1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state government; providing for 
  1.3             administration of the state employee combined 
  1.4             charities campaign; appropriating money; amending 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 43A.04, by adding a 
  1.6             subdivision. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 43A.04, is 
  1.9   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 12.  [COMBINED CHARITIES CAMPAIGN.] (a) The 
  1.11  commissioner shall administer the state employee combined 
  1.12  charities campaign.  This duty includes registration of combined 
  1.13  charitable organizations under section 309.501, and coordination 
  1.14  and administration of the process under which state employees 
  1.15  contribute to combined charitable organizations. 
  1.16     (b) The commissioner, in consultation with other 
  1.17  commissioners, shall appoint a voluntary board of state 
  1.18  employees to oversee the conduct of an annual combined charities 
  1.19  campaign.  The board must, to the extent possible, represent a 
  1.20  cross-section of state employee groups and geographic areas 
  1.21  where state employees are located.  The board shall provide 
  1.22  direction to the commissioner's employee assigned to administer 
  1.23  the annual campaign and shall approve any expenditure of state 
  1.24  funds appropriated for purposes of this subdivision. 
  1.25     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.26     $50,000 in fiscal year 2002 is appropriated from the 
  2.1   general fund to the commissioner of employee relations for 
  2.2   purposes of administering the state employee combined charities 
  2.3   campaign as required by section 1.  In fiscal year 2003 and 
  2.4   thereafter a sum equal to .05 percent of the amount contributed 
  2.5   by state employees in the previous year's combined charitable 
  2.6   campaign is appropriated to the commissioner for this purpose.