MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Fees, Salaries and Administration; Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Jordan (18th)

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF STATE SERVICE EMPLOYEES IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,000.00; TO DIRECT THE STATE PERSONNEL BOARD TO ENSURE THAT CERTAIN STATE EMPLOYEES RECEIVE THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE SALARY INCREASE; TO DIRECT THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THE SALARY INCREASES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. The State Personnel Board shall adjust the Colonel Guy Groff State Variable Compensation Plan in a manner which will effectuate a six percent (6%) increase in the annual compensation of each state service employee beginning with Fiscal Year 1999-2000, as a cost-of-living adjustment.

SECTION 2. If any state employee is unable to receive the full amount of the salary increase provided for in Section 1 of this act because to award the entire allowable increase would cause that employee's base salary to exceed the end step of his or her particular job classification, the State Personnel Board shall amend the variable compensation plan by increasing the end step of that particular job classification. The increase shall be in an amount necessary to enable all employees in that particular job classification to be eligible to receive the full salary increase to which they are entitled pursuant to this act.

SECTION 3. The Legislature shall appropriate the funds necessary to provide for the increases in compensation provided for in this act.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.