Chap. 381.—An ACT to provide for a temporary addition to the regular cash
compensation of State officers and employees, and to prescribe how such addi-
tional cash compensation shall be computed and paid; to appropriate funds to
carry out the provisions of this act; and to authorize the Governor by executive
order to terminate all such payments. [H B 294]

Approved April 2, 1942

Whereas, the 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,

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

Section 1. For the period beginning with January first, nineteen
hundred and forty-two and ending with June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
and forty-two and for each succeeding period of six months through
December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and forty-three, all persons
employed for thirty days or more during each said period, who remain
employed at the end of said period and who receive their total cash com-
pensation as salary or wages from the State of Virginia for services ren-
dered the Commonwealth, its departments, divisions, boards, commis-
sions, institutions, offices and agencies, shall be entitled to and shall within
fifteen days following the end of each such period receive a temporary
addition to such regular cash compensation at the rates prescribed herein.
No additional compensation shall be paid to any inmate of a penal or
reform institution. No additional compensation shall be paid to any
member of the General Assembly under the provisions of this act.
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Section 2. The rate of such additional cash compensation for each
period of six months shall be ten per centum of the first five hundred
dollars or fractional part thereof earned during each said period and five
per centum of the next five hundred dollars or fractional part thereof. No
such cash compensation paid any person shall make such person’s total
cash compensation for each said period of six months more than twelve
hundred dollars and in the event such person is employed only a part of
any said period such person’s additional cash compensation shall be pro-
rated on the above basis for such period of employment.

Section 3. The additions to regular cash compensation authorized
by this act shall be paid, for persons employed by the State hospitals for
insane, epileptic and the feeble-minded and the sanatoria for the tuber-
culous; and not less than fifty per cent of the additional compensation to
the employees of State institutions of higher education, out of the amounts
appropriated by section four of this act and the remaining percentage to
the employees of State institutions of higher education and all other per-
sons entitled to such additional compensation shall be paid out of the
several appropriations from which the person so entitled thereto are paid
their regular compensation, and the 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.

It is hereby provided, however, that if any of the appropriations or
funds herein specified are found insufficient to permit the payment there-
from of the additional cash compensation authorized by this act, then, to
that extent the said additional cash compensation shall be paid out of the
amounts appropriated by section four of this act, provided further, how-
ever, that no additional cash compensation for persons whose salaries or
wages are paid out of special funds, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, shall be paid out of the amounts appropriated by the said sec-
tion four except with the Governor’s approval in writing first obtained.

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 suffi-
cient, estimated for the six months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun-
dred and forty-two, at three hundred thousand dollars, for the year ending
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-three, at six hundred thousand
dollars, and for the six months ending December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and forty-three, at three hundred 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. The aforesaid
appropriation to be paid out of surplus accumulated prior to July first,
nineteen hundred and forty-two, and not out of current revenues.
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