Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF0542

Providing a Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) time extension for
benefits to eligible assistance units; modifying the unemployment compensation
base period, reemployment assistance training and the available for suitable
employment definition, adding apprenticeship training to reemployment assistance
training, requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) to accept valid taxpayer identification (id) numbers from applicants;
requiring prospective tenant landlord notification of tenant right to continued
utility services upon landlord default during foreclosures, specifying rights of
tenants of foreclosed property; declaring and establishing a foreclosure
moratorium due to public economic emergency, specifying court stay; providing a
state funded special state emergency unemployment compensation program,
specifying eligibility, payment from trust fund and expiration; requiring the
commissioner DEED to develop and implement a jobs creation grant program to make
grants available to cities and towns for public projects to generate new job
growth, specifying fund distribution and funding; appropriating money to DEED;
prohibiting the legislature from mandating state employee layoffs, including the
university of Minnesota (People's Bailout)
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