LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 75th Regular Session April 5, 1997 TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 1271, Committee Report 1st House, as amended 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-Committee Report 1st House, as amended 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