By Combs H.B. No. 3087
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and its
1-3 operation of the state employee incentive program and the
1-4 productivity bonus program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2108, Government Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Sections 2108.0221 and 2108.0222 to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 Sec. 2108.0221. STATE AGENCY REINVESTMENT ACCOUNTS. (a)
1-10 The comptroller shall create a reinvestment account for each state
1-11 agency.
1-12 (b) Money in a state agency's reinvestment account may be
1-13 appropriated only:
1-14 (1) to the agency for the purpose of paying bonuses
1-15 granted by the commission under this subchapter to an eligible
1-16 employee of the agency;
1-17 (2) to the agency for the purpose of training the
1-18 agency's employees; or
1-19 (3) to the agency or another appropriate entity for
1-20 the purpose of capital expenditures made by or for the agency that
1-21 may reasonably be expected to increase productivity at the agency.
1-22 Sec. 2108.0222. MONEY FOR OPERATION OF THIS SUBCHAPTER. (a)
1-23 The legislature shall appropriate money for the operation of the
2-1 commission by providing that each state agency shall pay an amount
2-2 of money to the commission out of the agency's appropriation. The
2-3 amount paid to the commission out of each agency's appropriation is
2-4 computed by multiplying an amount set by rule of the commission
2-5 times the number of full-time equivalent employees employed by the
2-6 agency.
2-7 (b) Each state agency's payment shall be made to the
2-8 commission in the manner prescribed by the General Appropriations
2-9 Act.
2-10 (c) Under this section, the number of full-time equivalent
2-11 employees is computed as prescribed by Section 2052.102.
2-12 SECTION 2. Section 2108.022, Government Code, is amended by
2-13 adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
2-14 (c) The commission may refer to the incentive program by a
2-15 different name and may authorize a state agency to refer to the
2-16 incentive program by a different name.
2-17 (d) The commission by rule may adopt procedures to allow
2-18 communications between the commission and a state agency by
2-19 facsimile or on-line transmission of information. The commission
2-20 may allow an employee suggestion to be transmitted on-line to the
2-21 commission, and the suggestion transmitted on-line is not required
2-22 to be signed by the employee making the suggestion.
2-23 SECTION 3. Sections 2108.037(b) and (c), Government Code,
2-24 are amended to read as follows:
2-25 (b) The comptroller shall transfer the amount certified
3-1 under Subsection (a) <as follows:>
3-2 <(1) 40 percent to the fund from which the original
3-3 appropriation> to the affected agency's reinvestment account <fund
3-4 was made;>
3-5 <(2) 40 percent to an appropriate fund from which the
3-6 affected agency may award merit pay increases to individuals in the
3-7 agency; and>
3-8 <(3) 20 percent to the special fund established for
3-9 the commission under Section 2108.038>.
3-10 (c) The state agency that employs an employee receiving a
3-11 bonus granted by the commission shall pay the bonus. If the
3-12 affected agency <increased productivity attributable to an>
3-13 implemented a suggestion made by an eligible employee who is
3-14 employed by another state agency, <results in savings or increased
3-15 revenues that can be computed as provided by Section 2108.023(c)
3-16 but that will not permit> the comptroller shall transfer the amount
3-17 of the bonus from the reinvestment account of the affected agency
3-18 to an appropriate fund or account to the credit of the employing
3-19 agency so that the employing agency may pay the bonus <transfer or
3-20 to have an unexpended balance of appropriated money, the commission
3-21 and the affected agency shall certify the amount of actual or
3-22 projected savings or increased revenues that are attributable to
3-23 the suggestion, and the comptroller shall transfer 20 percent of
3-24 that amount from a fund affected by the savings or increased
3-25 revenues to the special fund established under Section 2108.038>.
4-1 SECTION 4. Section 2108.102, Government Code, is amended by
4-2 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
4-3 (e) The commission may adopt rules to make the approval and
4-4 clarification process as efficient as possible.
4-5 SECTION 5. Section 2108.103, Government Code, is amended by
4-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
4-7 (c) The commission may adopt rules to make the application
4-8 process as efficient as possible.
4-9 SECTION 6. Section 2108.104, Government Code, is amended
4-10 by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
4-11 (d) The commission may adopt rules to make the process of
4-12 determining whether to make an award as efficient as possible.
4-13 SECTION 7. Section 2108.038, Government Code, is repealed.
4-14 SECTION 8. The productivity bonus fund account is re-created
4-15 as an account in the general revenue fund for the purposes
4-16 designated in Subchapter C, Chapter 2108, Government Code.
4-17 SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
4-18 SECTION 10. The importance of this legislation and the
4-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.