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EXPLANATION: Direct that the 2% pay increase only applies to employees who earn less than $75,000
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 117, GENERAL
PROVISIONS, page 485, paragraph 117.118, lines 1 - 32, by
striking the proviso in its entirety and by inserting:
/ 117.118. (GP: Employee
Compensation) The amounts appropriated to the Department of
Administration F300-Statewide Employee Benefits
for Employee Pay Increases must be allocated by the department
Department of Administration, Executive Budget
Office to the various state agencies to provide for
employee pay increases for state employees whose annual
equivalent salary on July 1, 2016, is less than $75,000
in accordance with the following plan:
(1)
With respect to classified and non-judge judicial
classified employees, effective on the first pay date that
occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal year, the
compensation of all classified employees shall be increased by
zero two percent.
(2)
With respect to unclassified and non-judge judicial
unclassified employees or unclassified executive compensation
system employees not elsewhere covered in this act, effective on
the first pay date that occurs on or after July first of the
current fiscal year the compensation of all unclassified
employees shall be increased by zero two percent.
Any employee subject to the provisions of this paragraph shall
not be eligible for compensation increases provided in
paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
(3)
Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after
July first of the current fiscal year, agency heads not covered
by the Agency Head Salary Commission, shall receive an
annualized base pay increase of zero two
percent.
(4)
With respect to local health care providers compensation
increases shall be zero two percent effective on
the first pay date that occurs on or after July first of the
current fiscal year. With respect to Area Agencies on Aging
funded by the Lieutenant Governor's Office on Aging,
compensation shall be increased by zero two
percent effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after
July first of the current fiscal year. With respect to local
councils on aging or local providers of services funded by the
Lieutenant Governor's Office on Aging through Area Agencies on
Aging, no pay increases will be allowed. School Bus Driver
salary and fringe funding to school districts shall be increased
by zero two percent.
(5)
Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after
July first of the current fiscal year, the Chief Justice and
other judicial officers shall receive an annualized base pay
increase of zero two percent.
(6)
Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after
July first of the current fiscal year, county auditors and
county treasurers shall receive an annualized base pay increase
of zero two percent.
(7)
For Fiscal Year 2016-17, the Executive Budget
Office is directed to review Executive Branch agencies to
determine whether their budgets warrant an other fund
authorization increase due to the two percent compensation
increase for all full-time employees. If so warranted, the
Executive Budget Office shall work with the Office of the
Comptroller General to increase such authorization for the
affected agencies.
Notwithstanding the provisions of
items (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6), state employees whose
annual equivalent salary is $75,000 or greater on July, 1, 2016,
shall not be eligible to receive the two percent base pay
increase.
The Department of Administration
shall allocate associated compensation increases for retirement
employer contributions based on the retirement rate of the
retirement system in which individual employees participate.
The Executive Director of the State Fiscal
Accountability Authority is authorized to use excess
appropriations for the current fiscal year designated for
statewide employer contributions for other statewide purposes.
At the discretion of the Executive Director of the State Fiscal
Accountability Authority, such action may be considered a
permanent transfer into the receiving agency's base budget.
Funds appropriated in Part IA, F300,
Section 106, Statewide Employee Benefits may be carried forward
from the prior fiscal year into the current fiscal year.
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.