General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 842
January Session, 2011 *_____SB00842CE_APP022511____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 842
January Session, 2011
*_____SB00842CE_APP022511____*
AN ACT REQUIRING JOB IMPACT STATEMENTS ON CERTAIN LEGISLATION CHOSEN BY LEGISLATIVE LEADERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) (a) At each regular session of the General Assembly, prior to the proposed bill deadline, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the minority leader of the Senate shall submit a list of legislation concepts to the Office of Fiscal Analysis that may be the subject of a request for a job impact statement. The majority leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate may each identify not more than eight concepts on the list submitted pursuant to this subsection, and the minority leader of the House of Representatives and Senate may each identify not more than four concepts on the list submitted pursuant to this subsection.
(b) At each regular session of the General Assembly, after the last joint favorable deadline of any joint standing committee, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the minority leader of the Senate may require a job impact statement be appended to a bill reported favorably by any committee. The majority leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate may each identify not more than four bills for a job impact statement, and the minority leader of the House of Representatives and Senate may each identify not more than two bills for a job impact statement. Any bill identified as a bill requiring a job impact statement pursuant to this section shall not be acted upon by either house of the General Assembly until such impact statement is appended thereto. Each job impact statement shall identify the potential effect on employment, including the number of jobs lost or gained, and shall, where possible, identify the additional costs to the employer, per employee, created by the bill. For the purposes of this subsection, "employer" shall mean any person engaged in business who has employees, including the state and any political subdivision of the state.
(c) Not later than January 1, 2013, the Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall make recommendations for a provision to be included in the joint rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate concerning the procedure for the preparation of such job impact statements, the methodology used to calculate such impact on jobs in the state and the content of such statements.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2012 New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2012
New section
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