1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; updating Finance
1.3 	Department provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes
1.4 	2004, sections 16A.1286, subdivisions 2, 3; 16A.152,
1.5 	subdivision 2; 16A.1522, subdivision 1; repealing
1.6 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.30.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1286,
1.9 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.Billing procedures.  The commissioner may bill
1.11 	up to $7,520,000 in each fiscal year for statewide systems
1.12 	services provided to state agencies, judicial branch agencies,
1.13 	the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and
1.14 	Universities, and other entities.  Billing must be based only on
1.15 	usage of services relating to statewide systems provided by the
1.16 	Intertechnologies Division.  Each agency shall transfer from
1.17 	agency operating appropriations to the statewide systems account
1.18 	the amount billed by the commissioner.  Billing policies and
1.19 	procedures related to statewide systems services must be
1.20 	developed by the commissioner in consultation with the
1.21 	commissioners of employee relations and administration, the
1.22 	University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota State Colleges and
1.23 	Universities.

1.24 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1286,
1.25 	subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.26 		Subd. 3.Appropriation.  Money transferred into the
2.1 	account is appropriated to the commissioner to pay for statewide
2.2 	systems services during the biennium in which it is appropriated.

2.3 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.152,
2.4 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.5 		Subd. 2.Additional revenues; priority.  (a) If on the
2.6 	basis of a November forecast of general fund revenues and
2.7 	expenditures, the commissioner of finance determines that there
2.8 	will be a positive unrestricted budgetary general fund balance
2.9 	at the close of the biennium, the commissioner of finance must
2.10 	allocate money to the following accounts and purposes in
2.11 	priority order:
2.12 	(1) the cash flow account established in subdivision 1
2.13 	until that account reaches $350,000,000;
2.14 	(2) the budget reserve account established in subdivision
2.15 	1a until that account reaches $653,000,000;
2.16 	(3) the amount necessary to increase the aid payment
2.17 	schedule for school district aids and credits payments in
2.18 	section 127A.45 to not more than 90 percent rounded to the
2.19 	nearest tenth of a percent; and
2.20 	(4) the amount necessary to restore all or a portion of the
2.21 	net aid reductions under section 127A.441 and to reduce the
2.22 	property tax revenue recognition shift under section 123B.75,
2.23 	subdivision 5, paragraph (c), and Laws 2003, First Special
2.24 	Session chapter 9, article 5, section 34, as amended by Laws
2.25 	2003, First Special Session chapter 23, section 20, by the same
2.26 	amount.
2.27 	(b) The amounts necessary to meet the requirements of this
2.28 	section are appropriated from the general fund within two weeks
2.29 	after the forecast is released or, in the case of transfers
2.30 	under paragraph (a), clauses (3) and (4), as necessary to meet
2.31 	the appropriations schedules otherwise established in statute.
2.32 	(c) To the extent that a positive unrestricted budgetary
2.33 	general fund balance is projected, appropriations under this
2.34 	section must be made before any transfer is made under section
2.35 	16A.1522 takes effect.
2.36 	(d) The commissioner of finance shall certify the total
3.1 	dollar amount of the reductions under paragraph (a), clauses (3)
3.2 	and (4), to the commissioner of education.  The commissioner of
3.3 	education shall increase the aid payment percentage and reduce
3.4 	the property tax shift percentage by these amounts and apply
3.5 	those reductions to the current fiscal year and thereafter.

3.6 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1522,
3.7 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
3.8 		Subdivision 1.Forecast.  If, on the basis of a forecast
3.9 	of general fund revenues and expenditures in November of an
3.10 	even-numbered year or February of an odd-numbered year, the
3.11 	commissioner projects a positive unrestricted budgetary general
3.12 	fund balance at the close of the biennium that exceeds one-half
3.13 	of one percent of total general fund biennial revenues, the
3.14 	commissioner shall designate the entire balance as available for
3.15 	rebate to the taxpayers of this state. In forecasting,
3.16 	projecting, or designating the unrestricted budgetary general
3.17 	fund balance or general fund biennial revenue under this
3.18 	section, the commissioner shall not include any balance or
3.19 	revenue attributable to settlement payments received after July
3.20 	1, 1998, and before July 1, 2001, as defined in Section IIB of
3.21 	the settlement document, filed May 18, 1998, in State v. Philip
3.22 	Morris, Inc., No. C1-94-8565 (Minnesota District Court, Second
3.23 	Judicial District).

3.24 	Sec. 5. REPEALER.
 3.25 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.30, is repealed.