20-1a14. Judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund.
20-1a14
20-1a14. Judicial branch nonjudicial salary
initiative fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund.
(a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the
judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund.
(b) All moneys credited to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative
fund
shall be used for compensation of nonjudicial officers and employees of the
district courts, court of appeals and the supreme court and shall not be
expended for compensation of judges or justices of the judicial branch. Moneys
in the fund shall be used only to pay for that portion of the cost of salaries
and wages of nonjudicial personnel of the judicial branch, including associated
employer contributions, which shall not exceed the difference between the
amount of expenditures that would be required under the judicial branch pay
plan for nonjudicial personnel in effect prior to the effective date of this
act and the amount of expenditures required under the judicial branch pay plan
for nonjudicial personnel after the cost-of-living adjustments and the
adjustments for upgrades in pay rates for nonjudicial personnel approved by the
chief justice of the Kansas supreme court for fiscal year 2001. For fiscal
years commencing on and after June 30, 2001, moneys in such fund shall be used
only for the amount attributable to maintenance of the judicial branch pay plan
for nonjudicial personnel for such adjustments and upgrades approved by the
chief justice of the supreme court for fiscal year 2001.
(c) All expenditures from the judicial branch nonjudicial salary
initiative fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts and upon
warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to
payrolls approved by the chief justice of the Kansas supreme court or by a
person or
persons designated by the chief justice.
(d) The enactment of this legislation shall not be considered a statement of
legislative intent to endorse future state general fund financing for ensuing
fiscal years for the proposed nonjudicial pay plan contained in the report to
the Kansas supreme court by the nonjudicial salary initiative entitled
nonjudicial employee compensation submitted to the 2000 legislature.
History: L. 2000, ch. 177, § 1; July 1.