Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: HF1781

HF1781

FIRST COMMITTEE ENGROSSMENT

Omnibus state government
bill.

Article 1: State government appropriations provided.

Sec. 1: State
government appropriations provided from the general fund for fiscal years 2010
and 2011.

Sec. 2: Legislature appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total
appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Senate appropriation provided.
Subd 3: House
of Representatives appropriation provided.
Subd 4: Legislative Coordinating
Commission appropriation provided, funding allocated for the Office of the
Revisor of Statutes, the Legislative Reference Library, the Office of the
Legislative Auditor, and the legislators' forum.

Sec. 3: Office of the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor appropriation provided.

Sec. 4: State
auditor appropriation provided, funding allocated for additional audit
activities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Sec. 5: Attorney
General appropriation provided.

Sec. 6: Secretary of State appropriation
provided.

Sec. 7: Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board appropriation
provided.

Sec. 8: Investment Board appropriation provided.

Sec. 9: Office
of Enterprise Technology appropriation provided.

Sec. 10: Administrative
Hearings appropriation provided.

Sec. 11: Administration appropriation
provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Government and
Citizen Services appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Administrative Management
Support appropriation provided, funding allocated for the Office of Grant
Management.

Sec. 12: Capitol Area and Architectural and Planning Board
appropriation provided.

Sec. 13: Finance appropriation provided, funding
allocated for oversight of federal funds received under the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act.

Sec. 14: Revenue appropriation provided.
Subd 1:
Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Tax System management appropriation
provided.
Subd 3: Debt Collection Management appropriation provided.

Sec
15: Gambling Control appropriation provided.

Sec. 16: Racing Commission
appropriation provided.

Sec. 17: State Lottery appropriation
provided.

Sec. 18: Tort claims appropriation provided.

Sec. 19: Minnesota
State Retirement System appropriation provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation
provided.
Subd 2: Legislators appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Constitutional
Officers appropriation provided.

Sec. 20: Minneapolis Employees Retirement
Fund appropriation provided.

Sec. 21: Teachers Retirement Association
appropriation provided.

Sec. 22: St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund
appropriation provided.

Sec. 23: Duluth Teachers Retirement Fund
appropriation provided.

Sec. 24: General contingent accounts appropriations
provided.

Sec. 25: Problem gambling appropriation provided from the lottery
prize fund to the Gambling Control Board.

Sec. 26: Managerial position
reductions required, includes deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners and
unclassified positions.


Article 2: State Government operations provisions
provided.

Sec. 1: Senate and House of Representative's finance committee
divisions referred to as the Enterprise Services and Government Efficiency
Finance Divisions.

Sec. 2: Review of financial management and internal
controls required.

Sec. 3: Financial audits provision language
stricken.

Sec. 4: Legislative Audit Commission report required in case of
misuse of public money or other resources, language added.

Sec. 5: Governor's
office budget provision provided.

Sec. 6: State demographer language
added.

Sec. 7: International student exchange visitor placement organization
registration application language modified.

Sec. 8: State government
telephone use and approval procedures language added.

Sec. 9: Naming of laws
provision provided.

Sec. 10: Web site and publications purpose language
modified.

Sec. 11: State agency contact information display required.

Sec.
12: Campaign finance appropriation language modified.

Sec. 13: State Board of
Investment report on postretirement investment fund, investment performance, and
adjustment calculation language added.

Sec. 14: Department of Administration
Data language modified to become the Department of Finance Data.

Sec. 15:
Parking spaces reserved for the public on Aurora Avenue in front of the Capitol
building.

Sec. 16: Definitions provided.

Sec. 17: Liability for certain
acts provided.

Sec. 18: Exclusions provided.

Sec. 19: Attorney General
responsibilities provided.

Sec. 20: Private remedies authorized, court
complaint 60 day seal required, and copy of complaint and written disclosure of
evidence required to be sent to the Attorney General.

Sec. 21: Attorney
general intervention action required within 60 days, motion to extend time
authorized, unsealing of complaint required after attorney general's
intervention decision.

Sec. 22: Service of unsealed complaint required and
defendant response required within 20 days.

Sec. 23: Attorney general and
private party roles provided.

Sec. 24: Stay of discovery and extension
authorized.

Sec. 25: Court-imposed limitations upon participation of private
plaintiff in action authorized.

Sec. 26: Action limitations and remedies
provided.

Sec. 27: Expenses award and attorney fees coverage
provided.

Sec. 28: Recovery distribution procedure to private plaintiffs in
certain actions provided.

Sec. 29: Employer restrictions on information
disclosure prohibited, liability provided.

Sec. 30: Naming of the
commissioner and Department of Finance provision provided.

Sec. 31:
Commissioner of Finance duties language modified.

Sec. 32: Additional duties
provided.

Sec. 33: Web site maintenance with searchable database on state
expenditures required.

Sec. 34: Internal controls and internal auditing
system establishment required.

Sec. 35: Financial Controls Council
establishment and duties provided.

Sec. 36: Information technology budget
proposals requesting at least 100,000 required appropriation to the Office of
Enterprise Technology.

Sec. 37: Agency rates language added.

Sec. 38:
Payroll direct deposit and deductions provision language modified.

Sec. 39:
Misappropriation of money language modified.

