Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses of state government

ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the legislature for the senate, house of representatives and the legislative coordinating commission (LCC), for the office of the revisor of statutes, the legislative reference library, the office of the legislative auditor and to the LCC for a capitol building and capitol complex facilitated planning process, to the governor and lieutenant governor, state auditor, attorney general and secretary of state, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology for an electronic licensing system, technology security, small agency technology infrastructure projects, for grants to counties participating in the development of the integrated financial system, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities services for office space costs, for the legislature and veterans organizations and certain ceremonial and statutorily free space, for a state real property portfolio management web enabled computer system, onetime department of public safety relocation expenses, for state and community services to prepare for and promote the 2010 census, for the land management information center, for the office of state archeologist and to the genetic information work group and report, for administrative management services for the office of grants management, to establish a small agency resource team to consolidate certain activities by small state agencies, boards and councils, a targeted group business disparity study, the council on developmental disabilities, a Washington county capital improvements detailed grant and public broadcasting grants to noncommercial television stations and Minnesota public radio, to the capital area architectural and planning (CAAP) board for decennial expenses, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management for Northwest airlines and city of Duluth bankruptcy counsel costs and information and management services for the Minnesota accounting and procurement systems (MAPS), to the commissioner of employee relations, to the commissioner of revenue for tax system management and accounts receivable management for an integrated tax software package purchase and development and taxpayer assistance nonprofit organizations grants, to the gambling control board, to the racing commission, to the state lottery board, for tort claims, to the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), to the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF), to the teachers retirement association (TRA), to the St. Paul teachers retirement fund, to the amateur sports commission, to the black Minnesotans, Chicano-Latino affairs, Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and Indian affairs councils, for Becker county burial site acquisition, for a fund transfer to the office of higher education for a Dakota/Ojibwe language revitalization project grant and for general contingent accounts; providing for a carry forward authorization for technology and a balance carry forward to the next fiscal year

