2023 Senate Bill 496

Public employees and officers: compensation and benefits; retention program for certain public employees; create.

A bill to require certain bonus payments to certain qualified employees; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.

AI Analysis – Experimental

This legislation mandates bonus payments for certain qualified employees within specified state and local governmental positions to address critical staff shortages. Qualified employees, including conservation officers, certain classified civil service positions, corrections resident representatives, transportation officers, special alternative incarceration officers, and state police motor carrier or properties securities officers, are eligible for these bonuses. Qualified employers encompass departments such as State Police, Corrections, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, and Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. The bill outlines that a $5,000 bonus is payable after two years of service, with an additional $5,000 for another two years of service, before September 30, 2028, capping the total bonus at $10,000.

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 14, 2023

Introduced by Sen. Thomas Albert (R-18)

Referred to the Committee on Labor