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HOUSE BILL NO. 18 – Medicine Bd/certn empl unclassified

HOUSE BILL NO. 18

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H0018........................................................by MR. SPEAKER
                      Requested by Board of Medicine
BOARD OF MEDICINE - EMPLOYEES - Amends existing law to add quality
assurance specialists or medical investigators of the Idaho Board of
Medicine to the list of nonclassified employees.

01/11    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/11    Rpt prt - to Health/Wel
01/19    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
01/20    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
01/21    3rd rdg - PASSED - 68-0-2
      AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Black, Boe,
      Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney,
      Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hadley,
      Hammond, Hansen(23), Hansen(29), Henbest, Hornbeck, Jaquet, Jones,
      Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Limbaugh,
      Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley, McKague, Meyer, Montgomery,
      Mortensen, Moyle, Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds, Ridinger, Ringo,
      Robison, Sali, Schaefer, Sellman, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Taylor,
      Tilman, Tippets, (Miller)(Trail), Watson, Wheeler, Williams, Wood,
      Zimmermann, Mr Speaker
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Chase, Stoicheff
    Floor Sponsor - Hansen(23)
    Title apvd - to Senate
01/22    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Health/Wel
02/08    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/09    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/10    3rd rdg - PASSED - 31-1-3
      AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
      Crow, Darrington, Deide, Dunklin, Geddes, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough,
      King, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry, Richardson, Riggs, Risch, Sandy,
      Schroeder, Sorensen, Stegner, Stennett, Thorne, Twiggs, Wheeler,
      Whitworth
      NAYS--Hawkins
      Absent and excused--Danielson, Davis, Frasure
    Floor Sponsor - Wheeler
    Title apvd - to House
02/11    To enrol
02/12    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
02/15    Pres signed
02/16    To Governor
02/19    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 17
         Effective: 07/01/99

Bill Text


H0018

                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature                 First Regular Session - 1999
                                                                        

                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 18

                                      BY MR. SPEAKER
                             Requested by: Board of Medicine

 1                                        AN ACT
 2    RELATING TO CLASSIFICATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES; AMENDING SECTION 67-5303, IDAHO
 3        CODE, TO ADD ALL QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALISTS OR MEDICAL INVESTIGATORS OF
 4        THE BOARD OF MEDICINE TO THE LIST OF NONCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES AND TO MAKE A
 5        TECHNICAL CORRECTION.

 6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

 7        SECTION 1.  That Section 67-5303, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
 8    amended to read as follows:

 9        67-5303.  APPLICATION  TO STATE EMPLOYEES. All departments of the state of
10    Idaho and all employees in such departments, except those  employees  specifi-
11    cally defined as nonclassified, shall be classified employees, who are subject
12    to this act and to the system of personnel administration which it prescribes.
13    Nonclassified employees shall be:
14        (a)  Members  of the state legislature and all other officers of the state
15    of Idaho elected by popular vote, and persons appointed to fill  vacancies  in
16    elective offices, and employees of the state legislature.
17        (b)  Members  of statutory boards and commissions and heads of departments
18    appointed by and serving at the pleasure of  the  governor,  deputy  directors
19    appointed  by  the  director  and  members  of  advisory  boards  and councils
20    appointed by the departments.
21        (c)  All employees and officers in the office, and at  the  residence,  of
22    the   governor;  and  all  employees  and  officers  in  the  offices  of  the
23    lieutenant - governor, secretary of state, attorney general,  state
24    treasurer,  state  controller,  and state superintendent of public instruction
25    who are appointed on and after the effective date of this act.
26        (d)  Except as otherwise provided by law, not more than one  (1)  declared
27    position  for  each board or commission and/or head of a participating depart-
28    ment in addition to those declared to be nonclassified by other provisions  of
29    law.
30        (e)  Part-time  professional  consultants  who are paid on a fee basis for
31    any form of legal, medical or other professional  service,  and  who  are  not
32    engaged in the performance of administrative duties for the state.
33        (f)  Judges, temporary referees, receivers and jurors.
34        (g)  All employees of the Idaho supreme court and district courts.
35        (h)  All employees of the Idaho state bar.
36        (i)  Assistant  attorneys  general  attached to the office of the attorney
37    general.
38        (j)  Officers, members of the teaching staffs of state educational  insti-
39    tutions,  the professional staff of the Idaho department of education adminis-
40    tered by the board of regents and the board of education, and the professional
41    staffs of the Idaho department of vocational education and vocational rehabil-
42    itation administered by the state board for  vocational  education.  "Teaching
43    staff"  includes  teachers,  coaches, resident directors, librarians and those


