S.B. 40

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PAY PLAN - SALARY SURVEY AMENDMENTS
2 2003 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Mike Dmitrich
5 This act modifies the Personnel Management Act by eliminating the requirement that
6 salary surveys for peace officers, correctional officers, and public safety dispatch
7 personnel include a survey of benefits. This act also eliminates the requirement that the
8 director consider internal comparisons and other factors when determining
9 compensation. This act takes effect January 1, 2004.
10 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
11 AMENDS:
12 67-19-12.3, as last amended by Chapters 244 and 282, Laws of Utah 1998
13 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
14 Section 1. Section 67-19-12.3 is amended to read:
15 67-19-12.3. Peace officer, correctional officer, and public safety dispatch
16 personnel pay plans.
17 [The] To allow the state to recruit and retain the highest qualified law enforcement
18 officers, correctional officers, and public safety dispatchers, the pay plans for law enforcement
19 officers, as defined under Section 53-13-103 , correctional officers, as defined under Section
20 53-13-104 , and public safety dispatchers, as defined under Section 53-6-102 , employed by the
21 state shall comply with Section 67-19-12 , except that[: (1)] the market comparability of state
22 salary ranges for [law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and public safety dispatchers]
23 these positions shall be based on a survey of salary ranges [and survey of benefits] of
24 respectively:
25 (1) the three largest political subdivision law enforcement agencies[,] in Utah;
26 (2) the three largest political subdivision entities employing correctional officers[,] in
27 Utah; and

28 (3) the three largest political subdivision entities employing public safety dispatchers[,
29 respectively, of any political subdivision of the state; and (2) when determining compensation,
30 the director shall consider the compensation under Subsection (1), internal comparisons, and
31 other factors in order to allow the state to recruit and retain the highest qualified law
32 enforcement officers, correctional officers, and public safety dispatchers] in Utah.
33 Section 2. Effective date.
34 This act takes effect on January 1, 2004.




Legislative Review Note
as of 12-17-02 11:12 AM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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