Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2082

3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government;
modifying state and local government regulations; and 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 legislative coordinating commission (LCC), for office of the revisor of
statutes, legislative reference library, office of the legislative auditor, and
a legislators forum, to governor and lieutenant governor, state auditor,
attorney general, secretary of state, campaign finance and public disclosure
board, investment board, office of enterprise and technology and requiring the
development and implementation of a cost recovery plan, to the office of
administrative hearings, to commissioner of administration for government and
citizen services including the geospatial information office, council on
developmental disabilities, 2010 census, office of the state archaeologist,
certain office space costs of the legislature and veterans organizations, for
administrative management support and for the office of grants management,
providing a onetime cancellation for facilities repairs and replacement costs,
providing for the continuation of planning for a data center consolidation, to
capital area architectural and planning board, commissioner of finance,
commissioner of revenue for tax system management and debt collection
management, gambling control board, racing commission, state lottery board, for
tort claims, Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), Minneapolis employees
retirement fund (MERF), teachers retirement association (TRA), St. Paul teachers
retirement fund, Duluth teacher retirement fund, amateur sports commission,
councils on Black Minnesotans, Chicano/Latino affairs, Asian-Pacific Minnesotans
and the Indian affairs council, and for general contingent accounts; prohibiting
certain out-of-state travel appropriation use; requiring certain fund transfers;
appropriating money from the lottery prize fund to commissioner of human
services (DHS) for a grant to the state affiliate recognized by the national
council on problem gambling, requiring the affiliate to provide certain
complimentary services to the DHS programs, specifying commissioner powers and
contingency for nonstate matching funds, allowing commissioner of the Minnesota
management and budget (MMB) (finance) to make disbursements upon receipt of
matching funds; appropriating money obtained through indirect cost recovery to
the commissioner of finance

