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| SPONSOR: | King | DATE TYPED: | 02/23/01 | HB | 802 | ||
| SHORT TITLE: | State Inspectors | SB | |||||
| ANALYST: | Valdes | ||||||
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| FY01 | FY02 | FY01 | FY02 | ||
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(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Construction Industries Division,
Regulation and Licensing Department
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 802 would delete the portion of the Construction Industries Licensing Act that gives the Construction Industries Commission the power to create salary incentives for state inspectors who are classified employees of the Division. This bill does not allocate funds.
Significant Issues
The law creating the incentive plan was enacted during a period when the majority of state inspectors were not certified. Now, State Personnel requirements require all state inspectors to be certified prior to the completion of the probationary period. Other than personnel who are still within the probationary period, all CID inspector personnel are certified. Therefore there is no longer a need for the incentive provision that the Bill would delete.
If this bill is enacted, it would clarify the State Personnel Office responsibility for development of criteria and qualifications for CID inspectors.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Current statutes give the Construction Industries Commission the ability to award salary increases not anticipated in any given budget which must be funded through vacancy savings. Passage of the bill would prevent the Division from having to give salary increases which are not funded in the budget.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
According to CID, if this bill is not passed, the Construction Industries Licensing Act will continue to contain an obsolete provision that creates an ambiguity regarding the applicability of the State Personnel Act to state inspector job criteria, and CID will continue to be responsible for salary increases that have not been budgeted.
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