MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2006 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative Stringer, Holland, Reynolds, Norquist, Bondurant, Upshaw, Franks, Brown, Banks, Buck, Hines, Flaggs, Blackmon, Stevens, Martinson, Akins, Coleman (29th), Moak, Evans, Eaton, Lott, Perkins, Scott, Hudson, Walley, Johnson, Broomfield, Clarke, Bailey, Beckett, Vince, Baker (8th), Thomas, Smith (27th), McBride, Rogers (14th)
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING AND EMPLOYEES OF THE PUBLIC COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES, IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000.00; 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. (1) The annual compensation of each state employee, each employee of the state institutions of higher learning, and each employee of public community and junior colleges that has been employed for twelve (12) months or longer by the state, the state institutions of higher learning or the public community and junior colleges as of June 30, 2006, shall be increased by an amount equal to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), effective July 1, 2006.
(2) If the increase in compensation provided for in this section would cause any state employee's compensation to be in excess of the compensation of the executive head of the state agency or department in which he is employed, then that employee's compensation shall be increased only to the extent that the employee's salary will be equal in amount to the compensation of the executive head. If any increase in compensation provided for in this section would cause the compensation of any employee of the state institutions of higher learning or the public community and junior colleges to be in excess of the head of the institution or community or junior college, then that employee's compensation shall be increased only to the extent that the employee's salary will be equal in amount to the compensation of the head of the institution or community or junior college.
SECTION 2. If any 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 end step of that particular job classification shall be increased. 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 under 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, 2006.