Updating statutes related to state employment by removing obsolete language, eliminating unnecessary reports, conforming a reporting period to fiscal year, and modernizing employee pay procedures.

Where it goes next

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• What an agency writes to carry it outAn agency's name on a lobbying report is not a rulemaking.
• Which court can stay or strike itAn opinion listed here is not yet tied to the law it reviewed.
• How the place it governs is doingBecoming law is not the result. A number moving is not proof the law moved it.