MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2000 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representative Capps

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 2, CHAPTER 97, LAWS OF 1999, TO TRANSFER CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE MONEY IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2000 APPROPRIATION TO THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FROM ONE CATEGORY TO ANOTHER.

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

SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 97, Laws of 1999, is amended as follows:

Section 2. The following offices are supported by the funds appropriated in Section 1: The Office of Administrative Services, the Office of Highways, the Office of Aeronautics and Rails and the Office of Enforcement. 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 $ 117,240,878.00

Travel and Subsistence 3,595,253.00

Contractual Services 99,530,284.00

Commodities 26,405,943.00

Capital Outlay:

Other Than Equipment 605,687,268.00

Equipment 13,414,153.00

Subsidies, Loans and Grants 97,854,000.00

Total $ 963,727,779.00

AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent: Full Time. . . . . . . . . 3,470

Part Time. . . . . . . . . 19

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 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.