Report Title:

Salaries; Civil Defense Vice-Director

Description:

Increases the salary of the civil defense vice-director to be commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position by linking it to the director of health's salary.  (SD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3064
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO SALARIES.

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

     SECTION 1.  The salary of the vice-director of civil defense is linked to the salary of the director of human resources development, which is in the lowest compensation tier for department heads.  The existing salary for that position is not commensurate with the duties and responsibilities and the importance and complexity of the civil defense program.  In order to attract and retain highly qualified individuals, the salary of that position should be set at or limited to ninety-two per cent of the salary of the director of health, which is in the second highest compensation tier for department heads.

     The purpose of this Act is to make an adjustment to the salary of the vice-director of civil defense.

     SECTION 2.  Section 128-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  There shall be a vice-director of civil defense who shall be appointed and may be removed by the director.  The vice-director shall be the first assistant to the director and shall, in the absence of the director, have all the duties and responsibilities of the director.  The vice-director shall be paid a salary not to exceed [eighty-seven] ninety-two per cent of the salary of the director of [human resources development.] health.  Chapter 76 shall not apply to the vice-director."

SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.