There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Payroll Fund which shall be used by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and the State Treasurer to issue a consolidated payroll for each agency of the state. Payrolls of state agencies shall be charged against the Payroll Fund created herein. Each state agency shall prepare summary distributions of the amounts of payrolls to be charged against each fund within the State Treasury and the Director shall transfer monies from each fund in the State Treasury to the Payroll Fund amounts as shown on payroll distribution summaries, and shall charge such amounts to the account affected thereby.

B. As of July 1, 2010, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall make available and each executive state agency shall make available to all state employees a centralized web-based system to access their personal employment and compensation-related information. The provisions of this subsection as it pertains to executive agencies may be waived by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services in the event that lack of timely access prevents employees from utilizing the centralized system. As used in subsections B, C and D of this section, "executive state agency" shall mean any state agency, authority, board, commission or other entity organized within the executive department of state government. Executive state agency shall not mean any government entity organized or created within the legislative or judicial departments of state government.

C. Except for institutions within The Oklahoma State System for Higher Education, executive state agencies converting to a multi-monthly payroll system shall consult with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services on the timing of the agency's conversion.

1. All state employees hired during the six (6) months prior to an executive state agency's conversion to a multi-monthly payroll shall be placed on either the biweekly payroll system or supplemental payroll upon the date of hire.

2. In the six (6) months prior to an executive state agency's conversion to multi-monthly payroll, the executive state agency shall offer either multi-monthly or supplemental payroll to any employee who chooses to participate. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to employees placed on the multi-monthly payroll pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection.

D. Six (6) months prior to an executive state agency converting to the multi-monthly payroll system, it shall create employee payroll conversion banks for the purpose of providing a one-time payroll payment to an employee for the gap in payroll payments created by the conversion to the multi-monthly system.

1. Each executive state agency shall allow its employees to accumulate funds up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours for the conversion bank from the following sources:

a.earned compensatory time, if the agency normally provides its employees compensatory time,

b.earned annual leave,

c.earned sick leave up to a maximum of forty (40) hours, and

d.shared leave as approved by the appointing authority.

2. During the six-month period leading up to an executive state agency's conversion to the multi-monthly payroll system, all executive state agencies shall inform, in writing or by electronic means, all their employees of their leave and compensatory time balances on a monthly basis.

E. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall establish procedures concerning the conversion.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 365, § 6, emerg. eff. April 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 47, § 44, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979; Laws 1984, c. 166, § 4, operative July 1, 1984; Laws 2009, c. 326, § 1, emerg. eff. May 27, 2009. Renumbered from § 7.6 of this title by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 2, § 48, emerg. eff. March 3, 2010; Laws 2011, c. 347, § 5; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 392.

NOTE: Laws 2009, c. 441, § 46 repealed by Laws 2010, c. 2, § 49, emerg. eff. March 3, 2010.