Bill Text: MS HB1252 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State Treasurer; authorize State Treasury employees to be compensated at the same tier or plan rate approved by the State Personnel Board for DFA and DOR.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Died In Committee [HB1252 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2022-HB1252-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative White
House Bill 1252
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 7-9-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE TREASURER TO COMPENSATE STATE TREASURY EMPLOYEES AT THE SAME TIER OR PLAN RATE APPROVED BY THE STATE PERSONNEL BOARD FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; TO AMEND SECTION 25-3-39, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH RELATES TO COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING PROVISIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 7-9-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
7-9-5. The State Treasurer shall be entitled to a bookkeeper, a chief clerk, a bond clerk, and a stenographer to assist him in the discharge of the duties of his office; and he may appoint a deputy who shall possess all the powers and may perform any of the duties of the Treasurer. If a deputy treasurer be appointed, he shall also perform all the duties of the chief clerk and shall receive the salary of such clerk, and thereafter no chief clerk shall be employed. The bond of the said deputy shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), and the premium thereon shall be paid as other premiums of state officers.
The State Treasurer may compensate State Treasury employees at the same tier or plan rate approved by the State Personnel Board for the Department of Finance and Administration and the Department of Revenue, and shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 25-3-39.
SECTION 2. Section 25-3-39, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
25-3-39. (1) (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 7-9-5, and in this section, no public officer, public employee, administrator, or executive head of any arm or agency of the state, in the executive branch of government, shall be paid a salary or compensation, directly or indirectly, greater than one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the salary fixed in Section 25-3-31 for the Governor, nor shall the salary of any public officer, public employee, administrator, or executive head of any arm or agency of the state, in the executive branch of government, be supplemented with any funds from any source, including federal or private funds. Such salaries shall be completely paid by the state. All academic officials, members of the teaching staffs and employees of the state institutions of higher learning, the Mississippi Community College Board, and community and junior colleges, and licensed physicians who are public employees, shall be exempt from this subsection. All professional employees who hold a bachelor's degree or more advanced degree from an accredited four-year college or university or a certificate or license issued by a state licensing board, commission or agency and who are employed by the Department of Mental Health shall be exempt from this subsection if the State Personnel Board approves the exemption. The Commissioner of Child Protection Services is exempt from this subsection. From and after July 1, 2018, the Executive Director of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Chief Investment Officer of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall be exempt from this subsection.
(b) The Governor shall fix the annual salary of the Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority, the annual salary of the Commissioner of Child Protection Services, and the annual salary of the Chief of Staff of the Governor's Office. The salary of the Governor's Chief of Staff shall not be greater than one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the salary of the Governor and shall be completely paid by the state without supplementation from another source. The salary of the Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority may be greater than one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the salary of the Governor and may be supplemented with funds from any source, including federal or private funds; however, any state funds used to pay the salary of the Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority shall not exceed one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the salary of the Governor. If the executive director's salary is supplemented with private funds, the Mississippi Development Authority shall publish on its website the amount of the supplement and the name of the donor of the private funds.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in Section 7-9-5, no public officer, employee or administrator shall be paid a salary or compensation, directly or indirectly, in excess of the salary authorized to be paid the executive head of the state agency or department in which he is employed. The State Personnel Board, based upon its findings of fact, may exempt physicians and actuaries from this subsection when the acquisition of such professional services is precluded based on the prevailing wage in the relevant labor market.
(3) The executive head of any state agency or department appointed by the Governor, in such executive head's discretion, may waive all or any portion of the salary or compensation lawfully established for the position.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