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT
OPERATIONS

Extending the expiration date for legislative coordinating
commission (LCC) authority for activities and duties related to ethnic heritage,
cultural diversity and new Americans; modifying the definition of "employee of
the state;" authorizing the legislative audit commission to review legislative
auditor reports and make recommendations necessary for improvements of the
states system of internal controls and financial management; modifying certain
duties of the legislative auditor regarding the misuse of public money by state
officials or employees; recreating the office of strategic and long-range
planning as an independent agency of state government, designating the
commissioner of administration as the state planning officer and specifying
responsibility for coordination, development, assessment and communication of
information, planning, policy and performance for the future, transferring
responsibility for a long-range plan from the office to the commissioner,
requiring report to the governor and legislature, authorizing the commissioner
to appoint the state demographer, requiring the state demographer to release a
demographic forecast in conjunction with the commissioner of Minnesota
management and budget (MMB) (finance) November state economic forecast and to
contract for the development of certain data and research, requiring the
commissioner to review the statewide system and to provide a milestones report;
regulating secretary of state business entity filings and fees, defining
business entity, authorizing business entities e-mail (email) address
collection, permitting fee charging for electronically transmitted document
images, requiring on-line (online) business entities changes filing and charging
a fee, extending the temporary technology surcharge, modifying certain annual
renewal filing provisions for business entities, corporations, cooperatives,
cooperative associations, nonprofit corporations, limited partnerships, foreign
limited partnerships and limited liability companies; modifying the use of
certain international student exchange visitor placement organization fees
collected by the secretary of state, modifying the reporting and investigation
procedure of complaints regarding an international student exchange
organization; modifying the amount and the use of appropriations derived from
the collection of state elections campaign fund money through income tax;
modifying the powers and duties of the executive director of the Minnesota state
board of investment; clarifying certain management and budget department (MMB)
data oversight duties; changing the name of commissioner of finance to
commissioner of management and budget; establishing the "Minnesota False Claims
Act", prohibiting the intentional submission of false or fraudulent claims for
payment or approval to an officer or employee of the state or a political
subdivision, defining claim, imposing a civil penalty and liability for damages
for violation, exceptions, authorizing and providing for investigation of
violations by a prosecuting attorney, defining investigatory powers of attorney
general, providing for private remedies, prohibiting actions against certain
public officials, requiring action by the prosecuting attorney within a certain
number of days following a complaint and disclosure, requiring complaints to be
unsealed following action by the prosecuting attorney, findings or conclusions
of law to be final, providing for the serving of unsealed complaints and
response by the defendant and for certain additional actions to be taken by the
prosecuting attorney, providing for stay of discovery and court imposed limits
on participation of private plaintiffs, imposing a statute of limitations for
actions and providing for certain remedies, prohibiting employers from imposing
policies or rules forbidding employees to disclose information and from
discriminatory acts for disclosure, imposing liability for damages for
violation; specifying the deposit of net proceeds received by the state as the
result of certain actions, establishing a false claims account in a special
revenue fund of the state treasury; requiring attorney general to report to
legislature regarding received complaints and staff issues; modifying duties of
the commissioner of the department of management and budget; requiring the
commissioner of management and budget in consultation with the commissioners of
administration and revenue and the legislative auditor to maintain a web site
with a searchable database providing the public with information on state
contracts, state appropriations, state expenditures, tax expenditures and
audits; requiring the commissioner to consult with the legislature; repealing
current searchable web site database requirement for state contracts and grants;
establishing a system of internal controls and internal auditing administered by
the commissioner of the Minnesota management and budget, instructing
commissioner to adopt certain internal control standards, authorize training and
assistance of personnel and financial managers in state agencies, provide for
the sharing of internal audit resources and monitor reports from the office of
legislative auditor, requiring state agencies to budget for internal control
systems and issue a report to the legislature concerning internal controls and
internal auditing of executive agencies, specifying certain duties of the state
agency heads, excluding the state colleges and university system; clarifying set
rates for agency revolving funds for services, requiring state agencies to make
certain deductions upon employee request; clarifying and strengthening
provisions prohibiting misuse of public money in the executive branch of state
government; allowing the management and budget (MMB) department to recover and
deposit in the general fund any amount of settlement or recovery of funds;
requiring the commissioner of management and budget (MMB) to periodically review
the formula used to estimate the percentage of the preceding biennium general
fund expenditures and transfers recommended as a budget reserve; providing for
management and budget (MMB) technology development lease-purchase financing and
appropriating money to the commissioner; allowing state executive, legislative
or judicial branch entities to use proprietary space to offer fitness, wellness
or similar classes or activities to employees, permitting participation fee
charging by instructors, providing a general application to state space in the
state capitol area and other designated areas as defined by rules adopted by
commissioner of public safety; requiring lights in state buildings to be off
during certain times to reduce dangers posed to migrating birds; establishing
the geospatial information office, specifying certain responsibilities and
authority of the office, prescribing certain duties of the office, establishing
duties of the chief geospatial information officer, establishing certain
discretionary powers of the office, authorizing the formation of a statewide
geospatial advisory council and a state government geospatial advisory council
to provide recommendations for improving the operations and management of
geospatial technology within the state government and issues of importance to
users of geospatial technology throughout the state, sunset provision, requiring
a report to the legislature by a certain date, authorizing the transfer of all
existing funds, assets, employees, equipment and supplies from the land
management information center to the Minnesota geospatial information office;
authorizing the commissioner of administration to award a certain amount of
preferences in the amount bid on state procurement to certified small businesses
majority-owned and operated by veterans or veterans with service connected
disabilities; creating a statewide electronic licensing account for completion
of the Minnesota electronic licensing system; expanding the number of hours
state employees may donate to the vacation donation program, specifying certain
conditions and limitations; providing additional sick leave for qualifying state
employee veterans with service-related disabilities for treatment purposes under
certain conditions; requiring commissioner of management and budget (MMB) to
develop and make available to appointing authorities a best practices policy for
conducting investigations of certain inappropriate activities; modifying and
clarifying certain provisions concerning voluntary unpaid leave of absence;
establishing the management analysis revolving fund in the state treasury,
providing for appropriation and use of funds for providing services to state
agencies, local units of government, metropolitan and regional agencies, school
districts and other public entities, specifying reimbursement requirements,
certain cash flow duties and liquidation procedures; authorizing the
commissioner of management and budget (MMB) to transfer a certain amount of
money from the commerce department technology account to the statewide
electronic licensing system account; authorizing the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) to award a certain amount of preferences in the amount bid
for specified trunk highway construction to certain veteran-owned small
businesses; appropriating money to the commissioner of management and budget
(MMB) for the purpose of making payments under the technology lease-purchase
agreement; increasing department of revenue lien fees and specifying fee for
electronic images, making optional the secretary of state annual renewal notice
to corporations, adding a limited partnership name reservation filing fee,
increasing certain fees, changing the terms of assumed names certificate filings
and renewal; requiring the consent of a town board within Hennepin county before
the Three Rivers Park district acquires property in the town; modifying certain
required components and accounting and financial reporting requirements of tax
increment financing plans; requiring municipalities to contract for purchases by
using contracts available through the state cooperative purchasing venture;
requiring the metropolitan council to award a certain percentage of preference
in the amount bid for specified goods and services to veteran-owned small
businesses; extending the availability of an appropriation for optical scan
voting equipment; extending the Victory Memorial Drive historic district task
force sunset; requiring the commissioner of public safety to modify certain
rules to comply with the requirement to offer employee fitness and wellness
facilities; ratifying Minnesota racing commission racing license fees; requiring
executive branch agencies to consider using services provided by government
training services before contracting with other outside vendors for similar
services; requiring the commissioner of administration to report to the
legislature regarding certain rental cost savings; requiring the commissioner of
finance to report to the legislature regarding the cash flow condition of the
general fund; requiring the management analysis division of the department of
finance to report to the legislature on the possible collocation of the offices
of the Council on Black Minnesotans, the Council on Affairs of Chicano/Latino
People, the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the metropolitan area
office of the Indian Affairs Council; authorizing the transfer of all existing
funds, assets, employees, equipment and supplies from the land management
information center to the Minnesota geospatial information office; authorizing
lease-purchase agreements and appropriating proceeds to the management and
budget office (MMB) for the new statewide accounting and procurement system and
appropriating proceeds to commissioner of revenue for an integrated tax software
package; requiring the chief information officer of the office of enterprise
technology, in consultation with heads of other executive agencies, to report to
the legislature on a plan to transfer certain employees from other agencies to
the office of enterprise technology; requiring the commissioner of
administration to determine the amount to be contributed by each executive
agency to maintain the enterprise real property technology system; instructing
the revisor to substitute the terms "Land Management Information Center" with
"Minnesota Geospatial Information Office," "United States Information Agency"
with "Office of Exchange Coordination and Designation, United States Department
of State," and "Department of Finance" with the "Department of Management and
Budget;" repealing a certain annual general fund appropriation to the
metropolitan amateur sports commission, certain city and county pay equity
compliance report requirements, the existence of the land management information
center, a current searchable web site database requirement for state contracts
and grants; specifying that certain statutes concerning small business
provisions be repealed if the House omnibus agriculture and veterans affairs
bill passes with certain language relating to veteran-owned
businesses
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