Bill Text: MS SB3080 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Annual compensation for sworn officers of the Mississippi Highway Patrol based on hourly rate; provide for.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2010-03-27 - Died In Conference [SB3080 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-SB3080-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Davis
Senate Bill 3080
(As Passed the Senate)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 45-3-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ALLOCATION OF ANNUAL COMPENSATION FOR SWORN OFFICERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY PATROL BASED ON AN HOURLY RATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 45-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
45-3-7. (1) The commissioner is hereby authorized to employ not exceeding six hundred fifty (650) persons as a Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol within the Department of Public Safety. All positions and salaries heretofore authorized and set by statute under the Commissioner of Public Safety shall after passage of this section be made part of the State Personnel System and shall be governed by the laws, rules and regulations thereof.
(2) The commissioner shall grant an additional One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month for special flying assignments to patrol officers who are licensed commercial pilots.
(3) All Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) nonexempt sworn officers of the Mississippi Highway Patrol who are working one hundred seventy-one (171) hours in a twenty-eight-day work cycle may be compensated at an hourly rate based on 2,087.143 hours per year. Sworn officers of the Mississippi Highway Patrol may be compensated for up to one hundred seventy-one (171) hours in a twenty-eight-day work cycle to the extent the combination of work schedule and compensatory time (FLSA and/or Floating Holiday compensatory time) totals up to one hundred seventy-one (171) hours. The funds provided to pay for the one hundred seventy-one (171) hours authorized in this subsection shall be in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety annual appropriation. Any remaining funds used to pay for this section shall lapse back to the General Fund. This subsection shall be known and may be cited as the "David R. Huggins Act."
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2010.
