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               A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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               AN ACT
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            relating to the management-to-staff ratio requirement for state  | 
         
         
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            agencies. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Section 651.004(c), Government Code, is amended  | 
         
         
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            to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   (c)  A state agency [in the executive branch of state  | 
         
         
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            government that employs more than 100 full-time equivalent  | 
         
         
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            employees] may not employ more than one full-time equivalent  | 
         
         
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            employee in a management position for every 11 full-time equivalent  | 
         
         
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            employees that the agency employs in nonmanagerial staff positions.  | 
         
         
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            Each state agency shall develop procedures to reduce the number of  | 
         
         
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            full-time equivalent employees in management positions with the  | 
         
         
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            goal of employing the fewest number of employees in management  | 
         
         
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            positions necessary to perform the agency's functions.  This  | 
         
         
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            subsection does not prohibit a state agency with fewer than 11  | 
         
         
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            full-time equivalent employees from employing one full-time  | 
         
         
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            equivalent employee in a management position.  | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  Section 651.004(a), Government Code, is  | 
         
         
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            repealed. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |