Same; conversion of existing salaries, ranges, rates and certain semimonthly compensation systems to hourly and biweekly rates when biweekly payroll periods approved

(a) If biweekly payroll periods are established under K.S.A. 75-5501a, salaries, salary ranges and wage rates approved by the governor under K.S.A. 75-2935b and the existing schedule of salaries or wage rates and ranges established under K.S.A. 75-2938 for each class, grade or group of positions in the classification plan which are in effect on the approval date shall be converted to hourly and biweekly pay rates for the officers and employees of each state agency for which biweekly payroll periods are established, in accordance with a plan prepared by the director of accounts and reports and approved or modified and approved by the secretary of administration. (b) If biweekly payroll periods are established under K.S.A. 75-5501a which are applicable to officers or employees of the university of Kansas medical center who are under a semimonthly compensation system under K.S.A. 75-4315, such system shall no longer apply to such officers and employees and such officers and employees shall be converted to a biweekly system for pay earned on and after the implementation date, and the pay rates for such officers and employees shall be converted to hourly and biweekly pay rates, in accordance with a plan prepared by the director of accounts and reports and approved or modified and approved by the secretary of administration. (c) Notwithstanding any existing provision of law to the contrary, if biweekly payroll periods are established under K.S.A. 75-5501a for a state officer or employee whose salary is fixed by statute, such salary shall be converted to hourly and biweekly pay rates in accordance with a plan prepared by the director of accounts and reports and approved or modified and approved by the secretary of administration, subject to the statutory amount of such salary.