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 |
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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 (c) of section 302A-624 and subsection (a) of section 302A-627, Hawaii Revised Statutes, conflicts with the intent of this Act, and should be repealed.
The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Provide automatic step increases in salaries for each year
of satisfactory service completed by educational assistants, public school
teachers, and principals and vice principals and to increase the amount of time available to
teachers for collaboration, preparation, and planning time;
(2) Repeal sections 302A-624(c) and 302A-627(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
(3) 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):
(1) Educational assistants;
(2) 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
(3) 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 and funded by a collective bargaining
agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of bargaining unit (5).
(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) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, every teacher assigned to a school—level classroom instructional position shall be provided a minimum of forty-five continuous minutes per week, two times per week, 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-624, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-624 Teachers' salary schedule.
(a) The salary schedule for all
teachers of the department shall be negotiated pursuant to section 89-9.
(b)
All teachers shall meet the following requirements:
(1) A
teacher shall earn at least five credits within a three-year cycle to receive
increment or longevity step increases in the third year of the three-year
cycle;
(2) A
teacher who fails to meet the requirement set forth in paragraph (1) shall not
be eligible for any increment or longevity step increases until the teacher
earns the credit requirement for the three-year cycle;
(3) Any
credit earned in excess of any three-year credit requirement may not be carried
over beyond the three-year cycle; and
(4) Credits
earned may be in the form of in-service, university, or other credits approved
by the department.
[(c)
A teacher shall be required to spend at least one year in Class III
before going on to Class IV, at least one year in Class IV before going on to
Class V, at least one year in Class V before going on to Class VI, and at least
one year in Class VI before going on to Class VII.]
[(d)] (c) In case of promotion from a teaching position
to an educational officer, the employee shall receive compensation at the
lowest step of the higher grade that exceeds the employee's existing
compensation by at least eight per cent if such a step exists.
[(e)] (d) Effective July 1, 2006, the minimum hourly or
minimum per diem rate for substitute teachers shall be determined by the
legislature as follows; provided that any individual in Class I, II, or III who
works less than a full seven-hour work day shall be compensated on a pro-rated,
hourly basis:
(1) Class
I: other individuals who do not possess
a bachelor's degree shall be compensated at a rate of not less than $125 for a
full work day;
(2) Class
II: individuals with a bachelor's degree
shall be compensated at a rate of not less than $136 for a full work day; and
(3) Class
III: department of education teachers,
or licensed or highly qualified teachers, shall be compensated at a rate of not
less than $147 for a full work day.
[(f)] (e) Effective July 1, 2008, the board shall
provide wage adjustments for substitute teachers. The wage adjustments shall be comparable to
the across-the-board wage adjustments for teachers that are negotiated for
bargaining unit (5) subject to legislative approval, pursuant to section
89C-5. The board may also adjust hours,
benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment for substitute teachers.
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SECTION 4. 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 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 the teacher effectiveness support program established pursuant to section 2 of this Act.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 6. 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 7. 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 the state public charter school 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 8. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 9. 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; Appropriations
Description:
Provides automatic step increases in salaries for each year of satisfactory service completed by educational assistants, public school teachers, and principals and vice principals and increases the amount of time available to teachers for collaboration, preparation, and planning time. Appropriates funds for the automatic step increases and increasing of time for teachers to collaborate and plan. 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 sections 302A-624(c) and 302A-627(a), HRS. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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