FORTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

SECOND SPECIAL SESSION

March 2, 2010

HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENT number ___1__ to HOUSE BILL 2

Amendment sponsored by Representative Luciano "Lucky" Varela

    1. On page 243, between lines 11 and 12, insert the following new section:

    "Section 13. VACANCIES--AUTHORITY TO DELETE.--Notwithstanding the full-time equivalents set out in Section 4 of the General Appropriation Act of 2010, the state personnel office is directed to review all authorized unfunded positions and agency vacancy rates and eliminate one thousand nine hundred positions covered by the state personnel system prior to July 1, 2010. The state personnel office shall report to the legislative finance committee by July 1, 2010 on the positions eliminated.".

    2. Renumber succeeding sections accordingly.

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                                         Luciano "Lucky" Varela

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