Subject to Article VII of the California Constitution, the department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Personnel Board with respect to the administration of the Personnel Classification Plan.

The department shall assess the adequacy of the Personnel Classification Plan and, as needed, recommend changes in the plan to the State Personnel Board. The recommendations shall include the need for the establishment of additional classes or the abolishment or alteration of existing classes.

Positions in the state service shall be established by the appointing power as authorized by law subject to budgetary authorization and the availability of funds. Each appointing power shall promptly report to the department his or her intention to establish new positions in order that those positions may be classified and allocated, and shall so report material changes in the duties of any position in his or her jurisdiction.

The department may designate an appointing power to allocate positions to the Personnel Classification Plan in accordance with Section 19818.6 and department rule. The department may audit position allocations. If the department finds that an appointing power has allocated positions inappropriately, the department may order corrective action, including, but not limited to, reallocating positions, voiding lawful personal transactions, and revoking or restricting the appointing power’s ability to allocate positions. If an appointing power’s allocation authority is revoked, the Department of Finance may transfer a sufficient number of personnel from the appointing power to the department to perform the previously delegated work.

Upon the allowance of the department of all or part of an employee claim for additional reimbursement for the performance of duties outside the scope of their present classification, certification by the Director of Finance that a sufficient appropriation exists, the execution and presentation of such documents as the department may require which discharge the state of all liability under the claim, and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19630, the department shall designate the fund from which the claim is to be paid and the state agency concerned shall pay the claim from that fund. Where no sufficient appropriation for the payment is available, the department shall submit a request to the Legislature for appropriation of those funds.

When the Legislature, in the Budget Act, authorizes a specified number of positions in a specified class in a specified agency, the department shall approve the allocation of those positions to classes on the basis of the total responsibilities and productivity requirements of the job, without placing primary emphasis on the number of positions subordinate to the positions authorized.