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HI Rev Stat § 78-17 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-17 Payment of salaries or wages upon discharge from service.

  §78-17 Payment of salaries or wages upon discharge from service. Whenever in any case, and for whatever cause, the employment of any officer, agent, employee, or other person in the public service is discharged, the discharged person shall be paid immediately upon the approval of the head of the department in which the person was engaged whatever salary or wages that are due the person. [L 1941, c 285, §1; RL 1945, §456; RL 1955, §5-18; HRS §78-17; am L 2000, c 253, §78]
HI Rev Stat § 78-18 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-18 REPEALED.

 §78-18 REPEALED. L 1982, c 152, §3.
HI Rev Stat § 78-18.3 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-18.3 Prohibition on certain increases in salaries for certain state and county officers or employees.

  §78-18.3 Prohibition on certain increases in salaries for certain state and county officers or employees. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, neither the State nor any of the counties shall provide or pay to the following state or county officers or employees any adjustment or increase in the officer's or employee's respective salary or compensation where such adjustment or increase constitutes a mandatory adjustment or increase which is, directly or indirectly, dependent upon and related to negotiated salary adjustments or increases received under collective bargaining agreements by civil service or other public employees covered by collective bargaining: any elected or appointed officer or employee in the executive and judicial branches of state government and the executive branch of any county government (1) whose salary or compensation is fixed, limited, or otherwise specified by statute, ordinance, or other legislative enactment whether or not in express dollar amounts or express dollar amount ceilings; (2) who is not subject to chapter 76; and (3) who is excluded from collective bargaining and not subject to chapter 89C. [L 1982, c 129, pt of §34A; gen ch 1985; am L 2000, c 253, §150] Case Notes  Constitutional. 67 H. 412, 689 P.2d 757.  Power of legislature to enact laws of statewide concern not limited by article VIII, §2 of state constitution; §46-21.5 and this section not unconstitutional under article VIII, §2 of state constitution as provisions intended to allow for integrated, equitable, and reasonable salaries among top-level officers of all jurisdictions was a matter of statewide concern and thus was a matter within the powers of the legislature. 67 H. 412, 689 P.2d 757.
HI Rev Stat § 78-18.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-18.5 REPEALED.

 §78-18.5 REPEALED. L 1978, c 197, §3.
HI Rev Stat § 78-19 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-19 REPEALED.

  §78-19 REPEALED. L 2000, c 253, §87.
HI Rev Stat § 78-20 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-20 Sureties.

 §78-20 Sureties. Whenever by any law, regulation, ordinance, rule or order of court, or any rule of any department of the state government or of any subdivision thereof, any person shall be required to give any written bond or undertaking for the performance of any contract or the provisions of any license, or for the indemnity or security of any person, party or any officer, there shall be attached to the bond or undertaking an affidavit of each of the sureties thereon, duly verified by oath, from which it shall appear that the sureties have property situate within the State subject to execution and that the sureties taken together are worth in the property the amount of the penalty specified in the bond or undertaking, over and above all of their debts and liabilities. In default of the justification no bond or undertaking shall be accepted. Notwithstanding any provision requiring two or more sureties, if any such bond or undertaking is executed by the principal and by any corporation, organized for the purpose of becoming surety on such bonds, authorized under the laws of the United States or of the State to act as surety, and doing business in the State under the provisions of the laws of the United States or of the State, if a foreign corporation, and under the laws of the State, if a Hawaiian corporation, the corporation may be accepted as sole surety on the bond, whenever, in the opinion of the officer or officers whose duty it is to approve the bond, the rights of all parties in interest will be fully protected. When the surety on any such bond is a corporation authorized to do a surety company business, no justification shall be required.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the deposit of cash or other security in lieu of any surety or sureties, when permitted by the law, regulation, ordinance, rule or order concerned. [L 1915, c 197, §1; am L 1917, c 78, §1; RL 1925, §161; am L 1931, c 163, §1; RL 1935, §160; RL 1945, §497; RL 1955, §7-21; HRS §78-20; am L 1973, c 32, §1] Case Notes  This section controls all surety affidavits. 30 H. 658.  Guarantee of corporation not ultra vires, when. 32 H. 667.  One surety sufficient. 33 H. 265.  Justification requirements. 33 H. 311.  Rights. 33 H. 545.  Subrogation. 33 H. 607.  Liability. 33 H. 632.
HI Rev Stat § 78-21 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-21 Limitation of liability.

