1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to financing and operation of state and local 
  1.3             government; making policy, technical, administrative, 
  1.4             enforcement, collection, refund, and other changes to 
  1.5             income, franchise, property, sales and use, estate, 
  1.6             vehicle registration, health care provider, cigarette 
  1.7             and tobacco products, insurance premiums, aggregate 
  1.8             removal, petroleum, gambling, mortgage registry, 
  1.9             occupation, net proceeds, and production taxes, and 
  1.10            other taxes and tax-related provisions; changing 
  1.11            provisions relating to fiscal disparities, 
  1.12            tax-forfeited lands, state debt collection procedures, 
  1.13            sustainable forest incentives programs, and tax data 
  1.14            provisions; conforming provisions to certain changes 
  1.15            in federal law; changing powers and duties of certain 
  1.16            local governments and state departments or agencies; 
  1.17            changing tax increment financing provisions; 
  1.18            authorizing establishment of an International Economic 
  1.19            Development Zone and providing for tax incentives; 
  1.20            imposing a franchise fee for operation of card clubs; 
  1.21            regulating tax preparers; imposing requirement on 
  1.22            vendors that contract with state to collect sales 
  1.23            taxes; changing provisions relating to certificates of 
  1.24            title of vehicles held by motor vehicle dealers; 
  1.25            changing or providing for studies and reports; 
  1.26            providing for task force on electronic filing and 
  1.27            recording of real estate documents; changing and 
  1.28            providing penalties; providing for allocation and 
  1.29            transfers of funds; clarifying appropriations; 
  1.30            appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
  1.31            sections 16C.03, by adding a subdivision; 16D.10; 
  1.32            97A.061, subdivision 1; 144F.01, subdivision 10; 
  1.33            168A.02, subdivision 2; 168A.11, subdivisions 1, 2, by 
  1.34            adding a subdivision; 240.30, by adding a subdivision; 
  1.35            270.02, subdivision 3; 270.65; 270.69, subdivision 4; 
  1.36            270B.01, subdivision 8; 270B.12, subdivision 9; 
  1.37            272.01, subdivision 2; 272.02, subdivisions 1a, 7, 22, 
  1.38            by adding subdivisions; 272.0212, subdivisions 1, 2; 
  1.39            272.029, subdivisions 4, 6; 273.11, by adding a 
  1.40            subdivision; 273.111, subdivision 6; 273.124, 
  1.41            subdivision 8, by adding a subdivision; 273.1384, 
  1.42            subdivision 1; 273.19, subdivision 1a; 274.14; 
  1.43            275.065, subdivision 1a; 275.07, subdivisions 1, 4; 
  1.44            276.04, subdivision 2; 282.016; 282.21; 282.224; 
  1.45            282.301; 287.04; 289A.08, subdivision 1; 289A.12, 
  1.46            subdivision 3; 289A.31, subdivision 2; 289A.37, 
  2.1             subdivision 5; 289A.38, subdivision 6; 289A.56, by 
  2.2             adding a subdivision; 289A.60, subdivision 6; 290.06, 
  2.3             subdivision 22, by adding a subdivision; 290.0674, 
  2.4             subdivision 2; 290.091, subdivision 3; 290.17, by 
  2.5             adding a subdivision; 290.191, subdivisions 2, 3, 5, 
  2.6             6, 10, 11, by adding a subdivision; 290.92, 
  2.7             subdivisions 1, 4b; 290.9705, subdivision 1; 290A.03, 
  2.8             subdivision 13; 290A.07, by adding a subdivision; 
  2.9             290C.05; 295.50, subdivision 4; 295.582; 296A.22, by 
  2.10            adding a subdivision; 297A.61, subdivision 4, by 
  2.11            adding subdivisions; 297A.62, by adding a subdivision; 
  2.12            297A.67, by adding a subdivision; 297A.68, by adding 
  2.13            subdivisions; 297A.70, by adding a subdivision; 
  2.14            297A.71, by adding a subdivision; 297A.87, 
  2.15            subdivisions 2, 3; 297A.995, subdivision 6; 297E.01, 
  2.16            subdivisions 5, 7, by adding subdivisions; 297E.07; 
  2.17            297F.01, by adding a subdivision; 297F.09, by adding a 
  2.18            subdivision; 297I.01, by adding subdivisions; 297I.05, 
  2.19            subdivisions 4, 5, by adding a subdivision; 298.01, 
  2.20            subdivisions 3, 4; 298.24, subdivision 1; 325D.33, 
  2.21            subdivision 6; 365.43, subdivision 1; 365.431; 
  2.22            469.1734, subdivision 6; 469.174, subdivision 11; 
  2.23            469.175, subdivision 4a; 469.176, subdivision 4d; 
  2.24            469.1761, subdivisions 1, 3; 469.1771, subdivision 5; 
  2.25            469.178, subdivision 1; 469.1831, subdivision 6; 
  2.26            473.843, subdivision 5; 473F.02, subdivisions 2, 7; 
  2.27            477A.11, subdivision 4, by adding a subdivision; 
  2.28            477A.12, subdivisions 1, 2; 477A.14, subdivision 1; 
  2.29            Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, sections 4A.02; 
  2.30            16A.152, subdivision 2; 116J.556; 168A.05, subdivision 
  2.31            1a; 270.06; 270.30, subdivisions 1, 5, 8; 270B.12, 
  2.32            subdivision 13; 272.02, subdivisions 47, 56, 65; 
  2.33            273.11, subdivision 1a; 273.13, subdivisions 22, 23; 
  2.34            274.014, subdivision 3; 275.065, subdivision 3; 
  2.35            276.112; 289A.02, subdivision 7; 289A.08, subdivision 
  2.36            16; 289A.19, subdivision 4; 289A.40, subdivision 2; 
  2.37            290.01, subdivisions 7, 19, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 31; 
  2.38            290.06, subdivision 2c; 290.0674, subdivision 1; 
  2.39            290.091, subdivision 2; 290.0921, subdivision 3; 
  2.40            290A.03, subdivision 15; 290C.10; 291.005, subdivision 
  2.41            1; 291.03, subdivision 1; 297A.668, subdivisions 1, 3, 
  2.42            5; 297A.669, subdivision 16; 297A.68, subdivisions 2, 
  2.43            5, 39; 297A.70, subdivision 8; 297F.08, subdivision 
  2.44            12; 297F.09, subdivisions 1, 2; 298.75, subdivision 1; 
  2.45            469.174, subdivision 25; 469.177, subdivision 1; 
  2.46            469.310, subdivision 11; 469.330, subdivision 11; 
  2.47            469.335; 469.337; 477A.011, subdivision 36; 477A.03, 
  2.48            subdivision 2b; Laws 1990, chapter 604, article 7, 
  2.49            section 29, subdivision 1, as amended; Laws 1998, 
  2.50            chapter 389, article 3, section 41; Laws 1998, chapter 
  2.51            389, article 3, section 42, subdivision 2, as amended; 
  2.52            Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 8, section 43, 
  2.53            subdivision 3; Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 11, 
  2.54            section 24, subdivisions 1, 2; Laws 2000, chapter 391, 
  2.55            section 1, subdivisions 1, 2, as amended; Laws 2001, 
  2.56            First Special Session chapter 10, article 2, section 
  2.57            77, as amended; Laws 2002, chapter 365, section 9; 
  2.58            Laws 2002, chapter 377, article 3, section 4; Laws 
  2.59            2003, First Special Session chapter 1, article 2, 
  2.60            section 123; Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 
  2.61            21, article 5, section 13; Laws 2003, First Special 
  2.62            Session chapter 21, article 6, section 9; proposing 
  2.63            coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 
  2.64            270; 272; 273; 290; 290C; 297F; 325F; 469; 473; 
  2.65            repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 273.19, 
  2.66            subdivision 5; 274.05; 275.15; 283.07; 297E.12, 
  2.67            subdivision 10; 469.176, subdivision 1a; 469.1766; 
  2.68            Laws 1975, chapter 287, section 5; Laws 2003, chapter 
  2.69            127, article 9, section 9, subdivision 4; Minnesota 
  2.70            Rules, parts 8093.2000; 8093.3000; 8130.0110, subpart 
  2.71            4; 8130.0200, subparts 5, 6; 8130.0400, subpart 9; 
  3.1             8130.1200, subparts 5, 6; 8130.2900; 8130.3100, 
  3.2             subpart 1; 8130.4000, subparts 1, 2; 8130.4200, 
  3.3             subpart 1; 8130.4400, subpart 3; 8130.5200; 8130.5600, 
  3.4             subpart 3; 8130.5800, subpart 5; 8130.7300, subpart 5; 
  3.5             8130.8800, subpart 4. 
  3.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  3.7                              ARTICLE 1 
  3.8               INCOME, FRANCHISE, AND OCCUPATION TAXES 
  3.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.08, 
  3.10  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  3.11     Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY; INDIVIDUALS.] (a) A taxpayer 
  3.12  must file a return for each taxable year the taxpayer is 
  3.13  required to file a return under section 6012 of the Internal 
  3.14  Revenue Code, except that: 
  3.15     (1) an individual who is not a Minnesota resident for any 
  3.16  part of the year is not required to file a Minnesota income tax 
  3.17  return if the individual's gross income derived from Minnesota 
  3.18  sources as determined under sections 290.081, paragraph (a), and 
  3.19  290.17, is less than the filing requirements for a single 
  3.20  individual who is a full year resident of Minnesota; and 
  3.21     (2) an individual who is a Minnesota resident is not 
  3.22  required to file a Minnesota income tax return if the 
  3.23  individual's gross income derived from Minnesota sources as 
  3.24  determined under section 290.17, less the amount of the 
  3.25  individual's gross income that consists of compensation paid to 
  3.26  members of the armed forces of the United States or United 
  3.27  Nations for active duty performed outside Minnesota, is less 
  3.28  than the filing requirements for a single individual who is a 
  3.29  full-year resident of Minnesota. 
  3.30     (b) The decedent's final income tax return, and other 
  3.31  income tax returns for prior years where the decedent had gross 
  3.32  income in excess of the minimum amount at which an individual is 
  3.33  required to file and did not file, must be filed by the 
  3.34  decedent's personal representative, if any.  If there is no 
  3.35  personal representative, the return or returns must be filed by 
  3.36  the transferees, as defined in section 289A.38, subdivision 13, 
  3.37  who receive property of the decedent. 
  3.38     (c) The term "gross income," as it is used in this section, 
  4.1   has the same meaning given it in section 290.01, subdivision 20. 
  4.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
  4.3   years beginning after December 31,2003. 
  4.4      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  4.5   289A.08, subdivision 16, is amended to read: 
  4.6      Subd. 16.  [TAX REFUND OR RETURN PREPARERS; ELECTRONIC 
  4.7   FILING; PAPER FILING FEE IMPOSED.] (a) A "tax refund or return 
  4.8   preparer," as defined in section 289A.60, subdivision 13, 
  4.9   paragraph (g), who prepared more than 500 100 Minnesota 
  4.10  individual income tax returns for the prior calendar year must 
  4.11  file all Minnesota individual income tax returns prepared for 
  4.12  the current calendar year by electronic means.  "Tax refund or 
  4.13  return preparer" does not include (i) an organization that meets 
  4.14  the requirements of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
  4.15  Code or (ii) an individual hired by such an organization for the 
  4.16  purpose of preparing tax returns. 
  4.17     (b) For tax returns prepared for the tax year beginning in 
  4.18  2001, the "500" in paragraph (a) is reduced to 250. 
  4.19     (c) For tax returns prepared for tax years beginning after 
  4.20  December 31, 2001, the "500" in paragraph (a) is reduced to 100. 
  4.21     (d) Paragraph (a) does not apply to a return if the 
  4.22  taxpayer has indicated on the return that the taxpayer did not 
  4.23  want the return filed by electronic means. 
  4.24     (e) (c) For each return that is not filed electronically by 
  4.25  a tax refund or return preparer under this subdivision, 
  4.26  including returns filed under paragraph (d) (b), a paper filing 
  4.27  fee of $5 is imposed upon the preparer.  The fee is collected 
  4.28  from the preparer in the same manner as income tax.  The fee 
  4.29  does not apply to returns that the commissioner requires to be 
  4.30  filed in paper form. 
  4.31     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for returns 
  4.32  filed for tax years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
  4.33     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  4.34  290.01, subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
  4.35     Subd. 7.  [RESIDENT.] (a) The term "resident" means any 
  4.36  individual domiciled in Minnesota, except that an individual is 
  5.1   not a "resident" for the period of time that the individual is 
  5.2   either: 
  5.3      (1) on active duty stationed outside of Minnesota while in 
  5.4   the armed forces of the United States or the United Nations; or 
  5.5      (2) a "qualified individual" as defined in section 
  5.6   911(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, if the qualified 
  5.7   individual notifies the county within three months of moving out 
  5.8   of the country that homestead status be revoked for the 
  5.9   Minnesota residence of the qualified individual, and the 
  5.10  property is not classified as a homestead while the individual 
  5.11  remains a qualified individual. 
  5.12     (b) "Resident" also means any individual domiciled outside 
  5.13  the state who maintains a place of abode in the state and spends 
  5.14  in the aggregate more than one-half of the tax year in 
  5.15  Minnesota, unless: 
  5.16     (1) the individual or the spouse of the individual is in 
  5.17  the armed forces of the United States; or 
  5.18     (2) the individual is covered under the reciprocity 
  5.19  provisions in section 290.081. 
  5.20     For purposes of this subdivision, presence within the state 
  5.21  for any part of a calendar day constitutes a day spent in the 
  5.22  state.  Individuals shall keep adequate records to substantiate 
  5.23  the days spent outside the state. 
  5.24     The term "abode" means a dwelling maintained by an 
  5.25  individual, whether or not owned by the individual and whether 
  5.26  or not occupied by the individual, and includes a dwelling place 
  5.27  owned or leased by the individual's spouse. 
