Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2860

Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government;
reducing appropriations to the legislature, to the constitutional officers, to
the boards of government innovation and cooperation and of the arts, to the
office of strategic and long range planning, to the departments of
administration, finance, employee relations (DOER), revenue and military and
veterans affairs, to the amateur sports and humanities commissions and to the
Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS); requiring certain grant reductions by
the office of strategic and long range planning; appropriating money to the
department of administration for the 911 emergency telephone system; eliminating
police and fire amortization aid and aid to the first class cities teachers
retirement fund associations; requiring payments of state money over a certain
amount by electronic funds transfer; changing commissioner of administration
local government unit building code administration and enforcement contracts to
agreements and authorizing the commissioner to direct the state building
official to assist communities affected by natural disasters with building
evaluation and code related activities; requiring consideration of the tobacco
use prevention and local public health endowment fund as part of the general
fund under certain conditions; clarifying the authority of cities to extend the
enforcement of the building code to certain contiguous unincorporated territory;
requiring the crediting of receipts from building official services to the
special revenue fund in lieu of the general fund; specifying certain
requirements for the valuation of construction permits for building code
surcharge computation purposes and authorizing the commissioner of
administration to adjust the fee schedule with the approval of the commissioner
of finance; providing for additional sources of funding for the technology
enterprise fund; qualifying the definition of building standards for housing
statutory warranties purposes; regulating access to 911 service by public
utilities providing telephone service within a 911 service area and choosing to
provide service to nonsubscribers; modifying the emergency telephone service
fee, requiring establishment by the commissioner of administration with the
approval of the commissioner of finance and clarifying and providing for the
timely certification of reimbursable costs; requiring the deposit of St. Paul
RiverCentre arena loan repayments to the general fund in lieu of the youth
activities account in the special revenue fund; specifying certain term change
instructions to the revisor of statutes; eliminating the office of citizenship
and volunteer services and transferring certain duties to the commissioner of
human services; repealing a certain government records management program (mk)