Report Title:

Constitutional Amendment; Commission on Salaries; Judiciary Officers

 

Description:

Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the commission on salaries to review and recommend salaries for the administrative director and deputy administrative director of the courts.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

291

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

proposing an amendment to article xvi, section 3.5, of the hawaii constitution, to require the salary commission to RECOMMEND salaries for the administrative director and deputy administrative director of the courts.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article XVI, section 3.5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to require the commission on salaries to review and recommend salaries for the administrative director and the deputy administrative director of the courts.

     SECTION 2.  Article XVI, section 3.5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"SALARY COMMISSION

     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, administrative director of the courts, deputy administrative director of the 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 salary commission be required to review and recommend salaries for the administrative director and deputy administrative director of the courts?" 

     SECTION 4.  Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New constitutional material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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