Session of 1998
                   
SENATE BILL No. 475
         
By Committee on Ways and Means
         
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            9             AN ACT concerning the Kansas public employees retirement system;
10             relating to parole officers; amending K.S.A. 74-4914a and repealing
11             the existing section.
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13       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14           Section 1. K.S.A. 74-4914a is hereby amended to read as follows: 74-
15       4914a. (1) As used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amend-
16       ments thereto, ``security officer'' means any person, as certified to the
17       board by the secretary of corrections, who is employed on or after the
18       effective date of this act as an employee of the department of corrections:
19           (a) Who is in any position in a job class in the corrections officer class
20       series including but not limited to corrections officer I, corrections officer
21       II, corrections supervisor I, corrections supervisor II and corrections su-
22       pervisor III, or in a position in the corrections counselor I, corrections
23       counselor II, unit team supervisor or corrections classification adminis-
24       trator job class or in any position in a job class in the parole officer class
25       series, including, but not limited to, parole officer I, parole officer II and
26       parole supervisor, as all such job classes are described on the effective
27       date of this act in the state job classification plan in effect for the classified
28       service under the Kansas civil service act or who is in a position in any
29       successor job class or classes that have been approved under K.S.A. 75-
30       2938, and amendments thereto, and that have substantially the same du-
31       ties and responsibilities thereof;
32           (b) who is promoted prior to or on or after the effective date of this
33       act from a position in any job class under paragraph (a) to any position in
34       any job class of warden or deputy warden of any correctional institution,
35       the job class of work release supervisor, the job class of training officer,
36       correctional institutions, or the job class of corrections administrator --
37       security specialist, parole director or parole hearing officer as such job
38       classes are described on the effective date of this act in the state job
39       classification plan in effect for the classified service under the Kansas civil
40       service act or to any successor job class or classes that are approved under
41       K.S.A. 75-2938, and amendments thereto, and that have substantially the
42       same duties and responsibilities, if the person was employed and had at
43       least three consecutive years of service in any one or more positions in

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  1       any one or more job classes described in paragraph (a) immediately pre-
  2       ceding promotion to the position in a job class under this paragraph (b);
  3           (c) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities
  4       directly and primarily involve operation of power plant facilities within
  5       any correctional institution and involve regular contact with inmates;
  6           (d) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities
  7       directly and primarily involve the operation of the correctional industries
  8       activity of the department of corrections within a correctional institution
  9       and involve regular contact with inmates;
10           (e) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities
11       directly and primarily involve supervision of food service operations
12       within any correctional institution and involve regular contact with in-
13       mates; or
14           (f) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities
15       directly and primarily involve supervision of maintenance operations
16       within any correctional institution and involve regular contact with in-
17       mates.
18           (2) As used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amend-
19       ments thereto, references to the department of corrections include cor-
20       rectional institutions as defined by K.S.A. 75-5202 and amendments
21       thereto unless the context requires otherwise.
22           (3) The words and phrases used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, in-
23       clusive, and amendments thereto, shall have the meanings ascribed
24       thereto in K.S.A. 74-4902, and amendments thereto, unless a different
25       meaning is plainly required by the context.
26           Sec. 2. K.S.A. 74-4914a is hereby repealed.
27           Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
28       publication in the statute book.
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