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19-4-521. Personal services — Definition.
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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
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-4-521
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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.
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21-5-411. Eligibility of certain retired employees — Definition.
(a)(1) If qualified, state employee retirees and public school employee retirees may continue coverage and participate in the State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Program if the state employee retirees or public school employee retirees are:
(A) Participating members of:
(i) The Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, including the members of the legislative division and the contract personnel of the Arkansas National Guard;
(ii) The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System;
(iii) The Arkansas State Highway Employees' Retirement System;
(iv) The Arkansas Judicial Retirement System; or
(v) An alternate retirement plan of a qualifying institution under § 24-7-801; and
(B) Retired and drawing benefits under one (1) or more of the retirement systems listed under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section.
(2)(A)(i) If a state employee retiree or a public school employee retiree who is a member of a retirement system listed under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section receives retirement benefits, thereby becoming an active retiree, the active retiree may elect to enroll in the program.
(ii) The election to enroll in the program shall be made within thirty (30) days of the state employee retiree's or public school employee retiree's becoming an active retiree and shall be made in writing to the Employee Benefits Division on forms required by the division.
(B)(i) To be eligible to continue coverage or to qualify for coverage after electing to decline participation in the program, the retiree must have been covered on the last day of the retiree's employment.
(ii) If a retiree declines to participate in the program at the time of retirement because the retiree is already covered und
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-5-411
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 21-5-411. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.