Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF2489

1E Relating to state government; modifying state government administration and
operations; requiring state government employers with employee recognition
programs to offer a gift certificate option of equal value at the Minnesota
historical society; modifying certain web site prohibitions maintained by public
libraries and school districts; requiring state agencies to include the number
of full time equivalent positions for each agency program for the detailed
budget; authorizing the commissioner of finance to administer capital grants
upon request of other agencies; specifying certain commissioner of finance
grants management provisions; requiring the commissioner of administration to
maintain and stabilize the Ford Building in Saint Paul; modifying provisions
relating to state procurement; defining and modifying the definitions of certain
terms; modifying commissioner of administration acquisition and contracting
authority; modifying provisions relating to policy and procedures; providing for
enterprise procurements; prohibiting reverse auctions to procure engineering
design services or architectural services; creating an information and
telecommunications systems and services account in the special revenue fund;
adding the office of enterprise technology to the appointing authorities
permitted to designate additional unclassified positions; authorizing the
commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to establish special salary rates and
plans of compensation designed to attract and retain exceptionally qualified
doctors of dental surgery; establishing the center for health care purchasing
improvement, providing for administration, staffing, duties and scope, requiring
the commissioner of administration to prepare a report to the legislature;
modifying the public employees insurance program to enable the commissioner or a
designee to be more greatly involved in improving statewide health care;
modifying the definition of state employee to include persons occupying a civil
service position in the legislative branch; modifying the definition of
governmental unit for joint exercise of powers purposes to include nonprofit
community health clinics providing family planning services; expanding the
authorized use of sick leave under the employment law to absences due to illness
of or injury to spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents or stepparents;
providing for the leave for immediate family members of military personnel
killed or injured in active service; permitting employees to take a leave of
absence without pay to attend a military send off or homecoming celebration for
an immediate family member; permitting an employee to take a leave of absence
without pay when an immediate family member, as a member of the U.S. armed
forces, is killed or injured in active service; providing for recognition by
both private and public colleges and universities of certain courses that were a
part of a veterans military training, prohibiting colleges and universities from
assessing late fees or charges eligible veterans, having applied for but not yet
receiving federal educational assistance; requiring the public employees
retirement association (PERA) to establish a certain number of funds for
political subdivisions to use to pay for postemployment benefits owed to
officers and employees after termination of service; waiving certain project
requirements upon commissioner of administration renovation of the Stassen
building to accommodate the relocation of the office of administrative hearings;
preparing a plan to colocate certain minority affairs councils, authorizing the
governor to appoint chair of the council on black Minnesotans upon the
expiration of the current chair; requiring the commissioner of administration to
report to the legislature by a certain date regarding the impact and the use of
strategic sourcing techniques on state businesses including an analysis of the
size of contracts and award recipients; creating an implementation and steering
task force to develop strategies for the restoration of the Victory memorial
drive historic district in Hennepin county, specifying membership, providing for
staff support; requiring biennial reports to the legislature, sunset provision;
modifying certain rulemaking requirements; requiring the commissioner of
administration to report to the legislature by a certain date on the advantages
and disadvantages of alternative procedures for selecting a designer for state
building projects; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing
provisions relating to aircraft facilities lessee agreements and corporate
headquarters
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