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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

617

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS.

 

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 $150,000 a year;

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

(3) 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 [$85,302] $95,000 a year; and

(4) The salary of the adjutant general shall be [$85,302] $95,000 a year; provided that if this salary is in conflict with the pay and [allowance] allowances fixed by the tables of the regular army or air force of the United States, the latter shall prevail."

SECTION 2. Section 26-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§26-53 Deputies or assistants to department heads. (a) [Effective January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1990, the] The salaries of deputies or assistants to the head of any department of the State, other than the department of education, shall be [set by the governor within the range from $69,748 to $74,608 and $72,886 to $77,966] $90,000 a year[, respectively].

(b) Effective January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1990, the salary of the deputy to the superintendent of education shall be $81,629 and $85,302 a year, respectively."

SECTION 3. Section 26-54, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§26-54 Administrative director of the State. [Effective January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1990, the] The salary of the administrative director of the State shall be [$86,164 and $90,041] $100,000 a year[, respectively]."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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