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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 17:14:51+00:00

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Section 1. Amend Subchapter II., Chapter 63, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “Budget Director” from the title thereof, and substituting the words “Budget Commission” in lieu thereof.
Section 2. Amend §6312, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “Budget Director” wherever they appear therein and substituting the words “Director of the Office of Management and Budget” in lieu thereof.
Section 3. Amend Subchapter II., Chapter 63, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting §§ 6313 through 6316 thereof in their entirety.
§6301A. Establishment of Office of Management and Budget.
An Office of Management and Budget, referred to in this chapter as “Office,” is hereby established.
§6302A. Director; appointment; salary; bond; employees and assistants.
(1) There shall be a Director of the Office of Management and Budget, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as “Director,” to be appointed by and to serve at the pleasure of the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director shall be paid a salary established by the Governor within the limitation of the funds appropriated therefore.
(2) The Director may employ such employees as may be required to carry out the duties of this office and may fix the salaries of such employees within the limitations of the funds appropriated therefore.
(3) In the event of a vacancy in the position of Director, including the death, resignation, temporary incapacity or removal of the incumbent and prior to the appointment of a successor, the Governor may appoint any qualified individual to serve as Acting Director.
(4) The Director may call upon any other state officer for such assistance as the Director may require and may employ such special help as it may require to carry out this chapter. The Director shall fix the compensation of such persons as may be employed to be paid out of such fund as the General Assembly may appropriate for that purpose.
§6303A. General powers and duties.
a. A Management Services Administrator who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
b. A Facilities Management Administrator who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
c. A Government Support Services Administrator who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
d. A Human Resource Management Administrator who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
e. A Benefits and Insurance Administrator who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
f. An Administrator of Budget Development, Planning and Administration who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
(23) To be responsible for the clerical administration of all state pension funds. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall have the authority to recommend to the Governor such changes as may be desirable in the pension system for employees in the classified service.
§6304A. Limitation on power to investigate.
The Director shall not investigate or require reports from the judiciary or from the courts of this State, from any private hospital, from the General Assembly, from any local or special school district respecting locally raised (non-state) revenues, from any fire company, or concerning the burial of indigent veterans, or from Kent and Sussex Fair Association, from the Libraries of Municipalities, from the Historical Society of Delaware, from the American Legion, from the United Spanish War Veterans, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, from Disabled American Veterans, from Paralyzed Veterans of America, from Vietnam Veterans of America or from other similar institutions not directly under the jurisdiction of the administrative or executive authority of this State.
(3) Perform special studies and reports and direct services of the Office to coordinate the services of the Office with other departments, agencies and offices of this State.
(b) The Management Services Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties, and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this State.
(3) Provide facility maintenance programs, including but not limited to building maintenance, grounds maintenance, security and custodial services.
(6) Review and make recommendations regarding the operation, maintenance and efficiency of the physical plant of state facilities.
(c) The Facilities Management section shall be responsible for the performance of all the powers, duties and functions vested in the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to Chapter 4 of this title.
(d) The Facilities Management section shall be responsible for the design, construction and/or renovation of all public buildings for state departments and agencies. In performance of these duties, the Office of Management and Budget shall, in the following areas, consult with the agency for which the project is being or will be completed: pre-design services, architectural plans and preliminary cost estimates, selection and negotiation of professional services, approval of minor capital improvement projects to be bid upon and awarded, approval of final architectural and engineering drawings for major capital projects and approval of change orders greater than or equal to 2 percent of a project cost. For the purpose of this subsection, state departments and agencies shall not include school districts and institutions of higher learning.
(6) Develop a long-term plan to coordinate the State's leasing practices with a comprehensive plan of facilities management and space allocation.
(f) The Facilities Management Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties, and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this State.
(1) "Duly authorized volunteer fire department" shall mean a volunteer fire department recognized as such by the State Fire Prevention Commission.
