Bill Text: HI SB362 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Abolition of Commission on Salaries; Constitutional Amendment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB362 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB362-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Abolition of Commission on Salaries; Constitutional Amendment
Description:
Repeals the constitutional provision creating the commission on salaries.
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THE SENATE |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
proposing an amendment to article xvi, section 3.5, of the hawaii constitution, to repeal article xvi, section 3.5, which created the commission on salaries.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to abolish the commission on salaries that was created by legislation and subsequent ratification in 2006. During these difficult economic times, members of the public have expressed concerns about the large increase in salary that State legislators are to receive in 2009. The current system gives a separate commission on salaries that is not sufficiently accountable to the public the power to increase legislative salaries. The Legislature believes that legislators should deliberate and vote upon their own changes in compensation as a means of making them more accountable to the members of the public whom they serve. This Act will abolish the current system of providing for salary increases, and will allow legislators to enact laws enabling them to deliberate and vote on their own changes in compensation, thus making legislators more accountable to the members of the public whom they serve. This Act will also allow legislators to enact laws that will better address salary adjustments for other State officials and employees.
SECTION 2. Article XVI, section 3.5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is repealed.
["Section
[3.5]. There shall be a commission on salaries as
provided by law, which shall review and recommend salaries for the justices and
judges of all state courts, members of the legislature, department heads or
executive officers of the executive departments and the deputies or assistants
to department heads of the executive departments as provided by law, excluding
the University of Hawaii and the department of education. The commission
shall also review and make recommendations for the salary of the administrative
director of the State or equivalent position and the salary of the governor and
the lieutenant governor.
Any
salary established pursuant to this section shall not be decreased during a
term of office, unless by general law applying to all salaried officers of the
State.
Not
later than the fortieth legislative day of the 2007 regular legislative session
and every six years thereafter, the commission shall submit to the legislature
its recommendations and then dissolve.
The
recommended salaries submitted shall become effective as provided in the
recommendation, unless the legislature disapproves the entire recommendation as
a whole by adoption of a concurrent resolution prior to adjournment sine die of
the legislative session in which the recommendation is submitted; provided that
any change in salary which becomes effective shall not apply to the legislature
to which the recommendation for the change in salary was submitted."]
SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:
"Shall the commission on salaries be abolished in order to allow new laws to be enacted which shall: (1) require State legislators to deliberate and vote upon their own adjustments in compensation, and (2) address salary adjustments for other State officials and employees?"
SECTION 4. Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
SECTION 5. This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
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