E Modifying and updating certain provisions relating to state + agencies; reducing the number of deputy and assistant commissioners and the +upper limit on salaries in state agencies, permitting salaries set under +collective bargaining agreements, restricting increases; requiring a certain +reduction in the salary of the director of the higher education services office +(HESO); imposing spending limits on state agencies for travel outside the +state, prohibiting contracting or paying for meeting space outside state +facilities, for food or for meeting nonstate employee facilitators or note +takers; requiring the commissioner of finance to reduce appropriations to +executive branch agencies and constitutional officers for fiscal years 2004 and+ 2005, prohibiting elimination of positions in the classified service; +repealing the authority of state agencies to add positions in the unclassified +service (ra, ja)