H-8214

   Amend the amendment, H-8213, to House File 2462 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, after line 4 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  22.13B  Executive branch bonuses —— disclosure.
   1.  For purposes of this section:
   a.  “Bonus pay” means any additional remuneration provided an employee in the form of a bonus, including but not limited to a retention bonus, recruitment bonus, exceptional job performance pay, extraordinary job performance pay, exceptional performance pay, extraordinary duty pay, or extraordinary or special duty pay, and any extra benefit not otherwise provided to other similarly situated employees.
   b.  “Executive branch employee” means an employee of the executive branch of state government, which includes any unit of state government, including but not limited to an authority, board, commission, committee, council, department, or independent agency as defined in section 7E.4, and each principal central department enumerated in section 7E.5; the office of the governor; and the office of an elective constitutional or statutory officer.
   2.  A decision to provide bonus pay to an executive branch employee, including the amount paid and the documented reasons and rationale for the bonus paid, shall be a public record.
   3.  All decisions to provide bonus pay to an executive branch employee, including information described in subsection 2, shall be made easily accessible to the public on an internet site maintained as follows:
   a.  For decisions to provide bonus pay to an employee of the executive branch, excluding an employee of the state board of regents or institution under the control of the state board of regents, by the department of administrative services. 
   b.  For decisions to provide bonus pay to an employee of the state board of regents or institution under the control of the state board of regents, by the state board of regents.>
   2.  Page 2, after line 16 by inserting: 
   <___.  Title page, line 1, after <employee> by inserting <bonuses,>>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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BAUDLER of Adair

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GAINES of Polk