(2) "Local government unit" shall mean any municipality incorporated in this State under the authority of the General Assembly and any of the 3 counties.
e. Make such certifications, take such action, make such expenditures and enter into such contracts, agreements and undertakings for and in the name of the State including cooperative agreements with any federal agencies providing for utilization by, and exchange between them of the property, facilities, personnel and services of each by the other, and require such reports and make such investigations as may be required by law or regulation of the United States of America in connection with the disposal of real property and the receipt, warehousing and distribution of personal property received from the United States of America.
b. Act as the sole state agency to receive, warehouse and distribute food commodities issued by the federal government for use in nonprofit school lunch programs, nonprofit summer camps for children, non-penal, nonprofit, tax-exempt private or public institutions, state correctional institutions and assistance to other needy persons in accordance with § 416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. § 1431), as amended, and other applicable federal laws and regulations; provided however, that the Office of Management and Budget shall have no control over the administration of the school lunch program beyond receiving, warehousing and distributing such food commodities.
(3) a. The State Treasurer shall maintain, in the name of the Office of Management and Budget, Government Support Services, a special revolving account. There shall be deposited in this special account all moneys received as handling charges for the acquisition, warehousing, distribution or transfer of property of the United States of America as authorized under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
b. All funds collected by the Government Support Services section shall be accounted for as provided by law for receipts of state agencies. Such funds shall be used to cover the expenses of the program. In accordance with federal regulations no funds in such special account shall revert to the General Fund of the State. Funds generated by Delaware Surplus Services and deemed to be surplus by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be transferred to the Facilities Management section for maintenance and restoration of state buildings and grounds maintained by the Facilities Management section.
(c) The Government Support Services section shall have the powers, duties and functions relating to the central contracting for materiel and services throughout the State as outlined in § 6908 of this title.
(d) The Government Support Services section shall not contract for, procure or purchase printed matter, forms, bond paper or pads larger than 81/2 inches by 11 inches unless such printed matter, forms, bond paper or pads are perforated or otherwise designed to produce finished printed matter or forms not larger than 81/2 inches by 11 inches.
(e) The Government Support Services section shall not contract for vertical file cabinets designed to hold completed documents larger than 81/2 inches by 11 inches.
(f) Each agency may use its existing supply of printed matter, forms, bond paper and pads until the supply is exhausted and each agency may use its existing vertical file cabinets for so long as such cabinets remain serviceable.
(g) This section shall not prohibit the purchase or use of printed matter or forms larger than 81/2 inches by 11 inches, if the printed matter or forms are to be used to maintain accounting or bookkeeping records, for preparing architectural or engineering drafts or documents or for preparing maps, graphs, posters, charts or art work, or if the printed matter or forms are authorized by the State Archivist and Records Administrator. This section does not prohibit the purchase or use of fan-fold paper designed for use in computer peripheral devices.
(h) The Government Support Services section shall provide messenger and mail services to state agencies.
(i) The Government Support Services section shall provide graphics and printing services, including but not limited to printing, duplicating, photography and photocopying, to all state agencies. If appropriate, the Government Support Services Administrator may award a contract in accordance with Chapter 69 of this title. The acquisition of copiers in state buildings which are managed by the Office of Management and Budget, Facilities Management, shall have the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
(j) The Government Support Services section shall provide transportation services to state agencies through the Office of Fleet Services.
(k) The Government Support Services section shall provide information services to the general public through a State Information Guide System.
(l) No agency of state government shall procure, purchase or lease any postage meters or equipment for the metering of mail or the affixing of postage without the prior approval of the Government Support Services section.
(6) Establish an appropriated special fund account to sustain the total cost and operation of the Office of Fleet Services and its function, including staff salaries and the statewide fleet management system.
(n) The Government Support Services Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this State.
f. Perform any other lawful acts necessary or desirable to carry out the provisions of Chapter 59 of this Title and the rules adopted thereunder.
(b) The Human Resources Management Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this state.
(1) With the exception of deferred compensation pursuant to Chapter 60A of this title and any other investment or retirement savings plan, the Administrator shall be responsible for the management and administration of all currently existing and future state employee benefits programs, including but not limited to group health, group life, flexible benefits, dental, vision, prescription, long-term care, disability and the Blood Bank.
