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Committee sends bill to let frontline state employees propose savings to General Register
Summary
The House Committee of Jurisdiction adopted a technical amendment and voted to refer House File 289, which would let frontline state employees propose cost‑saving measures and split realized savings between the state and a mission fund, to the General Register by voice vote.
The House Committee of Jurisdiction voted to refer House File 289, a bill that would create a mechanism for frontline state employees to propose and share in cost savings, to the General Register after adopting a technical A1 amendment.
Representative Quam, the bill sponsor, said the idea grew from conversations at a faculty union meeting and framed the bill as a way to “empower the actual people doing the job, the frontline people” to flag waste and inefficiency. He told the committee the proposal would split any identified savings roughly half to the state budget and half to a fund “to be spent on the mission,” with campus or agency committees made up of management and workers deciding…
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