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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION PLAN FOR MANAGERIAL POSITIONS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 77-13.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(c)  [The salary schedule applicable to employees in
 
 4 managerial white-collar positions shall be subject to chapter
 
 5 89C.]  Each chief executive of the State and counties, the chief
 
 6 justice of the supreme court, and the Hawaii health systems
 
 7 corporation chief executive officer shall determine the
 
 8 appropriate salary schedule and pay adjustments applicable to
 
 9 managerial white-collar employees of that jurisdiction,
 
10 notwithstanding inter-jurisdictional uniformity provisions of
 
11 sections 89C-3 and 89C-5."
 
12      SECTION 2.  Section 89C-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
13 amended to read as follows:
 
14      "§89C-3  Adjustments for officers and employees covered by
 
 
16 and the directors of personnel services of the counties who shall
 
17 serve as representatives of their respective chief executives,
 
18 and the administrative director of the courts who shall serve as
 
19 the representative of the chief justice, shall decide by majority
 

 
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 1 vote on the adjustments to be made under this chapter for
 
 2 officers and employees covered under chapter 77[.  Any], except
 
 3 for those covered by the excluded managerial compensation plan.
 
 4 Such adjustments and their effective dates shall be uniform among
 
 5 the jurisdictions."
 
 6      SECTION 3.  Section 89C-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 7 amended to read as follows:
 
 8      "89C-5  Implementation: effective date, appropriations,
 
 9 approval.(a)  Adjustments made under this chapter which do not
 
10 exceed those for officers and employees in collective bargaining
 
11 units shall take effect on the same date as appropriate
 
12 collective bargaining agreements.  Any such adjustments which
 
13 constitute cost items shall be subject to appropriations by the
 
14 appropriate legislative bodies.  Such cost items shall be
 
15 submitted separately from any cost items under collective
 
16 bargaining to the appro0riate legislative bodies, except that if
 
17 appropriation by the state legislature is required and it is not
 
18 in session at the time, such cost items shall be submitted for
 
19 inclusion in the governor's next operating budget.  The state
 
20 legislature or the legislative bodies of the counties acting in
 
21 concert, as the case may be, may approve or reject the cost items
 
22 submitted to them, as a whole.  If the State Legislature or the
 
23 legislative body of any county rejects any of the cost items
 

 
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 1 submitted to them, all cost items shall be returned for revision.
 
 2      (b)  Any other adjustments made under this chapter which
 
 3 constitute cost items or which were specifically provided for by
 
 4 legislative enactment shall be subject to approval or rejection
 
 5 as a whole by the appropriate legislative body.  Such adjustments
 
 6 for officers and employees covered under chapter 77, except for
 
 7 those covered by the excluded managerial compensation plan, shall
 
 8 be subject to the approval or rejection as a whole by all
 
 9 appropriate legislative bodies acting in concert.  If the state
 
10 legislature of the legislative body of any county rejects any of
 
11 the adjustments submitted to it, all adjustments for officers and
 
12 employees covered under chapter 77, except for those covered by
 
13 the excluded managerial compensation plan, or all adjustments for
 
14 other officers and employees, as the case may be, shall be
 
15 returned for revision.
 
16      (c)  The chief executives of the State and counties, the
 
17 board of education, the board of regents, the auditor, the
 
18 director of the legislative reference bureau, the ombudsman, or
 
19 the chief justice, shall not make any adjustments nor use funds
 
20 for purposes of this chapter without the prior approval of the
 
21 appropriate legislative bodies as required in this section."
 
22      Section 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
23 New statutory material is underscored.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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 3                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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