  5.28     (c) Neither the commissioner nor any court shall consider 
  5.29  charitable contributions made by an individual within or without 
  5.30  the state in determining if the individual is domiciled in 
  5.31  Minnesota. 
  5.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
  5.33  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
  5.34     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  5.35  290.01, subdivision 19b, is amended to read: 
  5.36     Subd. 19b.  [SUBTRACTIONS FROM FEDERAL TAXABLE INCOME.] For 
  6.1   individuals, estates, and trusts, there shall be subtracted from 
  6.2   federal taxable income: 
  6.3      (1) interest income on obligations of any authority, 
  6.4   commission, or instrumentality of the United States to the 
  6.5   extent includable in taxable income for federal income tax 
  6.6   purposes but exempt from state income tax under the laws of the 
  6.7   United States; 
  6.8      (2) if included in federal taxable income, the amount of 
  6.9   any overpayment of income tax to Minnesota or to any other 
  6.10  state, for any previous taxable year, whether the amount is 
  6.11  received as a refund or as a credit to another taxable year's 
  6.12  income tax liability; 
  6.13     (3) the amount paid to others, less the amount used to 
  6.14  claim the credit allowed under section 290.0674, not to exceed 
  6.15  $1,625 for each qualifying child in grades kindergarten to 6 and 
  6.16  $2,500 for each qualifying child in grades 7 to 12, for tuition, 
  6.17  textbooks, and transportation of each qualifying child in 
  6.18  attending an elementary or secondary school situated in 
  6.19  Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, or Wisconsin, 
  6.20  wherein a resident of this state may legally fulfill the state's 
  6.21  compulsory attendance laws, which is not operated for profit, 
  6.22  and which adheres to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 
  6.23  1964 and chapter 363A.  For the purposes of this clause, 
  6.24  "tuition" includes fees or tuition as defined in section 
  6.25  290.0674, subdivision 1, clause (1).  As used in this clause, 
  6.26  "textbooks" includes books and other instructional materials and 
  6.27  equipment purchased or leased for use in elementary and 
  6.28  secondary schools in teaching only those subjects legally and 
  6.29  commonly taught in public elementary and secondary schools in 
  6.30  this state.  Equipment expenses qualifying for deduction 
  6.31  includes expenses as defined and limited in section 290.0674, 
  6.32  subdivision 1, clause (3).  "Textbooks" does not include 
  6.33  instructional books and materials used in the teaching of 
  6.34  religious tenets, doctrines, or worship, the purpose of which is 
  6.35  to instill such tenets, doctrines, or worship, nor does it 
  6.36  include books or materials for, or transportation to, 
  7.1   extracurricular activities including sporting events, musical or 
  7.2   dramatic events, speech activities, driver's education, or 
  7.3   similar programs.  For purposes of the subtraction provided by 
  7.4   this clause, "qualifying child" has the meaning given in section 
  7.5   32(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
  7.6      (4) income as provided under section 290.0802; 
  7.7      (5) to the extent included in federal adjusted gross 
  7.8   income, income realized on disposition of property exempt from 
  7.9   tax under section 290.491; 
  7.10     (6) to the extent included in federal taxable income, 
  7.11  postservice benefits for youth community service under section 
  7.12  124D.42 for volunteer service under United States Code, title 
  7.13  42, sections 12601 to 12604; 
  7.14     (7) to the extent not deducted in determining federal 
  7.15  taxable income by an individual who does not itemize deductions 
  7.16  for federal income tax purposes for the taxable year, an amount 
  7.17  equal to 50 percent of the excess of charitable contributions 
  7.18  allowable as a deduction for the taxable year under section 
  7.19  170(a) of the Internal Revenue Code over $500; 
  7.20     (8) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2008, the 
  7.21  amount of the federal small ethanol producer credit allowed 
  7.22  under section 40(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which is 
  7.23  included in gross income under section 87 of the Internal 
  7.24  Revenue Code; 
  7.25     (9) for individuals who are allowed a federal foreign tax 
  7.26  credit for taxes that do not qualify for a credit under section 
  7.27  290.06, subdivision 22, an amount equal to the carryover of 
  7.28  subnational foreign taxes for the taxable year, but not to 
  7.29  exceed the total subnational foreign taxes reported in claiming 
  7.30  the foreign tax credit.  For purposes of this clause, "federal 
  7.31  foreign tax credit" means the credit allowed under section 27 of 
  7.32  the Internal Revenue Code, and "carryover of subnational foreign 
  7.33  taxes" equals the carryover allowed under section 904(c) of the 
  7.34  Internal Revenue Code minus national level foreign taxes to the 
  7.35  extent they exceed the federal foreign tax credit; 
  7.36     (10) in each of the five tax years immediately following 
  8.1   the tax year in which an addition is required under subdivision 
  8.2   19a, clause (7), or subdivision 19c, clause (16), an amount 
  8.3   equal to one-fifth of the delayed depreciation.  For purposes of 
  8.4   this clause, "delayed depreciation" means the amount of the 
  8.5   addition made by the taxpayer under subdivision 19a, clause (7), 
  8.6   or, in the case of a corporation that converts to an "S" 
  8.7   corporation, the addition made under subdivision 19c, clause 
  8.8   (16), minus the positive value of any net operating loss under 
  8.9   section 172 of the Internal Revenue Code generated for the tax 
  8.10  year of the addition.  The resulting delayed depreciation cannot 
  8.11  be less than zero; and 
  8.12     (11) job opportunity building zone income as provided under 
  8.13  section 469.316.; 
  8.14     (12) the amount of compensation paid to members of the 
  8.15  Minnesota National Guard or other reserve components of the 
  8.16  United States military for active service performed in 
  8.17  Minnesota, excluding compensation for services performed under 
  8.18  the Active Guard Reserve (AGR) program.  For purposes of this 
  8.19  clause, "active service" means (i) state active service as 
  8.20  defined in section 190.05, subdivision 5a, clause (1); (ii) 
  8.21  federally funded state active service as defined in section 
  8.22  190.05, subdivision 5b; or (iii) federal active service as 
  8.23  defined in section 190.05, subdivision 5c, but "active service" 
  8.24  excludes services performed exclusively for purposes of basic 
  8.25  combat training, advanced individual training, annual training, 
  8.26  and periodic inactive duty training; special training 
  8.27  periodically made available to reserve members; and service 
  8.28  performed in accordance with section 190.08, subdivision 3; 
  8.29     (13) the amount of compensation paid to members of the 
  8.30  armed forces of the United States or United Nations for active 
  8.31  duty performed outside Minnesota; and 
  8.32     (14) to the extent not deducted in computing federal 
  8.33  taxable income, an amount, not to exceed $10,000, equal to 
  8.34  qualified expenses related to a qualified donor's donation, 
  8.35  while living, of one or more of the qualified donor's organs to 
  8.36  another person for human organ transplantation.  For purposes of 
  9.1   determining the extent to which expenses are deducted in 
  9.2   computing federal taxable income, travel and lodging expenses 
  9.3   related to an organ donation are considered deducted by an 
  9.4   individual in determining federal taxable income to the extent 
  9.5   they exceed 7.5 percent of federal adjusted gross income as 
  9.6   defined in section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code.  For 
  9.7   purposes of this clause, "organ" means all or part of an 
  9.8   individual's liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung, or bone 
  9.9   marrow; "human organ transplantation" means the medical 
  9.10  procedure by which transfer of a human organ is made from the 
  9.11  body of one person to the body of another person; "qualified 
  9.12  expenses" means unreimbursed expenses for both the individual 
  9.13  and the qualified donor for (i) travel, (ii) lodging, and (iii) 
  9.14  lost wages net of sick pay, except that such expenses may be 
  9.15  subtracted under this clause only once; and "qualified donor" 
  9.16  means the individual or the individual's dependent, as defined 
  9.17  in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code.  An individual may 
  9.18  claim the subtraction in this clause only once for each instance 
  9.19  of organ donation for transplantation during the taxable year in 
  9.20  which the human organ donation and transplantation occurs. 
