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House appropriations panel advances bill to remove vacant positions from agency budgets, expand travel reporting
Summary
The Idaho House Appropriations Committee voted to send House Bill 413 to the floor after a hearing where staff described provisions to identify and eliminate vacant full‑time positions from agency budget submissions and to expand reporting on employee travel for professional development.
The Idaho House Appropriations Committee voted to send House Bill 413 to the House floor after a brief introductory hearing in which staff described provisions to formalize reporting of vacant full‑time positions and to expand travel‑expense transparency.
The measure would require agencies to identify vacant full‑time positions (FTP) in their annual budget submissions; vacant FTPs identified under the bill "shall be eliminated and the amount budgeted for the payment of salary and wages including associated fringe benefits of such limited FTP shall be reduced in the Department's annual budget submission," as Division Manager Keith Bybee summarized the bill text to the committee. The bill also would require more detailed reporting on state employee travel for…
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