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Appropriations committee advances bill to eliminate vacant FTPs and formalize travel reporting
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted to send House Bill 413 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after a hearing that would require agencies to eliminate vacant full‑time positions from budget submissions and expand travel-reporting detail.
The House Appropriations Committee voted to send House Bill 413 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after a brief hearing in which committee staff described two main changes: eliminating vacant full‑time positions from agency budget submissions and expanding reporting on state employee travel.
The bill’s first section would require agencies to identify vacant full‑time positions (FTP) in their budget submissions and remove those positions—and the budgeted salary and fringe amounts—from the submission. “Vacant FTP identified in subsection 3 of this section shall be eliminated and the amount budgeted for the payment of salary and wages including associated fringe benefits of…
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