LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1271
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Armbrister
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1271 ( Relating 
to the creation of the Human Resource Task Force and the streamlining 
of the organizational structures of state agencies.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1271-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Fiscal Analysis

The bill would amend the Government Code 
to create the Human Resource Task Force (task force).  The task 
force would be chaired by a representative from the Governor's 
Office.  Task force members would consist of representatives 
from the State Auditor's Office, the Comptroller's Office, the 
Attorney General's Office, the Commission on Human Rights, the 
Employees Retirement System of Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission, 
the Texas Workers  Compensation Commission, the Legislative 
Budget Board, the State Agency Coordinating Council, the Texas 
Small State Agency Task Force, and the Texas State Personnel 
Administrators  Association.  

A member of the task force 
would not be entitled to compensation but would be entitled 
to reimbursement of travel expenses incurred while conducting 
business of the task force.

The bill would require the task 
force to identify and develop strategies to coordinate personnel 
policies and information dissemination within state government, 
to recommend a method for sharing and coordinating human resource 
training activities among state agencies, and to develop a "best 
practices" personnel manual to assist state agencies in developing, 
adapting, and revising human resource policies and implementing 
new programs.  

The task force would be required to submit 
to the Legislature a report on the task force's recommendations 
and a draft of the "best practices" personnel manual no later 
than December 1, 1998.  The task force would be abolished on 
September 1, 1999.

The bill also would require state agencies 
to develop procedures for use in achieving a management-to-staff 
ratio of one manager for each 11 staff members.  Each state 
agency would be required to include additional information on 
the quarterly full-time equivalent employee reports currently 
filed with the State Auditor. 

Methodology

It is assumed 
that reimbursement of travel expenses by task force members 
would be paid for out of existing agency appropriations. Therefore, 
creation of the Human Resources Task Force would have no fiscal 
impact on the state.

The development of procedures by state 
agencies for use in achieving a management-to-staff ratio of 
one manager for each 11 staff members could generate savings 
as state agencies strive to achieve a management-to-staff ratio 
of one to 11.  Savings would depend on individual agency's actions.

          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   453   Workers' Compensation Commission
                                         327   Employees Retirement System
                                         308   State Auditor's Office
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         301   Office of the Governor
                                         320   Texas Workforce Commission
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,RN