By Shields                                             H.B. No. 908
       74R1746 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to computing and reporting the number of state employees.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 2052.102, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 2052.102.  COMPUTING AND REPORTING NUMBER OF STATE
    1-7  EMPLOYEES <FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEE>.  (a)  A state agency
    1-8  that includes the number of its employees in any report must report
    1-9  only the actual number of individuals employed by the agency.  The
   1-10  agency may not report the number of its employees by using the
   1-11  concept of <An employee who maintains a workweek of at least 40
   1-12  hours, including authorized vacation and leave, is> a full-time
   1-13  equivalent employee.
   1-14        (b)  A state agency may report the number of its <An employee
   1-15  who maintains a workweek of less than 40 hours is counted as a
   1-16  fractional> full-time employees and the number of its part-time
   1-17  employees <equivalent employee according to the ratio of the number
   1-18  of hours that the employee normally works a week to 40 hours>.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Section 2052.103, Government Code, is amended to
   1-20  read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 2052.103.  REPORTS TO STATE AUDITOR.  (a)  Not later
   1-22  than the last day of the first month following each quarter of the
   1-23  fiscal year, a state agency shall file with the state auditor a
   1-24  written report that provides for that fiscal quarter:
    2-1              (1)  the number of <full-time equivalent> state
    2-2  employees employed by the agency and paid from funds in the state
    2-3  treasury;
    2-4              (2)  the number of <full-time equivalent> state
    2-5  employees employed by the agency and paid from funds outside of the
    2-6  state treasury;
    2-7              (3)  the increase or decrease, if any, of the number of
    2-8  state <full-time equivalent> employees employed by the agency from
    2-9  the fiscal quarter preceding the quarter covered by the report;
   2-10              (4)  the number of positions of the agency paid from
   2-11  funds in the state treasury;
   2-12              (5)  the number of positions of the agency paid from
   2-13  funds outside of the state treasury; and
   2-14              (6)  the number of individuals who performed services
   2-15  for the agency under a contract, including consultants and
   2-16  individuals employed under contracts with temporary help services.
   2-17        (b)  The report must be made in the manner prescribed by the
   2-18  state auditor.
   2-19        (c)  A state agency, in accordance with specific guidelines
   2-20  adopted by the state auditor, may adopt rules for the collection of
   2-21  the information required under this section.
   2-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.