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SF3057 (Legislative Session 94 (2025-2026))

State personnel management provisions modifications

Related bill: HF2713

AI Generated Summary

Purpose of the Bill

The bill aims to update the state personnel management provisions concerning employees of the executive branch in Minnesota. It strives to establish equitable compensation relationships and improve state personnel procedures.

Main Provisions

  • Compensation Updates: The bill addresses equitable compensation relationships by ensuring fair compensation based on the value of work across different employee classifications in the executive branch.
  • Personnel Management Enhancement: Expands the role of the commissioner in managing state personnel data, conducting investigations into personnel matters, and providing assistance in employee misconduct investigations. It allows the commissioner to collect premiums to cover program costs for various state entities.
  • Administrative Procedures: The commissioner is allowed to develop administrative procedures not requiring rulemaking processes for internal management of agencies.
  • Employee Benefits and Designations: Provides extensions and modifications to emergency, temporary, and provisional appointments, increasing their maximum allowable durations. Also, the bill outlines designations for unclassified positions and rules for donation and transfer of vacation time.
  • Affirmative Action and Diversity: Sets out requirements for affirmative action programs in state employment, outlining goals, procedures, and standards. A new role for a state director of diversity and equal employment opportunity and an ADA and disability employment director has been proposed to oversee related programs and initiatives.
  • Contracts and Benefits: Updates policies regarding self-insured health plans, dependent coverage, and healthcare mandates, ensuring compliance with state laws.
  • Repeals: Repeals certain sections of the Minnesota Statutes related to state employee insurance incentives and administration details to streamline processes.

Significant Changes to Existing Law

  • Extended Appointment Durations: Increases allowable time for emergency appointments from 45 to 90 days and temporary appointments from six months to a year.
  • Expanded Affirmative Action: New responsibilities for diversity and ADA coordinators emphasizing statewide goals and a focus on disability employment programs.
  • Vacation Donation: Increases the annual limit for vacation time donations from 8 to 12 hours and allows donations to sick leave accounts.
  • Policy on Benefits: Introduces options for opting out of state-paid benefits, requires annual reporting on opt-outs, and outlines procedures for application and approval of coverage waivers.

Relevant Terms

  • Compensation, Personnel Management, Affirmative Action, ADA Coordinator, Diversity Director, Temporary Appointment, Provisional Appointment, Emergency Appointment, Dependent Coverage, State Employees, Self-Insured Plans, Opt-Out Procedures, Vacation Donation.

Bill text versions

Actions

DateChamberWhereTypeNameCommittee Name
March 26, 2025SenateFloorActionIntroduction and first reading
March 26, 2025SenateFloorActionReferred toState and Local Government

Citations

 
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        "Emphasis on comparability of work value for compensation."
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      "summary": "This section outlines the state policy on equitable compensation relationships within the executive branch.",
      "modified": [
        "Clarifications on equitable compensation relationships requirements."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.01",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 3"
  },
  {
    "analysis": {
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      "summary": "This subdivision requires appointing authorities to provide written explanations to rejected finalists who claim veterans preference.",
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        "Extensive requirements for notification to veterans."
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    },
    "citation": "43A.11",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 9"
  },
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        "Conditions under which salary may exceed class maximum on demotion clarified."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.17",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 5"
  },
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    "analysis": {
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        "Specific processes for donation to benefit accounts."
      ],
      "removed": [],
      "summary": "Regulates the donation of accrued vacation time between employees.",
      "modified": [
        "Clarifies immediate effect of vacation time donation."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.181",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 1"
  },
  {
    "analysis": {
      "added": [
        "Requirements for proving alternative health insurance coverage."
      ],
      "removed": [],
      "summary": "Allows eligible individuals to opt out of state-paid benefits under specific conditions.",
      "modified": [
        "Procedures established for benefit opt-out documentation."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.24",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 1a"
  },
  {
    "analysis": {
      "added": [
        "Clarification of coverage terms during employment and layoffs."
      ],
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      "summary": "Establishes conditions under which individuals can elect benefits coverage at their own expense.",
      "modified": [
        "Eligibility for coverage election by dependents and other associations."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.27",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 2"
  },
  {
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      "removed": [],
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      "modified": [
        "Expand appeal process options for affected employees."
      ]
    },
    "citation": "43A.33",
    "subdivision": "subdivision 3"
  }
]

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