MS HB768

Requires any state agency requesting an exemption from State Personnel Board oversight to submit a written plan to the Legislature and State Personnel Board describing the justification and planned actions.

The written plan must identify issues to be addressed, specific actions to be taken during the exemption period with reasons, and the number of affected positions with associated costs and funding sources.

Agencies operating under a State Personnel Board exemption must file annual reports by July 1 each year to the State Personnel Board, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House, Legislative Budget Office, PEER, and relevant legislative committees.

Annual reports must include salary increases, employee dismissals or adverse actions, new hires with starting salaries, measures of efficiency or effectiveness improvements, staff hired or promoted without minimum qualifications, and evidence of competence for under-qualified hires.

Takes effect July 1, 2023.