Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2360

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government
ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money for the legislative and executive
branches of state government; appropriating money to the legislature for the
commissions, for the office of the revisor of statutes and for the legislative
reference library (LRL), to the governor and lieutenant governor, to the state
auditor, to the state treasurer, to the attorney general, to the secretary of
state for uniform commercial code (UCC) and elections costs, to the campaign
finance and public disclosure and investment boards, to the office of
administrative hearings, to the office of strategic and long range planning for
continuation of the generic environmental impact statements (GEIS) on urban
development and on animal agriculture and for regional development commissions,
to the commissioner of administration for operations management, for the office
of technology to plan, develop and implement CriMNet, for administrative
services, for small agency infrastructure, for the technology enterprise fund,
for the intertechnologies group, for facilities management, for the information
policy training program, for the office of the state archaeologist, for the
developmental disabilities council, for the STAR program, for grants to the city
of Granite Falls to reconstruct project turnabout and to the city of Longville
for completion of the city hall ambulance building, for the state employees band
and for public television and radio grants, to the capitol area architectural
and planning board (CAAPB), to the commissioner of finance, to the commissioner
of employee relations (DOER) for employee insurance and for human resources
management, to the commissioner of revenue for reimbursement to counties for
property tax abatements resulting from certain disasters and for tax system and
accounts receivable management, to the commissioner of military affairs
(adjutant general) for training facilities maintenance, for the national guard
youth camp at Camp Ripley, for enlistment incentives and for emergency services,
to the commissioner of veterans affairs for a grant to the St. Louis county
heritage and arts center in Duluth for completion of the veterans memorial hall
physical exhibit and displays, to the veterans of foreign wars, to the military
order of the purple heart, to the disabled American veterans, to the gambling
control, arts and government innovation and cooperation boards, to the racing
and humanities commissions, to the commissioner of finance for the payment of
tort claims, to the Minnesota state retirement systems (MSRS), to the
Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF), to the commissioner of revenue for
police and fire amortization aid, to the workers compensation court of appeals
and to the commissioner of children, families and learning for reimbursement
grants to transitional housing programs and for emergency services for the
homeless; ratifying the salary increases recommended by the compensation council
for judges, constitutional officers and legislators with certain modifications;
requiring the office of strategic and long range planning to prepare urban
rivers sustainable development draft guidelines along central business
districts; requiring the office of technology to study the unemployment
insurance technology initiative project and the management analysis division of
the department of administration to study the feasibility of collecting fees for
services provided by the state archaeologist; establishing a technology
enterprise fund to fund enterprisewide technology projects and citizen
telecommunications access; authorizing the use of a certain prior appropriation
to the commissioner of administration for Guthrie theater site acquisition and
preparation for predesign and design; authorizing the commissioner of finance to
charge for statewide systems services and requiring the commissioner to study
authorized state agency building projects; requiring a workers compensation
reinsurance association operating expenses report to the legislature by a
certain date; providing certain deficiency appropriations and for certain funds
transfers ARTICLE 2 CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROVISIONSAppropriating money to the
supreme court for operating expenses, for reimbursements to Carlton and Aitkin
counties for extraordinary expenses relating to homicide trials, for civil legal
services to low income clients and family farmers, for continued redevelopment
of the court information system and for law library operations, to the court of
appeals, to the district courts for new judge units and for alternative dispute
resolution programs, to the board on judicial standards, to the tax court, to
the human rights department and to the uniform laws commissionARTICLE 3
JUDICIARY PROVISIONSIncreasing the number of trial court judgeships in the
first, third, seventh, ninth and tenth judicial districts; requiring the supreme
court to determine the pay and expenses to be received by retired justices and
judges; increasing the salaries of judges of the supreme and district courts and
the court of appeals; requiring the state to assume court interpreter program
personnel costs; requiring and providing for the third and fifth judicial
districts to develop or continue alternative dispute resolution programs to
provide services in conciliation court cases and unlawful detainer proceedings
ARTICLE 4 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOBS APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the
commissioner of trade and economic development (DTED) for a grant to the board
of regents of the university of Minnesota for the north star research coalition,
for redevelopment, metropolitan livable communities, capacity building,
northeast entrepreneur fund initiative and small business microenterprise
technical assistance grants, for grants to Camp Knutson for capital
improvements, to the city of Duluth for the technology village, to the rural
policy and development center at Mankato state university, to the cities of Ada,
Breckenridge, East Grand Forks and Warren for flood recovery work, to Granite
Falls for tornado relief and project turnabout, to local government units for
business tornado loans and grants, to the city of St. Paul for a new Roy Wilkins
auditorium and exhibit hall, to the Albert Lea port authority for a business
development center, to Koochiching county for a north American bear center, to
Blue Earth, Martin and St. Louis counties for a rural advanced business
facilitation program pilot project, to the west central growth alliance for an
economic development pilot project, to Neighborhood Development Center, Inc., to
local government units and tribal governments to expand Internet access in rural
areas and to the metropolitan economic development association for minority
business development programs, for the job skills partnership program, for the
St. Paul port authority customized job training program, for the health care and
human services training program, for grants to livetrack resources for immigrant
refugee collaborative programs, to WomenVenture for business development
programs and to Twin Cities rise for job training to hard to train individuals,
for travel information centers, for 2004 grand excursion, tourism and marketing
grants, for the film board and for consulting contracts, to the commissioner of
natural resources (DNR) for a civilian conservation corps worker statue, to
Minnesota Technology, Inc. for grants to the Minnesota inventors congress,
Minnesota project innovation and the Minnesota investment network corporation,
to the commissioner of economic security for workplace HIV education, for grants
to provide employment support services to persons with mental illness and for
deaf and hard of hearing people, for a grant to Advocating Change Together, Inc.
(ACT), for independent living centers, for the vocational rehabilitation brain
injury pilot program, for extended employment services rehabilitation rate
increases, for state services for the blind, for displaced homemaker programs,
for youth intervention and youthbuild program grants, for grants to nonprofit
organizations for programs to encourage and assist women to enter nontraditional
careers, for opportunities industrialization center programs and for the
voluntary paid parental leave pilot project ARTICLE 5 2001 HOUSING
APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the housing finance agency for the economic
development and housing challenge and family homeless prevention and assistance
programs, for grants to organizations providing case management for certain
persons needing rental housing, for the rental housing pilot project in Benton,
Clay, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Ramsey, St. Louis, Sherburne and Stearns
counties, for the school stability project, for the housing trust and affordable
rental investment funds, for capacity building, section 8 housing and adults
with disabilities supportive housing program grants, for the full cycle home
ownership and innovative and inclusionary housing programs and for local
initiative block grants and to the commissioner of children, families and
learning for emergency services and transitional housing; authorizing HFA grants
to local government units or nonprofit organizations for housing production and
preservation programs for certain low income persons, loans or grants to local
government units for permanent housing for veterans and single adults and grants
to local government units and nonprofit organizations for lead hazard reduction;
requiring and providing for the HFA to establish a manufactured home park
redevelopment programARTICLE 6 HOUSING FINANCE AGENCYAppropriating money to the
housing finance agency for the rental housing assistance program for persons or
families with mental illness, for the housing trust fund, for the family
homeless prevention and assistance, homeownership education and training,
affordable rental investment fund, urban and tribal Indian housing and economic
development and housing challenge programs and for capacity building grants;
authorizing the transfer of money appropriated for disaster relief between the
affordable rental investment and community rehabilitation fund accounts;
regulating state and local construction projects; modifying certain state
building code provisions, providing for uniform and consistent application,
granting the state building official final interpretative authority, requiring
annual local government unit reports to the department of administration on the
collection of construction and development related fees; prohibiting local
residential building contractor license or registration fees, regulating the
imposition of municipal planning fees and providing for affordable housing;
modifying certain HFA rehabilitation loan provisions; authorizing aggregation of
investment earnings in the housing development fund, authorizing costs and
expenses relating to the development and operation of programs funded by state
appropriations to be paid from the aggregated earnings before periodic
distributions of earnings to separate accounts; clarifying certain elements of
the rental housing assistance (bridges) program; authorizing the HFA to spend
money from the housing development fund for the family stabilization
demonstration project; providing for affordable housing in the metropolitan
area; modifying certain inclusionary housing account and development
requirements under the livable communities act; expanding eligibility for the
Bruce F. Vento year 2000 affordable housing program relating to the loss of
eligibility for the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) ARTICLE 7 BUDGET
PREPARATIONModifying certain state budget and forecast provisions; imposing a
deadline for submission of budget requests from the governor to the legislature;
authorizing the governor to submit revised requests for allotment of additional
federal money received after approval of the original budget request; requiring
fiscal notes to include the assumptions used in determining the cost estimates;
requiring the commissioner of finance to hold open public meetings with state
agencies to discuss budget information, agency performance data and proposed
changes in level of services and new activities; requiring the commissioner upon
delivery of forecasts to the legislature to reconcile the fund balance statement
for the general fund to the end of session legislative tracking documents and
detail differences by omnibus budget bill jurisdiction for the current and next
biennium, specifying certain notice requirements and requiring a second later
reconciliation; requiring forecasts to include a set aside amount reflecting
inflationary increases in the delivery of services, specifying certain limits
ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUSRequiring and providing for the office of strategic and
long range planning to biennially calculate a self sufficiency standard to
measure the amount of income needed for families to meet basic needs, specifying
certain report publication and availability requirements; providing for the
transfer of certain attorney general fees to the attorney general; eliminating
certain commissioner of administration abandoned property published notice
requirements; exempting certain local government unit projects from predesign
requirements; requiring the commissioner to by a certain date adopt rules
establishing a building code for the renovation and rehabilitation of historic
structures; eliminating the requirement for the office of citizenship and
volunteer services to coordinate work on citizen engagement with certain other
agencies; authorizing the commissioner to enter into agreements under state
procurement provisions to acquire district cooling services; eliminating certain
responsibilities of the office of technology relating to reducing or eliminating
the redundant storage of data and establishing information sales systems;
establishing a technology enterprise fund and board; limiting state paid
benefits under state employee collective bargaining agreements or plans;
expanding job skills partnership board distance work grants eligibility
requirements and modifying certain match requirements; requiring employers to
grant paid leaves of absence to employees undergoing a medical procedure for
organ donation; establishing an unemployment insurance technology initiative;
providing for the allocation of the fee charged for refund setoff collections
under the revenue recapture act for act administration purposes; establishing
the uniform commercial code account to pay for secretary of state implementation
and maintenance of the UCC central filing system; modifying the validity period
for lawful gambling premises permits and creating new classes for permits issued
during the second year of an organization license, fees; increasing the county
recorder electronic real estate recording surcharge fee for appropriation to the
legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for the task force on electronic real
estate recording; increasing the maximum allowable fee for emergency telephone
services and setting the enhanced fee, authorizing use of fee proceeds for the
installation or maintenance of associated signs, posts or other markers;
authorizing and providing for the metropolitan council to establish a separate
governing body to exercise delegated housing and redevelopment authority (HRA)
powers; modifying the cost allocation system for the metropolitan disposal
system; expanding authorized use by the commissioner of administration of
emergency telephone service (911) fees in the metropolitan area to providing aid
to local government units for sites and equipment in support of mutual aid and
emergency medical communications services; reducing the marriage license fee for
couples receiving a certain number of hours of premarital education; extending
the voluntary unpaid leave of absence program for state employees; providing for
the maintenance of office of administrative hearings settlement division offices
in Hennepin or Ramsey counties and eliminating the St. Paul location
requirement; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of administration
to annually report on the progress of the small agency infrastructure project to
the legislature; providing for extra unemployment insurance benefits for laid
off employees of Fingerhut, Inc. in Mora or Onan Power Electronics in Nicollet
county and M.E. International in St. Louis county; requiring and providing for
the commissioner of economic security to operate a voluntary paid parental leave
program; repealing the attorney general legal services biennial budget request
requirement, the requirement for the office of technology to establish a
business license information system, arts organization grants and public
employer collective bargaining agreement uniform settlement document
requirements ARTICLE 9 STATE AGENCY RESTRUCTURINGAbolishing the departments of
labor and industry and economic security, renaming the department of trade and
economic development (DTED) the department of economic and workforce development
and creating a new department of labor; transferring responsibilities of the
department of economic security relating to workforce services to the renamed
department, to the unemployment insurance program to the department of labor and
to energy programs to the department of commerce; transferring responsibilities
of the department of labor and industry to the newly created department of
labor; providing for organization of the department of economic and workforce
development, creating a workforce development program reorganization transition
advisory team and specifying team membership requirements duties; requiring the
commissioners of trade and economic development and economic security to
cooperate with and provide staff support to the team; granting the team access
to private or nonpublic data within the departments of economic security, labor
and industry and trade and economic development; providing for worker protection
ARTICLE 10 TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH AND INVESTMENTRequiring the state board of
investment to identify and invest in Minnesota based start-up businesses meeting
board investment guidelines; creating the high technology venture capital
account in the special revenue fund for investment in private venture capital
funds providing seed capital for early stage development of Minnesota based high
technology companies expected to experience high growth, specifying certain
investment limits; requiring and providing for the north star research coalition
to establish the biomedical innovation and commercialization initiative (BICI)
as a for-profit collaborative economic development initiative between the
university of Minnesota, the medical technology industry and investors;
requesting the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to establish a
partnership with private industry to leverage research capabilities into
economic development results through creation of a nonprofit tax exempt
corporation to be known as the north star research coalition ARTICLE 11- HOUSING
PROGRAM CONSOLIDATIONConsolidating supportive housing related programs into the
housing trust fund program; modifying a certain provision providing for housing
finance agency grants or loans for low income housing, requiring the housing
trust fund account to be used for the benefit of certain low income persons and
families and rental assistance to be provided by governmental units
administering housing assistance supplements or for-profit or by nonprofit
organizations experienced in housing management, specifying certain limits and
priorities; reducing the frequency of and expanding the content requirements for
the HFA report to the governor and legislature on the account; changing the full
cycle home ownership services program to the homeownership education, counseling
and training program and expanding program services and eligibility criteria,
requiring the HFA to consider certain criteria in selecting organizations
eligible for the funds, requiring designated program areas, communities or
neighborhoods, providing for assistance and counseling to prevent mortgage
foreclosures or cancellations of contracts for deed, requiring annual nonprofit