 §78-21 Limitation of liability. Except in cases of gross negligence, no public officer or employee shall be liable for damages to government property if such damages to government property were caused by the public officer or employee while performing work within the scope of the officer's or employee's employment. [L 1971, c 145, §1; gen ch 1985]
HI Rev Stat § 78-22 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-22 REPEALED.

  §78-22 REPEALED. L 2000, c 253, §88.
HI Rev Stat § 78-23.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-23.5 Paid leave for state and county employees providing disaster relief services for the American Red Cross.

 §78-23.5 Paid leave for state and county employees providing disaster relief services for the American Red Cross. (a) The governor or mayor or their respective designees may grant a state or county employee who is a certified American Red Cross disaster volunteer up to thirty days paid leave of absence to perform disaster relief services for the American Red Cross, a federally chartered nongovernmental disaster relief organization, when a disaster has been:  (1) Designated as level III or higher by American Red Cross regulations;  (2) Officially declared by the President of the United States; or  (3) Declared a state of emergency by the governor; provided that the employee has prior authorization from the governor or mayor, or their respective designee, as applicable, and the leave of absence imposes no undue hardship on state or county operations.  (b) Employees granted leaves of absence pursuant to this section shall be paid at their regular rates of pay for those regular hours during which the employees are absent from work, without loss of seniority, pay, vacation, sick leave, or earned overtime accumulations. [L 2003, c 24, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 78-23.6 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-23.6 Leave of absence to serve as bone marrow donor or organ donor.

  §78-23.6 Leave of absence to serve as bone marrow donor or organ donor. Any officer or employee in the service of the State or any of the several counties shall be entitled to:  (1) Seven days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as a bone marrow donor; and  (2) Thirty days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as an organ donor. [L 2005, c 176, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 78-24 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-24 Injured employee; liability of third persons.

  §78-24 Injured employee; liability of third persons. (a) Whenever any police officer, firefighter, or any other officer or employee who is temporarily exposed to unusually hazardous conditions, or who is a member of a class, recognized by the action of pricing, to be a class exposed to unusually hazardous conditions, receives personal injury arising out of and in the performance of duty and without negligence on the employee's part, the employee shall be placed on accidental injury leave unless suspended or discharged for cause. The employee shall be continued on the department's payroll, as though the employee did not sustain an industrial injury, as follows:  (1) During the first four months of the disability, at the employee's full regular monthly salary; and   (2) Thereafter, during the period of total disability from work at sixty per cent of the employee's regular monthly salary. The employee shall be entitled to all rights and remedies allowed under chapter 386; provided that any salary paid under this section shall be applied on account of any compensation allowed under chapter 386 or any benefits awarded under part III of chapter 88 to the employee.  (b) When the employer pays benefits to or incurs medical expenses on behalf of any of its employees under this section for any injury sustained under circumstances creating in some person or entity other than the employer a legal liability to pay damages in respect thereto, the employer or the employee may proceed against such third persons and recover all payments made, paid, or due under this section. The employer or employee shall have all of the rights and remedies contained in or provided for under section 386-8. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74]
HI Rev Stat § 78-25 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-25 Credits for employees receiving workers' compensation benefits; wage supplement.

  §78-25 Credits for employees receiving workers' compensation benefits; wage supplement. (a) Where an employee is absent from work because of injuries incurred within the scope of the employee's employment and the employee is receiving workers' compensation benefits, the employee shall continue to earn vacation, sick leave, and retirement credits as though the employee were not absent but performing duties of the employee's regular employment. Section 386-57 or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the employee shall have deducted from the employee's workers' compensation benefit checks an amount calculated in the same manner as if the employee were not absent but performing duties of the employee's regular employment to be used as the employee's contribution to the retirement system.  (b) An employee who is receiving workers' compensation wage loss replacement benefits may use the employee's accumulated sick leave or vacation credits to supplement the workers' compensation wage loss replacement benefits to a sum not to exceed the employee's regular salary. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74; am L 2015, c 86, §3]
HI Rev Stat § 78-26 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-26 Leave sharing program.

