3E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the legislature, governor and lieutenant governor, state auditor, attorney general, and secretary of state (constitutional offices), to the campaign finance and public disclosure, investment, offices of enterprise technology and administrative hearings, capitol area architectural and planning (CAAPB), and gambling control boards, Minnesota management and budget (MMB), racing and amateur sports commissions, explore Minnesota tourism, Minnesota historical society, state lottery, the departments of administration and revenue, Minnesota historical society, board of the arts, Minnesota humanities center, Minnesota Indian affairs council, council on Black Minnesotans, council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, council on the affairs of Chicano-Latino people, science museum of Minnesota, Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF), teachers retirement association (TRA), St. Paul and Duluth teachers retirement funds, tort claims, and problem gambling; specifying the reduction of general fund appropriations in the executive and judicial branch agencies and the legislature, appropriating money to the secretary of state for recount costs and legal fees, instructing the commissioner of management and budget to establish an appropriation reduction for executive agencies; requiring certain reports to the legislature

ARTICLE 2 - MILITARY AFFAIRS AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

Appropriating money to the department of military affairs and the department of veterans affairs

ARTICLE 3 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Increasing the membership of the legislative commission on pensions and
retirement (LCPR) and limiting majority caucus membership; establishing the "Minnesota Sunset Act"; defining certain terms; establishing the sunset advisory commission; specifying commission staff; authorizing commission to establish rules; specifying agency reporting requirements; establishing duties of commission; requiring public hearings and specifying certain criteria the commission shall consider while determining whether a need exists for the continuation of an agency or advisory committee; authorizing the commission to make recommendations; requiring staff to monitor legislative proposals affecting agencies that have gone through sunset review; permitting the legislature to continue an agency or advisory committee past its sunset date; establishing certain state agency termination procedures; specifying agency access to state agencies and officers; requiring an attempt to relocate displaced employees because of an agency or advisory committee abolishment or reorganization; requiring each bill filed in the legislature that would create an agency or advisory committee to be reviewed by the commission; permitting the commission to accept gifts and grants; specifying agency expiration date schedule; permitting counties and cities to perform private audits meeting standards of the state auditor; banning agency legislative liaisons; providing for the reduction in the number of deputy and assistant commissioners in state agencies and departments; permitting state employee competition for state business where the state has decided to seek an outside vendor; establishing a retained savings program for executive branch agencies to identify cost-effective and efficiency measures in agency programs and operations resulting in cost savings for the state, including Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); adopting zero-based budgeting principals; establishing an employee gainsharing program; establishing the "Minnesota Pay for Performance Act of 2011"; authorizing the commissioner of management and budget to implement a program to demonstrate the feasibility and desirability of using state appropriation bonds to pay for certain services based on performance and outcomes for the people served; requiring certain vendors and subcontractors to implement the federal E-Verify (immigration status) program for newly hired employees; removing certain outside contracting agency restrictions for professional or technical services; repealing certain provisions relating to waivers, contract services, and limitation on contracting out of services provided by members of a state of Minnesota or university of Minnesota bargaining unit; authorizing the commissioner of management and budget to enter certain reciprocal agreements with the U.S. Department of Treasury; modifying certain duties of the legislative auditor relating to the state agricultural society; expanding the use of certain carry forward money for audits of Minnesota state colleges and universities; modifying the state employee appraisal and bonus pay system; implementing reciprocal federal offset agreements; requiring certain agencies to enter into contracts to provide consulting services for improvements to certain state-operated systems and services; requiring the commissioner of administration to issue requests for proposals for efficiencies in state building management and fleet management improvements; requiring the commissioner of revenue to issue requests for proposals to prevent and detect tax fraud and increase delinquent tax revenue collection; continuing the state employee salary freeze authorizing the commissioner of management and budget to implement a program that creates and incentive for efficient use of health care by state employees of state employee group insurance program (SEGIP); authorizing the commissioner to issue a request for proposals for a contract to provide SEGIP dependent eligibility audit services; specifying certain savings in SEGIP; reducing the state workforce by a certain percentage by a certain date; establishing request for proposals for a contract that would provide state employee group insurance plan dependent eligibility verification audit services, that would provide recommendations for state building efficiency, that would provide for fleet management improvements, that would provide for tax fraud prevention and detection, and that would provide efficiencies in strategic sourcing; specifying the commissioner of management and budget report to the legislature on the job classification restructure plan; modifying provisions relating to the help America vote act

ARTICLE 4 - CONSOLIDATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Consolidating state agency information technology systems and services and transferring duties to the office of enterprise technology; specifying certain duties of the chief information officer; creating technology advisory committees; providing for the transfer of powers and duties to the office of enterprise technology; revisor instructions
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