Brief(1)
S.B. 352, as amended by the House Committee, concerns salaries and compensation for state officers and employees.
Section 1(a) authorizes and directs the Governor to modify the classified pay plan to provide for a 1.0 percent increase in the pay rates.
Section 1(b) authorizes the Governor and each elected state official of the executive branch of state government (including the State Board of Education, the State Board of Regents, the Board of Trustees of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, Kansas, Inc., and the Board of Directors of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation) to provide salary increases for employees in the unclassified service, to be distributed on a merit basis, not to exceed 3.5 percent of the employees' base salaries.
Section 2 and Sections 5 through 9 would amend current law to specify the biweekly pay rate for statewide elected officials effective the first day of the first payroll period chargeable to state fiscal year 2000, including: the Governor (Section 5); Lieutenant Governor (Section 6); the Secretary of State (Section 7); the State Treasurer (Section 8); the Attorney General (Section 9); and the Commissioner of Insurance (Section 2).
Section 10 would provide that the salaries of the elected officials listed above be increased by the same average percentage increase in all steps of the pay plan approved for persons in the classified service under the Kansas Civil Service Act chargeable to payroll periods commencing after June 30, 2000.
Section 3 of the bill would provide the same increases noted above for legislative service pay, and Section 4 would provide the same percentage increases for persons holding legislative leadership offices. Section 3(e) would provide that legislative salaries be increased by the same average percentage increase in all steps of the pay plan approved for persons in the classified service under the Kansas Civil Service Act chargeable to payroll periods commencing after June 30, 2000.
Background
The House Committee amendments deleted pay plan appropriations to the State Finance Council, and the Legislative and Judicial branch agencies, as well as authorization to the State Finance Council to increase expenditure limitations for pay plan adjustments. Funding for the Governor's recommended pay plan adjustments is included in the FY 2000 appropriations bills (1999 S.B. 326 and 1999 H.B. 2519), with the exception of State General Fund amounts for longevity which were deleted by the House in H.B. 2519.
The total estimated cost of the Governor's recommended FY 2000 pay plan adjustments is $60.0 million, including $32.4 million from the State General Fund.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html