Senate File 2280

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                           GOVERNMENT

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3125)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the awarding of bonuses to appointed state
  2    officers and state employees and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6393SV 80
  5 ec/pj/5

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 7J.1, subsection 2, paragraph c, Code
  1  2 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
  1  4 the governor may set the salary of a director of a charter
  1  5 agency under the pay plan for exempt positions in the
  1  6 executive branch of government.  In addition However, the
  1  7 governor may shall not authorize the payment of a bonus to a
  1  8 director of a charter agency in an amount not in excess of
  1  9 fifty percent of the director's annual rate of pay, based upon
  1 10 the governor's evaluation of the director's performance in
  1 11 relation to the goals set forth in the annual performance
  1 12 agreement.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 7J.1, subsection 2, paragraph d, Code
  1 14 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 15    d.  A director of a charter agency may authorize the
  1 16 payment of bonuses to employees of the charter agency who are
  1 17 not a director or deputy director of the charter agency in a
  1 18 total amount not in excess of fifty percent of the director's
  1 19 annual rate of pay, based upon the director's evaluation of
  1 20 the employees' performance during any fiscal year if the
  1 21 revenue estimating conference projection of revenue for that
  1 22 fiscal year determined pursuant to section 8.22A, subsection
  1 23 3, exceeds the revenue estimate for the prior fiscal year by
  1 24 at least four percent.
  1 25    Sec. 3.  2001 Iowa Acts, chapter 190, section 3, unnumbered
  1 26 paragraph 3, is amended to read as follows:
  1 27    A person whose salary is established pursuant to section 4
  1 28 of this Act and who is a full=time, year=round employee of the
  1 29 state shall not receive any other remuneration from the state
  1 30 or from any other source for the performance of that person's
  1 31 duties unless the additional remuneration is first approved by
  1 32 the governor or authorized by law.  However, this provision
  1 33 does not exclude the reimbursement for necessary travel and
  1 34 expenses incurred in the performance of duties or fringe
  1 35 benefits normally provided to employees of the state.
  2  1    Sec. 4.  STATE EMPLOYEE BONUSES == MORATORIUM.  Unless
  2  2 otherwise required pursuant to a collective bargaining
  2  3 agreement, a state employee shall not receive any additional
  2  4 remuneration in the form of a bonus, including but not limited
  2  5 to a retention bonus, recruitment bonus, exceptional job
  2  6 performance pay, extraordinary job performance pay,
  2  7 exceptional performance pay, extraordinary duty pay, or
  2  8 extraordinary or special duty pay, for or during the time
  2  9 period beginning on or after the effective date of this Act
  2 10 and only for or during any fiscal year if the revenue
  2 11 estimating conference projection of revenue for that fiscal
  2 12 year determined pursuant to section 8.22A, subsection 3, does
  2 13 not exceed the revenue estimate for the prior fiscal year by
  2 14 at least four percent.
  2 15    Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 16 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2 17 SF 2280
  2 18 ec/cc/26