The agency, institution, board or commission cannot fill the positions of the state employees terminated due to privatization. The Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Legislative Research must ensure that the eliminated positions are removed from the agency, institution, board or commission budget for the next biennium. It establishes procedures to be followed by constitutional officers and their spouses when entering into grants, contracts, or leases with the state. A person elected to a constitutional office may not be employed by a state agency, public school district in a noncertified position, state funded vocational school, education service cooperative, or the Cooperative Education Services Coordinating Council unless he or she resigns from the constitutional office. Similarly, the constitutional officer may not receive any pay increase other than authorized cost of living increases unless prior approval of the Joint Budget Committee or the Legislative Council and the Governor.
Similar rules apply to persons who are the spouses of elected constitutional officers.
The Act also governs the conditions under which a constitutional officer or spouse may enter into any lease agreement, contract, or grant with any state agency. The Department of Finance and Administration must promulgate regulations providing for the recruitment of retired members of the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System to return to employment for the State. Before a person recruited under the program may be rehired by the State, the proposed employment will be reviewed by the Legislative Council and approved by the Governor. The retirement benefits of a person rehired pursuant to this act will terminate upon reemployment. At the conclusion of the employment, the person will receive retirement benefits with the additional service computed in his or her retirement benefits.