By: Uresti S.B. No. 497
(Wu)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of an office of data analytics in the
Department of Family and Protective Services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,
is amended by adding Section 40.041 to read as follows:
Sec. 40.041. OFFICE OF DATA ANALYTICS. The department
shall create an office of data analytics. The office shall report
to the deputy commissioner and may perform any of the following
functions, as determined by the department:
(1) monitor management trends;
(2) analyze employee exit surveys and interviews;
(3) evaluate the effectiveness of employee retention
efforts, including merit pay;
(4) create and manage a system for handling employee
complaints submitted by the employee outside of an employee's
direct chain of command, including anonymous complaints;
(5) monitor and provide reports to department
management personnel on:
(A) employee complaint data and trends in
employee complaints;
(B) compliance with annual department
performance evaluation requirements; and
(C) the department's use of positive performance
levels for employees;
(6) track employee tenure and internal employee
transfers within both the child protective services division and
the department;
(7) use data analytics to predict workforce shortages
and identify areas of the department with high rates of employee
turnover, and develop a process to inform the deputy commissioner
and other appropriate staff regarding the office's findings;
(8) create and monitor reports on key metrics of
agency performance;
(9) analyze available data, including data on employee
training, for historical and predictive department trends; and
(10) conduct any other data analysis the department
determines to be appropriate for improving performance, meeting the
department's current business needs, or fulfilling the powers and
duties of the department.
SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the effective date of
this Act, the commissioner of the Department of Family and
Protective Services shall establish the office of data analytics
required by Section 40.041, Human Resources Code, as added by this
Act. The commissioner and the executive commissioner of the Health
and Human Services Commission shall transfer appropriate staff as
necessary to conduct the duties of the office.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.