Chap. 284.—An ACT to provide for a temporary addition to the regular cash com-
pensation of certain State officers and employees, and to prescribe how such
additional cash compensation shall be computed and paid; to appropriate funds
to carry out the provisions of this act; and to authorize the Governor under
certain conditions to terminate such payments by Executive Order. [S 26]

Approved March 25, 1944

Whereas, the continued existence of a state of war between the United
States and other nations and the abnormal conditions due to the present
national emergency have resulted in a substantial increase in the cost
of those commodities and services which are essential to a reasonable
standard of living among the officers and employees of the State, which
increase cannot be met out of existing salaries and wages but should be
provided in part by the Commonwealth ; now therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

1. Section 1. For the period beginning January first, nineteen hun-
dred forty-four, and ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
forty-five, each person who receives cash compensation as salaries or
wages directly from the State of Virginia for services rendered the Com-
monwealth, its departments, divisions, boards, commissions, institutions,
offices, and agencies, shall be entitled to, and shall receive, at the time
his regular cash compensation is paid during the period for services so
rendered, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a temporary addition to
such regular cash compensation at the rates prescribed herein. No ad-
ditional compensation shall be paid under this act to any inmate of a
penal or reform institution, or to any person for services as a member
of the General Assembly, judges of courts of record, or any person
whose compensation is fixed by the Compensation Board, other than
its own employees and office force, or by a committee of circuit court
judges as provided by subsection one of section forty-nine eighty-seven-e
of chapter three hundred seventy-six of the Acts of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred forty-two, save and except trial justices’ clerks, deputy
clerks and clerical assistants.

If any regular employee of the State .is compensated in part by the
State and in part from other sources, the additional compensation shall
be computed and paid only on that part of the cash compensation pro-
vided by the State.

Section 2. The rate of such additional cash compensation for each
pay roll period shall be twenty per centum of so much of the regular
cash compensation earned in the pay roll period as does not exceed an
annual rate of one thousand dollars, and fifteen per centum of so much
thereof as is in excess of one thousand dollars and not in excess of the
sum of two thousand dollars.

Such additional compensation paid any person in the employment of
the State shall not increase the total amount received by such person as
compensation from the State and from any political subdivision thereof
to an annual rate of more than sixty-three hundred dollars.

Section 3. All additions to regular cash compensation authorized
by this act for persons employed by the State hospitals for insane, epileptic
and the feeble-minded and the sanatoria for the tuberculous, and of
State institutions of higher education, shall be paid out of the amounts
appropriated by section four of this act, and the amounts to all other
persons entitled to such additional compensation shall be paid out of the
several appropriations from which the persons so entitled thereto are
paid their regular compensation, and unappropriated balance, if any, in
each special fund is hereby appropriated for expenditure as far as neces-
sary for the payment of such additional cash compensation to persons
whose salaries or wages are legally chargeable to such special funds.

If any of the appropriations or funds herein specified are found in-
sufficient to permit the payment therefrom of the additional cash com-
pensation authorized by this act, then to that extent the additional cash
compensation shall be paid out of the amounts appropriated by section
four of this act; but no additional cash compensation for persons whose
salaries or wages are paid out of special funds, except as herein other-
wise expressly provided, shall be paid out of the amounts appropriated
by section four except with the Governor’s approval in writing first ob-
tained. .

Section 4. In order to carry out the provisions of this act there is
hereby appropriated, out of the general fund of the treasury, a sum
sufficient, estimated for the six months ending June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred forty-four at nine hundred thousand dollars, for the year end-
ing June thirtieth, nineteen hundred forty-five at one million eight hun-
dred fifty thousand dollars, and for the six months ending December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five, at nine hundred seventy-five
thousand dollars.

Section 5. Whenever the Governor shall be of the opinion that the
conditions making necessary the payment of the temporary addition to
regular compensation provided herein no longer exist, he shall, by execu-
tive order, terminate all further payments under this act.

2. An emergency exists and this act 1s in force from its passage.