PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1409 PRINTER'S NO. 1863
No. 1102 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY O'CONNELL, HELFRICK, BELL, KELLEY, BRIGHTBILL AND
ANDREZESKI, OCTOBER 21, 1983
SENATOR O'CONNELL, STATE GOVERNMENT, AS AMENDED, MARCH 27, 1984
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 after-the-fact payrolls.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 223 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, added April
26 4, 1956 (1955 P.L.1387, No.446), is amended to read:
27 Section 223. Payday.--(a) Each employe of an administrative
1 department, of an independent administrative board or commission
2 and of a departmental administrative board or commission, shall
3 be paid his regular salary every other week.
4 (b) Effective within six months subsequent to January JULY <--
5 1, 1984, all employes of the Commonwealth shall be paid on an
6 after-the-fact pay basis.
7 (c) An after-the-fact pay is defined as a method of payment
8 in which compensation due for a given pay period is paid to the
9 employe no later than two weeks after the end of the pay period.
10 (d) Any employe on a before-the-fact pay basis on the date
11 of conversion would receive a conversion payment equal to his
12 biweekly salary in order to avoid any employe missing a payday
13 in the process of conversion. Such conversion payment shall be
14 recoverable by the Commonwealth upon severance of the employe
15 from State service. After the date of conversion, employes shall
16 continue to be paid every other week.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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