Bill Text: HI HB1996 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 1996 (Prior Session Legislation)

HI State Legislature page for HB1996

Bill Title: Relating To Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-22 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB1996 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-HB1996-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1996
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020		H.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

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

SECTION 1. Section 26-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§26-52 Department heads and executive officers. The salaries of the following state officers shall be as follows:

(1) The salary of the superintendent of education shall be set by the board of education at a rate no greater than $250,000 a year. The superintendent shall be subject to an annual performance evaluation, including evaluation of the department of education's most current strategic plan indicators, that is in alignment with other employee evaluations within the department of education and are based on outcomes determined by the board of education; provided that nothing shall prohibit the board of education from conditioning a portion of the salary on performance; provided further that effective July 1, 2020, any increase in salary shall require improvement in at least one-half of the department of education's most current strategic plan indicators;

(2) The salary of the president of the University of Hawaii shall be set by the board of regents;

(3) Effective July 1, 2004, the salaries of all department heads or executive officers of the departments of accounting and general services, agriculture, attorney general, budget and finance, business, economic development, and tourism, commerce and consumer affairs, Hawaiian home lands, health, human resources development, human services, labor and industrial relations, land and natural resources, public safety, taxation, and transportation shall be as last recommended by the executive salary commission. Effective July 1, 2007, and every six years thereafter, the salaries shall be as last recommended by the commission on salaries pursuant to section 26‑56, unless rejected by the legislature; and

(4) The salary of the adjutant general shall be $85,302 a year. Effective July 1, 2007, and every six years thereafter, the salary of the adjutant general shall be as last recommended by the commission on salaries pursuant to section 26‑56, unless rejected by the legislature, except that if the state salary is in conflict with the pay and allowance fixed by the tables of the regular Army or Air Force of the United States, the latter shall prevail."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon approval.

Report Title:

Superintendent of Education; Performance Evaluation; Salary; Strategic Plan Indicators

Description:

Requires the BOE to include evaluation of the most current strategic plan indicators as a component of the superintendent of education's annual performance evaluation. Requires improvements in at least one-half of those indicators for any salary increase for the superintendent. Takes effect upon approval. (SD1)

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