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PA 22-46—sSB 215
Transportation Committee
Appropriations Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING ENGINEERING, MAINTAINER AND OPEN
POSITIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
SUMMARY: This act requires the Department of Administrative Services (DAS)
commissioner and the Department of Transportation (DOT) commissioner to take
certain actions related to recruiting and hiring engineers, engineer interns, and
maintainers.
Specifically, it requires the DAS commissioner to recruit interns for the summer
worker professional engineer job classification for DOT when the DOT
commissioner requests that she do so. Both commissioners must promote
recruitment at public and independent higher education institutions. Starting July
1, 2023, the act also requires the DAS commissioner to annually increase the pay
rate for this job classification by any percentage increase in the national consumer
price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers for the previous 12-month
period.
Separately, from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2025, the act requires the DAS
commissioner to engage in the ongoing successive recruitment of entry-level
engineering and maintainer one positions and transportation maintainer two
positions on DOT's behalf. It requires DOT to (1) establish the duration for each
recruitment's application period and (2) make an employment offer or reject a
candidate within 120 days after receiving a candidate’s application for these
positions.
Lastly, the act specifically allows the DOT commissioner to consider a
candidate’s application for another open position at the department without
requiring the candidate to submit another application, so long as the candidate
meets the other position's minimum experience and training qualifications.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2022