Session Year 2010, Special Session 2

Bill Name: SF0001

Relating to disaster assistance; authorizing spending to acquire and better
public land and buildings and other improvements of a capital nature with
certain conditions; authorizing the sale of state bonds; providing flood loss
aid and property tax relief; making cash flow and other budgetary adjustments;
appropriating money for flood and tornado relief

ARTICLE 1 - FLOOD DISASTER
RELIEF

Providing a summary of appropriations for flood disaster relief and
permitting certain funding transfers; appropriating money to the commissioner of
public safety for publicly owned capital improvements projects, to the
commissioner of transportation (DOT) for state road infrastructure operations
and maintenance and local road and bridge rehabilitation and replacement, to the
commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for Minnesota
investment fund grants, to the public facilities authority for grants; to the
house finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and housing challenge
program, to the Minnesota historical society for activities, to the commissioner
of natural resources (DNR) for facility damage, flood hazard mitigation grants,
flood response and recovery, dams renovation and removal, and grant extensions,
to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for reinvest in Minnesota (RIM)
conservation easements, the erosion, sediment and water quality control
cost-share program, grant extensions, and flood areas, to the commissioner of
agriculture for relief activities, to the commissioner of education for
additional costs and loss of pupil units, disaster enrollment impact aid, relief
facilities and operating grants, and pupil transportation aid, to the
commissioner of health for relief activities, to the commissioner of the
pollution control agency (PCA) for relief activities, and to the commissioner of
management and budget for bond sale expenses; modifying a certain prior
appropriation for state road construction; authorizing and providing for bond
sales; authorizing 2010 flood loss city replacement aid; waiving property tax
penalties for business and damaged properties in designated disaster or
emergency area; providing agriculture homestead property extensions; and waiving
certain abatement and credit applications

ARTICLE 2 - WADENA
TORNADO

Providing a summary of appropriations for tornado, storms, and flood
disaster relief and permitting certain funding transfers; appropriating money to
the commissioner of public safety for federal disaster assistance to state
agencies and eligible applicants, to the commissioner of employment and economic
development (DEED) for a grant to the city of Wadena for public facilities, to
the commissioner of education for operating expenses, additional costs in the
area, disaster relief operating grants, and pupil transportation aid grants; and
authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds

ARTICLE 3 - CASH FLOW AND
BUDGET RESERVE

Adjusting certain health and human services appropriations;
specifying certain contingent reduction and cash flow requirements; balance
carry forward requirement; repealing certain prior appropriations
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