REPORT TITLE:
State Librarian


DESCRIPTION:
Allows the BOE to appoint the state librarian without regard to
residency for a term of up to 4 years.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.409        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN.
 


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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 312-2.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§312-2.1  Appointment of state librarian; duties; salary.
 
 4 (a)  The state librarian shall be appointed by the board of
 
 5 education, without regard to chapters 76 and 77[, shall serve at
 
 6 the pleasure of the board, shall be under the direction of the
 
 7 board, and shall be responsible for the operation, planning,
 
 8 programming, and budgeting of all community/school and public
 
 9 libraries within the State.] and may be removed by a majority
 
10 vote of its members.  The state librarian may be appointed:
 
11      (1)  Without regard to the state residency provisions of
 
12           section 78-1(b); and
 
13      (2)  For a term of up to four years.
 
14      (b)  The state librarian shall be:
 
15      (1)  Under the direction of the board of education; and
 
16      (2)  Responsible for the operation, planning, programming,
 
17           and budgeting of all community/school and public
 
18           libraries within the State.
 
19      (c)  The salary of the state librarian shall be set by the
 

 
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 1 board of education.  Effective [January 1, 1989, and] January 1,
 
 2 1990, the salary shall be not more than [$81,629 and] $85,302 a
 
 3 year[, respectively]."
 
 4      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 5 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 6      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
 7 
 
 8                              INTRODUCED BY:______________________