THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2672
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to the commission on salaries.

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

SECTION 1. Section 26-56, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d) The commission shall convene in the month of November 2006, and every six years thereafter. [Not] No later than the fortieth legislative day of the regular session of 2007, and every six years thereafter, the commission shall submit a report of its findings and its salary recommendations to the legislature, through the governor. The commission may include incremental increases that take effect [prior to] before the convening of, and remain in effect for the fiscal biennium immediately following, the next [salary] commission.

[The recommended salaries submitted by the commission shall become effective July 1 of the next fiscal year] The commission that convenes in 2024, shall make salary recommendations through June 30, 2033. The commission that convenes in 2030, and each commission thereafter, shall make recommendations that take effect on July 1 of the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium after the immediately following fiscal biennium in which the recommendation was made, unless the legislature disapproves the recommended salaries submitted by the commission through the adoption of a concurrent resolution, which shall be approved by a simple majority of each house of the legislature, [prior to] before adjournment sine die of the legislative session in which the recommended salaries are submitted; provided that any change in salary which becomes effective shall not apply to the legislature to which the recommendation for the change in salary was submitted.

The governor shall include the salary amounts recommended by the commission and approved by the legislature for employees of the executive branch in the executive budget. If the salary amounts recommended by the commission are disapproved by the legislature, the commission shall reconvene in the November next following the legislative disapproval to review the legislature's reasons for disapproving its salary recommendation. The commission may submit a report of its findings and submit a new salary recommendation to the legislature at the next regular session. The commission's reconvening following a legislative disapproval shall not toll the six-year cycle."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Commission on Salaries; Salary Recommendations

Description:

Requires the commission on salaries that convenes in 2024 to make salary recommendations for the following eight fiscal years. Provides for the executive, judicial, and legislative branch salary recommendations to become effective on the same date beginning on July 1, 2033.

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