State Employees —

SEE ALSO Public Employees

Agency spending for contract salaries and additional assistance,
quarterly reports required .............................................................

Classified and unclassified employees, references in Annotated
Code replaced with the new categories of skilled service,
professional service, management service, executive service, or
special appointments......................................................................

Collection of court costs, fines, restitution payments, probation
fees, and other judicial fees by private contractors, provisions for
pilot program added .......................................................................

Competitive Re-Engineering Pilot Program, established to create
a procurement process to allow State employees to compete with
private contractors to provide a targeted service ........................

Earnings limitation on reemployment of individuals who retired
under the Workforce Reduction Act, provisions clarified............

Executive Pay Plan -

Salary schedule for FY 1998, with provisions for 6% salary

increase cap and no step increase .............................................

Transportation Department, salary schedule for FY 1998, with
provisions for 6% salary increase cap and no step increases ..

Fire Prevention Commission, Office of State Fire Marshal, and
Explosives Advisory Council, transferred to Department of State
Police ...............................................................................................

Forest and park rangers, increases in salary, step, and grade
comparable to increases granted to Natural Resources police
officers, provisions added ..............................................................

Full-Time Equivalent Positions -

Counts of contractual positions, requirements ............................

Total number authorized, determination required ......................

Human Resources, Office of, appropriation to ................................

Legislative Services, Department of, created from reorganization

' of Department of Legislative Reference and Department of
Fiscal Services; Office of Legislative Audits included in new
department, and audit requirements altered; Joint Budget and
Audit Committee, provisions altered ............................................

Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program providing early
intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families,
transferred from Office for Children, Youth, and Families to
Department of Education ..............................................................

Maryland Tort Claims Act, definition of State personnel altered to
expand scope ...................................................................................

Nonclassified State government positions, appropriation for
salaries ............................................................................................

Number and classes of authorized State positions, determination
and limitation .................................................................................

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151	1776
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676	3907
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635	3544
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