(2) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall have such powers and duties with regard to the State Insurance Coverage Office as may be provided in the annual operating act.
(b) The Benefits and Insurance Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this state.
§6311A. Budget Development, Planning and Administration.
(4) Provides management direction to the Office of State Planning Coordination on planning policy direction and the analysis of potential impacts.
(b) The Administrator of the Budget Development, Planning and Administration Section shall assume such other powers, duties and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this state.
§6312A. Functions prior to effective date of this chapter.
The Office of Management and Budget, through appropriate divisions, subdivisions and offices, shall have the power to perform and shall be responsible for the performance of all the powers, duties and functions vested in the Division of Facilities Management, Division of Support Services, Division of Graphics and Printing, and the State Architect within the former Department of Administrative Services immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter and which are not otherwise specifically assigned to the Office of Management and Budget by this chapter, excepting only those powers, duties and functions expressly vested in or retained by any such person, department, board, commission or agency.
Any and all rights of appeal now existing by law, with respect to any act or acts constituting the exercise of any function or functions transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget or to any division or subdivision thereof, shall continue to exist with respect to such act or acts as hereafter performed by the Office of Management and Budget or by the division, subdivision or office to which such function is transferred, and each such appeal shall be perfected in the manner heretofore provided by law.
(a) All books, records, papers, maps, charts, plans and other material including, but not limited to, any equipment in the possession of any agency of the State and used in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget shall, on the effective date of this chapter, be delivered into the custody of the said Office. All investigations, petitions, hearings and legal proceedings pending before or instituted by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and not concluded prior to the effective date of this chapter shall continue unabated and remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the passage of this chapter and, where necessary, may be completed before, by or in the name of the Office. All orders, rules and regulations made by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and which govern such functions, and which are in effect upon the effective date of this chapter, shall remain in full force and effect until revoked or modified in accordance with law by the Office. All contracts and obligations of any agency made or undertaken in the performance of a function transferred to the Office by this chapter and being in force on the effective date of this chapter shall, notwithstanding this chapter, remain in full force and effect and be performed by the Office.
(b) Employees of any agency whose functions are consistent with and have been transferred to the Office of Management and Budget by this chapter shall continue and be deemed to be the employees of the said Office on the effective date of this chapter and, where applicable, with all the benefits accrued as merit employees as of the effective date of this chapter.
(c) All definitions and references to any commission, board, department, council or agency which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring and relating to the Office of Management and Budget as created and established by this chapter.
(d) All definitions and references to any director, commissioner, executive secretary, commission, board or council member or other similar person which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring or relating to such person or persons and their powers, duties and functions as established and created by this chapter.
Any misnomer shall not defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the Office of Management and Budget or any predecessor agency thereof if it sufficiently appears by the will, conveyance or other writing that the party making the same intended to pass and convey thereby to the Office or to any commission, board, department, authority, council or agency, to which, by this chapter, the powers, duties and functions have been transferred to the Office, the estate or interest therein expressed or described.
Section 5. Amend §8807, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by re-designating said section as §8735, Title 29 of the Delaware Code.
Section 7. Amend §8808, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by re-designating said section as §8716, Title 29 of the Delaware Code.
Section 8. Amend §8809, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by re-designating said section as §8717, Title 29 of the Delaware Code.
Section 9. Amend §8717, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by inserting the words “within the Department of State” immediately following the word “established” in the first sentence thereof.
“(c) A Director of the Division of Public Utility Control who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
Section 11. Amend §8813, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by re-designating said section as §8734, Title 29 of the Delaware Code.
