FISCAL NOTE
Date Requested: March 12, 2025
Time Requested: 03:55 PM |
| Agency: |
Personnel, WV Division of |
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| CBD Number: |
Version: |
Bill Number: |
Resolution Number: |
| 3756 |
Introduced |
HB3318 |
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| CBD Subject: |
State Personnel |
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FUND(S):
General Fund, Special Fund
Sources of Revenue:
Special Fund
Legislation creates:
Creates New Expense, Increases Existing Expenses, Creates New Program
Fiscal Note Summary
Effect this measure will have on costs and revenues of state government.
Summarize in a clear and concise manner what impact this measure will have on costs and revenues of state government.
The Division of Personnel (DOP) is unable to provide expense and revenue estimates for the Department of Transportation (DOT).
The following expenses for the DOP would be created:
The DOP would likely need to create two (2) new positions to administer the program and provide training with estimated costs identified below.
The DOP cannot provide financial estimates but believes additional information that would need to considered to estimate expenses would include, but is not limited to:
1) Travel expenses for all current and new employees to attend in-person training and potential liabilities associated with travel.
2) There are currently 16,449 filled positions that would likely be considered public-facing as provided in the bill, excluding DOT and Education.
3) There were 6,112 individuals hired into positions that would likely be considered public-facing during calendar year 2024, excluding DOT and Education.
4) Expenses related to use of training facilities, if any.
5) It is unclear whether or not training is desired for temporary public-facing employees. If so, this will increase the costs described above.
Fiscal Note Detail
| Effect of Proposal |
Fiscal Year |
2025
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
2026
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
Fiscal Year
(Upon Full
Implementation) |
| 1. Estmated Total Cost |
0 |
140,000 |
140,000 |
| Personal Services |
0 |
140,000 |
140,000 |
| Current Expenses |
0 |
140,000 |
140,000 |
| Repairs and Alterations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Assets |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Other |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 2. Estimated Total Revenues |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Explanation of above estimates (including long-range effect):
Please explain increases and decreases in personal services, current expenses, repairs and alterations, assets, other costs and revenues, including assumptions and data sources and delineation between start-up and ongoing costs. Please also include a long-range schedule of costs and revenues if fiscal impact is expected to vary in future years.
The estimate provided above reflects the approximate cost of salary and benefits of two (2) added positions.
The agency is unable to calculate expenses pertaining to the additional items listed in the Fiscal Note Summary section above.
Memorandum
Please identify any areas of vagueness, technical defects, reasons a bill would not have a fiscal impact, and/or any special issues not captured elsewhere on this form.
It is unclear what the relationship will be between the DOP and DOT in development and delivery of training to all state employees. Specifically, whether or not the DOT will be providing training to employees not covered by the special DOT merit system?
§§6C-5-2(a) and 6C-5-3(b)- The Department believes "Department of Personnel" should be "Division of Personnel".
§6C-5-2(c) provides that "The training program shall be in-person training of eight hours, and must be taught to all employees currently employed in public-facing positions by July 1, 2027, and to all new hires as they are on-boarded and before the new hires can begin their employment." It is suggested that "employment" at the end of the subsection be replaced with "public-facing duties" as the individual should already be hired before undergoing onboarding or training as this would be considered compensable work time. In addition, this section requires eight hours of live, in-person training each time a new state employee is hired. This would essentially require that the training be provided almost every day for as little as 1 participant depending on hires. Costs could be mitigated by utilizing remote learning, virtual training, and or a train-the-trainer model.
§6C-5-3(b) requires the DOP to send every employee who completes the required customer service training email updates when a new policy or procedure is adopted by the Department of Personnel. Is this limited to policies or procedures pertaining to "customer service" as provided in §6C-5-2(d)? In addition, the DOP would not be aware of DOT policies, DOP policies would not apply to DOT employees, and DOT policies would not apply to employees outside of DOT.
No other areas of vagueness, technical defects or special issues were identified.
Person submitting Fiscal Note: Joe Thomas
Email Address: joe.f.thomas@wv.gov