Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill requiring the commissioner of administration and the Board of Regents to establish and implement an agency attrition analysis process.

Highlights:

-Requires the commissioner of administration to establish and implement an agency position attrition analysis process to be used by each executive branch agency to review historical position vacancies, relative to authorized positions for each budget unit, program and subprogram (Sec. 1). -Establishes fiscal year 2007-2008 as the base year for comparative purposes (Sec.1). -Requires each agency, beginning in fiscal year 2009-2010 and each year thereafter, to compare the number of authorized positions for each budget unit, program and subprogram to the number of authorized positions for those budget units, programs, and subprograms in the base year (Sec.1). -Requires the process to take into account general staffing needs of each agency, the state general fund cost associated with the filling of each vacant position, any changes in law which affect staffing needs of an agency and any additional information necessary to evaluate whether to retain or eliminate each vacant position (Sec.1). -Requires each executive branch agency to report annually the results of its analysis to the commissioner of administration and that the commissioner of administration provide a written report to the Commission on Streamlining Government (Sec.1). -Specifies that nothing in this bill shall limit the authority of the postsecondary education management boards to manage the institutions under their authority (Sec.1). -Requires the Board of Regents to establish and implement an "agency position attrition analysis process' to be used by each higher education system to review the historical employee vacancies relative to authorized table of organization full and part-time positions, funded in whole or in part by the state general fund, within each agency (Sec. 2). -Requires the "agency position attrition analysis process' to analyze the general staffing needs of each higher education system, the state general fund cost associated with the filling of each vacant position and any other relevant information regarding whether to retain or eliminate each vacant position (Sec. 2). -Establishes a goal to reduce by 5 percent annually for three years, by an equally proportionate reduction of such positions across all salary ranges of equal increments, the number of such positions in each higher education system, beginning with fiscal year 2010-2011 (Sec. 2). -Requires the Board of Regents to provide a written report to the Commission on Streamlining Government indicating the state general fund dollar savings achieved as a result of the implementation of the agency position attrition analysis process and the number of vacant positions eliminated along with any other information relating to personnel numbers, costs and historical vacancies (Sec. 2).

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