BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2100 |
By: Thompson, Senfronia |
Appropriations |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
The Texas Position Classification Plan, 1961, lays out salary classification groups for certain positions within the Department of Public Safety (DPS). Interested parties assert that DPS troopers currently are compensated at a rate that is approximately 40 percent less than that of the highest paid law enforcement agents in the state, despite the challenging and changing threat environment faced by these troopers. The parties contend that, in order to recognize and compensate troopers at a level commensurate with their performance, troopers should be paid at a higher rate. C.S.H.B. 2100 seeks to provide for that higher pay rate.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2100 amends the Government Code to authorize the Department of Public Safety to pay its employees classified as Trooper Trainee, Probationary Trooper, and Trooper I at rates that exceed the maximum rates designated in Salary Schedule C of the position classification schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act by up to 15 percent each fiscal year.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2100 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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