Session Year 2011, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0012

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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