SRC-SEW H.B. 2492 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 2492
By: Bosse (Harris)
State Affairs
5/11/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, the state employee incentive and agency productivity
program (program) is designed to improve efficiency, safety, and customer
service in state agencies by awarding an employee or state employee group
that makes suggestions that improve a state agency with awards and bonuses.
H.B. 2492 modifies the eligibility requirements of the program and
increases the amount of savings to a state agency in order for an employee
or state employee group to be eligible to receive an award or bonus.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS


SECTION 1. Amends Section 2108.004(c), Government Code, to authorize the
Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission (commission) to seek, accept,
and use contributions or assistance from private institutions and
organizations and to request and receive aid and assistance from the
governor's office and other state governmental bodies to effectively
implement this chapter. 

SECTION 2. Amends Sections 2108.023(d) and (e), Government Code, as follows:

(d)  Provides that an employee is eligible for a bonus of 10 percent of the
net savings or revenue increases, not to exceed an award of $5,000, under
certain conditions.   
 
  (e)  Makes a conforming change.  

SECTION 3. Amends Section 2108.0236(b), Government Code, to make a
conforming change. 
 
SECTION 4. Amends Section 2108.024, Government Code, to provide that each
state employee is eligible to participate in the incentive program except
an employee who is an elected or appointed official.  Makes a
nonsubstantive change.  Provides that an employee who is temporarily
assigned by the employee's agency to a group that is established for the
purpose of developing process improvements in that agency is not ineligible
under Subsection (a)(1) or (5) to participate in the incentive program
solely because of the employee's participation in that group. 
 
SECTION 5. Amends Section 2108.037, Government Code, by adding Subsection
(c), to authorize the affected agency to transfer savings attributable to
an implemented suggestion from the first year of the fiscal biennium to the
second year of the fiscal biennium. 
 
SECTION 6. Amends Section 2113.107(f), Government Code, to provide that
Subsection (e) does not apply to a publication designed to promote tourism
or economic development, a publication of the Texas School for the Deaf or
the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a publication of the
Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission, or a publication of an
institution of higher education. 
 
SECTION 7. Effective date:  September 1, 2001.