Section 12. To the extent that they may be under the administrative control of the Department of Administrative services as of the effective date of this Act, the staff of the following entities are transferred to the Department of State for budgetary and administrative purposes: the Public Employment Relations Board, the Merit Employees Relations Board, the Public Integrity Commission, the Division of Professional Regulation, the Office of the Public Advocate, the Public Service Commission, and the Office of Disability Affairs. Such employees shall be deemed to be employees of the Department of State, with all benefits they have accrued as merit employees as of the effective date of this Act.
Section 13. Amend §4006 (a), Title 14 of the Delaware Code by striking the words “Administrative Services” wherever they appear therein and substituting the word “State” in lieu thereof.
Section 14. Amend Title 29 of the Delaware Code by striking Chapter 88 thereof, as amended by this Act, in its entirety.
Section 15. Amend Subchapter II., Chapter 59, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by striking §§5910 and 5911 in their entirety, and re-designating §5912 as §5910.
(3) Title 29, §§8716, 8717, 8734, 8735, 10303, and 10304.
Section 19. Amend Subchapter II §8734 through §8743, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by redesignating such Subchapter II sections as §8780 through §8789, Title 29 of the Delaware Code.
(13) Title 29, §§1110, 2202, 2203, 2906, 2909, 5018, 5028, 5053, 5106, 5112, 5202 (d)(3), 5301, 5505, 5903, 5915, 5916, 6102, 6102A, 6331, 6332, 6333, 6334, 6335, 6340, 6342, 6344, 6404 (g)(2)b., 6404 (g)(3), 6404 (h)(3), 6410 (a) and (b), 6405A, 6406A, 6502, 6503, 6504, 6513, 6514, 6516, 6519, 6527, 6528, 6529, 6530, 6533, 6604A, 6605A, 6906(b) and (c), 7414, 7419 (b), 7420, 7422, 7426, 7510, 7511, 7523, 7525, 7601, 7603, 7919, 8054 (a)(9), 8231, 8304, 9015 (b), (c) and (d), 9004C, 9005C, 9006C, 9008C, 9009C, 9010C, 9011C, 9014C, 9505, 9602, 10502, and 10503.
(14) Title 31, §§521, and 4020.
(2) Title 29, §§5903 (16), 5903 (23) in the second paragraph thereof only, 5907, 5916 (f), 6404 (e)(1) in the second sentence thereof only, 9010C. (b).
(2) Title 29, §5106, 5202 (f), 5903 (17) c., 5903 (23) in the first paragraph thereof only, 5916 (b) and (d), 9015 (d).
Section 27. Amend §6342, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting the last sentence thereof in its entirety.
Section 28. Amend §6906 (b), Title 29 of the Delaware code by deleting “, the Controller General, and the Secretary of Administrative Service,” therefrom and substituting “and the Controller General” in lieu thereof.
Section 29. Amend §6906 (c), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting “, the Controller General and the Secretary of Administrative Services” therefrom and substituting “and the Controller General” in lieu thereof.
Section 30. Amend §1057 (a)(7), Title 14 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “the Budget Director and” from the second sentence thereof.
Section 31. Amend §1057 (a)(11), Title 14 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “the Budget Director and” from the second sentence thereof.
Section 32. Amend §1057 (a)(12), Title 14 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “Secretary of Administrative Services” therefrom and substituting the words “Facilities Management of the Office of Management and Budget” in lieu thereof.
Section 33. Amend §137 (b)(3), Title 17 of the Delaware Code by deleting “the Secretary of Administrative Services,” from the last sentence thereof.
Section 34. Amend §5915 (b), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting “, State Budget Director” from the first sentence thereof.
Section 35. Amend §6404 (e)(1), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting “the Budget Director and” from the third sentence thereof.
Section 36. Amend §5942(b), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting “Budget Director,” from the second sentence thereof.
Section 37. Amend §7419(a), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting the words “Department of Administrative Services” wherever they may appear therein and substituting the words “Facilities Management of the Office of Management and Budget” in lieu thereof; and further amend said §7419(a) by deleting the words “coordinate its review and approval process with the Budget Office to” from the last sentence thereof.
Section 38. Amend §8054 (a), Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting subsection (2) therefrom in its entirety; and further amend said §8054(a) by renumbering the remaining subsections (3) through (10), as (2) through (9).
Section 40. Amend §9602 (c) Title 29 of the Delaware Code by deleting therefrom the words “State Personnel Director” and substituting in lieu thereof “the Benefits and Insurance Administrator”.
Section 41. Any rules and regulations of any agency, department, office, board, commission or officer thereof affected by or mentioned in this Act, which were promulgated prior to the effective date of this act, shall remain in full force and effect until otherwise modified in accordance with Delaware law; provided that if any rule or regulation heretofore adopted shall conflict with any of the provisions of this act, the language contained in this act shall prevail over that contained in such rule or regulation.
Section 42. If any provision of this Act, or of any rule, regulation or order thereunder, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be invalid, the remainder of this Act and the application of such provisions of this Act or of such rule, regulation or order to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.
Section 43. The provisions of this legislation shall be effective July 1, 2005.

References: §6312

§6301

§6302

§6303

§6304
 § 416
 § 1431
 § 6908

§6311

§6312
 §8807
 §8735
 §8808
 §8716
 §8809
 §8717
 §8717
 §8813
 §8734
 §4006
 §5912
 §5910
 §8734
 §8743
 §8780
 §8789
 §5106
 §6342
 §6906
 §6906
 §1057
 §1057
 §1057
 §137
 §5915
 §6404
 §5942
 §7419
 §7419
 §8054
 §8054
 §9602