1-1 By: Leedom S.B. No. 1116
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 12, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Leedom
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1116 by striking "by rule of the commission" on page
1-8 2, line 3 (committee printing page 1, lines 37-38), and
1-9 substituting "in the General Appropriations Act".
1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11 AN ACT
1-12 relating to the Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission and its
1-13 operation of the state employee incentive program and the
1-14 productivity bonus program.
1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2108, Government Code, is
1-17 amended by adding Sections 2108.0221 and 2108.0222 to read as
1-18 follows:
1-19 Sec. 2108.0221. STATE AGENCY REINVESTMENT ACCOUNTS.
1-20 (a) The comptroller shall create a reinvestment account for each
1-21 state agency.
1-22 (b) Money in a state agency's reinvestment account may be
1-23 appropriated only:
1-24 (1) to the agency for the purpose of paying bonuses
1-25 granted by the commission under this subchapter to an eligible
1-26 employee of the agency;
1-27 (2) to the agency for the purpose of training the
1-28 agency's employees; or
1-29 (3) to the agency or another appropriate entity for
1-30 the purpose of capital expenditures made by or for the agency that
1-31 may reasonably be expected to increase productivity at the agency.
1-32 Sec. 2108.0222. MONEY FOR OPERATION OF THIS SUBCHAPTER.
1-33 (a) The legislature shall appropriate money for the operation of
1-34 the commission by providing that each state agency shall pay an
1-35 amount of money to the commission out of the agency's
1-36 appropriation. The amount paid to the commission out of each
1-37 agency's appropriation is computed by multiplying an amount set by
1-38 rule of the commission by the number of full-time equivalent
1-39 employees employed by the agency.
1-40 (b) Each state agency's payment shall be made to the
1-41 commission in the manner prescribed by the General Appropriations
1-42 Act.
1-43 (c) Under this section, the number of full-time equivalent
1-44 employees is computed as prescribed by Section 2052.102.
1-45 SECTION 2. Section 2108.022, Government Code, is amended by
1-46 adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
1-47 (c) The commission may refer to the incentive program by a
1-48 different name and may authorize a state agency to refer to the
1-49 incentive program by a different name.
1-50 (d) The commission by rule may adopt procedures to allow
1-51 communications between the commission and a state agency by
1-52 facsimile or on-line transmission of information. The commission
1-53 may allow an employee suggestion to be transmitted on-line to the
1-54 commission, and the suggestion transmitted on-line is not required
1-55 to be signed by the employee making the suggestion.
1-56 SECTION 3. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 2108.037,
1-57 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-58 (b) The comptroller shall transfer the amount certified
1-59 under Subsection (a) <as follows:>
1-60 <(1) 40 percent to the fund from which the original
1-61 appropriation> to the affected agency's reinvestment account <fund
1-62 was made;>
1-63 <(2) 40 percent to an appropriate fund from which the
1-64 affected agency may award merit pay increases to individuals in the
1-65 agency; and>
1-66 <(3) 20 percent to the special fund established for
1-67 the commission under Section 2108.038>.
1-68 (c) The state agency that employs an employee receiving a
2-1 bonus granted by the commission shall pay the bonus. If the
2-2 affected agency <increased productivity attributable to an>
2-3 implemented a suggestion made by an eligible employee who is
2-4 employed by another state agency, <results in savings or increased
2-5 revenues that can be computed as provided by Section 2108.023(c)
2-6 but that will not permit> the comptroller shall transfer the amount
2-7 of the bonus from the reinvestment account of the affected agency
2-8 to an appropriate fund or account to the credit of the employing
2-9 agency so that the employing agency may pay the bonus <transfer or
2-10 to have an unexpended balance of appropriated money, the commission
2-11 and the affected agency shall certify the amount of actual or
2-12 projected savings or increased revenues that are attributable to
2-13 the suggestion, and the comptroller shall transfer 20 percent of
2-14 that amount from a fund affected by the savings or increased
2-15 revenues to the special fund established under Section 2108.038>.
2-16 SECTION 4. Section 2108.102, Government Code, is amended by
2-17 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
2-18 (e) The commission may adopt rules to make the approval and
2-19 clarification process as efficient as possible.
2-20 SECTION 5. Section 2108.103, Government Code, is amended by
2-21 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
2-22 (c) The commission may adopt rules to make the application
2-23 process as efficient as possible.
2-24 SECTION 6. Section 2108.104, Government Code, is amended by
2-25 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
2-26 (d) The commission may adopt rules to make the process of
2-27 determining whether to make an award as efficient as possible.
2-28 SECTION 7. Section 2108.038, Government Code, is repealed.
2-29 SECTION 8. The productivity bonus fund account is re-created
2-30 as an account in the general revenue fund for the purposes
2-31 designated in Subchapter C, Chapter 2108, Government Code.
2-32 SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-33 SECTION 10. The importance of this legislation and the
2-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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