HB 1132 - DIGEST

Provides 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, 2003.

Declares that 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. The governor shall submit findings and conclusions to support the certification based on empirical facts that show by clear and convincing evidence that the public will be harmed if the agency were to comply with the provisions of this act.