1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to state government; modifying provisions 
  1.3             relating to parking fees paid by certain state 
  1.4             employees; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
  1.5             Statutes, chapter 16B; repealing Minnesota Statutes 
  1.6             1996, section 16B.58, subdivision 8. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [16B.585] [EMPLOYEE PARKING FEES.] 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] For purposes of this section:
  1.10     (1) "agency" means an officer or entity in the executive 
  1.11  branch of state government, and also includes the Minnesota 
  1.12  state colleges and universities; 
  1.13     (2) "impose parking fees" means the action of an agency to 
  1.14  enter into a lease or to implement another arrangement under 
  1.15  which a state employee is required to pay fees as a condition of 
  1.16  parking in an area under control of the lessor. 
  1.17     Subd. 2.  [PROHIBITION.] (a) An agency may not impose 
  1.18  parking fees on state employees who work primarily at a space an 
  1.19  agency leases, except under the conditions specified in this 
  1.20  subdivision. 
  1.21     (b) An agency may impose parking fees on state employees in 
  1.22  the same amount as fees imposed on any other employees of other 
  1.23  lessees in the same building or an adjacent building in an 
  1.24  office complex with a common parking area. 
  1.25     (c) If an agency is the sole lessee of a building that is 
  1.26  not in an office complex with a common parking area, the agency 
  2.1   may impose parking fees on state employees in the same amount as 
  2.2   fees imposed on employees of lessees in similarly situated 
  2.3   buildings in the immediate geographic area. 
  2.4      Sec. 2.  [TEMPORARY; RENEGOTIATION OF LEASES.] 
  2.5      This section applies to an agency that entered into a lease 
  2.6   before the effective date of section 1 if the lease required 
  2.7   state employees working at the leased facility to pay fees as a 
  2.8   condition of parking at the facility.  If this section applies, 
  2.9   an agency and the commissioner of administration must attempt to 
  2.10  renegotiate the lease as necessary to assure that the parking 
  2.11  fees imposed on state employees are no higher than:  (1) fees 
  2.12  imposed on employees of other lessees of the building of an 
  2.13  adjacent building in the same above complex; or (2) if an agency 
  2.14  is the sole lessee of a building that is not in an office 
  2.15  complex with a common parking lot, fees imposed on employees of 
  2.16  lessees in similarly situated buildings in the immediate 
  2.17  geographic area.  An agency subject to this section must report 
  2.18  to the chairs of the house and senate governmental operations 
  2.19  committees by January 15, 1998, on efforts to renegotiate leases 
  2.20  as required by this section. 
  2.21     Sec. 3.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.22     Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16B.58, subdivision 8, is 
  2.23  repealed. 
  2.24     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.25     Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final 
  2.26  enactment.