Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION › Part I - General Provisions › Chapter 5 - Incentive Award Program › Section I-501 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Agency
- any unit within government that
				  employs classified state civil service employees and has an identifiable
				  self-contained budget or has its financial records maintained according to an
				  accounting system which identifies, to the satisfaction of the legislative
				  auditor, the expenditures and receipts properly attributable to that
				  unit.
Agency Employee Incentive Award Committee (agency
				  committee)
- a committee created within an agency that has had its
				  structure approved by the State Employee Incentive Award Committee.
Application
- the submittal of a suggestion,
				  on the prescribed form, to an incentive award committee.
Cost Savings
- an actual dollar savings for
				  an agency of government.
Employee
- an individual employed by an
				  agency at the time the suggestion is submitted to an incentive award
				  committee.
Evaluation
- the formal process by which a
				  suggestion reviewed. The evaluation process may include:
1. preliminary review by an incentive award committee;
2. review by the legislative auditor;
3. reviewing the idea with the suggester;
4. soliciting opinions and/or recommendations from
				  supervisors or other state entities affected by the idea; and
5. an agency or budget unit documentation of the cost savings
				  or revenue generation.
Implementation
- putting to use, putting
				  into operation, and/or placing in effect an employee's suggestion by a budget
				  unit, agency, or governmental entity.
Implemented Suggestion
- a suggestion that
				  is actually implemented and results in cost savings or revenue
				  generation.
Incentive Award Program
- that program which
				  is established in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  39:366.1-6.
Louisiana Civil Service League
- a private,
				  nonprofit educational organization that is authorized by
				  R.S.
				  39:366.1 to make awards in the Incentive
				  Award Program.
Revenue Generation
- an economy that
				  increases funds available to an agency of government as a direct result of an
				  implemented suggestion.
State Employee Incentive Award Committee
(
state committee
)- the committee created within the Division
				  of Administration under the authority of
				  R.S.
				  39:366.1 that is authorized to do the
				  following:
1. empower agencies to create agency committees;
2. approve the structure of agency committees;
3. provide oversight for agency committees;
4. conduct yearly reviews of agency committees;
5. review incentive award suggestions having a statewide
				  impact;
6. request the legislative auditor to review any incentive
				  award program or suggestion.
Suggester
- a budget unit or employee
				  submitting an application to an agency committee or the state committee.
Suggestion
- an idea that:
1. poses a problem, or opportunity;
2. presents a solution;
3. has been implemented;
4. has been written up on the suggester's own time;
5. has been submitted to the state committee or an agency
				  committee on the prescribed suggestion form;
6. has been signed by the suggester and has the approval of
				  the department secretary or head of the agency employing the suggester;
7. has been received for processing by an agency or state
				  committee.
Transferability
- the feasibility of a
				  suggestion being used in any other budget unit or agency.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  39:366.1-39:366.6.