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requiring the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) to assist state government to foster an understanding and appreciation of ethnic and cultural diversity in Minnesota and to identify underutilized resources within the immigrant community and to facilitate the full participation of immigrants in social, cultural and political life and undertake activities deemed necessary to advise the legislature and oversee executive activities on issues related to terrorism and disaster preparedness; clarifying the length of time executive orders of the governor are valid; establishing the position of state poet laureate; clarifying provisions relating to secretary of state fee charging for assumed name; imposing a temporary technology surcharge on certain filing fees, providing for the surcharge to be deposited in the uniform commercial code account, sunset provision; requiring the state board of investment to file a report with the legislative reference library on activities and work product; establishing in the department of administration a grants management process, defining certain terms regarding grants, providing for data created by a granting agency be classified as nonpublic until the publishing of a request for proposal, providing for all responses submitted by a grantee to a request for proposal to be private until opened, providing for evaluation data as private until the completion of the evaluation process; clarifying commissioner and governor terms of office to end simultaneously; specifying certain deposit requirements for money received by the capital area architectural and planning (CAAP) board for review and planning services; modifying department of finance budgeting revenue relevant to personal income reporting requirements, modifying department provisions relating to billing procedures, leases and management contracts, property sales, match requirements, ground lease provisions and general applicability and grant agreements; authorizing the commissioner of administration to lease space in the Elmer L. Andersen and Orville L. Freeman buildings to state agencies and charge rent on a space occupation basis, requiring money collected to be used to fund future building repairs and credited to a set aside account, providing an appropriation to the commissioner for building repairs, requiring account abolishment and remaining balances transfer upon state building title acquisition; removing the appropriation limit for art in state buildings; establishing in the department of administration a grants management process, requiring the commissioner to provide policy leadership and direction for grants management, specifying commissioner powers and duties; requiring grant recipients to agree to administrative costs limits, specifying code of ethics applicability, requiring commissioner conflict of interest and code of ethics policies development; providing for violations reporting, grant agreements creation and validity, grant administration and payments, audit, attorney general authority and Indian (native American) tribes and bands grants; defining and modifying the definitions of certain terms; allowing commissioner of administration rulemaking authority with relating to procurement process; modifying commissioner contracting authority; modifying provisions relating to policy and procedures; authorizing the commissioner to require agencies to accept delegated responsibility for goods and services procurement; requiring the commissioner of administration to maintain a web site with a searchable database providing public information on state contracts and grants, specifying database information requirements; requiring agency cooperation for strategic sourcing techniques development and implementation; exempting low dollar procurements from accounting system requirement; providing for enterprise procurements; requiring agencies to provide detailed explanations for certain procurements; requiring contract written performance evaluation; providing limitations on actions; restricting agency call center contracting; prohibiting reverse auctions to procure engineering design services or architectural services; requiring the commissioner of administration to promote document imaging work in government agencies to be done by persons with developmental disabilities; prohibiting best and final offer solicitation processes from use in state procurement building and construction contracts; adding legislative employees to the state employee definition; extending the expiration date of the Mississippi River parkway commission; authorizing the commissioner of revenue to disclose tax return information to the commissioner of finance to prepare a revenue forecast; requiring the commissioner of revenue to maintain a toll free telephone tax payer (taxpayer) assistance line and to provide public notice of nonprofit organizations grants availability; modifying cooperative associations and nonprofit corporations registration and dissolution provisions by requiring calendar year filings, removing secretary of state notification requirements and requiring cooperatives to file a notice of intent to dissolve; annual registration of corporations provisions; imposing a fee for filing a name reservation for a foreign limited partnership name; modifying the annual reporting procedure for limited partnerships; requiring a foreign limited partnership to notify the secretary of state of any changes in the partnership; clarifying uniform commercial code account use, authorizing uniform commercial code records transmission using extensible markup language (XML) format; requiring uniform commercial code fee deposit; allowing limited liability companies (LLC) to be placed in a representative capacity; requiring persons signing documents to be present for notary officers and notary officers to be present for signatures; requiring the state auditor to bill the commissioner of revenue for tax increment financing investment and finance (TIF) division services; allowing state representation in conciliation court by the department of administration division of risk management without written authorization; authorizing the electronic real estate recording task force to amend certain standards set by the task force; increasing marriage license fees and modifying fee disposition; extending the deadlines for state owned land sales and the genetic information work group legislative report results; extending an office of administrative hearings relocation appropriation; prohibiting Ford building demolition for a certain time period; requiring the chief information officer of the state to study how electronic data, hardware, software and media can be created, maintained, exchanged and preserved by the state, specifying evaluation considerations; requiring the Minnesota state colleges and universities board of trustees (MnSCU) in collaboration with the commissioner of employee relations to establish an enterprise wide pilot project to provide consumer owned electronic personal health records to MnSCU employees and to participants in the state employees group insurance program; requiring state executive branch agencies to consider using services provided by government training services prior to outside vendor contracting; abolishing the department of employee relations (DOER) and transferring duties to the commissioner of finance and certain other duties to the commissioners of administration and health; establishing and providing for the state budget trends study commission to complete a study on state demographic trends implications for future state budget conditions; requiring the state chief information officer to study the feasibility of alternative financing options for the purpose of developing and maintaining and electronic system for business and occupational license, requiring a report by the certain date; specifying certain reference replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes regarding DOER; repealing provisions relating to department of finance budgeting revenues relative to personal income, a barter agreement reporting requirement and a professional or technical services performance evaluation, a state auditor requirement to provide the secretary of state with a list of volunteer firefighter relief associations, failure to appear before a notary for signature provision and statutory fee and tax definitions

ARTICLE 3 - BEST VALUE CONTRACTS

Relating to state government, defining best value for purposes of construction, building, alternation, improvement and repair services; defining vendor; modifying the acquisition authority relating to construction contracts; requiring the commissioner of administration to establish procedures for developing and awarding best value requests for proposals for construction projects; authorizing the commissioner to develop a training program for best value procurement for construction projects; adding competitive proposals to the contract application process; specifying contract award requirements; modifying the contract awarding process to include the issuing of request for proposal and best value alternatives for certain contracts; permitting construction authority contract award to lowest responsible bidder
(Ch. 148, 2007)