organization reports to the agency and agency reports to the legislature;
authorizing the HFA to spend money from the housing development fund for the
economic development and housing challenge program and expanding the purposes of
the grant and loan program, providing for gap financing, eliminating certain
preference requirements and modifying certain income limits; repealing the
housing trust fund account advisory committee, the mortgage foreclosure
prevention and emergency rental assistance and entry cost home ownership
opportunity programs and certain provisions under the economic development and
housing challenge program ARTICLE 12 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATIONProviding for the administration of workforce development
programs; designating the job skills partnership board as the lead agency for
workforce policy and program development and coordination; increasing and
modifying the membership of the board; authorizing the board to hire an
executive director and staff to carry out duties; requiring exclusive offices
and authorizing contracting with the department of trade and economic
development (DTED) for administrative services; requiring the board to
administer and coordinate state workforce development activities; requiring the
board by a certain date to develop performance standards for workforce
development and job training programs receiving state funding, authorizing a
contract with a consultant to develop the standards and specifying certain
minimum standards requirements; requiring the board to annually submit
recommendations to the legislature relating to modifications to or elimination
of existing workforce development programs and the potential implementation of
new programs; providing for allocation of workforce development funds to the job
skills partnership board; requiring the commissioner of economic security to
notify certain unemployment insurance applicants of the opportunity for
employment and training services through workforce centers; creating an
executive committee of the workforce development council, specifying membership
requirements; requiring the committee to develop performance standards for the
state workforce centers, to annually report to the legislature on the
performance of the centers and to develop a strategic plan for the appropriate
placement and number of workforce centers within the state, specifying certain
plan requirements; requiring local workforce centers to establish advanced
reemployment programs to monitor and contact underemployed individuals about
advanced placement and training opportunities ARTICLE 13 ELECTIONSRelating to
the financing of election campaigns; expanding the definition of campaign
expenditure to include communications advocating support for or opposition to
the nomination or election of a candidate (issue ads); modifying the definition
of independent expenditure, increasing the limit on the expenditures, changing
the affidavit filing requirement to a web site notice posting requirement with a
description to the state board of campaign finance and public disclosure,
providing for a false affidavit of notice; requiring the board to publish
certain information on the web site; providing for the application of voluntary
spending limits to political parties as a condition of receiving a public
subsidy; prohibiting independent expenditures by political parties; providing
for the matching of independent expenditures advocating the defeat or election
of candidates, establishing an independent expenditure matching account for use
by the board for loans to certain candidates to respond to independent
expenditures, requiring a repayment agreement, authorizing the acceptance of
additional contributions from political party units to match the independent
expenditure and authorizing candidate targets of independent expenditures with
no notice to make additional expenditures; increasing the limit on political
party contributions to candidates for the state senate; prohibiting candidates
accepting a public subsidy from accepting contributions from lobbyists; limiting
the purposes of political party multicandidate expenditures; subjecting
political party chairs to a civil fine for violating certain spending limits;
modifying the provision providing for the qualification of political parties for
the income tax checkoff, requiring the secretary of state to notify each
political party, the commissioner of revenue and the board by a certain date of
the parties qualifying for inclusion on the income tax form and property tax
refund return; restricting state elections campaign fund party account
allocations to state committees of political parties to parties signing and
filing spending limit agreements with the board, requiring cancellation of
unallocated amounts to the general fund; modifying the distribution from the
general account of the state elections campaign fund and changing the
certification date; requiring the reduction of payments to candidates failing to
file campaign reports due before the primary election; changing the date for
filing spending limit agreements with the board; requiring chairs of state
committees of political parties to file spending limit agreements with the board
as a condition of receiving a public subsidy, requiring board notice to the
commissioner of revenue of agreements filed; extending the time limit for filing
affidavits of contributions in special elections to qualify for a public
subsidy; modifying the definition of minor political party; modifying a certain
bundling limit exception; limiting the charging of fees to election candidates
participating in public parades; restricting refunds for contributions to
political parties signing spending limit agreements with the board;
nonseverability clause ARTICLE 14 - TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGESMaking
conforming amendments to certain provisions under the Minnesota housing finance
agency law of 1971; requiring new construction of single family homes, duplexes,
triplexes and multilevel townhouses financed in whole or in part by the HFA to
incorporate basic visitability access into the design and construction, defining
visitability, authorizing HFA waiver of certain design requirements under
certain conditions; repealing certain redundant definitions(ra, ja)