<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>procurement and shared services examples;amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, <br/>
<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>section 6.74.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br/>
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<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 6.74, is amended to read:<br/>
<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var><b>6.74 INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.</b><br/>
<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>    Subdivision 1. <b>Information generally.</b> The state auditor, or a designated agent, shall <br/>
<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>collect annually from all city, county, and other local units of government, information as <br/>
<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>to the assessment of property, collection of taxes, receipts from licenses and other sources, <br/>
<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>the expenditure of public funds for all purposes, borrowing, debts, principal and interest <br/>
<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>payments on debts, and such other information as may be needful. The data shall be <br/>
<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>supplied upon forms prescribed by the state auditor, and all public officials so called upon <br/>
<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>shall fill out properly and return promptly all forms so transmitted. The state auditor or <br/>
<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>assistants, may examine local records in order to complete or verify the information.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>    Subd. 2. <b>Examples of good government in procurement and shared services; </b><br/>
<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var><b>clearinghouse.</b> The state auditor may seek funds from local units of government <br/>
<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>and nongovernmental sources to establish an online clearinghouse of examples of <br/>
<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>good government in procurement and shared services among political subdivisions. If <br/>
<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>established, the clearinghouse shall be designed to allow political subdivisions to submit <br/>
<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>examples of good government in procurement and shared services in a form prescribed <br/>
<a id="pl.1.22"></a><var>1.22</var>by the state auditor.<br/>