  9.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> The changes to clause (10) of this 
  9.22  section are effective for taxable years beginning after December 
  9.23  31, 2002.  The rest of this section is effective for taxable 
  9.24  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
  9.25     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  9.26  290.01, subdivision 19c, is amended to read: 
  9.27     Subd. 19c.  [CORPORATIONS; ADDITIONS TO FEDERAL TAXABLE 
  9.28  INCOME.] For corporations, there shall be added to federal 
  9.29  taxable income: 
  9.30     (1) the amount of any deduction taken for federal income 
  9.31  tax purposes for income, excise, or franchise taxes based on net 
  9.32  income or related minimum taxes, including but not limited to 
  9.33  the tax imposed under section 290.0922, paid by the corporation 
  9.34  to Minnesota, another state, a political subdivision of another 
  9.35  state, the District of Columbia, or any foreign country or 
  9.36  possession of the United States; 
 10.1      (2) interest not subject to federal tax upon obligations 
 10.2   of:  the United States, its possessions, its agencies, or its 
 10.3   instrumentalities; the state of Minnesota or any other state, 
 10.4   any of its political or governmental subdivisions, any of its 
 10.5   municipalities, or any of its governmental agencies or 
 10.6   instrumentalities; the District of Columbia; or Indian tribal 
 10.7   governments; 
 10.8      (3) exempt-interest dividends received as defined in 
 10.9   section 852(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 10.10     (4) the amount of any net operating loss deduction taken 
 10.11  for federal income tax purposes under section 172 or 832(c)(10) 
 10.12  of the Internal Revenue Code or operations loss deduction under 
 10.13  section 810 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 10.14     (5) the amount of any special deductions taken for federal 
 10.15  income tax purposes under sections 241 to 247 of the Internal 
 10.16  Revenue Code; 
 10.17     (6) losses from the business of mining, as defined in 
 10.18  section 290.05, subdivision 1, clause (a), that are not subject 
 10.19  to Minnesota income tax; 
 10.20     (7) the amount of any capital losses deducted for federal 
 10.21  income tax purposes under sections 1211 and 1212 of the Internal 
 10.22  Revenue Code; 
 10.23     (8) the exempt foreign trade income of a foreign sales 
 10.24  corporation under sections 921(a) and 291 of the Internal 
 10.25  Revenue Code; 
 10.26     (9) the amount of percentage depletion deducted under 
 10.27  sections 611 through 614 and 291 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 10.28     (10) for certified pollution control facilities placed in 
 10.29  service in a taxable year beginning before December 31, 1986, 
 10.30  and for which amortization deductions were elected under section 
 10.31  169 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended through 
 10.32  December 31, 1985, the amount of the amortization deduction 
 10.33  allowed in computing federal taxable income for those 
 10.34  facilities; 
 10.35     (11) the amount of any deemed dividend from a foreign 
 10.36  operating corporation determined pursuant to section 290.17, 
 11.1   subdivision 4, paragraph (g); 
 11.2      (12) the amount of any environmental tax paid under section 
 11.3   59(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 11.4      (13) the amount of a partner's pro rata share of net income 
 11.5   which does not flow through to the partner because the 
 11.6   partnership elected to pay the tax on the income under section 
 11.7   6242(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 11.8      (14) the amount of net income excluded under section 114 of 
 11.9   the Internal Revenue Code; 
 11.10     (15) any increase in subpart F income, as defined in 
 11.11  section 952(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, for the taxable 
 11.12  year when subpart F income is calculated without regard to the 
 11.13  provisions of section 614 of Public Law 107-147; and 
 11.14     (16) 80 percent of the depreciation deduction allowed under 
 11.15  section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For purposes of 
 11.16  this clause, if the taxpayer has an activity that in the taxable 
 11.17  year generates a deduction for depreciation under section 168(k) 
 11.18  and the activity generates a loss for the taxable year that the 
 11.19  taxpayer is not allowed to claim for the taxable year, "the 
 11.20  depreciation allowed under section 168(k)" for the taxable year 
 11.21  is limited to excess of the depreciation claimed by the activity 
 11.22  under section 168(k) over the amount of the loss from the 
 11.23  activity that is not allowed in the taxable year.  In succeeding 
 11.24  taxable years when the losses not allowed in the taxable year 
 11.25  are allowed, the depreciation under section 168(k) is allowed; 
 11.26  and 
 11.27     (17) the excess of deductions over income attributable to 
 11.28  tax-exempt property, as provided under section 290.0711. 
 11.29     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 11.30  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 11.31  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 11.32  31, 2003. 
 11.33     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 11.34  290.01, subdivision 19d, is amended to read: 
 11.35     Subd. 19d.  [CORPORATIONS; MODIFICATIONS DECREASING FEDERAL 
 11.36  TAXABLE INCOME.] For corporations, there shall be subtracted 
 12.1   from federal taxable income after the increases provided in 
 12.2   subdivision 19c:  
 12.3      (1) the amount of foreign dividend gross-up added to gross 
 12.4   income for federal income tax purposes under section 78 of the 
 12.5   Internal Revenue Code; 
 12.6      (2) the amount of salary expense not allowed for federal 
 12.7   income tax purposes due to claiming the federal jobs credit 
 12.8   under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 12.9      (3) any dividend (not including any distribution in 
 12.10  liquidation) paid within the taxable year by a national or state 
 12.11  bank to the United States, or to any instrumentality of the 
 12.12  United States exempt from federal income taxes, on the preferred 
 12.13  stock of the bank owned by the United States or the 
 12.14  instrumentality; 
 12.15     (4) amounts disallowed for intangible drilling costs due to 
 12.16  differences between this chapter and the Internal Revenue Code 
 12.17  in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1987, as follows: 
 12.18     (i) to the extent the disallowed costs are represented by 
 12.19  physical property, an amount equal to the allowance for 
 12.20  depreciation under Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
 12.21  subdivision 7, subject to the modifications contained in 
 12.22  subdivision 19e; and 
 12.23     (ii) to the extent the disallowed costs are not represented 
 12.24  by physical property, an amount equal to the allowance for cost 
 12.25  depletion under Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
 12.26  subdivision 8; 
 12.27     (5) the deduction for capital losses pursuant to sections 
 12.28  1211 and 1212 of the Internal Revenue Code, except that: 
 12.29     (i) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning 
 12.30  after December 31, 1986, capital loss carrybacks shall not be 
 12.31  allowed; 
 12.32     (ii) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning
 12.33  after December 31, 1986, a capital loss carryover to each of the 
 12.34  15 taxable years succeeding the loss year shall be allowed; 
 12.35     (iii) for capital losses incurred in taxable years 
 12.36  beginning before January 1, 1987, a capital loss carryback to 
 13.1   each of the three taxable years preceding the loss year, subject 
 13.2   to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.16, 
 13.3   shall be allowed; and 
 13.4      (iv) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning
 13.5   before January 1, 1987, a capital loss carryover to each of the 
 13.6   five taxable years succeeding the loss year to the extent such 
 13.7   loss was not used in a prior taxable year and subject to the 
 13.8   provisions of Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.16, shall be 
 13.9   allowed; 
 13.10     (6) an amount for interest and expenses relating to income 
 13.11  not taxable for federal income tax purposes, if (i) the income 
 13.12  is taxable under this chapter and (ii) the interest and expenses 
 13.13  were disallowed as deductions under the provisions of section 
 13.14  171(a)(2), 265 or 291 of the Internal Revenue Code in computing 
 13.15  federal taxable income; 
 13.16     (7) in the case of mines, oil and gas wells, other natural 
