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.