REPORT TITLE:
State Employees Payroll Lag


DESCRIPTION:
Removes requirement for some state employees to be paid later
than 5 days after the end of the payroll period worked.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1243
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO SALARY PERIODS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 78-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§78-13  Salary periods.  (a)  Unless otherwise provided by
 
 4 law, all officers and employees shall be paid at least
 
 5 semimonthly except that substitute teachers, part-time hourly
 
 6 rated teachers of adult and evening classes, and other part-
 
 7 time, intermittent, or casual employees may be paid once a month
 
 8 and that the governor, upon reasonable notice and upon
 
 9 determination that the payroll payment basis should be converted
 
10 from predicted payroll to after-the-fact payroll, may allow a
 
11 one-time once a month payroll payment to all public officers and
 
12 employees to effect a conversion to after-the-fact payroll as
 
13 follows:
 
14      (1)  The implementation of the after-the-fact payroll will
 
15           commence with the June 30, 1998, pay day, which will be
 
16           delayed to July 1, 1998;
 
17      (2)  The July 15, 1998, pay day will be delayed to July 17,
 
18           1998;
 
19      (3)  The July 31, 1998, pay day will be delayed to August 3,
 

 
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 1           1998;
 
 2      (4)  The August 14, 1998, pay day will be delayed to
 
 3           August 19, 1998;
 
 4      (5)  The August 31, 1998, pay day will be delayed to
 
 5           September 4, 1998;
 
 6      (6)  The September 15, 1998, pay day will be delayed to
 
 7           September 18, 1998; and
 
 8      (7)  Thereafter, pay days will be on the fifth and the
 
 9           twentieth of every month.  If the fifth and the
 
10           twentieth fall on a state holiday, Saturday, or Sunday,
 
11           the pay day will be the immediately preceding weekday.
 
12 The implementation of the after-the-fact payroll shall not be
 
13 subject to negotiation under chapter 89.
 
14      [(b)  If an employee has been working for the State for at
 
15 least six months, has no paid leave accumulated, and has an
 
16 existing salary overpayment balance:
 
17      (1)  The employee may be paid the employee's salary on the
 
18           same pay dates and for the same pay periods as non-
 
19           salaried employees.
 
20      (2)  Upon accumulation of eighty hours of paid leave, the
 
21           employee shall be paid the employee's salary on the
 
22           same pay dates and for the same pay periods as salaried
 
23           employees.
 

 
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 1      (c)  If an employee has been working for the State for at
 
 2 least six months and has had at least two incidents of leave
 
 3 which results in salary overpayment within the past six months:
 
 4      (1)  The employee may be paid the employee's salary on the
 
 5           same pay dates and for the same pay period as non-
 
 6           salaried employees.
 
 7      (2)  If there are no incidents of leave which result in
 
 8           salary overpayment for a subsequent four-month period,
 
 9           the employee shall be paid the employee's salary on the
 
10           same pay dates and for the same pay periods as salaried
 
11           employees.
 
12      (d)  The implementation of subsections (b) and (c) shall not
 
13 be subject to negotiation under chapter 89.
 
14      (e)] (b)  In order to make state government more efficient,
 
15 it is in the best interest of the State and its employees to have
 
16 a uniform payroll system.  All employees, except those belonging
 
17 to bargaining units 5 and 7, hired on or after July 1, 1998,
 
18 shall be paid on [the same pay dates and for the same pay periods
 
19 as non-salaried employees.]:
 
20      (1)  The fifth of every month for the pay period from the
 
21           sixteenth to the last day of the month; and
 
22      (2)  The twentieth of every month for the pay period from
 
23           the first to the fifteenth of the month."
 

 
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 1      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 2 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
 4 
 
 5                              INTRODUCED BY:______________________