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Committee lays over bill targeting long-unfilled state jobs as potential cuts; unions urge caution
Summary
House File 1754, laid over by the committee, would identify state positions vacant longer than one year as candidates for reduction amid looming structural deficits. Agency witnesses and unions warned about staffing, overtime and service impacts.
The State Government Finance and Policy Committee on March 6 laid over House File 1754, a bill introduced as a budget "conversation starter" that would mark state jobs vacant more than one year as potential cuts.
Committee Chair Paul Nash said the bill is intended to help address a projected structural deficit and that leaders must consider a range of options. "If we're having to look for cuts, that this is a place that is not, not a bad place to start," Chair Nash said when moving the bill.
Dori Leland, enterprise director for employee classification and compensation at the Minnesota Department of Human Resources, told the committee there are three common reasons positions remain…
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