46-3601. State employee pay plan oversight committee; membership; organization; duties; reports to legislature; staff assistance; compensation and expenses for attending meetings. (a) There is hereby established the state employee pay plan oversight committee, to provide oversight of the development and implementation of the new pay plans and the performance management process and to review and evaluate, upon implementation, the management and administration of the plans and processes in accordance with the state's compensation philosophy in K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 75-5551, and amendments thereto. The oversight committee shall be advisory to the legislature.

(b) The state employee pay plan oversight committee shall be composed of seven voting members who shall be appointed as follows: (1) One member who shall be appointed by the president of the senate, (2) two members who shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, (3) one member who shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate, (4) one member who shall be appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives, and (5) two members who shall be appointed by the governor, of whom, at least one of the members appointed by the governor shall be a representative of a state employee organization. The secretary of administration, or the secretary's designee, and the secretary of labor, or the secretary's designee, shall be non-voting, ex officio members of the oversight committee. The oversight committee shall convene and organize annually by electing a chairperson and a vice-chairperson from among the voting members of the oversight committee.

(c) The state employee pay plan oversight committee shall meet on call of the chairperson or on the request of six voting members of the oversight committee. Four voting members of the oversight committee shall constitute a quorum. All actions of the oversight committee shall be taken by a majority of all voting members of the oversight committee. The oversight committee shall develop and submit to the legislature at the beginning of each regular session a report, commencing in 2009, on the development, implementation and administration of the new pay plans and the performance management process and other administrative processes and policies.

(d) The staff of the office of the revisor of statutes, the legislative research department and the division of legislative administrative services shall provide such assistance as may be requested by the oversight committee and authorized by the legislative coordinating council.

(e) Each member of the state employee pay plan oversight committee attending meetings of such oversight committee approved by the legislative coordinating council, or attending a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by such oversight committee and approved by the legislative coordinating council, shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212, and amendments thereto, from appropriations for legislative expenses.

(f) The provisions of this section shall expire on July 1, 2014.

History: L. 2008, ch. 159, § 11; May 22.