252B.27 - USE OF FUNDING FOR ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.
252B.27 USE OF FUNDING FOR ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.
1. The director, within the limitations of the amount
appropriated for the unit, or moneys transferred for this purpose
from the family investment program account created in section
239B.11, may establish new positions and add employees to the unit if
the director determines that both the current and additional
employees together can reasonably be expected to maintain or increase
net state revenue at or beyond the budgeted level for the fiscal
year.
2. a. The director may establish new positions and add state
employees to the unit or contract for delivery of services if the
director determines the employees are necessary to replace
county-funded positions eliminated due to termination, reduction, or
nonrenewal of a chapter 28E contract. However, the director must
also determine that the resulting increase in the state share of
child support recovery incentives exceeds the cost of the positions
or contract, the positions or contract are necessary to ensure
continued federal funding of the unit, or the new positions or
contract can reasonably be expected to recover at least twice the
amount of money necessary to pay the salaries and support for the new
positions or the contract will generate at least two hundred percent
of the cost of the contract.
b. Employees in full-time positions that transition from
county government to state government employment under this
subsection are exempt from testing, selection, and appointment
provisions of chapter 8A, subchapter IV, and from the provisions of
collective bargaining agreements{ relating to the filling of vacant
positions. Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 175, §120
ollective bargaining, see chapter 20