REPORT TITLE:
Ed Officer Salaries


DESCRIPTION:
Addresses inequities of pay for educational officers by removing
the requirement that a teacher promoted to educational officer
shall receive at least 8% pay raise.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1543
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.
 


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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that inequities continue
 
 2 to exist in the salary ranges of educational officers, and that
 
 3 the salary ranges are not necessarily dependent on years of
 
 4 service.  This is particularly true with regards to those who
 
 5 have been promoted from a teaching position to an educational
 
 6 officer in recent years.  Current law requires a teacher promoted
 
 7 to an educational officer position to receive compensation at the
 
 8 lowest step of the higher grade that exceeds the employee's
 
 9 compensation, before promotion, by at least eight per cent.  As
 
10 teacher salaries have been growing at a faster rate than those
 
11 for educational officers, newer educational officers are often
 
12 receiving higher salaries than those with more experience.
 
13      The legislature further finds that while the contract
 
14 negotiation process is beginning to address these inequities,
 
15 removing the requirement for an eight per cent raise will assist
 
16 this process, as well as address a serious recruitment problem
 
17 for educational officers.
 
18      SECTION 2.  Section 302A-624, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
19 amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
 

 
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 1      "(d)  In case of promotion from a teaching position to an
 
 2 educational officer, the employee shall receive compensation [at
 
 3 the lowest step of the higher grade that exceeds the employee's
 
 4 existing compensation by at least eight per cent if such a step
 
 5 exists] at the appropriate step and range negotiated pursuant to
 
 6 section 89-9."
 
 7      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 8 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 9      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999,
 
10 subject to any collective bargaining agreements currently in
 
11 force.
 
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13                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________