(Doc Name H:\LEGWORK\HOUSE\AMEND\H-WM\001\300 BONUS.DOCX):
EXPLANATION: provide a $300 bonus for employees earning less than $40,000 from funds formerly designated for competitive grants
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, by amending amendment no. 37, doc no. h:\legwork\house\amend\h-wm\001\118.14 Litigation Recovery.docx, page 506, by striking the amendment in its entirety and inserting:
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 118,
STATEWIDE REVENUE, page 506, paragraph 118.14, line 13, by
striking /$10,183,789/ and inserting
/$16,183,789/
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Section 118,
STATEWIDE REVENUE, page 506, paragraph 118.14, line 14, by
striking:/ (3) $6,000,000 from the Litigation Recovery
Account /
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Section 118,
STATEWIDE REVENUE, page 507, paragraph 118.14, item (12) line
35, by striking:
/ Competitive Grants $6,000,000 / and inserting:
/Employee Pay Bonus $4,700,000/
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Section 118,
STATEWIDE REVENUE, page 507, after line 35, by inserting an
appropriately numbered subitem under item (12) to read:
( .1)
From the funds appropriated above in item (12),
effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after the date
the funds become available, the Department of Administration
shall allocate to state agencies $4,700,000 to provide for a
one-time lump sum bonus. Each permanent state employee, in a
full-time equivalent position, who has been in continuous state
service for at least six months prior to July 1, 2017, and who
earns less than $40,000 shall receive a $300 one-time lump sum
payment. This payment is not a part of the state employee's base
salary and is not earnable compensation for purposes of employer
or employee contributions to respective retirement systems.
This appropriation may be used for payments to employees only in
the same ratio as the employee's base salary is paid from
appropriated sources and the employing agency shall pay the
bonus for federal and other funded full-time equivalent
positions employees from federal or other funds available to the
agency in the proportion that such funds are the source of the
employee's salary. The earnings limit in Proviso 117.55 does not
apply to this bonus. If only a portion of the $4,700,000 becomes
available, then the one-time lump sum payment to each qualified
employee must be reduced proportionately.
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.