Sec. 40: Best practices policy
required for investigations.

Sec. 41: Report on budget reserve percentage
required.

Sec. 42: Technology development lease-purchase financing provision
provided.

Sec. 43: Technology lease-purchase appropriation provided.

Sec.
44: Letter-sized paper required for documents.

Sec. 45: Employee fitness and
wellness facilities authorized.

Sec. 46: Rulemaking by the commissioner of
public safety required.

Sec. 47: Enterprise real property technology system
and services account established.

Sec. 48: Attempted reductions of dangers
posed to migrating birds required by state-owned or leased buildings.

Sec.
49: Sale of naming rights authorized.

Sec. 50: Sale of advertising
authorized.

Sec. 51: Motor vehicle use provision language modified.

Sec.
52: Economic, social, and environmental performance measures system
establishment required.

Sec. 53: The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office,
responsibilities, authority, and duties established.

Sec. 54:
Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses preference
established.

Sec.
55: Small business eligibility provision language added.

Sec. 56: Small
business certification provision language modified.

Sec. 57: Statewide
electronic licensing system and account established.

Sec. 58: Domestic
partner definition provided.

Sec. 59: Donation to sick leave account language
modified.

Sec. 60: Employee state paid insurance and benefits provision
language added.

Sec. 61: Voluntary unpaid leave of absence provision language
modified.

Sec. 62: Management analysis revolving fund established in the
state treasury.

Sec. 63: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
provision language stricken.

Sec. 64: Open space inclusion in designated
critical areas considered by the Metropolitan Council in consultation with the
Environmental Quality Board.

Sec. 65: Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities system residential housing list language modified.

Sec. 66:
Small business contracts language added.

Sec. 67: Voter registration
procedure prior to election day language added.

Sec. 68: Election day
registration language modified.

Sec. 70: Secretary of State's Web site
capability to confirm voter registration required.

Sec. 71: Costs of unfair
campaign practices provision language modified.

Sec. 72: Technology
lease-purchase appropriation provided.

Sec. 73: Cooperative purchasing
authorized.

Sec. 74: Preference awarded to small businesses provision
language added.

Sec. 75: Sale of state land provision language
modified.

Sec. 76: Optical scan equipment appropriation availability from the
America Vote Act account extended.

Sec. 77: Government training services
provision language modified.

Sec. 78: Cash flow condition study of the
general fund required.

Sec. 79: State employees' personal health records
system selection criteria provided.

Sec. 80: Transfer of powers, duties or
personnel associate with the Environmental Quality Board prohibited.

Sec. 81:
State accounting and procurement systems provision provided.

Sec. 82: Racing
license fees ratified.

Sec. 83: Technology lease-purchase authorization
provided.

Sec. 84: Light Rail Transit mitigation impacts in the Capitol Area
required.

Sec. 85: Enterprise real property technology system contribution
procedures provided.

Sec. 86: State agency rental cost savings report
required.

Sec. 87: Existing funds, assets, employees, equipment, and supplies
of the Land management Information Center transferred to the Minnesota
Geospatial Information Office.

Sec. 88: Office of Enterprise Technology study
required.

Sec. 89: Revisor's instruction; Land Management Information Center
to be substituted with Minnesota Geospatial Information Office.

Sec. 90:
Revisor's instruction; Tennessen, Lessard, and Douglas J. Johnson deleted from
Minnesota Statutes.

Sec. 91: Repealer.


Article 3: Secretary of State
provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Definitions and language provided.

Sec. 2:
E-mail address field and use authorized.

Sec. 3: Secretary of State fees
language modified.

Sec. 4: Global filings provision language
modified.

Sec. 5: Temporary technology surcharges language modified.

Sec.
6: Annual business renewal filings format provided.

Sec. 7: International
student exchange organization complaints language modified.

Sec. 8: Lien
search fees language modified.

Sec. 9: Minnesota corporate annual renewal
procedure language modified.

Sec. 10: Annual renewal notice and filing
provision language modified.

Sec. 11: Withdrawal application approval
language modified.

Sec. 12: Cooperative annual renewal process language
modified.

Sec. 13: Cooperative annual renewal process language
modified.

Sec. 14: Renewal form contents provided.

Sec. 15: Annual
corporate renewal notification procedure language modified.

Sec. 16: Delivery
to and filing of records by secretary of state procedure language
modified.

Sec. 17: Annual partnership renewal for secretary of state
procedure language modified.

Sec. 18: Limited partnership reinstatement
following administrative dissolution procedure language modified.

Sec. 19:
Limited liability company annual renewal procedure language modified.

Sec.
20: Annual renewal notification procedure provided.

Sec. 21: Term of
certificate provision language modified.

Sec. 22: Filing and indexing fees
language modified.

Sec. 23: Financing statement and lien notice searches
requirement language modified.

Sec. 24: Application for a commission fee
language modified.


Article 4: Military Affairs provisions provided.

Sec.
1: Military appropriations provided from the general fund.

Sec. 2: Military
affairs appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd
2: Maintenance of training facilities appropriation provided.
Subd 3: General
support appropriation provided.
Subd 4: Enlistment incentives appropriation
provided.

Sec. 3: Postdeployment health and wellness assessments program
establishment for members of the National Guard required.

ERS, 4/17/09