Bill Text: GA HR1360 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Georgia Lottery Corporation; review policies to include incentive and bonus payments; urge
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-16 - House Committee Favorably Reported [HR1360 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR1360-Comm_Sub.html
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The
House Committee on Appropriations offers the following substitute to HR
1360:
A
RESOLUTION
Urging
the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation to review and
reconsider policies, procedures, and personnel contracts related to compensation
of personnel to include production incentive payments and other bonus payments;
and for other purposes.
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated creates a body
corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Lottery Corporation which shall
be deemed to be an instrumentality of the state, and not a state agency, and a
public corporation with the venue of the corporation in Fulton County;
and
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated establishes that
the Georgia Lottery Corporation shall be governed by a board of directors with
the membership of the board to be composed of seven members to be appointed by
the Governor and confirmed by the Senate; and
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated establishes the
duties of the board of directors to include the approval, disapproval,
amendment, and modification of the budget recommended by the chief executive
officer for the operation of the corporation; and
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides that the
board of directors shall appoint and shall provide for the employment and
compensation of a chief executive officer who shall be an employee of the
corporation and who shall direct the day-to-day operations and management of the
corporation and shall be vested with such powers and duties as specified by the
board and by law; and
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides for the
general powers of the corporation to include adopting, amending, and repealing
bylaws, regulations, and policies and procedures for the regulation of its
affairs and the conduct of its business; to elect and prescribe the duties of
officers and employees of the corporation; and to perform such other matters as
the corporation may determine; and
WHEREAS,
Code Section 50-27-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated provides the
corporation shall establish and maintain a personnel program for its employees
and fix the compensation and terms of compensation of its employees, including,
but not limited to, production incentive payments; and
WHEREAS,
the State of Georgia is currently mired in one of the worst economic downturns
in state history; and
WHEREAS,
state employees, K-12 teachers, and University System faculty have been
subjected to multiple furlough days without pay, deferred salary increases,
increases in state health benefit premiums and copayments, and increased fees;
and
WHEREAS,
state employees, K-12 teachers, and University System faculty may continue to
see stagnation or continued erosion in their compensation packages as the state
manages through the current recession; and
WHEREAS,
the public has expressed outrage over compensation packages and bonus payments
by many private companies during the economic downturn.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
this body urge the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation to
reconsider the current practice of paying a bonus in years that other personnel,
K-12 teachers, and University System faculty are experiencing loss of pay
through furloughs, pay reductions, increased health benefit premiums, and no
salary increases.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Board of
Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation and Governor Sonny Perdue.
