Bill Text: HI SB2517 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 2517 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Commission on Salaries; Salaries for Elected Officials

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-25 - (S) Referred to JGO, WAM. [SB2517 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2517-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2517
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the commission on salaries.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 26-56, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The commission shall review and recommend an appropriate salary for the governor, lieutenant governor, members of the legislature, justices and judges of all state courts, administrative director of the State or an equivalent position, and department heads or executive officers and the deputies or assistants to the department heads of the departments of:

(1) Accounting and general services;

(2) Agriculture;

(3) The attorney general;

(4) Budget and finance;

(5) Business, economic development, and tourism;

(6) Commerce and consumer affairs;

(7) Defense;

(8) Hawaiian home lands;

(9) Health;

(10) Human resources development;

(11) Human services;

(12) Labor and industrial relations;

(13) Land and natural resources;

(14) Public safety;

(15) Taxation; and

(16) Transportation.

The commission shall not review the salary of any position in the department of education or the University of Hawaii.

The commission may recommend different salaries for department heads and executive officers and different salary ranges for deputies or assistants to department heads; provided that the commission shall recommend the same salary range for deputies or assistants to department heads within the same department; provided further that the appointing official shall specify the salary for a particular position within the applicable range.

The commission shall not recommend salaries lower than salary amounts recommended by prior commissions replaced by this section. The commission may recommend the same salary amounts for elected officials as the salary amounts recommended by the previous commission; provided that if in the year that the commission convenes, the council on revenues revenue estimates show a deficit for the fiscal year in progress or for any of the ensuing years of the six-year state program and financial plan, the commission shall not recommend any salary increases for elected officials."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Commission on Salaries; Salaries for Elected Officials

Description:

Authorizes the commission to recommend the same salary amounts for elected officials; provided that if in the year that the commission convenes, the council on revenues revenue estimates show a deficit for the fiscal year in progress or for any of the ensuing years of the six-year state program and financial plan, the commission shall not recommend salary increases for elected officials.

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