LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
Revision 1
April 17, 2001
TO: Honorable Steven Wolens, Chair, House Committee on State
Affairs
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB3445 by Gallego (Relating to state employment
practices.), As Introduced
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* No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. *
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The bill relates to classified state employee practices, and has several
provisions which have potential fiscal impact. The provision allowing
agencies to make salary adjustments within an employee's current salary
group would require an agency to make any increases from its current
appropriations. The provision allowing for a shift differential of up to
15% could have an impact on certain agencies, but only if they choose to
implement it and only within their current appropriation levels. This
provision is in the Senate version of the General Appropriations Bill;
the House version of the General Appropriations Bill restricts the
differential to certain employees. The Texas Department of Criminal
Justice currently has a salary base of $1.0 billion; fully implementing
the shift differential could lead to an increase of 5% to 10% which
would be $50 to $100 million a year. This could be somewhat offset by a
decrease in overtime hours paid.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 739 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,
308 State Auditor's Office, 529 Health and Human
Services Commission, 720 The University of Texas
System, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 696
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
LBB Staff: JK, RB, WM