  §78-26 Leave sharing program. (a) The legislature, with regard to its employees, or the chief executive of a jurisdiction may establish a leave sharing program to allow employees to donate accumulated vacation leave credits to another employee within the same jurisdiction who has a serious personal illness or injury or who has a family member who has a serious personal illness or injury. The program shall allow employees who are not entitled to vacation leave to donate accumulated sick leave credits.  (b) The legislature, with regard to its employees, or the director of a jurisdiction desiring to establish a leave sharing program shall develop rules governing donors, recipients, and an approval process that ensures fair treatment and freedom from coercion of employees and imposes no undue hardship on the employer's operations. If it is administratively infeasible to allow leave sharing between different departments or different bargaining units, the rules may limit leave sharing to employees within the same department or same bargaining unit, as necessary. At a minimum, the rules shall require that an eligible recipient must have:  (1) No less than six months of service within the respective jurisdiction;  (2) Exhausted or is about to exhaust all vacation leave, sick leave, and compensatory time credits; provided that sick leave need not be exhausted when the illness or injury involves a family member;  (3) A personal illness or injury or a family member's illness or injury certified by a competent medical examiner as being serious and the cause of the recipient's inability to work; provided that the illness or injury is not covered under chapter 386 or, if covered, all benefits under chapter 386 have been exhausted; and  (4) No disciplinary record of sick leave abuse within the past two years.  Notwithstanding the requirements of chapter 91, the legislature may establish a leave sharing program for legislative employees, in accordance with this section, under policies adopted separately by each house of the legislature and each legislative service agency, or jointly by any combination of entities thereof. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74; am L 2001, c 37, §2]
HI Rev Stat § 78-27 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-27 Temporary inter- and intra-governmental assignments and exchanges.

  §78-27 Temporary inter- and intra-governmental assignments and exchanges. (a) With the approval of the respective employer, a governmental unit of this State may participate in any program of temporary inter- or intra-governmental assignments or exchanges of employees as a sending or receiving agency. "Agency" means any local, national, or foreign governmental agency or private agency with government sponsored programs or projects.  (b) As a sending agency, a governmental unit of this State may consider its employee on a temporary assignment or exchange as being on detail to a regular work assignment or on leave of absence without pay from the employee's position. The employee on temporary assignment or exchange shall be entitled to the same rights and benefits as any other employee of the sending agency.  (c) As a receiving agency, a governmental unit of this State shall not consider the employee on a temporary assignment or exchange who is detailed from the sending agency as its employee, except for the purpose of disability or death resulting from personal injury arising out of and in the course of the temporary assignment or exchange. The employee on detail may not receive a salary from the receiving agency, but the receiving agency may pay for or reimburse the sending agency for the costs, or any portion of the costs, of salaries, benefits, and travel and transportation expenses if it will benefit from the assignment or exchange.  (d) An agreement consistent with this section and policies of the employer shall be made between the sending and receiving agencies on matters relating to the assignment or exchange, including but not limited to supervision of duties, costs of salary and benefits, and travel and transportation expenses; provided that the agreement shall not diminish any rights or benefits to which an employee of a governmental unit of this State is entitled under this section.  (e) As a receiving agency, a governmental unit of this State may give the employee of the sending agency on a temporary assignment or exchange an exempt appointment and grant the employee rights and benefits as other exempt appointees of the receiving agency if it will benefit from the assignment or exchange. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74]
HI Rev Stat § 78-28 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-28 In-service training programs.

  §78-28 In-service training programs. Each director shall monitor, make recommendations, and develop policies and guidelines for suitable in-service training programs and activities so that the quality of service rendered by government employees may be continually improved. Participating agencies may be charged fees for training programs. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74]
HI Rev Stat § 78-29 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-29 Incentive and service awards.

  §78-29 Incentive and service awards. (a) Each chief executive may establish incentive and service awards programs to recognize employees who contribute to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of government operations or who perform exceptionally meritorious special acts or services in the public interest in connection with or related to their official employment. The programs may allow appointing authorities to establish their own programs consistent with the policies of the chief executive.  (b) The programs may provide for cash awards to recognize suggestions, inventions, superior accomplishments, length of service, and other personal or group efforts. A cash award shall be in addition to the employee's regular compensation. The acceptance of a cash award shall constitute an agreement that use by the government of any idea, method, or device for which the award is made shall not form the basis of a further claim upon the government by the employees or the employees' heirs and assigns.  (c) Awards and expenses for programs may be paid from funds available to the departments and agencies benefiting from or responsible for recognizing the employee's or group of employees' contribution, as determined by the chief executive or appointing authority, as applicable. All administrative decisions made on the issuance of awards under this section shall be final and deemed a performance of a discretionary function of the chief executive or appointing authority. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74; am L 2001, c 55, §36]
HI Rev Stat § 78-30 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-30 Cafeteria plans.

