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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 293
BY SENATOR DONAHUE
STATE AGENCIES. Requires annual internal review by each agency of employee
vacancies and attrition rates with strategic reductions in positions by five percent, with
reports to Commission on Streamlining Government. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 42:375.1, relative to strategic reductions in positions of employment in the2
executive branch of state government; to require the commissioner of administration3
to establish and implement an agency attrition analysis process; to provide for4
reports to the Commission on Streamlining Government; and to provide for related5
matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 42:375.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 8
ยง375.1. Agency attrition analysis process9
A. The commissioner of administration shall establish and implement10
an agency attrition analysis process to be used by each executive branch agency11
to review the employee vacancies and attrition rates within the agency, with a12
goal of reducing by five percent annually for three years, beginning Fiscal Year13
2010-2011, the number of positions in each executive branch agency.14
B. In implementing the requirements of Subsection A of this Section, the15
commissioner of administration shall establish a process which requires the16
analysis of the following:17 SB NO. 293
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(1) Management and clerical staffing needs of each executive branch1
agency.2
(2) The cost associated with the filling of each vacant position compared3
to the functions assigned to the vacant position.4
(3) Any other information necessary to properly evaluate whether to5
retain or eliminate each vacant position.6
C. The commissioner of administration shall provide a written report7
on or before February first of each year to the Commission on Streamlining8
Government indicating the general fund dollar savings achieved as a result of9
the implementation of the agency attrition analysis process and the numbers of10
vacant positions filled, the number of vacant positions eliminated, and any other11
information relating to personnel numbers, costs, and attrition.12
D. For the purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the13
following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:14
(1) "Executive branch agency" means and includes all departments,15
agencies, boards, commissions, and other instrumentalities declared by the16
constitution or laws of this state to constitute a part of the executive branch of17
state government and all such instrumentalities not declared by the constitution18
or by law to be within the legislative or judicial branches of state government,19
but does not mean or include political subdivisions, as defined by Article VI,20
Section 44(2) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.21
(2) "Vacancy" means any authorized position of employment for which22
a budget has been approved and an appropriation has been made or a transfer23
of funds effected pursuant to law, and which position has been occupied24
previously but, due to termination of employment, is unoccupied.25 SB NO. 293
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Thomas F. Wade.
DIGEST
Proposed law requires the commissioner of administration to establish and implement an
agency attrition analysis process to be used by the executive branch to review the employee
vacancies and attrition rates within each department and agency of that branch, with a goal
of reducing by five percent annually for three years, beginning FY 2010-2011, the number
of positions in each department and agency. Further requires the process to analyze the
following:
(1)Management and clerical staffing needs of each agency.
(2)The cost associated with the filling of each vacant position compared to the functions
assigned to the vacant position.
(3)Any other information necessary to properly evaluate whether to retain or eliminate
each vacant position.
Proposed law requires a written report on or before February 1 of each year to the
Commission on Streamlining Government indicating the general fund dollar savings
achieved as a result of the implementation of the agency attrition analysis process and the
numbers of vacant positions filled, the number of vacant positions eliminated, and any other
information relating to personnel numbers, costs, and attrition.
Proposed law defines the following terms:
(1)"Executive branch agency" means and includes all departments, agencies, boards,
commissions, and other instrumentalities declared by the constitution or laws of this
state to constitute a part of the executive branch of state government and all such
instrumentalities not declared by the constitution or by law to be within the
legislative or judicial branches of state government, but does not mean or include
political subdivisions, as defined by Article VI, Section 44(2) of the Louisiana
Constitution of 1974.
(2)"Vacancy" means any authorized position of employment for which a budget has
been approved and an appropriation has been made or a transfer of funds effected
pursuant to law, and which position has been occupied previously but, due to
termination of employment, is unoccupied.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 42:375.1)