Senate Bill 24 provides funds to DHHR for local boards of health employee pay raises. The bill requires the Legislature to include funding in the DHHR appropriation to raise pay for employees of local boards of health when an across the board pay increase is provided for state employees. It also requires continued annual funding for the local BOH’s with annual appropriations in the base budget for local BOH to fund increased compensation-until pay is same as state employees. The bill will be reported to the House.
Senate Bill 241 permits county court clerks to scan certain documents in electronic form. This bill would allow a county commission to authorize the county clerk to record documents by scanning them in electronic format instead of placing them in books, and not prepare separate indices of those documents. the bill further allows the county commission to authorize the clerk to scan and replace existing books, but requires that the existing books be retained, either on or off site. There was an amendment made to the bill that would require county commission, in addition to scanning the documents, make them available online. The bill will now be reported to the House as amended.
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