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SENATE BILL 331-FN

COMMITTEE: Insurance

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill makes changes to position titles and salary grades for certain department of health and human services unclassified positions.

This bill allows the director of legislative services to add positions for unclassified state officers which were newly created or omitted from the revised salary structure for state officers or make other technical corrections submitted by the commissioner of administrative services and approved by the fiscal committee.

This bill also increases the number of alternates to the joint legislative committee on administrative rules.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

150:1 Unclassified Officers; Health and Human Services Position Titles Removed. Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b) by deleting the following from:

I. Grade CC:

CC Department of health and human services, service specialist

office of administration

II. Grade DD:

DD Department of health and human services program specialist

DD Department of health and human services administrator, strategic planning

III. Grade EE:

EE Department of health and human services assistant director

IV. Grade GG:

GG Department of health and human services, director of special projects

office of the commissioner

GG New Hampshire hospital assistant superintendent professional SE

V. Grade HH:

HH Department of health and human services, physician in charge

division of behavioral health

150:2 Unclassified Officers; Health and Human Services Position Titles Added. Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b) by inserting the following in:

I. Grade DD:

DD Department of health and human services systems analyst

DD Department of health and human services legal services director

II. Grade EE:

EE Department of health and human services administrator of finance

EE Department of health and human services senior systems analyst

III. Grade FF:

FF Department of health and human services director of MMIS

IV. Grade HH:

HH Department of health and human services director of application management

HH New Hampshire hospital associate commissioner and director

150:3 Application. Any increase in salary for a person holding a position amended by sections 1 and 2 of this act shall have such new salary made applicable retroactive to December 28, 2001.

150:4 Salary Structure for State Officers; Codification of Technical Corrections. Amend 2001, 158:107 to read as follows:

158:107 Authority for New or Omitted Positions or Technical Corrections. The commissioner of the department of administrative services shall have the authority to submit any unclassified positions created in any act which becomes law during the 2001 legislative session or any existing unclassified position omitted from RSA 94:1-a as amended by this act, or technical corrections to agree with the final report of the consultant, after consultation with the consultant on employee compensation for state officers, to the fiscal committee for approval of the proper placement of the unclassified position in the salary structure for state officers. The director of legislative services is hereby authorized to make changes to RSA 94:1-a, I(b)to include new positions, existing positions which were omitted, or other technical corrections, as approved by the fiscal committee pursuant to this section. The authority for the director of legislative services to make such changes to RSA 94:1-a, I(b) shall expire upon the printing of the 2002 supplements to the Revised Statutes Annotated.

150:5 Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules; Appointment of Alternates. Amend RSA 541-A:2, I to read as follows:

I. There is hereby created a joint legislative committee to be known as the joint legislative committee on administrative rules. The committee shall be composed of 10 members of the general court and [4] 10 alternates to be appointed for 2-year terms ending on the first Wednesday in December of even-numbered years as follows: 5 members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house in consultation with the minority leader, not more than 3 of whom shall be from the same party; 5 members of the senate, appointed by the senate president in consultation with the minority leader, not more than 3 of whom shall be from the same party; [2] 5 alternate members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house in consultation with the minority leader, not more than [one] 3 of whom shall be from the same party; and [2] 5 alternate members of the senate, appointed by the senate president in consultation with the minority leader, not more than [one] 3 of whom shall be from the same party. If a member of the committee is unable, for any reason, to attend a meeting or a portion of a meeting of the committee, the chair shall designate an alternate member to serve regardless of the number of other senators or representatives who attend the meeting. The committee shall elect a chair and a vice-chair from among its members, provided that the chair shall rotate biennially between the house and senate members.

150:6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

(Approved: May 15, 2002)

(Effective Date: May 15, 2002)