HF 2660 Summary

• Creates the Minnesota Coalition for Innovation and Collaboration within the Department of Administration to facilitate innovation and collaboration among public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to address high-priority community needs.

• Establishes a steering committee of 10 to 15 leaders from public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to guide the coalition's work and an innovation challenge grant program providing seed funding for ideas meeting high-priority community needs.

• Allows local government units and not-for-profit organizations to request waivers from administrative rules or exemptions from enforcement of state procedural laws from the state auditor to improve service delivery outcomes.

• Requires the state auditor to review waiver and exemption applications and enter into agreements specifying desired outcomes, measurement methods, and duration (2-4 years for administrative rule waivers; law exemptions terminate ten days after the legislative session following the year granted).

• Appropriates unspecified amount from the general fund for fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, to the commissioner of administration for the innovation challenge grant program, available only upon receipt of dollar-for-dollar matching funds from private sources.