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 |
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 |
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 |
(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 |