Bill Text: HI SB592 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To The Salary Of The State Librarian.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-09 - Act 224, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). [SB592 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB592-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	592
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 2
		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE STATE LIBRARIAN.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that existing law authorizes the board of education to set the salary of the state librarian as long as the salary does not exceed a specific amount, also referred to as a salary cap.  The state librarian's current salary cap is $120,000 per year, which was last updated in 2001.

     The purpose of this Act is to update the state librarian's salary cap.

     SECTION 2.  Section 312-2.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The salary of the state librarian shall be set by the board of education at a rate no greater than [$120,000] $175,000 a year."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2019.

 

Report Title:

State Librarian Salary

 

Description:

Updates the state librarian's salary cap to $175,000 per year.  (CD1)

 

 

 

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