SUMMARY--Increases amount of longevity payments to state employees. (BDR 23-739)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to state employees; increasing the amount of longevity payments to state employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 NRS 284.177 is hereby amended to read as follows:
284.177 1. A plan to encourage continuity of service, to be administered by the department , is hereby established for employees with 8 years or more of continuous state service. [Employees] Except as otherwise provided in NRS 284.179, an employee rated standard or better with 8 years of continuous service [are] is entitled to receive [$75] $150 semiannually with a semiannual increase of $25 for each additional year of service up to a maximum of 30 years of continuous state service.
2. An interruption in continuous state service terminates the [employee's] eligibility of the employee for additional pay pursuant to subsection 1.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no year served before the interruption may be counted in determining the [employee's] subsequent eligibility [.] of an employee. This provision does not apply to an employee who was employed before July 1, 1981, unless he leaves state service after that date.
4. As used in this section, "continuous service" means uninterrupted service as defined by the commission.
Sec. 2 The amendatory provisions of this act apply only to calculations made for payments on or after October 1, 1997.