Senate Amendment 3318


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 752, as passed by the House, as
     1  2 follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 4, by inserting after line 28 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  STATE EMPLOYEE TELECOMMUTING == POLICY
     1  6 DEVELOPMENT == IMPLEMENTATION.
     1  7    1.  The director of a department or state agency to
     1  8 which appropriations are made pursuant to the
     1  9 provisions of this Act shall assess the extent to
     1 10 which job classifications or individual employment
     1 11 positions with the department or agency might be
     1 12 effectively performed from an employee's residence or
     1 13 other remote location through telecommuting, thereby
     1 14 increasing office space within the department or
     1 15 agency and reducing administrative costs.  The
     1 16 assessment shall include an estimate of the number of
     1 17 department or agency employees whose job
     1 18 responsibilities could be effectively performed on a
     1 19 telecommuting basis, projected costs of establishing
     1 20 and maintaining work stations at an employee's
     1 21 residence or other remote location and providing
     1 22 telecommuter support, anticipated savings to the
     1 23 department or agency through a reduction in the
     1 24 office=based workforce, and anticipated time and cost
     1 25 savings to telecommuting employees.  A report
     1 26 summarizing the assessment shall be submitted to the
     1 27 director of the department of administrative services,
     1 28 and the members of the general assembly, by November
     1 29 1, 2007.
     1 30    2.  Based on the assessment conducted pursuant to
     1 31 subsection 1, the director shall develop a
     1 32 telecommuter employment policy for the department or
     1 33 agency and a timeline for initial policy
     1 34 implementation and plans for expanding the number of
     1 35 telecommuting employees.  Specific office=based
     1 36 workforce reduction percentages shall be left to the
     1 37 discretion of the director, but the director shall
     1 38 implement a policy transferring some number of
     1 39 office=based employees to telecommuter status by
     1 40 January 1, 2008.  The director shall report to the
     1 41 director of the department of administrative services
     1 42 and the members of the general assembly on an annual
     1 43 basis beginning January 1, 2009, the number of
     1 44 telecommuting employees, cost savings achieved by the
     1 45 department or agency, and plans for continued transfer
     1 46 of office=based employees to telecommuter status.>
     1 47 #2.  Title page, line 4, by inserting after the
     1 48 word <fund> the following:  <, and related matters>.
     1 49 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2  3 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
     2  4 ROBERT E. DVORSKY, CHAIRPERSON
     2  5 HF 752.701 82
     2  6 dea/gg/8943

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