1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; capturing agency general 
  1.3             fund appropriations from staff retirement; using the 
  1.4             savings to create a technology investment/staff 
  1.5             development pool; appropriating money; proposing 
  1.6             coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [16A.123] [STAFF RETIREMENT SAVINGS AND 
  1.9   INVESTMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY/STAFF DEVELOPMENT.] 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [APPLICATION.] (a) This section applies to 
  1.11  employees of all state departments and agencies that receive a 
  1.12  direct appropriation from the state's general fund excluding the 
  1.13  following: 
  1.14     (1) employees in the department of corrections having 
  1.15  regular contact with inmates; 
  1.16     (2) sworn officers of the state patrol; 
  1.17     (3) bureau of criminal apprehension agents; 
  1.18     (4) department of natural resources conservation officers; 
  1.19     (5) employees of the University of Minnesota and the 
  1.20  Minnesota state colleges and universities; 
  1.21     (6) employees in the offices of the state's constitutional 
  1.22  officers, the legislature, and the judiciary; and 
  1.23     (7) drivers for the metropolitan transit commission. 
  1.24     (b) This act does not apply to department and agency heads. 
  1.25     Subd. 2.  [ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED.] The commissioner of 
  1.26  finance shall establish in the general fund a "technology 
  2.1   investment/staff development account" for transfers from agency 
  2.2   budgets related to service retirements.  Amounts remaining in 
  2.3   the account at the end of a fiscal year shall be carried into 
  2.4   the next fiscal year.  Prior to June 30 of each fiscal year, the 
  2.5   commissioner of finance shall transfer to the account, from each 
  2.6   state agency's general fund appropriation for that year, an 
  2.7   amount equal to general fund compensation savings related to 
  2.8   service retirements. 
  2.9      Subd. 3.  [PROCEDURES.] The commissioner of employee 
  2.10  relations, and the commissioner of finance, shall establish 
  2.11  specific procedures to determine the amount of appropriated 
  2.12  general fund money transferred to the account established in 
  2.13  subdivision 2 because of service retirements, and the method of 
  2.14  reflecting the resources allocated to the account in years 
  2.15  beyond the 1996-1997 fiscal biennium. 
  2.16     Subd. 4.  [CRITERIA.] (a) An agency may request and be 
  2.17  appropriated nonrecurring funds from the technology 
  2.18  investment/staff development account for special technology 
  2.19  investment or staff development proposals.  General criteria 
  2.20  that may be used in making this determination include: 
  2.21     (1) funds from this account must not be used as a 
  2.22  substitute for technology or staff development investments 
  2.23  regularly made by the requesting agency; 
  2.24     (2) funds are to be used for projects essential to agency 
  2.25  restructuring and the delivery of services in a more effective 
  2.26  and efficient manner; or 
  2.27     (3) funds are to be used for training to enable 
  2.28  redeployment of staff at risk of layoff to different functions 
  2.29  in state government. 
  2.30     (b) The commissioner of finance, in consultation with the 
  2.31  commissioners of employee relations and administration, shall 
  2.32  prepare more specific criteria for use in evaluating agency 
  2.33  requests. 
  2.34     (c) The commissioner of finance, in consultation with the 
  2.35  commissioners of employee relations and administration, shall 
  2.36  periodically evaluate the requests from agencies and determine 
  3.1   whether the requests are to be funded. 
  3.2      Subd. 5.  [REPORT.] The commissioner of finance shall 
  3.3   report annually to the legislature on the amounts in the 
  3.4   technology investment/staff development account and the amounts 
  3.5   allocated to agencies from the technology investment/staff 
  3.6   development account.  In years during which a detailed 
  3.7   information technology budget is prepared, this information must 
  3.8   be integrated into that budget presentation. 
  3.9      Subd. 6.  [APPROPRIATION.] Amounts available in the 
  3.10  technology investment/staff development account are annually 
  3.11  appropriated to the commissioner of finance for the purpose of 
  3.12  grants to agencies as specified in subdivision 4.  Grants to 
  3.13  agencies in any fiscal year shall not cancel, but shall be 
  3.14  available until expended or until a specific date identified in 
  3.15  an approved project award. 
  3.16     Subd. 7.  [ESTIMATES.] Implementation of this section is 
  3.17  estimated to yield cumulative transfers to the technology 
  3.18  investment/staff development account equaling $2,000,000 for the 
  3.19  biennium ending June 30, 1997, $33,000,000 for the biennium 
  3.20  ending June 30, 1999, and $100,000,000 for the biennium ending 
  3.21  June 30, 2001.