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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2231 By: Ford
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to state employee compensation;
providing for salary increase for certain category of
employees of the Depart ment of Public Safety;
authorizing raise in specific conditions; providing
exceptions to disqualification; providing for
noncodification; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAH OMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
A. Effective July 1, 2023, all full -time officers and employees
of the Communications Division of the Department of Public S afety
who were employed by the Department on the last working day of June
2023 shall be awarded an annualized salary increase of twenty
percent (20%).
B. Employees eligible for the increase provided for in
subsection A of this section who are on leave wit hout pay on July 1,
2023, shall receive an annualized increase, effective upon their
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return to work, but shall not receive any increase for a period of
time prior to their return to work.
C. Employees who leave the state service before July 1, 2023,
and who are reinstated or reemployed in the st ate service during
July 2023 without a break in service, who are otherw ise eligible for
the pay increase provided for in this section, shall be granted such
raise effective immediately upon such reinstatement or ree mployment.
As used in this subsection, "break in service" is defined as a
period of time in excess of thirty (30) calendar days between two
periods of state employment.
D. No salary increase pursuant to this section shall be made
that exceeds a salary li mitation provided in an agency's annual
appropriation bill or salary limit s set by statute.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2023.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
59-1-5783 JM 01/12/23