North Carolina § 143C-4-9 - Pay Plan Reserve.

§ 143C-4-9. Pay Plan Reserve.

Creation. - The Pay Plan Reserve is established within the General Fund. The General Assembly shall appropriate in the Current Operations Appropriations Act (Act) or other appropriations act a specific amount to this reserve for allocation, on an as-needed basis only, to fund statutory and scheduled pay expenses authorized by: G.S. 20-187.3, for troopers of the State Highway Patrol compensated pursuant to an experience-based salary schedule. G.S. 7A-102. G.S. 7A-171.1. Teacher Salary Schedule, as enacted by the General Assembly. Pay Plans for Principals and Assistant Principals, as enacted by the General Assembly. The Act, for law enforcement officers of the State Bureau of Investigation and Alcohol Law Enforcement. Authorized Uses. - The funds in the Pay Plan Reserve are available to agencies for employee salary and benefit costs only if the amount of funds appropriated for statutory or scheduled salaries and benefits expenses, in any fiscal year, would be insufficient to cover those expenses for eligible employees. Request for Allocation. - After January 1 of each fiscal year, an agency may request an allocation from the Pay Plan Reserve by submitting: A detailed description of the pay plan design, including the salary or salary range at each step within the pay plan and the criteria for movement between steps of the pay plan. Proof to the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) that the agency has exhausted or is projected to exhaust funds appropriated for statutory or scheduled salary and benefit expenses. The OSBM must certify the need for any allocation before disbursing funds from the reserve. The OSBM shall report to Fiscal Research Division on or before April 1 of each year on any disbursements made from the reserve and regarding projected recurring appropriations necessary to fully fund positions eligible for funding in the next fiscal year. Funds from the reserve may be allocated and reallocated only as expressly provided by this section. History (2017-57, s. 35.17; 2018-5, s. 35.17; 2019-210, s. 4.1; 2019-211, s. 5.1.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2017-57, s. 35.17, enacted this section as G.S. 143C-4-8 . It has been renumbered at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes. Session Laws 2017-57, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2017.'" Session Laws 2017-57, s. 39.6, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2020-42, s. 1(a), (b), provides: "(a) Notwithstanding G.S. 143C-4-9 , the sum of one million eight hundred twenty-eight thousand nine hundred eighty-two dollars ($1,828,982) in recurring funds appropriated to the Pay Plan Reserve for the 2020-2021 fiscal year is reallocated and appropriated to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (Budget Code: 14800; Fund Code: 1680) to be used to fund up to 19 full-time equivalent positions and operational needs of the following parks expanded or improved through Connect NC bonds: Chimney Rock, Jordan Lake, New River, Raven Rock, Goose Creek, Gorges, Lake James, Pilot Mountain, and Lumber River. "(b) No later than August 15, 2020, the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources shall transfer the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) in nonrecurring funds from the cash balance in the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (Budget Code: 24820) to the Division of Parks and Recreation (Budget Code: 14800; Fund Code: 1680). The funds transferred in this subsection are appropriated for the 2020-2021 fiscal year and shall be used for equipment and other nonrecurring expenses of the following parks expanded or improved through Connect NC bonds: Chimney Rock, Jordan Lake, New River, Raven Rock, Goose Creek, Gorges, Lake James, Pilot Mountain, and Lumber River." Session Laws 2020-44, s. 1(a), provides: "Notwithstanding G.S. 143C-4-9 , one hundred fifteen thousand two hundred twenty dollars ($115,220) of recurring funds appropriated to the Pay Plan Reserve for the 2020-2021 fiscal year is reallocated and appropriated to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Food and Drug Division (Budget Code: 13700; Fund Code: 1100), for a full-time manager position at the Department's Agricultural Sciences Center." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2018-5, s. 35.17, effective July 1, 2018, in the first paragraph of subsection (c), designated the previously existing provisions as subsection (c) and subdivision (c)(2); and added subdivision (c)(1); and made stylistic changes. Session Laws 2019-210, s. 4.1, effective July 1, 2019, inserted "(Act)" following "Act" in the introductory paragraph of subsection (a); and rewrote subdivision (a)(1), which formerly read "G.S. 20-187.3." Session Laws 2019-211, s. 5.1, effective July 1, 2019, inserted "(Act)" following "Act" in the introductory paragraph of subsection (a); and added subdivision (a)(6).