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AMENDMENT NO 1 TO AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 3021

BY: Representative Scott

AMEND by inserting the following new Section 4 and renumbering the succeeding sections:

     "SECTION 4.  (1)  Of the funds appropriated in Section 2 of this act, the necessary amount shall be used to provide an increase in the annual compensation for employees of the agency working in a position whose duties were determined to be essential to carrying out the agency's core functions in March 2020 in the amount of one percent (1%) or Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), whichever is greater.

     (2)  As a condition of receiving the funds appropriated in Section 2 of this act, the agency shall allow employees of the agency working in a position whose duties were determined to be non-essential to carrying out the agency's core functions in March 2020 to perform their duties for the agency by telework as defined in Section 25-1-98, Mississippi Code of 1972.

     (3)  The agency director is authorized to require employees working in non-essential positions to perform their duties for the agency in person at any time during the fiscal year if determined by the agency to be necessary, and the compensation of any such employees shall be adjusted so that they will receive a proportionate amount of the increase authorized in subsection (1) of this section for the time they are working in person instead of by telework.

     (4)  For the purposes of this section, the positions whose duties are deemed to be essential and the positions whose duties are deemed to be non-essential shall be those positions that were determined as such in accordance with Executive Order No. 1458, dated March 16, 2020, and related guidance provided to agency heads and human resource directors by the State Personnel Board during March 2020."