SB393 HFIN AM
The Committee on Finance moves to amend the bill on page one,
following the enacting section, by striking the remainder of the
bill and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"ARTICLE 1. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
§5B-1-1a. Marketing and Communications Office.
(a)There is hereby created in the Department of Commerce the
Marketing and Communications Office. The Office is created to
provide marketing and communications goods and services to other
state agencies, departments, units of state or local government or
other entity or person.
(b)The Office is authorized to charge for goods and services
it provides to other state agencies. The Secretary of the
Department of Commerce shall approve a fee schedule determining the
amounts that may be charged for goods and services provided by the
Office to other state agencies.
(c)All moneys collected shall be deposited in a special
account in the State Treasury to be known as the "Department of
Commerce Marketing and Communications Operating Fund".
Expenditures from the fund shall be for the operation of the Office
and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in
accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance
with the provisions of article two, chapter eleven-b of this code:
Provided, That for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of
June, two thousand eight expenditures are authorized from
collections and shall be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of the Department of Commerce rather than pursuant to
appropriation by the Legislature.
(d)Any balance remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall
not revert to the General Revenue Fund, but shall remain in the
fund for expenditures in accordance with the purposes set forth in
this section.
(e)
The Department of Commerce shall develop and maintain a
system of annual or more frequent performance measures useful in
gauging the efficiency and effectiveness of the Office's marketing
and communications activities. The measures shall also reflect the
Office's efficiency and effectiveness with respect to commercially
available marketing and communications services and any private
sector benchmarks which might be identified or created. For the
purposes of this section, "performance measures" means income,
output, quality, self-sufficiency and outcome metrics.
(f) Beginning on the first day of January, two thousand
eight, and annually every year thereafter, the Secretary of the
Department of Commerce shall report to the Joint Committee on
Government and Finance, the Joint Standing Committee on Finance and
the Joint Commission on Economic Development on the performance of
the Office. This report is to include a statement of the
performance measurements for the Office developed by the Secretary
of the Department of Commerce and an analysis of the Office's
performance.
(g)Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four
of this code, the Marketing and Communications Office shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand ten,
unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished."