Senate Amendment 3123


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     1  1    Amend Senate File 551 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 20, by inserting after line 35 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4                      <DIVISION IX
     1  5              STATE EMPLOYEE TELECOMMUTING
     1  6    Sec.    .  STATE EMPLOYEE TELECOMMUTING == POLICY
     1  7 DEVELOPMENT == IMPLEMENTATION.
     1  8    1.  The director of a department or state agency to
     1  9 which appropriations are made pursuant to the
     1 10 provisions of this Act shall assess the extent to
     1 11 which job classifications or individual employment
     1 12 positions with the department or agency might be
     1 13 effectively performed from an employee's residence or
     1 14 other remote location through telecommuting, thereby
     1 15 increasing office space within the department or
     1 16 agency and reducing administrative costs.  The
     1 17 assessment shall include an estimate of the number of
     1 18 department or agency employees whose job
     1 19 responsibilities could be effectively performed on a
     1 20 telecommuting basis, projected costs of establishing
     1 21 and maintaining work stations at an employee's
     1 22 residence or other remote location and providing
     1 23 telecommuter support, anticipated savings to the
     1 24 department or agency through a reduction in the
     1 25 office=based workforce, and anticipated time and cost
     1 26 savings to telecommuting employees.  A report
     1 27 summarizing the assessment shall be submitted to the
     1 28 director of the department of administrative services,
     1 29 and the members of the general assembly, by November
     1 30 1, 2007.
     1 31    2.  Based on the assessment conducted pursuant to
     1 32 subsection 1, the director shall develop a
     1 33 telecommuter employment policy for the department or
     1 34 agency and a timeline for initial policy
     1 35 implementation and plans for expanding the number of
     1 36 telecommuting employees.  Specific office=based
     1 37 workforce reduction percentages shall be left to the
     1 38 discretion of the director, but the director shall
     1 39 implement a policy transferring some number of
     1 40 office=based employees to telecommuter status by
     1 41 January 1, 2008.  The director shall report to the
     1 42 director of the department of administrative services
     1 43 and the members of the general assembly on an annual
     1 44 basis beginning January 1, 2009, the number of
     1 45 telecommuting employees, cost savings achieved by the
     1 46 department or agency, and plans for continued transfer
     1 47 of office=based employees to telecommuter status.>
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     2  1 JEFF ANGELO
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     2  5 ROBERT E. DVORSKY
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     2  9 SF 551.201 82
     2 10 rn/es/8006

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