Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 19 - PUBLIC FINANCE (§§ 19-1-201 — 19) › Chapter 4 - STATE ACCOUNTING AND BUDGETARY PROCEDURES (§§ 19-4-101 — 19-4-2202) › Subchapter 6 - ANNUAL OPERATIONS PLANS OF STATE AGENCIES (§§ 19-4-601 — 19-4-609) › Section 19-4-609 - Productivity reporting

(a)
Each state agency, other than the elected constitutional officers, shall institute and maintain a program to increase the productivity and cost effectiveness of the employees for which the state agency is responsible.
(b)
(1)
On or before the twentieth day of each month, each executive, judicial, legislative, and other state agency shall provide to the Bureau of Legislative Research the following information as of the last day of the immediately preceding month:
(A)
The number of appropriated positions, including without limitation all positions appropriated in a state agency's current appropriation act and any additional positions approved during the interim;
(B)
The number of temporary transition pool positions created in the interim and active for the month;
(C)
(i)
The number of full-time employees, including part-time employees in full-time positions.
(ii)
If two (2) or more part-time employees share a full-time position, only one (1) employee shall be included in the number;
(D)
The number of vacant positions that are budgeted;
(E)
The number of vacant positions that are unbudgeted;
(F)
The number of appropriated extra-help positions, including without limitation all extra-help positions appropriated in a state agency's current appropriation act and any extra-help positions approved during the interim;
(G)
The number of extra-help employees;
(H)
The number of vacant extra-help positions;
(I)
The total amount of overtime paid out during the month;
(J)
The total amount of straight time paid out during the month;
(K)
The total number of compensatory time hours taken during the month; and
(L)
Any other information requested by the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, the Joint Budget Committee.
(2)
On or before the twentieth day of each month, each institution of higher education shall provide to the Bureau of Legislative Research the following information as of the last day of the immediately preceding month:
(A)
The number of appropriated full-time positions, including without limitation all full-time positions appropriated in an institution of higher education's current appropriation act and any additional full-time positions approved during the interim, including without limitation provisional, pool, and nine-month positions;
(B)
(i)
The number of full-time employees regardless of funding source, including without limitation those in provisional, pool, and nine-month positions.
(ii)
Nine-month staff and faculty who are removed from the payroll but are still considered to be employed by the institution of higher education and are assumed to return the next semester shall be included in the number during the months that they are not on the payroll;
(C)
The number of appropriated full-time positions that are vacant;
(D)
The number of part-time and extra-help positions that are appropriated and any additional part-time and extra-help positions approved during the interim;
(E)
(i)
The number of part-time and extra-help employees, including without limitation faculty and graduate assistants.
(ii)
Contract workers and students in work-study positions shall not be included in the number;
(F)
The total amount of overtime paid out during the month;
(G)
The total amount of straight time paid out during the month;
(H)
The total number of compensatory time hours taken during the month; and
(I)
Any other information requested by the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, the Joint Budget Committee.
(3)
The information required under this section shall be compiled by each state agency and institution of higher education on forms developed by the Bureau of Legislative Research and submitted to the Legislative Council on a calendar-quarterly basis as two (2) separate reports:
(A)
One (1) report containing an average for each state agency for the quarter; and
(B)
One (1) report containing an average for each institution of higher education for the quarter.
(4)
Each executive, judicial, legislative, and other state agency and each institution of higher education shall provide in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year a list of all positions vacant for at least one (1) year.
Amended by Act 2015, No. 370,§ 1, eff. 7/22/2015.
Acts 1973, No. 876, § 10; 1985, No. 110, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 13-336; Acts 1989, No. 183, § 1; 2005, No. 1686, § 1.