performance based personnel
system
HB 2603 establishes the Performance Based Personnel System.
· Exempts all employees hired by state agencies beginning on October 1, 2001 from the Personnel Administration (classified positions) and the Personnel Board or any rules adopted pursuant to those articles (5 and 6).
· Allows employees in classified positions to remain classified if they were hired before October 1, 2001 as long as they remain in classified positions.
· Allows employees in classified positions to irrevocably elect to convert to exempt employee status and relinquish any protections under or rules pursuant to articles 5 and 6.
· Specifies that any employee, beginning on October 1, 2001, who accepts a promotion, is irrevocably converted to exempt employee status and relinquishes any protections under or rules pursuant to articles 5 and 6.
· States that all vacant positions or newly established positions are exempt positions.
· Specifies that any employee who moves on a temporary or permanent basis from a classified position to an exempt position is irrevocably converted to an exempt employee and relinquishes any protections under or rules pursuant to articles 5 and 6.
· Requires state agencies to recruit and screen applicants for job vacancies and develop and administer appropriate job applicant screening procedures.
· Requires the director of the Department of Administration (DOA) to:
1) Develop and validate applicant screening procedures used by state agencies, on request.
2) Develop and maintain a common employment application form that may be supplemented by state agencies.
3) Serve as central contact point for applicants to receive applications, provide information to applicants, refer applicants to state agencies and make applications available to state agencies for review and consideration.
4) Make employment related training available to state agencies.
5) Provide technical support and assistance to state agencies.
6) Evaluate and submit a written report on the implementation and operation of the Performance Based Personnel System to the Legislature, the Governor, the Secretary of State and Library Archives by October 1 of each year.
· Allows state agency directors to authorize the use of unbudgeted vacancy savings to grant merit pay raises to exempt personnel, if the director certifies that the action does not and will not result in the need for an increased appropriation.
· States that merit pay raises may be up to the lesser of a 10% increase or the competitive market amount as determined by DOA and made annually.
· Prohibits classified personnel from receiving merit pay raises pursuant to this section, unless as a condition of receipt, the position irrevocably is converted to an exempt position with the written agreement of the employee.
· Provides a purpose statement regarding the Performance Based Personnel System.
· Makes technical and conforming changes.
HB 2603 passed the Retirement and
Government Operations Committee unamended.
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45th Legislature
First Regular Session 2 February
27, 2001
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