Session of 2000
SENATE BILL No. 617 By Senators Hensley, Barone, Biggs, Downey, Feleciano, Gilstrap, Gooch, Goodwin, Jones, Lee, Petty, Steineger and Stephens 2-9

10 AN ACT concerning salaries and compensation for state officers and em-
11 ployees; providing for the modification of the pay plan to add an ad-
12 ditional wage step above wage step 15, making appropriations for the
13 fiscal year ending July 30, 2001.
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16 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
17 Section 1. (a) The governor is hereby authorized and directed to modify
18 the pay plan adopted for fiscal year 2001 in accordance with this subsec-
19 tion and to adopt such pay plan as so modified. The existing pay plan for
20 fiscal year 2001 shall be modified to provide for one additional step at
21 the top of each pay range which is equivalent to a 2.5% step increase
22 above the amount of step 15 of each pay grade or the equivalent increase
23 for biweekly payroll periods. The pay plan adopted by the governor under
24 this subsection shall be the pay plan for the classified service under the
25 Kansas civil service act and shall be effective on the first day of the first
26 payroll period which is chargeable to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.
27 Such pay plan shall be subject to modification and approval as provided
28 under K.S.A. 75-2938 and amendments thereto.
29 (b) There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund for the
30 state finance council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, the sum of
31 $2,838,172 to be used for the purpose of paying the proportionate share
32 of the cost to the state general fund of the salary increases which are
33 provided for by adoption fo the pay plan under subsection (a) for state
34 officers and employees in the classified service under Kansas civil service
35 act.
36 (c) To pay the proportionate share of the cost to the state general fund
37 of each state agency for the salary increases which are provided for by
38 adoption of the pay plan under subsection (a) for state officers and em-
39 ployees in the classified service under the Kansas civil service act, upon
40 recommendation of the director of the budget, the state finance council,
41 acting on this matter which is hereby characterized as a matter of legis-
42 lative delegation and subject to the guidelines prescribed in subsection
43 (c) of K.S.A. 75-3711c and amendments thereto, except paragraph (3) of
44 such subsection (c), is hereby authorized and directed to approve the

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1 transfer of moneys from the appropriation under subsection (b) to the
2 proper accounts created by state general fund appropriations for the fiscal
3 year ending June 30, 2001.
4 (d) Upon recommendation of the director of the budget, the state fi-
5 nance council, acting on this matter which is hereby characterized as a
6 matter of legislative delegation and subject to the guidelines prescribed
7 in subsection (c) of K.S.A. 75-3711c and amendments thereto, except
8 paragraph (3) of such subsection (c), is hereby authorized to approve
9 increases in expenditure limitations on special revenue funds and ac-
10 counts established for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, for the pur-
11 pose of paying from such funds or accounts the proportionate share of
12 the cost to such funds or accounts, including associated employer contri-
13 butions, of the salary increases which are provided for by adoption of the
14 pay plan under subsection (a) for state officers and employees in the
15 classified service under the Kansas civil service act.
16 (e) Each state agency of the executive branch of state government shall
17 prepare and submit a budget estimate for such salary increases, and all
18 amendments and revisions of such estimates, to the director of the budget
19 on forms prescribed by the director of the budget. At the same time as
20 each state agency submits such estimate, and all amendments and revi-
21 sions thereof, each state agency shall submit a copy of such estimate, and
22 all amendments and revisions thereof, directly to the legislative research
23 department.
24 Sec. 2.
25 JUDICIAL BRANCH 26 (a) There is appropriated for the above agency from the state general
27 fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, the following:

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$119,576

29 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
30 publication in the Kansas register.
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