 13.17  deposits, and timber for which percentage depletion was 
 13.18  disallowed pursuant to subdivision 19c, clause (11), a 
 13.19  reasonable allowance for depletion based on actual cost.  In the 
 13.20  case of leases the deduction must be apportioned between the 
 13.21  lessor and lessee in accordance with rules prescribed by the 
 13.22  commissioner.  In the case of property held in trust, the 
 13.23  allowable deduction must be apportioned between the income 
 13.24  beneficiaries and the trustee in accordance with the pertinent 
 13.25  provisions of the trust, or if there is no provision in the 
 13.26  instrument, on the basis of the trust's income allocable to 
 13.27  each; 
 13.28     (8) for certified pollution control facilities placed in 
 13.29  service in a taxable year beginning before December 31, 1986, 
 13.30  and for which amortization deductions were elected under section 
 13.31  169 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended through 
 13.32  December 31, 1985, an amount equal to the allowance for 
 13.33  depreciation under Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
 13.34  subdivision 7; 
 13.35     (9) amounts included in federal taxable income that are due 
 13.36  to refunds of income, excise, or franchise taxes based on net 
 14.1   income or related minimum taxes paid by the corporation to 
 14.2   Minnesota, another state, a political subdivision of another 
 14.3   state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country or 
 14.4   possession of the United States to the extent that the taxes 
 14.5   were added to federal taxable income under section 290.01, 
 14.6   subdivision 19c, clause (1), in a prior taxable year; 
 14.7      (10) 80 percent of royalties, fees, or other like income 
 14.8   accrued or received from a foreign operating corporation or a 
 14.9   foreign corporation which is part of the same unitary business 
 14.10  as the receiving corporation; 
 14.11     (11) income or gains from the business of mining as defined 
 14.12  in section 290.05, subdivision 1, clause (a), that are not 
 14.13  subject to Minnesota franchise tax; 
 14.14     (12) the amount of handicap access expenditures in the 
 14.15  taxable year which are not allowed to be deducted or capitalized 
 14.16  under section 44(d)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 14.17     (13) the amount of qualified research expenses not allowed 
 14.18  for federal income tax purposes under section 280C(c) of the 
 14.19  Internal Revenue Code, but only to the extent that the amount 
 14.20  exceeds the amount of the credit allowed under section 290.068; 
 14.21     (14) the amount of salary expenses not allowed for federal 
 14.22  income tax purposes due to claiming the Indian employment credit 
 14.23  under section 45A(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 14.24     (15) the amount of any refund of environmental taxes paid 
 14.25  under section 59A of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 14.26     (16) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2008, 
 14.27  the amount of the federal small ethanol producer credit allowed 
 14.28  under section 40(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which is 
 14.29  included in gross income under section 87 of the Internal 
 14.30  Revenue Code; 
 14.31     (17) for a corporation whose foreign sales corporation, as 
 14.32  defined in section 922 of the Internal Revenue Code, constituted 
 14.33  a foreign operating corporation during any taxable year ending 
 14.34  before January 1, 1995, and a return was filed by August 15, 
 14.35  1996, claiming the deduction under section 290.21, subdivision 
 14.36  4, for income received from the foreign operating corporation, 
 15.1   an amount equal to 1.23 multiplied by the amount of income 
 15.2   excluded under section 114 of the Internal Revenue Code, 
 15.3   provided the income is not income of a foreign operating 
 15.4   company; 
 15.5      (18) any decrease in subpart F income, as defined in 
 15.6   section 952(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, for the taxable 
 15.7   year when subpart F income is calculated without regard to the 
 15.8   provisions of section 614 of Public Law 107-147; and 
 15.9      (19) in each of the five tax years immediately following 
 15.10  the tax year in which an addition is required under subdivision 
 15.11  19c, clause (16), an amount equal to one-fifth of the delayed 
 15.12  depreciation.  For purposes of this clause, "delayed 
 15.13  depreciation" means the amount of the addition made by the 
 15.14  taxpayer under subdivision 19c, clause (16).  The resulting 
 15.15  delayed depreciation cannot be less than zero; and 
 15.16     (20) amounts allowed as carryover subtractions attributable 
 15.17  to tax-exempt property, as provided under section 290.0711. 
 15.18     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 15.19  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 15.20  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 15.21  31, 2003. 
 15.22     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.0674, 
 15.23  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 15.24     Subd. 2.  [LIMITATIONS.] (a) For claimants with income not 
 15.25  greater than $33,500, the maximum credit allowed is $1,000 per 
 15.26  qualifying child and $2,000 per family for a family with one 
 15.27  qualifying child and $2,000 for a family with two or more 
 15.28  qualifying children.  No credit is allowed for education-related 
 15.29  expenses for claimants with income greater than $37,500.  The 
 15.30  maximum credit per for a family with one qualifying child is 
 15.31  reduced by $1 for each $4 of household income over $33,500, and 
 15.32  the maximum credit per for a family with more than one 
 15.33  qualifying child is reduced by $2 for each $4 of household 
 15.34  income over $33,500, but in no case is the credit less than zero.
 15.35     For purposes of this section "income" has the meaning given 
 15.36  in section 290.067, subdivision 2a.  In the case of a married 
 16.1   claimant, a credit is not allowed unless a joint income tax 
 16.2   return is filed. 
 16.3      (b) For a nonresident or part-year resident, the credit 
 16.4   determined under subdivision 1 and the maximum credit amount in 
 16.5   paragraph (a) must be allocated using the percentage calculated 
 16.6   in section 290.06, subdivision 2c, paragraph (e). 
 16.7      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 16.8   years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 16.9      Sec. 8.  [290.0711] [TAX-EXEMPT PROPERTY; LIMITS ON TAX 
 16.10  BENEFITS.] 
 16.11     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] (a) For purposes of this 
 16.12  section, the following terms have the meanings given. 
 16.13     (b) "Tax-exempt use property" has the meaning given in 
 16.14  section 168(h) of the Internal Revenue Code, except the 
 16.15  provisions of clause (2)(C)(ii) and paragraph (3) do not apply.  
 16.16  If tangible property is subject to a service contract or other 
 16.17  similar arrangement between a taxpayer or any related person and 
 16.18  any tax-exempt entity, the contract or arrangement must be 
 16.19  treated in the same manner as if it is tax-exempt property under 
 16.20  this subdivision. 
 16.21     (c) "Taxpayer" means a corporation, subject to the 
 16.22  corporate franchise tax under this chapter, that is claiming the 
 16.23  deduction on the federal return and any member of its unitary 
 16.24  group. 
 16.25     Subd. 2.  [ADDITION OF EXCESS DEDUCTIONS.] In computing 
 16.26  Minnesota taxable income, the taxpayer must add to federal 
 16.27  taxable income the excess of: 
 16.28     (1) the aggregate amount of deductions claimed in computing 
 16.29  federal taxable income with respect to tax-exempt use property; 
 16.30  over 
 16.31     (2) the aggregate amount of income includable in federal 
 16.32  gross income of the taxpayer for the taxable year with respect 
 16.33  to tax-exempt use property. 
 16.34     Subd. 3.  [CARRYOVER SUBTRACTION.] Unless otherwise 
 16.35  provided in this section, any addition under subdivision 2 may 
 16.36  be carried to a later taxable year and claimed as a subtraction 
 17.1   reducing the federal taxable income of the taxpayer to the 
 17.2   extent that income with respect to tax-exempt use property 
 17.3   exceeds the amount of deductions claimed with respect to 
 17.4   tax-exempt properties in computing federal taxable income for 
 17.5   that taxable year. 
 17.6      Subd. 4.  [SPECIAL RULES.] (a) The following rules apply to 
 17.7   the computation of the addition under subdivision 2. 
 17.8      (b) Subdivision 2 applies to deductions directly allocable 
 17.9   to any tax-exempt use property and to a proper share of other 
 17.10  deductions that are not directly allocable to tax exempt. 
