STAND. COM. REP. NO. 64

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     S.B. No. 592

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 592 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE STATE LIBRARIAN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to limit the State Librarian's salary to ninety percent of the Superintendent of Education's salary.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Education.

 

     Your Committee 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.  The State Librarian's current salary cap is $120,000 per year, which was last updated in 2001.  Your Committee further finds that in order to promote greater equity, the salary of the State Librarian should be capped based on a percentage of the salary of the Superintendent of Education, who, like the State Librarian, falls under the purview of the Board of Education.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 592 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair