Report Title:
Teachers; Performance Pay; Salary Increases
Description:
Provides teachers receiving satisfactory service performance evaluations with annual step increases for five years. Denies public school teachers with marginal service performance evaluations from receiving annual step increases. Excludes teachers at the top salary levels from receiving annual step increases.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2261 |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to teachers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-626, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-626 Salary increases; annual, [longevity.]
performance. (a) Teachers [and educational officers] who
have completed a year's satisfactory service and who have complied with the
other requirements of sections 302A-602 to 302A-640, and 302A-701, shall be
entitled to an annual [increment.] step increase.
(b) Teachers [and educational officers]
who have [served satisfactorily for three years in their maximum increment
step or in any longevity step and who have complied]:
(1) Received satisfactory performance evaluations, as determined by the principal or immediate supervisor; and
(2) Complied with the other
requirements of sections 302A-602 to 302A-640, and 302A-701, shall receive [longevity]
performance step increases[; provided that the] to the next
highest step in each teacher's respective classification. The board may
grant principals and vice-principals [longevity] performance step
increases [more frequently than once every three years] pursuant to
section 302A-625.
(c) A teacher who receives a marginal performance evaluation, as determined by the principal or immediate supervisor, shall not be entitled to a step increase for the following fiscal year. Upon receipt of a satisfactory performance evaluation, the teacher shall be entitled to a one-step increase to the next highest step in the teacher's classification for the following fiscal year.
(d) The board shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 that establish performance evaluation criteria to effectuate this section.
(e) No teacher at the highest step within the teacher's classification shall be entitled to receive an annual step increase pursuant to this section."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2013; provided that section 302A‑626, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on June 30, 2008.
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