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H04132025 Regular Session

Adds to existing law to provide for the Idaho personnel reduction act and to provide for the reporting of state employee travel expenses.

STATE BUDGET -- Adds to existing law to provide for the Idaho personnel reduction act and to provide for the reporting of state employee travel expenses.

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Committee: Finance

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This deals with state budget issues. First, it makes state government more efficient by requiring state agencies to identify all employee positions that have been vacant for at least 180 days, and then eliminating each such position that has been vacant for 365 days or more and reducing the agency budget request accordingly. For positions vacant for 180 to 364 days, agencies must either eliminate the position and reduce the agency budget request accordingly, or fund and fill the position using existing funds. In doing so, this will reduce the size of government agencies to a level at which they have already demonstrated the ability to operate. Second, it requires state agencies to report on employee travel for the previous fiscal year when each state agency submits its annual budget request the Governor and Legislature.

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This legislation does not increase or decrease any governmental revenues, nor does it require the expenditure of any governmental funds. It will have the effect of reducing government spending as unneeded positions vacant for 180-364 days, and all positions that have been vacant for a year or more, are eliminated. The exact amount of such savings will not be known until all agency budget requests are submitted on September 1, 2025. Additional savings on state employee travel expenses are also likely as better data on these costs are compiled and submitted to state budget policymakers.

SOP revised: 03/21/2025, 10:37 AM

house Chamber· Mar 23, 2025

House Third Reading

Passed
65 Yea
4 Nay
1 absentPassed by 61 votes
Republican
60 yea/0 nay
Democrat
5 yea/4 nay
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ABSENT / NOT VOTING (1)

Introduced, read first time; referred to: Finance