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         <div class="xtend_ce"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A bill for an act<br />
            		
         </div><a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>relating to state government; increasing the maximum award amount in the state <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>employee gainsharing program; amending Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>section 16A.90.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br />
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         		<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 16A.90, is amended to read:<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var><b>16A.90 EMPLOYEE GAINSHARING SYSTEM.</b><br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>The commissioner shall establish a program to provide onetime bonus compensation <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>to state employees for efforts made to reduce the costs of operating state government or for <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>ways of providing better or more efficient state services. The commissioner may authorize <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>an executive branch appointing authority to make a onetime award to an employee or <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>group of employees whose suggestion or involvement in a project is determined by the <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>commissioner to have resulted in documented cost-savings to the state. Before authorizing <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>awards under this section, the commissioner shall establish guidelines for the program <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>including but not limited to:<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>(1) the maximum award is ten percent of the documented savings in the first fiscal <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>year in which the savings are realized up to $1,000 per individual or $2,500 per group of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>employees $50,000;<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>(2) the award must be paid from the appropriation to which the savings accrued; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>(3) employees whose primary job responsibility is to identify cost savings or ways <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>of providing better or more efficient state services are generally not eligible for bonus <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.22"></a><var>1.22</var>compensation under this section except in extraordinary circumstances as defined by <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.23"></a><var>1.23</var>the commissioner.<br />
         		
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