Q&A
Potential impact of proposed bills on CCHR's caseload
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Council Member Nantasha M. Williams inquires about how proposed bills (Intro 808A, 871, and 984) would affect CCHR's caseload if enacted. CCHR representatives discuss the challenges in predicting the impact of new laws on their workload.
- The impact of multiple bills passing together would require a comprehensive review of existing staff and agency capabilities.
- It's difficult to project exactly how changes in the law will affect the agency's workload, partly because some changes allow people to go to court or come to CCHR.
- For pay transparency (likely referring to Intro 808A), CCHR doesn't anticipate significant changes in numbers due to existing campaigns and publicity.
- The impact of Intro 871 would depend on the final form of the law.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:52:10
Okay.
1:52:12
Intro 808A, A71, and 984 would all require the hiring of new staff.
1:52:19
Roughly speaking, how would you anticipate that each law would affect CCHR's caseload?
1:52:25
For example, would each one be expected to generate a lot or relatively few new inquiries and complaints?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:52:33
So I think, as I was saying, the it it there if they were to all pass together, the fiscal impact statements become a more soup or salad.
1:52:42
I don't know what the right analogy is of of things mixed together.
1:52:45
And so we would look at our existing staff at the time of the effective date of the law and say, do we have these positions?
1:52:53
Are we able to fulfill this part of the mandate?
1:52:55
And that goes through the normal OMB budget process where we're working together to identify adjustments based on what the law ends up, ends up looking like.
1:53:05
I think it's very hard to project what a change in the law could be for, mean for our agency.
1:53:14
That's in part because some of the changes in the law allow people to go to court or come to us.
1:53:19
So it doesn't it's not like a a clear, one to 1 or a clear linear pathway.
1:53:29
I think pay transparency, we are already doing and is already known about because we've run campaigns.
1:53:35
We've done a lot of publicity about that.
1:53:37
I so I I don't see that that those numbers will shift.
1:53:40
I think it's a bigger question with, 871.
1:53:41
It will depend what that law ends up looking like.
1:53:43
Okay.
1:53:43
And, yes, this, new law that we all have to comply,
