Provides for designation and operation of state agencies as charter agencies. (BDR 18-464)

AN ACT relating to State Government; authorizing the Governor to designate, or rescind the designation of, any department within the Executive Department of the State Government as a charter agency; providing that all employees of a department designated as a charter agency become employees in the unclassified service of the State; requiring the Governor and the director of a charter agency to enter into annual performance agreements; authorizing the removal of the director of a charter agency under certain circumstances; authorizing the payment of bonuses to the director and employees of a charter agency; providing a limitation on annual appropriations to a charter agency; authorizing a charter agency to retain for its use certain unobligated balances remaining at the end of a fiscal year; exempting a charter agency from certain provisions governing state buildings and state purchasing; authorizing a charter agency to propose a waiver or suspension of an administrative rule or regulation, subject to approval or disapproval by the Legislative Commission; requiring certain reports concerning a charter agency to the Legislature or Legislative Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.