MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Hall, Burton, Blackmon, Hamilton, Minor, Scoper, Thames, Turner, White (5th)

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF SPECIAL FUNDS TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF THE STATE PERSONNEL BOARD FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000.

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

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Personnel Board for the support and maintenance of the State Personnel Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000

$ 5,105,295.00.

SECTION 2. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 1, not more than the amounts set forth below shall be expended for the respective major objects or purposes of expenditure:

MAJOR OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE:

Personal Services:

Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits $ 3,167,283.00

Travel and Subsistence 45,800.00

Contractual Services 1,646,212.00

Commodities 126,000.00

Capital Outlay:

Other Than Equipment 0.00

Equipment 120,000.00

Subsidies, Loans and Grants 0.00

Total $ 5,105,295.00

AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent: Full Time. . . . . . . . . 71

Part Time. . . . . . . . . 2

Time-Limited: Full Time. . . . . . . . . 0

Part Time. . . . . . . . . 0

From the funds provided in the budget category "Personal Services: Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits," funds may be expended for the following purposes, in compliance with the policies established by the State Personnel Board and any conditions placed on such expenditures:

(a) The components of the Variable Compensation Plan shall be maintained within the constraints of the funds appropriated herein.

(b) Funds are provided to adjust the Variable Compensation Plan, including realignment, to ensure that all full-time employees with at least six (6) months of continuous current service, as of June 30, 1999, receive an increase of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00). Funds are provided to adjust critical job classes up to an additional One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).

(c) If an employee is currently at or above the end salary for his or her job classification, then the increase shall be built into the employee's base salary. To be eligible for any increase authorized in this section, employees may not have a current performance rating below "meets expectations" as of the effective date of the increase. Employees who subsequently receive a performance rating of "meets expectations" or above during Fiscal Year 2000 shall receive the salary increase effective the date of the rating.

It is the agency's responsibility to make certain that funds required to be appropriated for "Personal Services" for Fiscal Year 2001 do not exceed Fiscal Year 2000 funds appropriated for that purpose unless programs or positions are added to the agency's budget by the Mississippi Legislature.

Any transfers or escalations shall be made in accordance with the terms, conditions, and procedures established by law.

No general funds authorized to be expended herein shall be used to replace federal funds and/or other special funds which are being used for salaries authorized under the provisions of this act and which are withdrawn and no longer available.

SECTION 3. With the funds appropriated herein, the agency head, with the approval of the State Personnel Board, may effect equity salary adjustments based on job function and responsibility.

SECTION 4. In addition to all other funds, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Personnel Board Training Fund account, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the State Personnel Board Training Seminars for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000 $ 764,645.00.

It is the intention of the Legislature that the State Personnel Board Training Fund shall have the authority, should additional funds become available, to escalate and expend those funds in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Department of Finance and Administration, in a manner consistent with the escalation of federal funds.

The funds authorized under the provisions of this section shall be held separate and apart from all other funds in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Personnel Board.

SECTION 5. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 3, not more than the amounts set forth below shall be expended for the respective major objects or purposes of expenditure:

MAJOR OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE:

Personal Services:

Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits $ 0.00

Travel and Subsistence 38,000.00

Contractual Services 650,500.00

Commodities 75,145.00

Capital Outlay:

Other Than Equipment 0.00

Equipment 1,000.00

Subsidies, Loans and Grants 0.00

Total $ 764,645.00

SECTION 6. It is the intention of the Legislature that the State Personnel Board shall have the authority to escalate and expend funds received from state agencies for reimbursement of costs associated with the hiring of court reporters used in the Employee Appeals Process. Such funds shall be received and expended under the rules and regulations of the Department of Finance and Administration in a manner consistent with the escalation of federal funds.

SECTION 7. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the proper fund or funds as set forth in this act, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer, and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.