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