REPORT TITLE:
Judiciary Employees


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to increase wage classifications for qualified
technical personnel in declared shortage categories. (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT SHORTAGE CATEGORY DECLARATION
   FOR PERSONNEL IN THE JUDICIARY IN THE STATE OF HAWAII.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds there currently exists a
 
 2 shortage of qualified and experienced technical resources in the
 
 3 State and nationwide.  Various government agencies compete with
 
 4 each other as well as with the private sector to attract and
 
 5 retain technical staff.  The technical resource shortage is
 
 6 rooted in the Year 2000 conversion concern as government and the
 
 7 private sector strive to ensure that services continue
 
 8 uninterrupted into the new century.  Wages for select technical
 
 9 personnel have risen fifteen per cent nationwide during the past
 
10 year.  The legislature further finds that the executive branch as
 
11 well as the judiciary have declared shortage categories for
 
12 select technical occupations pursuant to section 77-9, Hawaii
 
13 Revised Statutes.
 
14      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate moneys to the
 
15 judiciary to increase wage classifications of qualified technical
 
16 personnel in declared shortage categories.
 
17      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
18 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $0, or so much thereof
 
19 as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, and the same sum,
 

 
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 1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001,
 
 2 to provide additional payroll funding for judiciary employees
 
 3 assigned as data processing systems analysts, computer
 
 4 programmers, telecommunication analysts, and chief information
 
 5 officers.
 
 6      SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 7 judiciary for the purposes of this Act.
 
 8      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.