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H. B. No. 66 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Adams, R., Amstutz, Bacon, Blair, Blessing, Boose, Bubp, Burke, Combs, Derickson, Evans, Hall, Hite, Hottinger, Huffman, Lehner, Martin, Mecklenborg, Morgan, Snitchler, Stebelton, Uecker, Wagner, Hackett, Grossman
A BILL
To enact section 101.88 of the Revised Code to create
the State Government Efficiency Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 101.88 of the Revised Code be enacted
to read as follows:
Sec. 101.88. (A) The state government efficiency commission
shall make findings and develop recommendations on reforming and
restructuring state government to increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of state government operations, to achieve cost
savings by cutting waste, and to expand the private sector economy
in this state. In making findings and developing recommendations,
the
commission may create subcommittees of commission members to
focus
on specific areas within the commission's duties and
require the
subcommittee to meet and submit to the commission
findings and
recommendations for the specific area. In
particular, the
commission shall consider what state agencies it
considers to be
not business-friendly, and shall examine any such
agencies with
extra scrutiny. The recommendations shall specify
measures that
the state could take in order to create cost
savings, shall
indicate projected cost savings for each
recommendation, and shall
be prioritized. The commission shall
not review any functions of an agency scheduled for review or
being reviewed by the sunset review committee under sections
101.82 to 101.86 of the Revised Code.
(B) There is hereby created the state government efficiency
commission.
The commission shall consist of twelve members.
The
governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the
president of the senate, and the auditor of state each shall
appoint three members. The members shall be recognized,
established business
leaders, either active or retired, with
expertise and experience
required to carry out the commission's
duties under division (A)
of this section. No member shall
have
a personal or
professional conflict of interest that would
prevent the member
from fully and objectively discharging the
member's duties. No
member may derive a financial
benefit from
the
commission's work, other than the general
financial benefit
received by all citizens of this state from
increased
governmental
efficiency. No member shall be a
current employee
of a
state agency or of an entity that lobbies
the General
Assembly.
The appointments shall be made not
later
than sixty
days after
the effective date of this section.
Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original
appointments.
The members of the commission shall select a chairperson of
the commission from among the members of the commission at
the
commission's first meeting.
The commission shall meet at least once every two months.
Members of the commission shall serve without compensation or
reimbursement.
The commission may appoint professional, technical, and
clerical employees who are necessary to enable the commission to
achieve its mission, but only if the commission has entered into
an agreement with a business that is not an individual under which
the
business agrees to delegate and compensate, or to
compensate, each such employee to or for the commission.
A credit is allowed against any tax or across any taxes for
which such a business is liable. The credit is an
amount equal to
the costs the business incurred to
delegate and compensate, or to
compensate, each such employee. For
any tax, the credit shall be
claimed for the tax accounting period
in which the costs were
incurred, and shall not exceed the tax for
which the business is
liable in that period. If any
amount of the credit remains after
it has been claimed against a
tax, the credit may be claimed
against other taxes for which the
business is liable until the
credit is exhausted.
The tax commissioner shall determine the
taxes to which the credit
applies, how the credit may be claimed
across taxes and in
relation to any other credits the business
may be
allowed, and the evidence the business shall submit
to
prove that it is allowed the credit and to ensure that the
credit
is accurately computed and applied. The credit is
disallowed if
any such evidence is not timely submitted.
Sections 101.82 to 101.86 of the Revised Code do not
apply
to the commission.
(C) At the commission's request, the auditor of state, the
director of administrative services, the director of development,
the director of job and family services, the director of
transportation, and any member of the general assembly shall
provide information to or testify before the commission on matters
that the commission considers relevant to achieving its mission.
(D) The commission shall provide recommendations or, in the
absence of any recommendations, a status report, to the Governor
every ninety days beginning one hundred twenty days after the
effective date of this section. The commission shall issue a final
report of its findings and
recommendations to the president of
the senate, the speaker of the
house of representatives, and the
governor not later than January
31, 2011. The commission ceases
to exist upon submitting its
final report.
(E) The state shall implement ninety per cent of the
commission's recommendations regarding cost savings within two
biennia from the date the commission submits its final report.
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