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Senate committee advances package reconstituting several agencies and changing employee classifications
Summary
Committee adopted a strike-and-insert and voted to report three related House bills that move multiple state agencies into other departments and change hiring classifications for new employees effective July 1, 2025; several technical cleanups and an explicit carve-out for natural resources police were made.
A Senate committee on Wednesday adopted amendments and voted to report three related reorganization bills to the full Senate that move multiple state agencies into other departments and change employee classification rules for new hires effective July 1, 2025.
Committee counsel said the package—House Bill 2008, House Bill 2009 and House Bill 2013—reconstitutes the Department of Economic Development as a division within the Department of Commerce, transfers the Department of Arts, Culture and History into the Department of Tourism as a division, and changes hiring rules for several agencies including the Bureau of…
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