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[Bill Number] HB 834 No alternate bill number [Summary] Reduces substantive and procedural due process rights afforded NC State employees. (1) Reconstitutes the State Personnel Commission and moves the agency from the Department of Administration to the Governor’s office, reduces training and reporting demands, but expands authority, (2) Adds 500 additional positions that the governor may designate as exempt from the newly named NC Human Resources Act and adds the offices of State Personnel, Budget and Management and Information and Technology services where they may also be designated, (3) Changes what and how a state employee might grieve, narrowing the field of grievances and increasing the burden on the appellant employee in the process. [Rating] Legislation takes North Carolina in the wrong direction. [Area of Interest] 
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