1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to family law; requiring the commissioner of human services to review 
1.3 	the parenting expense adjustment; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. PARENTING EXPENSE ADJUSTMENT REVIEW.
 1.6 	The commissioner of human services shall review the parenting expense adjustment 
1.7 	in Minnesota Statutes, section 518A.36, and identify and recommend changes to the 
1.8 	parenting expense adjustment. The commissioner is authorized to retain the services of 
1.9 	an economist to help create an equitable parenting expense adjustment formula. The 
1.10 	commissioner may hire an economist by use of a sole-source contract.

1.11 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.12 	$....... in fiscal year 2016 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.13 	of human services for purposes of reviewing the parenting expense adjustment under 
1.14 	section 1.