STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1527

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 592

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 592, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the cap on the State Librarian's salary established in statute by providing that the State Librarian's salary shall be an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the Superintendent of Education's salary.

The Board of Education testified in support of this measure.

For purposes of continued discussion, your Committees have amended this measure by changing the cap on the State Librarian's salary to an unspecified percentage amount of the Superintendent of Education's salary.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Lower & Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 592, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 592, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Lower & Higher Education,

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair

____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair