Senate Bill No. 379–Senators Titus, Care, Wiener, Carlton, Coffin and Mathews

 

March 19, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Finance

 

SUMMARY—Provides for payment of retention bonuses to certain state employees. (BDR S‑1166)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to state employees; providing for the payment of retention bonuses to persons employed in the classified or unclassified service of this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any specific statute

1-2  to the contrary, and except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each

1-3  person who is employed in the classified or unclassified service of this

1-4  state on the effective date of this act is entitled to receive a retention bonus

1-5  of $20 for each full calendar month of continuous service during the period

1-6  beginning on January 1, 1991, and ending on December 31, 2000.

1-7    2.  If an employee had an interruption in continuous service at any time

1-8  during the period described in subsection 1, or at any time thereafter which

1-9  is before the effective date of this act, no month served by the employee at

1-10  any time before the interruption in continuous service may be counted in

1-11  determining the amount of the employee’s retention bonus pursuant to this

1-12  section.

1-13    3.  As used in this section, “continuous service” means uninterrupted

1-14  service as defined by the personnel commission pursuant to NRS 284.177.

1-15    Sec. 2.  The bonuses required by section 1 of this act must be paid as

1-16  soon as practicable after the effective date of this act.

1-17    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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