 17.11     (c) If property of a taxpayer ceases to be tax-exempt use 
 17.12  property in the hands of the taxpayer, any unused carryover 
 17.13  under subdivision 3 with respect to the property is only 
 17.14  allowable as a subtraction for any taxable year to the extent of 
 17.15  any net income of the taxpayer that is allocable to the property 
 17.16  that ceased to be tax-exempt property. 
 17.17     (d) If during the taxable year, a taxpayer disposes of the 
 17.18  taxpayer's entire interest in tax-exempt use property, the 
 17.19  taxpayer may claim a subtraction for the lesser of: 
 17.20     (1) the amount of gain realized on the disposition and 
 17.21  includable in federal taxable income; or 
 17.22     (2) the amount of additions under subdivision 2 
 17.23  attributable to the property and not claimed in a later year 
 17.24  under subdivision 3. 
 17.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 17.26  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 17.27  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 17.28  31, 2003. 
 17.29     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 17.30  290.091, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 17.31     Subd. 2.  [DEFINITIONS.] For purposes of the tax imposed by 
 17.32  this section, the following terms have the meanings given: 
 17.33     (a) "Alternative minimum taxable income" means the sum of 
 17.34  the following for the taxable year: 
 17.35     (1) the taxpayer's federal alternative minimum taxable 
 17.36  income as defined in section 55(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue 
 18.1   Code; 
 18.2      (2) the taxpayer's itemized deductions allowed in computing 
 18.3   federal alternative minimum taxable income, but excluding: 
 18.4      (i) the charitable contribution deduction under section 170 
 18.5   of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 18.6      (A) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2004, to 
 18.7   the extent that the deduction exceeds 1.0 percent of adjusted 
 18.8   gross income, as defined; 
 18.9      (B) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2003, 
 18.10  and before January 1, 2005, to the extent the deduction exceeds 
 18.11  0.25 percent of adjusted gross income; 
 18.12     (C) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004, 
 18.13  and before January 1, 2006, to the extent the deduction exceeds 
 18.14  0.1 percent of adjusted gross income; 
 18.15     (D) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2005, to 
 18.16  the full extent of the deduction. 
 18.17     For purposes of this clause, "adjusted gross income" has 
 18.18  the meaning given in section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 18.19     (ii) the medical expense deduction; 
 18.20     (iii) the casualty, theft, and disaster loss deduction; and 
 18.21     (iv) the impairment-related work expenses of a disabled 
 18.22  person; 
 18.23     (3) for depletion allowances computed under section 613A(c) 
 18.24  of the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to each property (as 
 18.25  defined in section 614 of the Internal Revenue Code), to the 
 18.26  extent not included in federal alternative minimum taxable 
 18.27  income, the excess of the deduction for depletion allowable 
 18.28  under section 611 of the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable 
 18.29  year over the adjusted basis of the property at the end of the 
 18.30  taxable year (determined without regard to the depletion 
 18.31  deduction for the taxable year); 
 18.32     (4) to the extent not included in federal alternative 
 18.33  minimum taxable income, the amount of the tax preference for 
 18.34  intangible drilling cost under section 57(a)(2) of the Internal 
 18.35  Revenue Code determined without regard to subparagraph (E); 
 18.36     (5) to the extent not included in federal alternative 
 19.1   minimum taxable income, the amount of interest income as 
 19.2   provided by section 290.01, subdivision 19a, clause (1); and 
 19.3      (6) the amount of addition required by section 290.01, 
 19.4   subdivision 19a, clause (7); 
 19.5      less the sum of the amounts determined under the following: 
 19.6      (1) interest income as defined in section 290.01, 
 19.7   subdivision 19b, clause (1); 
 19.8      (2) an overpayment of state income tax as provided by 
 19.9   section 290.01, subdivision 19b, clause (2), to the extent 
 19.10  included in federal alternative minimum taxable income; 
 19.11     (3) the amount of investment interest paid or accrued 
 19.12  within the taxable year on indebtedness to the extent that the 
 19.13  amount does not exceed net investment income, as defined in 
 19.14  section 163(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Interest does 
 19.15  not include amounts deducted in computing federal adjusted gross 
 19.16  income; and 
 19.17     (4) amounts subtracted from federal taxable income as 
 19.18  provided by section 290.01, subdivision 19b, clauses (10) and 
 19.19  (11) to (14). 
 19.20     In the case of an estate or trust, alternative minimum 
 19.21  taxable income must be computed as provided in section 59(c) of 
 19.22  the Internal Revenue Code. 
 19.23     (b) "Investment interest" means investment interest as 
 19.24  defined in section 163(d)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 19.25     (c) "Tentative minimum tax" equals 6.4 percent of 
 19.26  alternative minimum taxable income after subtracting the 
 19.27  exemption amount determined under subdivision 3. 
 19.28     (d) "Regular tax" means the tax that would be imposed under 
 19.29  this chapter (without regard to this section and section 
 19.30  290.032), reduced by the sum of the nonrefundable credits 
 19.31  allowed under this chapter.  
 19.32     (e) "Net minimum tax" means the minimum tax imposed by this 
 19.33  section. 
 19.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 19.35  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 19.36     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.091, 
 20.1   subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 20.2      Subd. 3.  [EXEMPTION AMOUNT.] (a) For purposes of computing 
 20.3   the alternative minimum tax, the exemption amount is: 
 20.4      (1) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2004, the 
 20.5   exemption determined under section 55(d) of the Internal Revenue 
 20.6   Code, as amended through December 31, 1992; 
 20.7      (2) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2003, 
 20.8   and before January 1, 2005, $41,000 for married couples filing 
 20.9   joint returns; $20,500 for married individuals filing separate 
 20.10  returns, estates, and trusts; and $30,750 for unmarried 
 20.11  individuals; 
 20.12     (3) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004, 
 20.13  and before January 1, 2006, $42,000 for married couples filing 
 20.14  joint returns; $21,000 for married individuals filing separate 
 20.15  returns, estates, and trusts; and $31,500 for unmarried 
 20.16  individuals; 
 20.17     (4) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2005, 
 20.18  $44,000 for married couples filing joint returns; $22,000 for 
 20.19  married individuals filing separate returns, estates, and 
 20.20  trusts; and $33,000 for unmarried individuals. 
 20.21     (b) The exemption amount determined under this subdivision 
 20.22  is subject to the phase out under section 55(d)(3) of the 
 20.23  Internal Revenue Code, except that alternative minimum taxable 
 20.24  income as determined under this section must be substituted in 
 20.25  the computation of the phase out under section 55(d)(3). 
 20.26     (c) For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2006, 
 20.27  the exemption amount under paragraph (a), clause (4), must be 
 20.28  adjusted for inflation.  The commissioner shall make the 
 20.29  inflation adjustments in accordance with section 1(f) of the 
 20.30  Internal Revenue Code except that for the purposes of this 
 20.31  subdivision the percentage increase must be determined from the 
 20.32  year starting September 1, 2005, and ending August 31, 2006, as 
 20.33  the base year for adjusting for inflation for the tax year 
 20.34  beginning after December 31, 2006.  The determination of the 
 20.35  commissioner under this subdivision is not a rule under the 
 20.36  Administrative Procedure Act. 
 21.1      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 21.2   years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 21.3      Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.17, is 
 21.4   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 21.5      Subd. 8.  [FOREIGN OPERATING CORPORATIONS; COMMISSIONER'S 
 21.6   AUTHORITY.] (a) This subdivision applies to a unitary business 
 21.7   that includes a foreign operating corporation. 
