ESHB 1361 — Updating statutes related to state employment by removing obsolete language, eliminating unnecessary reports, conforming a reporting period to fiscal year, and modernizing employee pay procedures.

What this bill does

Removes obsolete salary schedule language related to comparable worth and locally competitive higher education salary schedules. Removes several temporary salary freeze provisions dating from February18, 2009, until July 31, 2013. Eliminates annual reporting requirements from each state agency to the Office of Financial Management on the number of specified types of employees and the use of bonus or incentive awards. Requires that state employees appointed on or after July 1, 2023, be paid only through electronic transfers of funds. Suspends the right of civil service exempt employees to revert to a classified position if the employee has been notified that they are the subject of a specified workplace investigation.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 16, 2023
  98 yea · 0 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 8, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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