assistant superintendents, complex area superintendents.
The salaries of the deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and
complex area superintendents shall be set by the board[; provided that the
salaries of the deputy superintendent, assistant superintendents, and the
complex area superintendents shall not exceed eighty per cent of the
superintendent's salary]."
SECTION 4. Section 312-2.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The salary of the state librarian
shall be set by the board of education [at a rate no greater than $120,000 a
year]."
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Education; Repeal Salary Caps
Description:
Repeals the salary caps of the superintendent, state librarian, and other state and complex area leadership positions specified under section 302A-621, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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