TO: | Honorable Glenn Lewis, Chair, House Committee on County Affairs |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB2303 by Keel (Relating to conditions of employment for a peace officer or a detention officer employed by certain sheriff's departments.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the Local Government Code to authorize certain counties to meet and confer with a bargaining committee to consider conditions of employment for peace officers and detention officers employed by the sheriff's department. Provisions of the bill would establish the procedures and minimum requirements of the meet and confer process. The bill would take effect September 1, 2003.
A county that choses to recognize a bargaining committee and participate in the meet and confer process would incur costs for staff time or legal representation in the process. Additionally, depending on the outcome of the process, a county could incur the cost of higher salaries and benefits for the peace officers and detention officers of the sheriff's department. In Denton County, there are nearly 400 employees to whom the provisions of the bill would apply. Based on an assumption of a $100 per month pay increase for each of the applicable employees as a result of the meet and confer process, the county auditor's office indicates an annual cost increase of $570,000 for the county. Denton County, with a population of 432,976 (2000 census), has an overall annual budget of $115 million.
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LBB Staff: | JK, DLBa
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