Position fill rate report (language only)

Item 418 #1c

Language
Page 273, after line 44, insert:
"As a condition of the appropriation in this item, the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall fill, by June 30, 1997, all authorized full-time positions that were vacant as of January 1, 1997, and that have been appropriated for in this act.  If the Department cannot comply, then the Director shall provide an explanation to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations, House Conservation and Natural Resources, Senate Finance, and Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Natural Resources Committees, documenting the reasons the positions could not be filled and issuing a revised hiring schedule."

Explanation
(This amendment is self-explanatory.)