CHAPTER 2-A. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
§68. Qualified candidates for management positions; submission of list to governor-elect
A. Within sixty days after each election for governor, the Civil Service Commission shall submit to the governor-elect a list of employees in the classified service holding supervisory positions or positions at other levels of management of major programmatic functions within an agency who meet the minimum qualifications for management personnel set forth in R.S. 42:67.1 and who are thereby eligible for and who desire to apply for appointment to a position of management in the unclassified service. The governor-elect may consult this list in making his appointments to unclassified management positions in the executive branch of state government and may make the list available to secretaries or other heads of departments in the executive branch of state government who will take office at the same time as the governor to whom the list is submitted.
B. In order to effectuate the purposes of this Section, the Department of Civil Service shall establish a program for the systematic identification of qualified classified employee candidates for unclassified management positions in the executive branch of state government. Every agency whose employees are in the classified state civil service shall participate in such program and shall cooperate with the department in carrying out such program under guidelines established by the department in accordance with applicable rules of the Civil Service Commission.