STATE WEBSITE:  LIST EMPLOYEE INFORMATION

House Bill 4301 (Substitute H-1, as adopted by committee)

Sponsor:  Rep. Brandt Iden

Committee:  Oversight

Complete to 3-15-17

SUMMARY:

With some exceptions, the bill would require employee salary information, updated monthly, to be listed on the state's website, in addition to the information currently required to be posted under the Electronic Open Access to Government Act (Public Act 370 of 2016).  The bill would take effect 90 days after enactment.

Public Act 370 requires the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), by January 1, 2018, and at no cost to the public, to include links on the state's website to function and contact information for each executive branch department and its major divisions and subunits.  Among other things, the act currently requires a description of the primary functions of each major division or subunit of the department and the telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses to be included in the information listed.

House Bill 4301 amends the Electronic Open Access to Government Act to also require, for each executive branch department and each major division or subunit with the department,  that the information include a list of the department's employees as well as the employee's name, position title, classified or nonclassified civil service distinction, and salary for each employee (MCL 15.451). 

However, the MDTMB could not post an employee's information if the department determined, based on a request made by the employee's department, that doing so would endanger the safety of the employee.  The department's request must include sufficient information for the MDTMB to make a determination.  Updates to this information would have to be made monthly.  (Other required information described above will continue to be updated quarterly.)

FISCAL IMPACT:

HB 4301 will likely impose costs to the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget but these costs are not yet known. A determination of the impact is currently in progress within the department.

                                                                                        Legislative Analyst:   Susan Stutzky

                                                                                                Fiscal Analyst:   Mike Cnossen

■ This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency staff for use by House members in their deliberations, and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.