§ 19-4-521 — Personal services - Definition

The personal services classification shall be for regular full-time, part-time, and extra-help employees, employer matching costs, employer special or extra compensation, overtime earnings, and other employee benefits that are legally authorized: (1) Regular Salaries. This subclassification shall be applicable to all salaries and compensation, except as provided in this section, for state employees when the number of employees and maximum amounts of compensation are statutorily authorized as provided by Arkansas Constitution, Article 16, § 4, irrespective of the financial resources compensating such employees within this subclassification and when the method of salary disbursing of the institutions of higher education involves payment from state agency bank funds of the institution, subject to reimbursement to the institution for such amounts as are properly payable from funds in the State Treasury. However, the state's financial management system may include in the subclassification of regular salaries the following: (A) Extra Salaries. This description includes all special remuneration received by state employees in addition to regular salary that is authorized by law. Any state agency which receives an appropriation for extra salaries may pay eligible employees at the following rates: (i) Physicians who are certified by the American specialty boards, at a rate of pay not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500) per fiscal year; (ii) Physicians who are eligible to be certified by the American specialty boards, at a rate of pay not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per fiscal year; and (iii) Physicians certified in child psychiatry or forensic psychiatry, an additional two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per fiscal year will be allowed with the total additional compensation not to exceed seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per fiscal year; (B) Special Compensation. This description includes special remuneration when authorized by law for employee suggestion awards; and (C) The payment of extra salaries and special compensation when authorized by law shall be considered to be in addition to the maximum amounts of compensation set by law for regular salaries; (2) Extra Help. (A) This subclassification shall be used for payment of all salaries and compensation of part-time or temporary employees, as authorized by law, who are employed one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours per fiscal year or less. (B) This subclassification may be used to pay part-time or temporary employees who are employed for more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours per fiscal year if specific authorization is provided by law and if such use is within standards established by the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration. (C) In no case shall any extra-help funds be used for the purposes of paying additional compensation to a full-time state employee. (D) "State employee" means any employee occupying a regular salaried position for a state agency, board, commission, department, or institution of higher education; (3) Overtime. This subclassification is applicable for payment of services performed in excess of normal hours of work during a specific time when specifically authorized by law; and (4) Personal Services Matching. (A) This subclassification shall represent the state agency's proportion of the amounts necessary to contribute the state agency's share or to match the deductions from the salaries of state employees for: (i) Social Security; (ii) Retirement; (iii) Group employee insurance programs; (iv) Workers' compensation; (v) Unemployment compensation contributions; and (vi) A state contribution for state employee retirees who are eligible to participate in the health and life insurance programs offered by the state as defined by § 21-5-411 and as authorized by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State. (B) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State may make appropriate reclassifications of the state agency's appropriation for maintenance and general operation to effect the payment of personal services matching as described in this section.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3453, eff. 7/1/2019. Amended by Act 2017, No. 365,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2017. Acts 1973, No. 876, § 12; 1977, No. 813, § 1; 1979, No. 833, §§ 1, 2; 1981, No. 741, § 1; 1981, No. 924, § 1; 1983, No. 628, § 1; 1985, No. 365, §§ 2, 3, 12; A.S.A. 1947, § 13-338; Acts 1987, No. 646, § 1; 1999, No. 1280, § 11; 2001, No. 1453, § 10; 2005, No. 251, § 2.