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 1    principally engaged in academic research. The word "officer" means presidents,
 2    vice presidents, deans, directors, or employees in positions designated by the
 3    state board who receive an annual salary of not less than step "A" of the  pay
 4    grade  equivalent  to  three  hundred fifty-five (355) Hay points in the state
 5    compensation schedule. A  nonclassified  employee  who  is  designated  as  an
 6    "officer"  on July 5, 1991, but does not meet the requirements of this subsec-
 7    tion, may make a one (1) time irrevocable election  to  remain  nonclassified.
 8    Such  an election must be made  not later than August 2, 1991. When such posi-
 9    tions become vacant, these positions will be reviewed and designated as either
10    classified or nonclassified in accordance with this subsection.
11        (k)  Employees of the military division.
12        (l)  Patients, inmates or students employed in a state institution.
13        (m)  Persons employed  in  positions  established  under  federal  grants,
14    which,  by  law,  restrict  employment  eligibility to specific individuals or
15    groups on the basis of nonmerit selection requirements. Such  employees  shall
16    be termed "project exempt" and the tenure of their employment shall be limited
17    to  the length of the project grant, or twenty-four (24) months, or four thou-
18    sand one hundred sixty (4,160) hours of credited state service,  whichever  is
19    of  the  shortest  duration.  No  person hired on a project-exempt appointment
20    shall be employed in any position allocated to the classified service.
21        (n)  Temporary employees.
22        (o)  All employees and officers of the following named  commodity  commis-
23    sions,  and  all  employees  and  officers of any commodity commission created
24    hereafter: the Idaho potato commission, as provided in chapter 12,  title  22,
25    Idaho Code; the Idaho honey advertising commission, as provided in chapter 28,
26    title  22,  Idaho  Code; the Idaho bean commission, as provided in chapter 29,
27    title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho prune commission, as provided in  chapter  30,
28    title  22, Idaho Code; the Idaho hop grower's commission, as provided in chap-
29    ter 31, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho wheat commission, as provided in chap-
30    ter 33, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho pea and lentil commission, as provided
31    in chapter 35, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho apple commission,  as  provided
32    in  chapter 36, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho cherry commission, as provided
33    in chapter 37, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho mint  grower's  commission,  as
34    provided in chapter 38, title 22, Idaho Code; the state board of sheep commis-
35    sioners,  as  provided  in  chapter  1,  title 25, Idaho Code; the state brand
36    board, as provided in chapter 11, title 25, Idaho Code; the Idaho  beef  coun-
37    cil,  as  provided  in  chapter  29, title 25, Idaho Code; and the Idaho dairy
38    products commission, as provided in chapter 31, title 25, Idaho Code.
39        (p)  All inspectors of the fresh fruit and vegetable inspection service of
40    the Idaho department of agriculture, except those positions  involved  in  the
41    management of the program.
42        (q)  All  employees  of the division of correctional industries within the
43    department of correction.
44        (r)  All wardens employed by the department of correction.
45        (s)  All public information positions with the  exception  of  secretarial
46    positions, in any department.
47        (t)  Any division administrator.
48        (u)  Any regional administrator or assistant administrator in the division
49    of environmental protection in the department of health and welfare.
50        (v)  All employees of the division of financial management.
51        (w)  All employees of the Idaho food quality assurance institute.
52        (x)  The  state  appellate  public defender, deputy state appellate public
53    defenders and all other employees of the office of the state appellate  public
54    defender.
55          (y)  All  quality assurance specialists or medical investigators of


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 1    the Idaho board of medicine. 

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                      STATEMENT  OF  PURPOSE
RS08458
The purpose of this legislation is to specifically define the
quality assurance specialists or medical investigators of the Board
of Medicine as nonclassified state employees. 


FISCAL  IMPACT
There will be no fiscal impact on the dedicated fund. 

CONTACT   
Name:          Darleene Thorsted
Agency:   Idaho State Board of Medicine
Phone:         334-2822

Statement of Purpose/Fiscal Impact                           H 1