Bill Text: OH HB66 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To create the State Government Efficiency Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 27-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-10 - To State Government [HB66 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HB66-Introduced.html
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Representative Jordan
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
| To enact section 101.88 of the Revised Code to create | 1 |
| the State Government Efficiency Commission. | 2 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 101.88 of the Revised Code be enacted | 3 |
| to read as follows: | 4 |
| Sec. 101.88. (A) The state government efficiency commission | 5 |
| shall make findings and develop recommendations on reforming and | 6 |
| restructuring state government to increase the efficiency and | 7 |
| effectiveness of state government operations, to achieve cost | 8 |
| savings by cutting waste, and to expand the private sector economy | 9 |
| in this state. In making findings and developing recommendations, | 10 |
| the commission may create subcommittees of commission members to | 11 |
| focus on specific areas within the commission's duties and | 12 |
| require the subcommittee to meet and submit to the commission | 13 |
| findings and recommendations for the specific area. In | 14 |
| particular, the commission shall consider what state agencies it | 15 |
| considers to be not business-friendly, and shall examine any such | 16 |
| agencies with extra scrutiny. The recommendations shall specify | 17 |
| measures that the state could take in order to create cost | 18 |
| savings, shall indicate projected cost savings for each | 19 |
| recommendation, and shall be prioritized. The commission shall | 20 |
| not review any functions of an agency scheduled for review or | 21 |
| being reviewed by the sunset review committee under sections | 22 |
| 101.82 to 101.86 of the Revised Code. | 23 |
| (B) There is hereby created the state government efficiency | 24 |
| commission. | 25 |
| The commission shall consist of twelve members. The | 26 |
| governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the | 27 |
| president of the senate, and the auditor of state each shall | 28 |
| appoint three members. The members shall be recognized, | 29 |
| established business leaders, either active or retired, with | 30 |
| expertise and experience required to carry out the commission's | 31 |
| duties under division (A) of this section. No member shall have | 32 |
| a personal or professional conflict of interest that would | 33 |
| prevent the member from fully and objectively discharging the | 34 |
| member's duties. No member may derive a financial benefit from | 35 |
| the commission's work, other than the general financial benefit | 36 |
| received by all citizens of this state from increased | 37 |
| governmental efficiency. No member shall be a current employee | 38 |
| of a state agency or of an entity that lobbies the General | 39 |
| Assembly. The appointments shall be made not later than sixty | 40 |
| days after the effective date of this section. | 41 |
| Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original | 42 |
| appointments. | 43 |
| The members of the commission shall select a chairperson of | 44 |
| the commission from among the members of the commission at the | 45 |
| commission's first meeting. | 46 |
| The commission shall meet at least once every two months. | 47 |
| Members of the commission shall serve without compensation or | 48 |
| reimbursement. | 49 |
| The commission may appoint professional, technical, and | 50 |
| clerical employees who are necessary to enable the commission to | 51 |
| achieve its mission, but only if the commission has entered into | 52 |
| an agreement with a business that is not an individual under which | 53 |
| the business agrees to delegate and compensate, or to | 54 |
| compensate, each such employee to or for the commission. | 55 |
| A credit is allowed against any tax or across any taxes for | 56 |
| which such a business is liable. The credit is an amount equal to | 57 |
| the costs the business incurred to delegate and compensate, or to | 58 |
| compensate, each such employee. For any tax, the credit shall be | 59 |
| claimed for the tax accounting period in which the costs were | 60 |
| incurred, and shall not exceed the tax for which the business is | 61 |
| liable in that period. If any amount of the credit remains after | 62 |
| it has been claimed against a tax, the credit may be claimed | 63 |
| against other taxes for which the business is liable until the | 64 |
| credit is exhausted. The tax commissioner shall determine the | 65 |
| taxes to which the credit applies, how the credit may be claimed | 66 |
| across taxes and in relation to any other credits the business | 67 |
| may be allowed, and the evidence the business shall submit to | 68 |
| prove that it is allowed the credit and to ensure that the credit | 69 |
| is accurately computed and applied. The credit is disallowed if | 70 |
| any such evidence is not timely submitted. | 71 |
| Sections 101.82 to 101.86 of the Revised Code do not apply | 72 |
| to the commission. | 73 |
| (C) At the commission's request, the auditor of state, the | 74 |
| director of administrative services, the director of development, | 75 |
| the director of job and family services, the director of | 76 |
| transportation, and any member of the general assembly shall | 77 |
| provide information to or testify before the commission on matters | 78 |
| that the commission considers relevant to achieving its mission. | 79 |
| (D) The commission shall provide recommendations or, in the | 80 |
| absence of any recommendations, a status report, to the Governor | 81 |
| every ninety days beginning one hundred twenty days after the | 82 |
| effective date of this section. The commission shall issue a final | 83 |
| report of its findings and recommendations to the president of | 84 |
| the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the | 85 |
| governor not later than January 31, 2011. The commission ceases | 86 |
| to exist upon submitting its final report. | 87 |
| (E) The state shall implement ninety per cent of the | 88 |
| commission's recommendations regarding cost savings within two | 89 |
| biennia from the date the commission submits its final report. | 90 |
