1E Relating to state government; modifying state government administration and operations; requiring state government employers with employee recognition programs to offer a gift certificate option of equal value at the Minnesota historical society; modifying certain web site prohibitions maintained by public libraries and school districts; requiring state agencies to include the number of full time equivalent positions for each agency program for the detailed budget; authorizing the commissioner of finance to administer capital grants upon request of other agencies; specifying certain commissioner of finance grants management provisions; requiring the commissioner of administration to maintain and stabilize the Ford Building in Saint Paul; modifying provisions relating to state procurement; defining and modifying the definitions of certain terms; modifying commissioner of administration acquisition and contracting authority; modifying provisions relating to policy and procedures; providing for enterprise procurements; prohibiting reverse auctions to procure engineering design services or architectural services; creating an information and telecommunications systems and services account in the special revenue fund; adding the office of enterprise technology to the appointing authorities permitted to designate additional unclassified positions; authorizing the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to establish special salary rates and plans of compensation designed to attract and retain exceptionally qualified doctors of dental surgery; establishing the center for health care purchasing improvement, providing for administration, staffing, duties and scope, requiring the commissioner of administration to prepare a report to the legislature; modifying the public employees insurance program to enable the commissioner or a designee to be more greatly involved in improving statewide health care; modifying the definition of state employee to include persons occupying a civil service position in the legislative branch; modifying the definition of governmental unit for joint exercise of powers purposes to include nonprofit community health clinics providing family planning services; expanding the authorized use of sick leave under the employment law to absences due to illness of or injury to spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents or stepparents; providing for the leave for immediate family members of military personnel killed or injured in active service; permitting employees to take a leave of absence without pay to attend a military send off or homecoming celebration for an immediate family member; permitting an employee to take a leave of absence without pay when an immediate family member, as a member of the U.S. armed forces, is killed or injured in active service; providing for recognition by both private and public colleges and universities of certain courses that were a part of a veterans military training, prohibiting colleges and universities from assessing late fees or charges eligible veterans, having applied for but not yet receiving federal educational assistance; requiring the public employees retirement association (PERA) to establish a certain number of funds for political subdivisions to use to pay for postemployment benefits owed to officers and employees after termination of service; waiving certain project requirements upon commissioner of administration renovation of the Stassen building to accommodate the relocation of the office of administrative hearings; preparing a plan to colocate certain minority affairs councils, authorizing the governor to appoint chair of the council on black Minnesotans upon the expiration of the current chair; requiring the commissioner of administration to report to the legislature by a certain date regarding the impact and the use of strategic sourcing techniques on state businesses including an analysis of the size of contracts and award recipients; creating an implementation and steering task force to develop strategies for the restoration of the Victory memorial drive historic district in Hennepin county, specifying membership, providing for staff support; requiring biennial reports to the legislature, sunset provision; modifying certain rulemaking requirements; requiring the commissioner of administration to report to the legislature by a certain date on the advantages and disadvantages of alternative procedures for selecting a designer for state building projects; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing provisions relating to aircraft facilities lessee agreements and corporate headquarters
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