House Rules moves workforce planning, performance‑audit bill to Ways and Means

The House Rules Committee adopted the dash‑1 amendment to House Bill 3803 and voted to send the measure to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means with a due‑pass recommendation. Vice Chair Pham led both motions.

"House Bill 3803 ... requires the Department of Administrative Services and state agencies to develop strategic workforce plans," the staff summary read during the work session. The bill includes five parts: strategic workforce planning (with some exceptions for constitutional officers), measures to reduce administrative variation across agencies, the establishment of a key performance measure council to review and adjust measures every four years, reporting requirements for public funds distributed to specified private and nonprofit entities, and a specialist audit team in the Secretary of State's Division of Audits to cover small public entities that have not been audited in the past decade.

Vice Chair Pham moved to adopt the dash‑1 amendment; the committee adopted the amendment after brief discussion and then approved the bill as amended to refer it to Ways and Means. During debate Vice Chair Draisien expressed concern about the bill's reach into internal legislative or executive functions and said she would vote to adopt the amendment but not to advance the bill further without substantive changes.

The final roll call on the motion to refer recorded opposition and support from several members (the clerk recorded individual yea/nay responses) and the motion passed. The committee did not change the bill's reporting timeline or specify additional appropriations; members noted a fiscal impact statement had been posted to OLIS.

Ending: HB 3803 moves to Ways and Means for further fiscal review and scheduling; committee members asked legislative staff to provide additional implementation details ahead of any budget committee action.