By: Leedom S.B. No. 1116
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and its
1-2 operation of the state employee incentive program and the
1-3 productivity bonus program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2108, Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Sections 2108.0221 and 2108.0222 to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 Sec. 2108.0221. STATE AGENCY REINVESTMENT ACCOUNTS.
1-9 (a) The comptroller shall create a reinvestment account for each
1-10 state agency.
1-11 (b) Money in a state agency's reinvestment account may be
1-12 appropriated only:
1-13 (1) to the agency for the purpose of paying bonuses
1-14 granted by the commission under this subchapter to an eligible
1-15 employee of the agency;
1-16 (2) to the agency for the purpose of training the
1-17 agency's employees; or
1-18 (3) to the agency or another appropriate entity for
1-19 the purpose of capital expenditures made by or for the agency that
1-20 may reasonably be expected to increase productivity at the agency.
1-21 Sec. 2108.0222. MONEY FOR OPERATION OF THIS SUBCHAPTER.
1-22 (a) The legislature shall appropriate money for the operation of
1-23 the commission by providing that each state agency shall pay an
2-1 amount of money to the commission out of the agency's
2-2 appropriation. The amount paid to the commission out of each
2-3 agency's appropriation is computed by multiplying an amount set in
2-4 the General Appropriations Act by the number of full-time
2-5 equivalent employees employed by the agency.
2-6 (b) Each state agency's payment shall be made to the
2-7 commission in the manner prescribed by the General Appropriations
2-8 Act.
2-9 (c) Under this section, the number of full-time equivalent
2-10 employees is computed as prescribed by Section 2052.102.
2-11 SECTION 2. Section 2108.022, Government Code, is amended by
2-12 adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
2-13 (c) The commission may refer to the incentive program by a
2-14 different name and may authorize a state agency to refer to the
2-15 incentive program by a different name.
2-16 (d) The commission by rule may adopt procedures to allow
2-17 communications between the commission and a state agency by
2-18 facsimile or on-line transmission of information. The commission
2-19 may allow an employee suggestion to be transmitted on-line to the
2-20 commission, and the suggestion transmitted on-line is not required
2-21 to be signed by the employee making the suggestion.
2-22 SECTION 3. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 2108.037,
2-23 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-24 (b) The comptroller shall transfer the amount certified
2-25 under Subsection (a) <as follows:>
3-1 <(1) 40 percent to the fund from which the original
3-2 appropriation> to the affected agency's reinvestment account <fund
3-3 was made;>
3-4 <(2) 40 percent to an appropriate fund from which the
3-5 affected agency may award merit pay increases to individuals in the
3-6 agency; and>
3-7 <(3) 20 percent to the special fund established for
3-8 the commission under Section 2108.038>.
3-9 (c) The state agency that employs an employee receiving a
3-10 bonus granted by the commission shall pay the bonus. If the
3-11 affected agency <increased productivity attributable to an>
3-12 implemented a suggestion made by an eligible employee who is
3-13 employed by another state agency, <results in savings or increased
3-14 revenues that can be computed as provided by Section 2108.023(c)
3-15 but that will not permit> the comptroller shall transfer the amount
3-16 of the bonus from the reinvestment account of the affected agency
3-17 to an appropriate fund or account to the credit of the employing
3-18 agency so that the employing agency may pay the bonus <transfer or
3-19 to have an unexpended balance of appropriated money, the commission
3-20 and the affected agency shall certify the amount of actual or
3-21 projected savings or increased revenues that are attributable to
3-22 the suggestion, and the comptroller shall transfer 20 percent of
3-23 that amount from a fund affected by the savings or increased
3-24 revenues to the special fund established under Section 2108.038>.
3-25 SECTION 4. Section 2108.102, Government Code, is amended by
4-1 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
4-2 (e) The commission may adopt rules to make the approval and
4-3 clarification process as efficient as possible.
4-4 SECTION 5. Section 2108.103, Government Code, is amended by
4-5 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
4-6 (c) The commission may adopt rules to make the application
4-7 process as efficient as possible.
4-8 SECTION 6. Section 2108.104, Government Code, is amended by
4-9 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
4-10 (d) The commission may adopt rules to make the process of
4-11 determining whether to make an award as efficient as possible.
4-12 SECTION 7. Section 2108.038, Government Code, is repealed.
4-13 SECTION 8. The productivity bonus fund account is re-created
4-14 as an account in the general revenue fund for the purposes
4-15 designated in Subchapter C, Chapter 2108, Government Code.
4-16 SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
4-17 SECTION 10. The importance of this legislation and the
4-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.