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, instructing the commissioner of management and budget to establish an appropriation reduction for executive agencies; requiring certain reports to the legislature; requiring the commissioner of revenue to implement a program of tax compliance including the use of tax analytics and business intelligence tools to enhance tax assessment and collection; authorizing commissioner of management and budget to make necessary adjustments in response to the end of session budgetary estimates

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 cities of the first class to perform private audits meeting standards of the state auditor; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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, 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; requiring the commissioner of management and budget to report to the legislature on the redesign and implementation of a performance appraisal system for executive employees and on the reduction in the number of full-time equivalent executive branch employees; granting certain alcohol retailers whose retail card expired during a certain time the right to purchase alcohol on an expired retail card; permitting the Minnesota racing commission to waive racing days requirements for the 2011 racing season because of the loss of racing days because of the shutdown; permitting state agencies to waive late fees associated with license, permit or registration renewals

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 the technology advisory committee; providing for the transfer of powers and duties to the office of enterprise technology; revisor instructions

ARTICLE 5 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Prohibiting certain appropriations to be used to pay or settle certain judgments associated with the government shutdown; specifying effective date and the relationship with certain court ordered appropriations
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