 21.8      (b) The commissioner may disqualify a corporation as a 
 21.9   foreign operating corporation, if the commissioner finds that: 
 21.10     (1) there was no substantial independent business purpose, 
 21.11  other than the reduction of tax, for establishment of the 
 21.12  foreign operating corporation; 
 21.13     (2) the income of the foreign operating corporation, on a 
 21.14  multiyear basis, is primarily derived from or fairly 
 21.15  attributable to domestic operations or sources of the unitary 
 21.16  business; or 
 21.17     (3) a significant amount of inter-company transactions 
 21.18  involving the foreign operating corporation lack economic 
 21.19  substance or do not reflect market prices. 
 21.20     Disqualification of a foreign operating corporation under 
 21.21  this paragraph applies for the taxable year and two subsequent 
 21.22  taxable years. 
 21.23     (c) The commissioner may disallow all or part of the 
 21.24  subtraction for royalties, fees, and like income under section 
 21.25  290.01, subdivision 19d, clause (10), or all or part of the 
 21.26  deduction for deemed dividends of the foreign operating 
 21.27  corporation under section 290.21, if the commissioner finds that 
 21.28  the income or transactions on which the deductions are based: 
 21.29     (1) lack economic substance or fail to reflect market 
 21.30  prices; or 
 21.31     (2) have no substantial independent business purpose other 
 21.32  than the reduction of tax. 
 21.33     (d) The amount of any tax imposed as a result of a 
 21.34  commissioner finding under this subdivision is increased by a 
 21.35  surtax of 15 percent. 
 21.36     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective January 1, 
 22.1   2005, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 22.2      Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 22.3   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 22.4      Subd. 2.  [APPORTIONMENT FORMULA OF GENERAL APPLICATION.] 
 22.5   Except for those trades or businesses required to use a 
 22.6   different formula under subdivision 3 or section 290.36, and for 
 22.7   those trades or businesses that receive permission to use some 
 22.8   other method under section 290.20 or under subdivision 4, a 
 22.9   trade or business required to apportion its net income must 
 22.10  apportion its income to this state on the basis of the 
 22.11  percentage obtained by taking the sum of:  
 22.12     (1) 75 percent of the percentage which the sales made 
 22.13  within this state in connection with the trade or business 
 22.14  during the tax period are of the total sales wherever made in 
 22.15  connection with the trade or business during the tax period; 
 22.16     (2) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the total tangible 
 22.17  property used by the taxpayer in this state in connection with 
 22.18  the trade or business during the tax period is of the total 
 22.19  tangible property, wherever located, used by the taxpayer in 
 22.20  connection with the trade or business during the tax period; and 
 22.21     (3) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the taxpayer's 
 22.22  total payrolls paid or incurred in this state or paid in respect 
 22.23  to labor performed in this state in connection with the trade or 
 22.24  business during the tax period are of the taxpayer's total 
 22.25  payrolls paid or incurred in connection with the trade or 
 22.26  business during the tax period.  
 22.27     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2004, but before 
 22.28  January 1, 2006, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 22.29  shall be 78 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 22.30  (2) and (3) shall be 11 percent. 
 22.31     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2005, but before 
 22.32  January 1, 2007, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 22.33  shall be 81 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 22.34  (2) and (3) shall be 9.5 percent. 
 22.35     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2006, but before 
 22.36  January 1, 2008, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 23.1   shall be 84 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 23.2   (2) and (3) shall be 8 percent. 
 23.3      For tax years beginning after December 31, 2007, but before 
 23.4   January 1, 2009, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 23.5   shall be 87 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 23.6   (2) and (3) shall be 6.5 percent. 
 23.7      For tax years beginning after December 31, 2008, but before 
 23.8   January 1, 2010, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 23.9   shall be 90 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 23.10  (2) and (3) shall be 5 percent. 
 23.11     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2009, but before 
 23.12  January 1, 2011, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 23.13  shall be 93 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 23.14  (2) and (3) shall be 3.5 percent. 
 23.15     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2010, but before 
 23.16  January 1, 2012, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 23.17  shall be 96 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 23.18  (2) and (3) shall be 2 percent. 
 23.19     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2011, the 
 23.20  apportionment percentage in clause (1) shall be 100 percent and 
 23.21  the apportionment percentages in clauses (2) and (3) shall be 
 23.22  zero percent. 
 23.23     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 23.24  following final enactment. 
 23.25     Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 23.26  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 23.27     Subd. 3.  [APPORTIONMENT FORMULA FOR FINANCIAL 
 23.28  INSTITUTIONS.] Except for an investment company required to 
 23.29  apportion its income under section 290.36, a financial 
 23.30  institution that is required to apportion its net income must 
 23.31  apportion its net income to this state on the basis of the 
 23.32  percentage obtained by taking the sum of:  
 23.33     (1) 75 percent of the percentage which the receipts from 
 23.34  within this state in connection with the trade or business 
 23.35  during the tax period are of the total receipts in connection 
 23.36  with the trade or business during the tax period, from wherever 
 24.1   derived; 
 24.2      (2) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the sum of the 
 24.3   total tangible property used by the taxpayer in this state and 
 24.4   the intangible property owned by the taxpayer and attributed to 
 24.5   this state in connection with the trade or business during the 
 24.6   tax period is of the sum of the total tangible property, 
 24.7   wherever located, used by the taxpayer and the intangible 
 24.8   property owned by the taxpayer and attributed to all states in 
 24.9   connection with the trade or business during the tax period; and 
 24.10     (3) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the taxpayer's 
 24.11  total payrolls paid or incurred in this state or paid in respect 
 24.12  to labor performed in this state in connection with the trade or 
 24.13  business during the tax period are of the taxpayer's total 
 24.14  payrolls paid or incurred in connection with the trade or 
 24.15  business during the tax period. 
 24.16     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2004, but before 
 24.17  January 1, 2006, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 24.18  shall be 78 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 24.19  (2) and (3) shall be 11 percent. 
 24.20     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2005, but before 
 24.21  January 1, 2007, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 24.22  shall be 81 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 24.23  (2) and (3) shall be 9.5 percent. 
 24.24     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2006, but before 
 24.25  January 1, 2008, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 24.26  shall be 84 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 24.27  (2) and (3) shall be 8 percent. 
 24.28     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2007, but before 
 24.29  January 1, 2009, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 24.30  shall be 87 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 24.31  (2) and (3) shall be 6.5 percent. 
 24.32     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2008, but before 
 24.33  January 1, 2010, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 24.34  shall be 90 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 24.35  (2) and (3) shall be 5 percent. 
 24.36     For tax years beginning after December 31, 2009, but before 
 25.1   January 1, 2011, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 25.2   shall be 93 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 25.3   (2) and (3) shall be 3.5 percent. 
 25.4      For tax years beginning after December 31, 2010, but before 
 25.5   January 1, 2012, the apportionment percentage in clause (1) 
 25.6   shall be 96 percent and the apportionment percentages in clauses 
 25.7   (2) and (3) shall be 2 percent. 
 25.8      For tax years beginning after December 31, 2011, the 
 25.9   apportionment percentage in clause (1) shall be 100 percent and 
 25.10  the apportionment percentages in clauses (2) and (3) shall be 
 25.11  zero percent. 
 25.12     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 25.13  following final enactment. 
 25.14     Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 25.15  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
 25.16     Subd. 5.  [DETERMINATION OF SALES FACTOR.] For purposes of 
 25.17  this section, the following rules apply in determining the sales 
 25.18  factor.  
