Report Title:

BOE; Annual Salaries; Membership; Autonomy

Description:

Requires board of education members to serve full-time and establishes a salary commission to recommend the salaries of the board members.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to the board of education.

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

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to provide salaries for board of education members and require them to serve on a full-time basis.

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§302A-   Salary commission; established. (a)  There is established a salary commission for the members of the board of education.  The salary commission shall consist of seven members appointed by the governor before September 1, 2008, and every four years thereafter.  The members of the salary commission shall be selected from nominations submitted by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives.  The members shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties and responsibilities.

(b)  Before the twentieth legislative day of the regular session of 2009 and every four years thereafter, the salary commission shall study and make recommendations to the legislature for the salary of the members of the board of education.  The salary commission shall be dissolved on June 30, 2009, and on June 30 every four years thereafter in which it submits recommendations to the legislature.  The recommended salary shall be effective as of the date of the recommendation, unless the legislature disapproves the recommendation by adoption of a concurrent resolution prior to adjournment sine die of the legislative session in which the recommendation is submitted."

     SECTION 3.  Section 302A-1101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There shall be a principal executive department to be known as the department of education, which shall be headed by an elected policy-making board to be known as the board of education.  Members of the board shall serve on a full-time basis.  The board shall have power in accordance with law to formulate statewide educational policy, adopt student performance standards and assessment models, monitor school success, and [to] appoint the superintendent of education as the chief executive officer of the public school system."

     SECTION 4.  Section 302A-1105, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§302A-1105  [Compensation;] Salaries; expenses[.]; allowances.  Board of education members shall [be allowed]:

    [(1) Compensation at the rate of $100 per day for each day's actual attendance at meetings;]

(1) Receive an annual salary, which shall be paid in equal amounts;

     (2)  [Transportation] Be allowed transportation fares between islands and abroad; [and]

     (3)  [Personal] Be allowed personal expenses at the rates specified by the board while attending board meetings or while on official business as authorized by the chairperson, when the board meetings or official business require a board member to leave the island upon which the board member resides[.]; and

(4) Be allowed a protocol allowance to cover expenses incurred in the course of a member's duties and responsibilities."

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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