State agencies required to provide certain data to the Legislative Budget Office.

A bill for an act

relating to state government; requiring state agencies to provide certain data to the

Legislative Budget Office; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 3.8853,

subdivision 4; 13.64, subdivision 4.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 3.8853, subdivision 4, is amended to read:

Subd. 4.

Access to data; treatment.

Upon request of the director of the Legislative

Budget Office, the head or chief administrative officer of each department or agency of

state government, including the supreme court, must promptly supply data that are used to

prepare a fiscal note
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or that are necessary for the Legislative Budget Office to review the

accuracy of a fiscal note on enacted legislation
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, including data that are not public data under

section
13.64
or other applicable law, unless there are federal laws or regulations that prohibit

the provision of the not public data for this purpose. Not public data supplied under this

subdivision may only be used by the Legislative Budget Office to review a department or

agency's work in preparing a fiscal note and may not be used or disseminated for any other

purpose, including use by or dissemination to a legislator or to any officer, department,

agency, or committee within the legislative branch. Violation of this subdivision by the

director or other staff of the Legislative Budget Office is cause for removal, suspension

without pay, or immediate dismissal at the direction of the oversight commission.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.64, subdivision 4, is amended to read:

Subd. 4.

Fiscal note data must be shared with Legislative Budget Office.

A head or

chief administrative officer of a department or agency of the state government, including

the supreme court, must provide data that are used to prepare a fiscal note
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or that are

necessary for the Legislative Budget Office to review the accuracy of a fiscal note on enacted

legislation
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, including data that are not public data under this section to the director of the

Legislative Budget Office upon the director's request and consistent with section
3.8853,

subdivision 4
, unless there are federal laws or regulations that prohibit the provision of the

not public data for this purpose. The data must be supplied according to any standards and

procedures adopted under section
3.8853, subdivision 3
, including any standards and

procedures governing timeliness. Notwithstanding section
13.05, subdivision 9
, a responsible

authority may not require the Legislative Budget Office to pay a cost for supplying data

requested under this subdivision.