Bill Text: AZ HB2063 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Limited county employee merit system

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-04-13 - Chapter 275 [HB2063 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-HB2063-Chaptered.html

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House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

 

CHAPTER 275

 

HOUSE BILL 2063

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 11-352, arizona revised statutes; relating to county employee merit systems.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 11-352, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE11-352.  Adoption of limited county employee merit system by resolution

A.  Any county may by resolution of the board adopt a limited county employee merit system for all county appointive officers and employees.  This system may be applied to county appointed officers and employees.  Elected officers shall not be included in such a merit system.

B.  Any county may by resolution of the board remove certain administrative positions from the county employee merit system.  The positions that may be removed from the county employee merit system are:

1.  County manager.

2.  Deputy county manager.

3.  Assistant county manager.

4.  Chief deputies to elected officials.

5.  Department directors.

6.  Deputy directors, not to exceed three in each department.

7.  One position in each department that reports directly to the director or deputy director as designated by the director and deputy director.

8.  An administrative position declared exempt after August 8, 1985. The number of positions declared exempt under this paragraph shall not exceed ten per cent of the total number of county appointive officers and employees.

C.  Any employee who was included as a covered employee in the county employee merit system at the time the employee assumed the employee's present position and whose position becomes exempt under subsection B may elect to remain included under the merit system, but if terminated the employee must be afforded the opportunity to accept another vacant position within the merit system for which the employee is qualified. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 13, 2015.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 14, 2015.