Bill Text: NH SB234 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to salary grades for certain executive branch positions and relative to the retirement classification of certain state officials.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-16 - Senate Law Without Signature 06/16/12; Eff. Date 06/16/12, Chapter 0226; Art 44, Pt II, NH Constitution [SB234 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2012-SB234-Introduced.html
SB 234-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
05/10
SENATE BILL 234-FN
AN ACT relative to salary grades for certain positions.
SPONSORS: Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Lambert, Dist 13
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill establishes the salary grades for the positions of director of marketing, merchandising and warehousing and director of enforcement and licensing in the liquor commission and the position of director of safety and security in the public utilities commission.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2885
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to salary grades for certain positions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Salaries for Positions in the Liquor Commission. Amend RSA 94:1-a by inserting in group GG the following:
I. Liquor commission, director of marketing, merchandising, and warehousing
II. Liquor commission, director of enforcement and licensing
2 Salary for Position in the Public Utilities Commission. Amend RSA 94:1-a, I by inserting in group HH the following:
I. Public utilities commission, director of safety and security
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
12-2885
12/02/11
SB 234-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to salary grades for certain positions.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Liquor Commission states this bill will increase state expenditures by $5,668 in FY 2013, $11,967 in FY 2014, $6,442 in FY 2015 and each year thereafter. The Public Utilities Commission states this bill will increase state, county and local expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2013 and each year thereafter. There is no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Liquor Commission states this bill establishes unclassified salary grades for the Commission’s director of marketing, merchandising and warehousing, and director of enforcement and licensing. The Commission assumes salary changes to be effective July 1, 2012. The Commission states the director of marketing, merchandising and warehousing position will move from a classified labor grade of 33 to an unclassified salary grade of GG. The budgeted salary for the position is labor grade 33, step 8 (maximum). The Commission assumes the classified position will start at salary grade GG, step 4 and increase a single step each year thereafter.
FY 2013
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
Classified position (LG 33, step 8)
$86,990
$86,990
$86,990
$86,990
Unclassified position (LG GG, starting at step 4)
$86,131
$90,606
$90,606
$90,606
Increase/(Decrease)
($859)
$3,616
$3,616
$3,616
Increase in Medicare, social security and retirement costs
($152)
$641
$641
$641
Total
($1,011)
$4,257
$4,257
$4,257
The Commission states the director of enforcement and licensing position will move from a classified labor grade of 28 to an unclassified salary grade of GG. The budgeted salary for the position is labor grade 28, step 6. The Commission assumes the classified position will start at salary grade GG, step 4 and increase a single step each year thereafter.
FY 2013
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
Classified position (LG 28, starting at step 6)
$80,629
$84,255
$88,806
$88,806
Unclassified position (LG GG, starting at step 4)
$86,131
$90,606
$90,606
$90,606
Increase/(Decrease)
$5,502
$6,351
$1,800
$1,800
Increase in Medicare and retirement costs
$1,177
$1,359
$385
$385
Total
$6,679
$7,710
$2,185
$2,185
The Commission states the total increase to liquor commission funds expenditures to be $5,668 in FY 2013, $11,967 in FY 2014, $6,442 in FY 2015, and $6,442 in FY 2016.
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) states this bill establishes the unclassified salary grade for the PUC’s director of safety and security. The PUC assumes the salary change to be effective July 1, 2012. The PUC states the director of safety and security position will move from a classified labor grade of 31 to an unclassified salary grade of HH. The budgeted salary for the position is labor grade 31, step 7. The PUC assumes the classified position will start at salary grade HH, step 1 and increase a single step each year thereafter.
FY 2013
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
Classified position (LG 31, starting at step 7)
$76,187
$79,775
$79,775
$79,775
Unclassified position (LG HH, starting at step 1)
$79,175
$84,054
$88,933
$93,812
Increase/(Decrease)
$2,988
$4,279
$9,158
$14,037
Increase in Medicare, social security and retirement costs
$530
$759
$1,624
$2,489
Total
$3,518
$5,038
$10,782
$16,526
The PUC states that 50 percent of the cost will be paid for through utilities’ assessments and 50 percent of the cost will be paid using federal grant funds. To generate approximately $290,950 annually, the PUC applies an assessment rate of 0.0014567989 against annual utility revenues of approximately $199,718,708. The PUC states the impact on customer rates to cover the 50 percent of the additional assessment costs each year as it relates to this position is de minimis. To the extent the state, county or locals are utility customers they may have increased costs associated with the assessment for the additional costs.
