Bill Text: HI SB276 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Commission on Salaries; Public Hearings; Constitutional Amendment (ConAm)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-22 - Referred to JDL. [SB276 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB276-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
proposing AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION relating to the salary commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of the Act is to propose an amendment to article XVI, section 3.5, of the constitution of the State of Hawaii to require that the commission on salaries hold public hearings on its recommendations prior to submitting them to the legislature.
SECTION 2. Article XVI, section 3.5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:
"SALARY COMMISSION
Section [[]3.5[]].
There shall be a commission on salaries as provided by law, which shall
review and recommend salaries for the justices and judges of all state courts,
members of the legislature, department heads or executive officers of the
executive departments and the deputies or assistants to department heads of the
executive departments as provided by law, excluding the University of Hawaii
and the department of education. The commission shall also review and make
recommendations for the salary of the administrative director of the State or
equivalent position and the salary of the governor and the lieutenant governor.
Any salary established pursuant to this section shall not be decreased during a term of office, unless by general law applying to all salaried officers of the State.
Every salary recommendation of the commission on salaries shall be subject to a public hearing as provided by law prior to being submitted to the legislature.
Not later than the fortieth legislative day of the 2007 regular legislative session and every six years thereafter, the commission shall submit to the legislature its recommendations and then dissolve.
The recommended salaries submitted shall become effective as provided in the recommendation, unless the legislature disapproves the entire recommendation as a whole by adoption of a concurrent resolution prior to adjournment sine die of the legislative session in which the recommendation is submitted; provided that any change in salary which becomes effective shall not apply to the legislature to which the recommendation for the change in salary was submitted."
SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:
"Shall the commission on salaries be required to hold a public hearing prior to the submission of its recommendations to the legislature?"
SECTION 4. Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New constitutional material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
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Report Title:
Commission on Salaries; Public Hearings; Constitutional Amendment
Description:
Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the commission on salaries to hold a public hearing prior to submission of its recommendations to the legislature.
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