1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; establishing a state employee suggestion system 
1.3 	for making state government less costly or more efficient; appropriating money;
1.4 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [16A.90] EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION SYSTEM.
1.7 	The commissioner shall establish a program to solicit suggestions from state 
1.8 	employees for ways to reduce the costs of operating state government or for ways of 
1.9 	providing better or more efficient state services. The commissioner may make a onetime 
1.10 	award to an employee or group of employees whose suggestion is determined by the 
1.11 	commissioner to have resulted in documented cost-savings to the state. The maximum 
1.12 	award is the lesser of ten percent of the documented savings in the first fiscal year in which 
1.13 	the employee's suggestion is implemented or $2,500. The award must be paid from the 
1.14 	appropriation to which the savings accrued.