AN ACT relating to state personnel.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to employ persons exempt from approval requirements the classified service as necessary for advice and to carry out policy; permit the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to increase, by executive order the salary of any classified employee with status to the midpoint of the grade of the employee's classification.

Introduced: February 19, 2025

Last action: March 12, 2025

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This bill would allow five Kentucky constitutional officers — the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General — to hire certain staff outside the normal state approval process for advisory and policy roles. It would also let those officers use executive orders to raise the pay of qualifying state employees up to the midpoint of their pay grade. This could change how those offices staff and compensate their workforces. Who it may affect: state employees working under the Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General.

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