La. Admin. Code tit. 4 § I-501
Agency - any unit within government that employs classified state civil service employees and has an identifiable self-contained budget or has its financial records maintained according to an accounting system which identifies, to the satisfaction of the legislative auditor, the expenditures and receipts properly attributable to that unit.
Agency Employee Incentive Award Committee (agency committee) - a committee created within an agency that has had its structure approved by the State Employee Incentive Award Committee.
Application - the submittal of a suggestion, on the prescribed form, to an incentive award committee.
Cost Savings - an actual dollar savings for an agency of government.
Employee - an individual employed by an agency at the time the suggestion is submitted to an incentive award committee.
Evaluation - the formal process by which a suggestion reviewed. The evaluation process may include:
1. preliminary review by an incentive award committee;
2. review by the legislative auditor;
3. reviewing the idea with the suggester;
4. soliciting opinions and/or recommendations from supervisors or other state entities affected by the idea; and
5. an agency or budget unit documentation of the cost savings or revenue generation.
Implementation - putting to use, putting into operation, and/or placing in effect an employee's suggestion by a budget unit, agency, or governmental entity.
Implemented Suggestion - a suggestion that is actually implemented and results in cost savings or revenue generation.
Incentive Award Program - that program which is established in accordance with R.S. 39:366.1-6.
Louisiana Civil Service League - a private, nonprofit educational organization that is authorized by R.S. 39:366.1 to make awards in the Incentive Award Program.
Revenue Generation - an economy that increases funds available to an agency of government as a direct result of an implemented suggestion.
State Employee Incentive Award Committee (state committee)- the committee created within the Division of Administration under the authority of R.S. 39:366.1 that is authorized to do the following:
1. empower agencies to create agency committees;
2. approve the structure of agency committees;
3. provide oversight for agency committees;
4. conduct yearly reviews of agency committees;
5. review incentive award suggestions having a statewide impact;
6. request the legislative auditor to review any incentive award program or suggestion.
Suggester - a budget unit or employee submitting an application to an agency committee or the state committee.
Suggestion - an idea that:
1. poses a problem, or opportunity;
2. presents a solution;
3. has been implemented;
4. has been written up on the suggester's own time;
5. has been submitted to the state committee or an agency committee on the prescribed suggestion form;
6. has been signed by the suggester and has the approval of the department secretary or head of the agency employing the suggester;
7. has been received for processing by an agency or state committee.
Transferability - the feasibility of a suggestion being used in any other budget unit or agency.
La. Admin. Code tit. 4, § I-501