2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 39 — Public finance
RS 39:84.1 — Agency position attrition analysis process

§84.1. Agency position attrition analysis process

A. The commissioner of administration shall establish and implement an agency position attrition analysis process to be used by each executive branch agency to review historical position vacancies, relative to authorized positions for each budget unit, program, and subprogram with a goal to reduce by five percent annually for three years by an equally proportionate reduction of such positions across all salary ranges of equal increments, beginning Fiscal Year 2010-2011, the number of such positions. For comparative purposes, Fiscal Year 2007-2008 shall be established as the base year. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2010-2011 and each year thereafter, each agency shall compare the number of authorized positions for each budget unit, program, and subprogram to the number of authorized positions for those budget units, programs, and subprograms within the agency during the base year. The agency shall note all changes across budget units, programs, and subprograms, as well as any changes that occur relative to the distribution of positions within salary ranges.

B. In implementing the requirements of Subsection A of this Section, the commissioner of administration shall establish a process which requires the analysis of the following:

(1) General staffing needs of each executive branch agency.

(2) The state general fund cost associated with the filling of each vacant position.

(3) Any other information necessary to properly evaluate whether to retain or eliminate each vacant position.

(4) Any workload measures which affect changes in the number of positions over time.

(5) Any changes in law which affect staffing needs of an agency.

C. Each executive branch agency shall report the results of its analysis as provided by Subsection A of this Section to the commissioner of administration no later than January fifteenth of each year. On the first day of the month following the month in which the executive budget is submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the commissioner of administration shall provide a written report to the Commission on Streamlining Government.

D. For the purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Executive branch department" means:

(a) Each of the twenty executive branch departments authorized by Article IV, Section 1(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, and each executive branch agency allocated thereto, which is not subject to the provisions of R.S. 42:375.2.

(b) Each executive branch agency not allocated to an executive branch department or subject to the provisions of R.S. 42:375.2.

(2) "Executive branch agency" means and includes all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and other instrumentalities contained in the General Appropriation Act or the Ancillary Appropriations Act, but does not mean or include political subdivisions, as defined by Article VI, Section 44(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana or any executive branch agencies which are subject to the provisions of R.S. 42:375.2.

(3) "Vacant position" 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 which is funded in whole or in part from the state general fund, but which is not filled.

E. Nothing in this Section shall limit the authority of the management boards of public postsecondary education to manage the institutions under their authority, pursuant to the Louisiana Constitution or as otherwise provided in R.S. 17:3351 et seq.

Acts 2010, No. 1000, §1.