262.9C  Span of control policy.
  1.  The state board of regents shall develop and maintain a policy regarding the aggregate ratio of the number of employees per supervisory employee at each of the institutions under the control of the board subject to the requirements of this section.
  2.  The target span of control aggregate ratio of supervisory employees to other employees shall be one to fifteen. The target span of control ratio shall not apply to employees involved with direct patient care, faculty, and employees in other areas of the institutions that must maintain different span of control ratios due to federal or state regulations.
  3.  For the purposes of this section, “supervisory employee” means a public employee who is not a member of a collective bargaining unit and who has authority, in the interest of a public employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other public employees, to direct such public employees, or to adjust the grievances of such public employees, or to effectively recommend any such action.
  4.  The policy shall allow departments within an institution under the control of the state board of regents with twenty-eight or fewer full-time equivalent employee positions to be granted an exception to the policy by the board. Departments applying for an exception shall file a statement of need with the applicable institutional human resources office and the office shall make a recommendation to the state board of regents.
  5.  The state board of regents shall present an interim report to the governor and general assembly on or before April 1, 2010, with annual updates detailing the effects of the policy on the composition of the workforce, cost savings, efficiencies, and outcomes. In addition, the report and annual updates shall identify those departments within each institution under the control of the board granted an exception by the board to the policy as provided in this section.
2010 Acts, ch 1031, §68, 69