Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:84.1 – Agency position attrition analysis process
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:84.1
- Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Authorized positions: means the number of positions approved by the legislature in an appropriation bill to be funded by the salaries continuing category of the accounting system for the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Executive budget: means the document submitted to the legislature at each regular session, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Goal: means a general purpose toward which the efforts of an agency are directed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
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 La. Const. Art. IV, § 1(B) , and each executive branch agency allocated thereto, which is not subject to the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 42:375.2.
(b) Each executive branch agency not allocated to an executive branch department or subject to the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 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 La. Rev. Stat. 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 thethe Louisiana Constitution or as otherwise provided in La. Rev. Stat. 17:3351 et seq.
Acts 2010, No. 1000, §1.