Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF3317

Relating to appropriations

ARTICLE 1 - SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

Providing
for supplemental appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Appropriating
money to the office of enterprise technology for enterprise information
technology security management, to the commissioner of finance for bankruptcy
counsel representing the state in the Northwest airlines bankruptcy, to the
commissioner of employee relations for development of a data warehouse to
support the public buyers group; changing the public employee insurance program
under the commissioner of employee relations to the public buyers group program,
modifying certain provisions, authorizing the commissioner to plan, develop,
purchase, administer and evaluate disease management and other programs,
strategies and incentives to improve the health and health outcomes of members;
providing for the labor management committee to be appointed by the governor,
requiring a report to the governor and legislature biennially by a certain date


ARTICLE 3 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Modifying certain provisions relating to
public postsecondary education; requiring instructional expenditure and
enrollment data to be submitted to the office of higher education and the
commissioner of finance; eliminating legislative intent for operating budget
appropriations; modifying the definitions of eligible institution and resident
student; defining eligible cosigner; authorizing the office of higher education
to enter into interest rate exchange or swap agreements, hedges, forward
purchase or sale agreements and other comparable interest rate protection
agreements under certain conditions; modifying certain data classification
provisions; modifying certain student loan provisions; providing for
rehabilitation of SELF loans; providing for the granting of temporary total
disability to borrowers upon medical certification; modifying work study payment
provisions; authorizing the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to
establish a branch campus at Rochester; appropriating money to the board of
regents of the university of Minnesota for the Rochester branch campus;
specifying revisor instructions; repealing certain provisions

ARTICLE 4 -
PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUDICIAL BRANCH

Appropriating money to the supreme court for
addressing the increasing numbers of alcohol and other drug offenders, to the
board of judicial standards for special hearings and an investigation regarding
complaints of judicial misconduct, to the board of public defense for appellate
transcripts costs, to the commissioner of public safety for matching FEMA funds,
to create a child pornography investigative unit, to create the Minnesota
illegal immigration enforcement team, for enhancement of the predatory offender
database to facilitate notification of noncompliant sex offenders on the
internet, to provide a training component to the licensing of alcohol vendors to
help prevent youth access to alcohol, to the commissioner of corrections for
correctional institutions and for a grant to provide a mentoring program for
children of incarcerated offenders and for an increase in the community
corrections act subsidy for the addition of Scott county; increasing a prior
appropriation to the peace officer standards and training (POST) board and
clarifying a certain prior appropriation relating to sex offender assessment
reimbursements

ARTICLE 5 - ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT

Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic
development (DEED) for the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota for completion of a
study on the bioscience industry, for the collaborative research partnership
between the university of Minnesota and the Mayo foundation, to the commissioner
of transportation for petroleum tank release cleanup, to the commissioner of
commerce for a grant to the Minnesota comprehensive health association, to the
boxing commission, to the commissioner of labor and industry for staffing and
design of the first phase of the development of a statewide license system, to
the commissioner of agriculture for invasive species control, livestock
depredation and crop damage, promotion of biofuels and for plant pathology and
biological control facility operations, to the board of animal health to
eliminate bovine tuberculosis, to the legislative commission on Minnesota
resources (LCMR) for development of a strategic long range plan for future
expenditures from the environmental trust fund, to the commissioner of natural
resources (DNR) for bovine tuberculosis surveillance and diagnosis, the all
terrain vehicle grant in aid program and the prevention and control of harmful
species and to the pollution control agency (PCA), public facilities authority,
the commissioner of agriculture, the board of water and soil resources (BWSR)
and the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the clean water legacy;
setting limits for destroyed livestock claims; extending the date for retail
locations and transport vehicles under petroleum tank release cleanup
provisions; requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) to assist small businesses to access certain federal research funds;
modifying the apportionment of gasoline used for all terrain vehicles;
eliminating the fee for monitoring licensing examinations for applicants for
licensure as an architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape
architect, or geoscience professional; establishing the Minnesota boxing
commission; specifying certain membership requirements, authorizing the
appointment of an executive director; requiring the commission to adopt rules to
include standards for the physical examination and condition of boxers,
nontraditional fighters and referees and certain rules relating to the conduct
of boxing exhibitions, bouts, fights and nontraditional fighting contests and
events; specifying certain commission meeting requirements and licensing duties;
specifying certain regulations for boxing contests, tough man contests and
nontraditional fighting contests; specifying commission jurisdictions;
specifying certain licensure and fees requirements and certain
simulcast license
requirements; specifying certain insurance requirements for boxers or
nontraditional fighters; imposing penalties for certain nonlicensed exhibitions;
defining certain terms; imposing a gross receipts tax on contests and
exhibitions for credit to the Minnesota boxing commission fund; providing for
the public facilities authority to establish a clean waters capital improvement
fund for grants to governmental units for the capital costs of wastewater
treatment facility projects to reduce the discharge of total phosphorus,
specifying certain project eligibility requirements, eligible costs and grant
amounts and priorities, authorizing the authority to charge grant recipients a
fee for administrative costs, limit; requiring the public facilities authority
to
establish a small community wastewater treatment fund for loans to
governmental units for projects to replace noncomplying ISTSs, specifying
certain project proposal and loan application and award requirements,
authorizing deferment of local special assessments to repay the loans; providing
for a total maximum daily load grants program; increasing the bonding authority
of the public facilities authority; increasing certain prior appropriations for
fish and wildlife habitat; repealing certain commissioner of agriculture
biennial report requirements

ARTICLE 6 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for TANF maintenance
of effort, for children and economic assistance grants, children and economic
assistance management, health care grants, health care management, continuing
care grants, continuing care management and state operated services, to the
commissioner of health for pandemic influenza preparedness, health information
technology and immigrant health, to the veterans nursing homes board, to health
related boards including the board of chiropractic examiners, board of medical
practice, board of physical therapy and emergency medical services board;
increasing the limit on the amount of excess funds transferred from the health
care access fund to the general fund; providing for interconnected electronic
health record grants program, requiring commissioner of health evaluation and
report to the legislature

ARTICLE 7 - TRANSPORTATION

Appropriating money to
the commissioner of transportation for infrastructure investment support, state
road construction and Mounds View land conveyance and to the commissioner of
public safety for driver services; modifying the deposit of the motor vehicle
transfer fee; requiring the commissioner of transportation to transfer a certain
amount to the state airports fund by an earlier date

ARTICLE 8 - TRANSFERS


Requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer any balance in the tax
relief account to the general fund; requiring the commissioner of finance to
transfer to the general fund budget reserve an amount equal to any unreserved
general fund budgetary balance
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