2001 Minnesota Statutes

     16A.06 Other commissioner duties and powers. 

    Subdivision 1.    Agency to comply.  The commissioner 
 has the duties and powers stated in this section.  An executive 
 agency must do what the commissioner requires of it under this 
 section.  

    Subd. 2.    Financial reports.  The commissioner from 
 time to time shall require an executive agency to prepare 
 financial reports on department forms so the administration and 
 the legislature can compare spending plans with appropriations 
 for programs and activities.  

    Subd. 3.    Evaluate and compare costs.  The 
 commissioner shall provide a system to measure the effect of 
 fund expenditures so as to evaluate and compare the cost of 
 functions or programs.  

    Subd. 4.    Reporting agency performance.  Executive 
 agencies shall prepare performance-based budget plans according 
 to schedules, forms, and standards as established by the 
 commissioner.  The commissioner may also require other periodic 
 reports of agency performance.  

    Subd. 5.    Estimates.  The commissioner from time to 
 time shall require an executive agency to report estimates of 
 its income and receipts.  The commissioner shall use the 
 estimates to evaluate the state's financial condition.  

    Subd. 6.    Report on financial affairs.  The 
 commissioner shall, when directed, report on the state's 
 financial affairs to the governor. 

    Subd. 7.    Information for policy making.  The 
 commissioner shall obtain from an executive agency any 
 information needed to make state financial policy. 

    Subd. 8. Repealed, 1994 c 632 art 3 s 65 

    Subd. 9.    First class city teacher retirement funds aids 
 reporting.  Each year, on or before April 15, the commissioner 
 of finance shall report to the chairs of the senate finance 
 committee and the house ways and means committee on expenditures 
 for state aids to the Minneapolis and Saint Paul teacher 
 retirement fund associations under sections 354A.12 and 423A.02, 
 subdivision 3.  This report shall include the amounts expended 
 in the most recent fiscal year and estimates of expected 
 expenditures for the current and next fiscal year. 

    Subd. 10.    Technology budget book.  The department 
 must prepare a separate budget book containing all of the 
 administration's technology initiatives.  The book must be in 
 the same format as other biennial budget books. 

    HIST: 1973 c 492 s 6; 1973 c 582 s 3; 1984 c 628 art 2 s 1; 
 1984 c 654 art 2 s 53; 1987 c 275 s 2; 1993 c 192 s 48; 1996 c 
 438 art 4 s 1; 1Sp2001 c 10 art 2 s 20