STAND. COM. REP. NO.  170-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2337

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2337 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN'S SALARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the Board of Education with greater flexibility to establish the salary of the State Librarian by increasing the salary cap for the State Librarian position from $120,000 to $200,000 per year.

No testimony was received for this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the specific amount of the salary cap to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2337, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2337, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair