HB 2981 - DIGEST

     Declares that no agency may employ personnel who are classified as managers with supervisory job titles but who have no direct subordinates.

     Provides that, unless prohibited by federal law, each agency shall have no more than one manager with a supervisory job title for each twenty-five nonmanagement employees within the agency.

     Requires each agency to reduce the number of employees in the Washington management service by twenty-five percent no later than December 31, 2002.

     Declares that provisions of this act shall not apply if the governor certifies to the legislature that substantive and compelling reasons exist that an agency should be exempt from complying with the provisions of this act.