View Amendment Current Amendment: 16a to Bill 4100

Reps. COBB-HUNTER, BALLENTINE and CLYBURN propose the following Amendment No. to H.4100 as Passed By The House

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EXPLANATION: Provide a $1,200 bonus for employees whose salary is $50,000 or under- cost $21.8 million. Reduce Pandemic Stablilization Reserve Fund item in nonrecurring proviso 118.18 by $21.8 million.

Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 118, STATEWIDE REVENUE, by amending amendment h:/legwork\house\ amend\h-wm\001\h2-amend back.docx, page 94, Item 3, opposite /PANDEMIC STABILIZATION RESERVE FUND/ by striking /$250,000,000/ and inserting /$228,200,000/

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 118, STATEWIDE REVENUE, by amending amendment h:/legwork\house\ amend\h-wm\001\h2-amend back.docx, page 109, by inserting appropriately numbered items immediately before item (C) at the end of the page to read:

/ ( ) F300- Statewide Employee Benefits

Bonus Pay $21,800,000

( ) From the funds appropriated to Statewide Employee Benefits in item ( ) for Bonus Pay, effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16, 2021, the Department of Administration shall allocate funds to state agencies to provide for a one-time lump sum bonus. Each permanent state employee, who has been in continuous state service for at least six months prior to July 1, 2021, and who earns $50,000 or less prior to July 1, 2021 shall receive a $1,200 one-time lump sum payment. This payment is not a part of the state employee's base salary, is not earnable compensation for purposes of employer or employee contributions to respective retirement systems, and deductions for respective retirement systems shall be excluded from this payment. This appropriation may be used for payments to employees only in the same ratio as the employee's base salary is paid from appropriated sources and the employing agency shall pay the bonus for federal and other funded full-time equivalent positions employees from federal or other funds available to the agency in the proportion that such funds are the source of the employee's salary. /

Amend totals and titles to conform.