  §78-30 Cafeteria plans. (a) Each chief executive may establish a wage and salary reduction benefit program which qualifies as a cafeteria plan within the meaning of section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The cafeteria plan shall allow eligible employees to elect to reduce their pretax compensation in return for payment by the jurisdiction of the expenses of eligible benefits.  (b) In addition to any other powers and duties authorized by law, each chief executive may enter into all contracts necessary to establish, administer, or maintain the cafeteria plans.  (c) The contributions, interest earned, and forfeited participant balances may be held in trust outside of the jurisdiction's treasury for the benefit of the participants and the plan. The funds in trust shall not be subject to the jurisdiction's general creditors. Interest earned or forfeited participant balances may be used to defray participant fees and other administrative costs. [L 2000, c 253, pt of §74]
HI Rev Stat § 78-31 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-31 Paid leave; education of children.

  §78-31 Paid leave; education of children. Employees shall be eligible for up to two hours of paid leave during normal business hours to attend either:  (1) A mutually-scheduled parent-teacher conference for the employee's child attending a public or private school in grades kindergarten through twelve; or  (2) A mutually-scheduled parent-caregiver conference for a preschool-aged child attending a licensed group child care center, as defined under section 346-151; provided that the time-off shall not be credited against vacation or sick leave benefits, if any; and provided further that the provision of paid leave shall not adversely interfere with the operations of the work unit nor require the applicable agency to incur additional human resources or overtime costs.  The employee shall take no more than two mutually-scheduled conferences, per child, in a single calendar year. Travel time shall be included as part of the two hours permitted for each conference. [L 2003, c 108, §1; am L 2004, c 194, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 78-32 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-32 Payment of approved travel costs for public officers and employees.

  §78-32 Payment of approved travel costs for public officers and employees. (a) This section shall apply to all approved travel costs incurred by an officer or employee of the State or a county in connection with the official business of the respective jurisdiction.  (b) Subject to subsection (d), the State and the counties may pay approved travel costs directly to:  (1) The vendor providing the goods or services involved; or  (2) The officer or employee for whom the approved travel costs are to be paid, by way of a cash advance prior to the date of purchase, unless the officer or employee affirmatively agrees to loan the State or a county the money for the travel costs and be reimbursed after the officer or employee pays for the travel costs.  (c) This section shall not be construed as precluding the reimbursement of approved travel costs to an officer or employee upon completion of travel for any costs that for any reason were not paid by the State or the county, as applicable, in accordance with subsection (b).  (d) As pertains to the officer or employee incurring approved travel costs, whenever there is a conflict between a collective bargaining agreement and this section, the terms of the collective bargaining agreement shall prevail.  (e) For the purposes of this section, "approved travel costs" means any determinable costs of travel for official state or county business approved by the respective jurisdiction and supported by a written invoice. The term includes the costs of transportation to and from a destination point, between destination points, or within a destination point; event registration fees; per diem allowances; and any other necessary costs related to the travel.  (f) An employer shall not take adverse employment actions against an officer or employee who does not affirmatively agree to loan the State or a county the money for the travel costs and be reimbursed after the officer or employee pays for the travel costs. [L 2016, c 158, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 78-51 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-51 REPEALED.

  §78-51 REPEALED. L 2000, c 253, §89.
HI Rev Stat § 78-53 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 7. Public Officers and Employees|78. Public Service|78-53 Pretax transportation benefit program.

  §78-53 Pretax transportation benefit program. (a) Each chief executive may establish a wage and salary reduction benefit program which qualifies as a pretax transportation benefit program within the meaning of section 132 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The pretax transportation benefit program shall allow eligible employees to elect to reduce their pretax compensation in return for payment by the jurisdiction of the expenses of eligible benefits.  (b) In addition to any other powers and duties authorized by law, each chief executive may enter into all contracts necessary to establish, administer, or maintain the pretax transportation benefit programs. [L 2012, c 45, §2]