74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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LC 3786
 
                        Senate Bill 1039
 
Sponsored by Senators MORSE, SCHRADER, DECKERT, DEVLIN, WESTLUND,
  NELSON, AVAKIAN, JOHNSON, VERGER, Representatives JENSON,
  BURLEY, BERGER, BRUUN; Senators ATKINSON, BEYER, BROWN,
  BURDICK, COURTNEY, FERRIOLI, G GEORGE, L GEORGE, GORDLY, KRUSE,
  METSGER, MONNES ANDERSON, MONROE, MORRISETTE, STARR, WALKER,
  WHITSETT, WINTERS
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Establishes Committee on Performance Excellence. Authorizes
committee to enter into performance excellence initiatives with
state agencies. Requires committee to make periodic public
reports on achievement of performance excellence.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state agency performance excellence.
  Whereas the state cannot legislate excellence, but can expect
it, support it and acknowledge it when it occurs; and
  Whereas excellence is a passion and when it exists the
Legislative Assembly should support it fully; and
  Whereas the purpose of this legislation is to create a process
that will oversee the journey to excellence and will encourage
the most vital aspects of Oregon state government to be managed
at a world-class level; now, therefore,
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Committee on Performance Excellence is
established. The committee shall consist of 11 members, appointed
as follows:
  (a) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
two members of the House of Representatives;
  (b) The President of the Senate shall appoint two members of
the Senate;
  (c) The Governor shall appoint four employees of the executive
department, as defined in ORS 174.112, including managers and
front line leaders; and
  (d) The Governor shall appoint three public members who have
demonstrated experience in the practice of continuous improvement
in business.
  (2)(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this
subsection, the term of office of each member is four years, but
a member serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority.
Before the expiration of the term of a member, the appointing
authority shall appoint a successor whose term begins on July 1
next following. A member is eligible for reappointment. If there
is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing authority shall make
an appointment to become immediately effective for the unexpired
term.
  (b) If a legislative member of the committee ceases to be a
legislator, the legislator's position on the committee becomes
vacant. If an executive department member of the committee ceases
to be an employee of the executive department, the member's
position on the committee becomes vacant.
  (3) The committee shall select one of its members as
chairperson and another as vice chairperson. The committee may
determine the duties and powers of the officers, as well as the
terms of office of the officers.
  (4) A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a
quorum for the transaction of business.
  (5) The committee shall meet at least once every calendar
quarter at a place, day and hour determined by the committee. The
committee may also meet at other times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of
the committee.
  (6) When the committee has selected a state agency for a
performance excellence initiative, the committee may appoint as
ex officio members of the committee the director and any other
employees of the agency for the purposes of planning and initial
implementation of the initiative. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) The mission of the Committee on Performance
Excellence is to assist state agencies in reaching performance
excellence by engaging in performance excellence initiatives with
individual agencies.
  (2)(a) The committee shall focus on the following areas that
define performance:
  (A) Customer and market focus.
  (B) Human resources.
  (C) Leadership.
  (D) Measurement, analysis and knowledge management.
  (E) Process management.
  (F) Results.
  (G) Strategic planning.
  (b) The committee may focus on other areas that define
performance and may give different weights to different areas
described in this subsection, according to the needs of the
particular agency that is a partner in a particular initiative.
  (c) The committee shall help agencies develop or maintain
methods for reaching and measuring performance excellence,
including, but not limited to:
  (A) Setting long-range plans and short-term priorities;
  (B) Developing performance measures that indicate how well an
agency's systems are performing;
  (C) Working with internal and external customers to identify
possible improvements to the agency's systems;
  (D) Identifying ways to make core processes operate better,
faster and at less cost;
  (E) Creating mechanisms to develop the skills of all agency
employees; and
  (F) Showing measurable results for the investment that
taxpayers have made.
  (3) The committee shall identify those agencies and services
that are most important to Oregonians and shall develop criteria
for selecting particular agencies and a schedule for engaging in
performance excellence initiatives with those agencies. The
committee may determine how many and what initiatives it can
engage in at any given time.
  (4) As part of any performance excellence initiative, the
committee shall support agency efforts to acquire the methods,
tools and skills to achieve excellence in each performance area.
The support may include, but need not be limited to:
 
 
  (a) Assisting an agency in acquiring services from consultants,
training organizations, universities, business executives and
other appropriate entities.
  (b) Advising an agency on how to gain support for financing
performance excellence.
  (c) Helping an agency to identify needs and obtain needed
support.
  (d) Working with an agency to ensure statewide training and
development programs that assist the agency in its pursuit of
excellence.
  (e) Acting as a sounding board and advocate to help an agency
remove administrative barriers that prevent the agency from
achieving performance excellence. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + When the Committee on Performance Excellence
has chosen an agency for participation in a performance
excellence initiative:
  (1) The committee, with any ex officio members from the agency
appointed as provided in section 1 (6) of this 2007 Act, shall
develop the framework of expectations for that particular agency,
including but not limited to:
  (a) Performance areas to be focused on in the initiative;
  (b) An indication of what constitutes excellence for the agency
in given performance areas; and
  (c) An indication of how progress will be measured and of how
much progress can reasonably be expected in a three-year period.
  (2) Members of the committee shall spend time with agency
employees learning about agency operations.
  (3) The committee shall meet regularly, on a schedule
determined by the committee, to review the agency's progress
toward excellence. Meetings shall include, but need not be
limited to, presentations by agency employees on overall progress
and on progress in specific areas of performance that have been
identified.
  (4) The committee and the agency may use the review sessions to
continuously refine and improve the methods used by the agency to
achieve the goals of the performance excellence initiative.
  (5) The committee and the agency shall work together to obtain
independent, third party assessments of the agency's progress
towards meeting the goals of the performance excellence
initiative. The purpose of the assessment is to enable the agency
and the committee to learn whether the goals and methods of the
performance excellence initiative are appropriate or how they
might be changed to better help the agency achieve excellence.
  (6) The committee shall make periodic public reports on
achievement of performance excellence. The reports shall be in a
form and manner determined by the committee and may include, but
need not be limited to, press releases. The reports shall be
delivered to the Governor and to each member of the Legislative
Assembly and made available to the general public. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + As used in sections 1 to 5 of this 2007 Act, '
state agency' or 'agency' has the meaning given that term in ORS
291.002. + }
  SECTION 5.  { + The Legislative Fiscal Office shall provide
administrative support to the Committee on Performance
Excellence.  The Legislative Fiscal Office may obtain assistance
from the Oregon Department of Administrative Services or any
other state agency necessary to fully support the activities of
the committee. + }
  SECTION 6.  { + Notwithstanding the term of office specified by
section 1 of this 2007 Act, of the members first appointed to
the Committee on Performance Excellence:
  (1) One executive department member and one public member shall
each serve for a term ending July 1, 2009.
  (2) One House member, one Senate member and one executive
department member shall each serve for a term ending July 1,
2010.
  (3) One executive department member and one public member shall
each serve for a term ending July 1, 2011.
  (4) One House member, one Senate member, one executive
department member and one public member shall each serve for a
term ending July 1, 2012. + }
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