Bill Text: HI SB2819 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Teacher Compensation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-27 - Act 146, on 06/27/2022 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). [SB2819 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2819-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
H.D. 1 |
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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. The legislature finds that the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers is essential to the success of Hawaii's public education system. The State continues to face a chronic teacher shortage, which undermines student learning and achievement. For the 2018-2019 school year, the department of education experienced a qualified teacher shortage of one thousand twenty-nine positions.
The legislature further finds that research indicates that competitive and equitable compensation correlates with greater success in recruiting and retaining qualified educators. Yet, numerous studies have shown that Hawaii's teacher salaries are the lowest in the nation when adjusted for the State's high cost of living.
The legislature also finds that teacher salaries are inequitable when experienced senior teachers are aligned with less senior teachers in their placement within the existing salary schedules. Unfair pay scales have driven experienced senior teachers to either retire early or leave the profession, due to the perception that their experience and dedication to public education and the teaching profession will never be adequately valued and recognized.
The legislature further finds that an increasing number of school districts around the country are utilizing compensation methods and strategies designed to improve the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers.
The legislature additionally finds that subsection (a) of section 302A-627, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding salary ratings based upon years of teaching experience, conflicts with the intent of this Act, and should be repealed.
The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Provide automatic step increases in teacher salaries for each year of satisfactory service completed by public school teachers;
(2) Increase the amount of time available to teachers for collaboration, preparation, and planning time;
(3) Repeal section 302A-627(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
(4) Fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to address compensation equity issues and to make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for approximately eight thousand seven hundred experienced senior teachers by recognizing their professional service to the department of education through discretionary salary adjustments.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Teacher effectiveness support system. (a) Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for bargaining unit (3), bargaining unit (5), and bargaining unit (6), educational assistants, teachers, and educational officers who have complied with the other requirements of sections 302A‑602 to 302A-639 and section 302A-701, as applicable, and principals and vice principals who have completed a year's satisfactory service shall be entitled to an annual step increase; provided that this section shall not apply if the governor determines that the State is experiencing an economic downturn.
(b) Every teacher assigned to a school-level classroom instructional position shall be provided no less than two hundred twenty-five aggregate minutes of preparation periods scheduled by the employer during the teacher's regular work week. A preparation period shall consist of a continuous block of time of not less than forty-five minutes. The preparation periods shall be used for the pursuit of personally initiated school tasks in preparing for instruction, evaluating students, and performing other instructionally related activities, as included in a collective bargaining agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of bargaining unit (5) and already funded.
(c) Every teacher assigned to a school-level classroom instructional position may be provided a minimum of two hundred twenty-five minutes per week to assist students who need additional support in meeting the standards relating to the subject area for which the teacher is responsible.
(d) Every teacher assigned to a school—level classroom instructional position shall be provided a minimum of forty-five continuous minutes per week, up to 1,260 minutes total per year, for collaboration with peers at the same grade level or peers of similar subject areas regarding the development of effective instructional practices, and other student support systems.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit additional collaboration, preparation, and planning time from being included in a collective bargaining agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5). Nothing in this section shall replace or infringe on any existing protected time for members of bargaining unit (5) consisting of a continuous block of time of not less than forty-five minutes for a minimum of two hundred twenty-five aggregate minutes per week for the pursuit of personally initiated school tasks in preparing for instruction, evaluating students, and performing other instructionally related activities."
SECTION 3. Section 302A-627, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§302A-627[]
Salary ratings of entering or reentering teachers; credit] Credit for
military service. [(a) Any teacher with more than one year of teaching
experience, and so accredited by the department, entering or reentering the
service of the department shall have the teacher's salary rating determined by
the personnel executive of the department, any other law to the contrary
notwithstanding, so that the salary rating shall be equal to the salary ratings
held by incumbent teachers in the department with the identical number of years
of experience.
(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 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as negotiated between the superintendent of education and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5) in a memorandum of understanding, to address compensation equity issues and make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for approximately eight thousand seven hundred teachers whose current base salary does not reflect their years of professional service; provided that the moneys shall not be released until the memorandum of understanding is executed between the superintendent of education and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5).
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for charter schools commission and administration (EDN 612) to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78‑3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as negotiated between the governing boards of state public charter schools and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5) in a memorandum of understanding, to address compensation equity issues and make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for teachers whose current base salary does not reflect their years of professional service; provided that the moneys shall not be released until the memorandum of understanding is executed between the governing boards of state public charter schools and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5).
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the state public charter school commission for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Department of Education; Charter Schools; Step Increases; Collaboration, Preparation, and Planning Time; Teacher Compensation; Experimental Modernization Project; Appropriation
Description:
Provides automatic step increases in teacher salaries for each year of satisfactory service completed by public school teachers and educational assistants. Increases the amount of time available to teachers for planning, preparation, and collaboration. Makes an appropriation to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, HRS, to make necessary discretionary salary adjustments for certain teachers. Repeals section 302A-627(a), HRS. Effective 7/1/2050. (PROPOSED HD1)
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