ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Phoenix, Arizona
REVISED
state personnel board;
hearing transcripts
Purpose
Requires the State Personnel
Board to transcribe hearing records verbatim at no cost and appropriates
$25,000 over the biennium to the Board for this purpose.
Background
Laws 2000, Chapter 21 (S.B.
1073) required a party to a State Personnel Board hearing who requests a
transcript of the hearing to pay an outside entity for such
transcriptions. This change resulted
from a recommendation by the Auditor General in the 1998 performance audit of
the State Personnel Board to speed the completion of hearing officer reports. Prior to S.B. 1073, all hearings of the
State Personnel Board were transcribed in-house; the audit related that “[the
situation of delayed hearing officer reports] will likely reoccur because the
Board does not have the staff to readily produce the transcripts needed to keep
up with the Board’s current workload.”
This legislation requires
the State Personnel Board, when requested, to transcribe records verbatim at no
cost. This legislation appropriates
$25,000 in each of FYs 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 from the state general fund to
the State Personnel Board for this purpose.
Provisions
1. Requires the State Personnel Board to transcribe hearing records verbatim at no cost. Removes requirement that the requesting party must pay for record transcription.
2. Appropriates $25,000 in FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003 from the state general fund to the State Personnel Board for transcription costs.
3. Provides for a general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by Appropriations Committee
Makes the appropriation.
Senate Action
GOV 1/29/01 DP 4-0-2-0
APPROP 3/6/01 DPA 11-0-1-0
Prepared by Senate Staff
March 8, 2001