Bill Text: HI HB2337 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Librarian Salary
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Oshiro excused (2). [HB2337 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2337-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN'S SALARY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that existing
law authorizes the board of education to set the salary of the state
librarian, but the salary is statutorily capped at a specific amount.
The legislature further finds that it is a challenge to recruit and fill this state leadership position because the statutory salary cap is not in alignment with national salary norms and, therefore, not competitive with or in the range of the salaries of other similar administrative leadership positions at comparable library systems.
The statute governing the state librarian's salary has not been amended since 2001, and the salary cap should be revised as a matter of equity, to account for cost-of-living increases.
Amending the current salary cap for the state librarian was based on a review of the salaries of library directors across the country with comparable budgets, population sizes, and number of employees. Salaries of similar positions in other states support a higher salary cap. Hawaii's state librarian is responsible for a statewide district, whereas most librarians in other jurisdictions are responsible for only a city or county.
The salary cap amendment will also provide the board of education with greater discretion in hiring, recruiting, and retaining the top librarian for Hawaii's public libraries.
The purpose of this Act is to provide the board of education, as the appointing body of the state librarian, with greater flexibility to establish the salary of the state librarian by increasing the salary cap on the state librarian position.
SECTION 2. 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 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Librarian Salary
Description:
Increases the salary cap on the State Librarian position. (HB2337 HD1)
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