HF 1041

as introduced - 87th Legislature (2011 - 2012) Posted on 03/10/2011 10:06am

A bill for an act
relating to state government; establishing a state employee suggestion system for
making state government less costly or more efficient; proposing coding for new
law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

new text begin [16A.90] EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION SYSTEM.
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new text begin The commissioner shall establish a program to solicit suggestions from state
employees for ways to reduce the costs of operating state government or for ways of
providing better or more efficient state services. The commissioner may make a onetime
award to an employee or group of employees whose suggestion is determined by the
commissioner to have resulted in documented cost-savings to the state. The maximum
award is the lesser of ten percent of the documented savings in the first fiscal year in
which the employee's suggestion is implemented or $2,500. The award must be paid from
the existing appropriation to which the savings accrued.
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