Bill Text: TX HB1920 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to workforce and succession planning by state agencies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1920 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1920-Introduced.html
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| By: Price | H.B. No. 1920 | |
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| relating to workforce and succession planning by state agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 321.024 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 321.024. STATE AGENCY'S WORKFORCE AND SUCCESSION PLAN. | ||
| (a) In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 2056.001. | ||
| (b) The State Auditor shall include in the State Auditor's | ||
| annual report on classified employee turnover: | ||
| (1) a list of each state agency that has submitted the | ||
| workforce and succession plan under Section 2056.0021 and each | ||
| state agency that has failed to submit a plan under that section; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) a thorough and comprehensive summary of the types | ||
| and extent of workforce and succession planning completed by state | ||
| agencies. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2056.0021, Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2056.0021. WORKFORCE AND SUCCESSION PLANNING. (a) As | ||
| part of the strategic plan required under Section 2056.002, a state | ||
| agency shall conduct a strategic staffing analysis and develop a | ||
| workforce and succession plan, according to guidelines developed by | ||
| the state auditor, to address critical staffing and training needs | ||
| of the agency, including the need for experienced employees to | ||
| impart knowledge to their potential successors. | ||
| (b) The workforce and succession plan developed by a state | ||
| agency under Subsection (a) must include: | ||
| (1) provisions that: | ||
| (A) identify and develop mechanisms to ensure the | ||
| transfer of institutional knowledge from experienced and retiring | ||
| employees who are not appointed by the governor or the governing | ||
| body of the state agency to succeeding employees; and | ||
| (B) identify the skills and abilities necessary | ||
| for the development of the succeeding employees; and | ||
| (2) a report on the implementation of the mechanisms, | ||
| skills, and abilities identified and developed in the previous | ||
| workforce and succession plan. | ||
| (c) A state agency shall include in the state agency's | ||
| legislative appropriations request a provision stating whether the | ||
| state agency has developed a workforce and succession plan as | ||
| required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
