Bill Text: HI HB1202 | 2025 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Teacher Compensation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 189) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to LAB. [HB1202 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2025-HB1202-Amended.html
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THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-627, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-627 [Credit] Salary
ratings of entering or reentering teachers; credit for military service. (a)
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any teacher with more than one
year of teaching experience, licensed by the Hawaii teacher standards board, and
who is entering or reentering the service of the department shall have the
teacher's salary rating, as determined by the personnel executive of the
department, that is equal to the salary ratings held by an incumbent teacher in
the department with identical number of years of experience. The department shall recognize prior teaching
experience, whether in the State or otherwise, at an equivalent rate to
incumbent teachers employed by the department.
The department shall not limit the number of years of prior teaching
experience to be recognized under this subsection.
(b) Any teacher who served on active duty with the armed forces of the United States shall be given credit by the department for the teacher's military service in the determination of the teacher's salary, the teacher's eligibility for leaves of absence, and for all other purposes of seniority. Both reentering and entering teachers shall have each year of their military service or six months thereof credited as a year of teaching experience; provided that no more than four years of credit for military service shall be allowed. Evidence of military service shall be by certificate."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
DOE; Teacher Compensation; Salary Ratings; Teacher Retention
Description:
Recognizes prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for teachers entering or reentering into the service of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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