Bill Text: GA HR1361 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Georgia Lottery Corporation; review policies to include incentive and bonus payments; urge

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-16 - House Committee Favorably Reported [HR1361 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HR1361-Introduced.html

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10 LC 28 5008

House Resolution 1361

By: Representatives Harbin of the 118th, Willard of the 49th, Ehrhart of the 36th, McKillip of the 115th, Rogers of the 26th, and others

A RESOLUTION

Urging the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation to review and reconsider policies and procedures related to compensation of personnel to include production incentive payments and other bonus payments; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated creates a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Lottery Corporation which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the state, and not a state agency, and a public corporation with the venue of the corporation in Fulton County; and

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated establishes that the Georgia Lottery Corporation shall be governed by a board of directors with the membership of the board to be composed of seven members to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate; and

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated establishes the duties of the board of directors to include the approval, disapproval, amendment, and modification of the budget recommended by the chief executive officer for the operation of the corporation; and

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides that the board of directors shall appoint and shall provide for the employment and compensation of a chief executive officer who shall be an employee of the corporation and who shall direct the day-to-day operations and management of the corporation and shall be vested with such powers and duties as specified by the board and by law; and

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides for the general powers of the corporation to include adopting, amending, and repealing bylaws, regulations, and policies and procedures for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; to elect and prescribe the duties of officers and employees of the corporation; and to perform such other matters as the corporation may determine; and

WHEREAS, Code Section 50-27-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides the corporation shall establish and maintain a personnel program for its employees and fix the compensation and terms of compensation of its employees, including, but not limited to, production incentive payments; and

WHEREAS, the State of Georgia is currently mired in one of the worst economic downturns in state history; and

WHEREAS, state employees, K-12 teachers, and University System faculty have been subjected to multiple furlough days without pay, deferred salary increases, increases in state health benefit premiums and co-payments, and increased fees; and

WHEREAS, state employees, K-12 teachers, and University System faculty may continue to see stagnation or continued erosion in their compensation packages as the state manages through the current recession; and

WHEREAS, the public has expressed outrage over compensation packages and bonus payments by many private companies during the economic downturn.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that the members of this body urge the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation to reconsider the current practice of paying a bonus in years that other personnel, K-12 teachers, and University System faculty are experiencing loss of pay through furloughs, pay reductions, increased health benefit premiums, and no salary increases.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation and Governor Sonny Perdue.