 25.19     (a) The sales factor includes all sales, gross earnings, or 
 25.20  receipts received in the ordinary course of the business, except 
 25.21  that the following types of income are not included in the sales 
 25.22  factor: 
 25.23     (1) interest; 
 25.24     (2) dividends; 
 25.25     (3) sales of capital assets as defined in section 1221 of 
 25.26  the Internal Revenue Code; 
 25.27     (4) sales of property used in the trade or business, except 
 25.28  sales of leased property of a type which is regularly sold as 
 25.29  well as leased; 
 25.30     (5) sales of debt instruments as defined in section 
 25.31  1275(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code or sales of stock; and 
 25.32     (6) royalties, fees, or other like income of a type which 
 25.33  qualify for a subtraction from federal taxable income under 
 25.34  section 290.01, subdivision 19(d)(11); and 
 25.35     (7) lease or other payments received for tax-exempt 
 25.36  property, as defined in and subject to section 290.0711.  
 26.1      (b) Sales of tangible personal property are made within 
 26.2   this state if the property is received by a purchaser at a point 
 26.3   within this state, and the taxpayer is taxable in this state, 
 26.4   regardless of the f.o.b. point, other conditions of the sale, or 
 26.5   the ultimate destination of the property. 
 26.6      (c) Tangible personal property delivered to a common or 
 26.7   contract carrier or foreign vessel for delivery to a purchaser 
 26.8   in another state or nation is a sale in that state or nation, 
 26.9   regardless of f.o.b. point or other conditions of the sale.  
 26.10     (d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c), when 
 26.11  intoxicating liquor, wine, fermented malt beverages, cigarettes, 
 26.12  or tobacco products are sold to a purchaser who is licensed by a 
 26.13  state or political subdivision to resell this property only 
 26.14  within the state of ultimate destination, the sale is made in 
 26.15  that state.  
 26.16     (e) Sales made by or through a corporation that is 
 26.17  qualified as a domestic international sales corporation under 
 26.18  section 992 of the Internal Revenue Code are not considered to 
 26.19  have been made within this state.  
 26.20     (f) Sales, rents, royalties, and other income in connection 
 26.21  with real property is attributed to the state in which the 
 26.22  property is located.  
 26.23     (g) Receipts from the lease or rental of tangible personal 
 26.24  property, including finance leases and true leases, must be 
 26.25  attributed to this state if the property is located in this 
 26.26  state and to other states if the property is not located in this 
 26.27  state.  Receipts from the lease or rental of moving property 
 26.28  including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, rolling stock, 
 26.29  aircraft, vessels, or mobile equipment are included in the 
 26.30  numerator of the receipts factor to the extent that the property 
 26.31  is used in this state.  The extent of the use of moving property 
 26.32  is determined as follows: 
 26.33     (1) A motor vehicle is used wholly in the state in which it 
 26.34  is registered.  
 26.35     (2) The extent that rolling stock is used in this state is 
 26.36  determined by multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental 
 27.1   of the rolling stock by a fraction, the numerator of which is 
 27.2   the miles traveled within this state by the leased or rented 
 27.3   rolling stock and the denominator of which is the total miles 
 27.4   traveled by the leased or rented rolling stock. 
 27.5      (3) The extent that an aircraft is used in this state is 
 27.6   determined by multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental 
 27.7   of the aircraft by a fraction, the numerator of which is the 
 27.8   number of landings of the aircraft in this state and the 
 27.9   denominator of which is the total number of landings of the 
 27.10  aircraft. 
 27.11     (4) The extent that a vessel, mobile equipment, or other 
 27.12  mobile property is used in the state is determined by 
 27.13  multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental of the 
 27.14  property by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of 
 27.15  days during the taxable year the property was in this state and 
 27.16  the denominator of which is the total days in the taxable year.  
 27.17     (h) Royalties and other income not described in paragraph 
 27.18  (a), clause (6), received for the use of or for the privilege of 
 27.19  using intangible property, including patents, know-how, 
 27.20  formulas, designs, processes, patterns, copyrights, trade names, 
 27.21  service names, franchises, licenses, contracts, customer lists, 
 27.22  or similar items, must be attributed to the state in which the 
 27.23  property is used by the purchaser.  If the property is used in 
 27.24  more than one state, the royalties or other income must be 
 27.25  apportioned to this state pro rata according to the portion of 
 27.26  use in this state.  If the portion of use in this state cannot 
 27.27  be determined, the royalties or other income must be excluded 
 27.28  from both the numerator and the denominator.  Intangible 
 27.29  property is used in this state if the purchaser uses the 
 27.30  intangible property or the rights therein in the regular course 
 27.31  of its business operations in this state, regardless of the 
 27.32  location of the purchaser's customers. 
 27.33     (i) Sales of intangible property are made within the state 
 27.34  in which the property is used by the purchaser.  If the property 
 27.35  is used in more than one state, the sales must be apportioned to 
 27.36  this state pro rata according to the portion of use in this 
 28.1   state.  If the portion of use in this state cannot be 
 28.2   determined, the sale must be excluded from both the numerator 
 28.3   and the denominator of the sales factor.  Intangible property is 
 28.4   used in this state if the purchaser used the intangible property 
 28.5   in the regular course of its business operations in this state. 
 28.6      (j) Receipts from the performance of services must be 
 28.7   attributed to the state where the services are received.  For 
 28.8   the purposes of this section, receipts from the performance of 
 28.9   services provided to a corporation, partnership, or trust may 
 28.10  only be attributed to a state where it has a fixed place of 
 28.11  doing business.  If the state where the services are received is 
 28.12  not readily determinable or is a state where the corporation, 
 28.13  partnership, or trust receiving the service does not have a 
 28.14  fixed place of doing business, the services shall be deemed to 
 28.15  be received at the location of the office of the customer from 
 28.16  which the services were ordered in the regular course of the 
 28.17  customer's trade or business.  If the ordering office cannot be 
 28.18  determined, the services shall be deemed to be received at the 
 28.19  office of the customer to which the services are billed. 
 28.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 28.21  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 28.22  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 28.23  31, 2003. 
 28.24     Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 28.25  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
 28.26     Subd. 6.  [DETERMINATION OF RECEIPTS FACTOR FOR FINANCIAL 
 28.27  INSTITUTIONS.] (a) For purposes of this section, the rules in 
 28.28  this subdivision and subdivision 8 apply in determining the 
 28.29  receipts factor for financial institutions.  
 28.30     (b) "Receipts" for this purpose means gross income, 
 28.31  including net taxable gain on disposition of assets, including 
 28.32  securities and money market instruments, when derived from 
 28.33  transactions and activities in the regular course of the 
 28.34  taxpayer's trade or business.  
 28.35     (c) "Money market instruments" means federal funds sold and 
 28.36  securities purchased under agreements to resell, commercial 
 29.1   paper, banker's acceptances, and purchased certificates of 
 29.2   deposit and similar instruments to the extent that the 
 29.3   instruments are reflected as assets under generally accepted 
 29.4   accounting principles.  
 29.5      (d) "Securities" means United States Treasury securities, 
 29.6   obligations of United States government agencies and 
 29.7   corporations, obligations of state and political subdivisions, 
 29.8   corporate stock, bonds, and other securities, participations in 
 29.9   securities backed by mortgages held by United States or state 
 29.10  government agencies, loan-backed securities and similar 
 29.11  investments to the extent the investments are reflected as 
 29.12  assets under generally accepted accounting principles.  
 29.13     (e) Receipts from the lease or rental of real or tangible 
 29.14  personal property, including both finance leases and true 
 29.15  leases, must be attributed to this state if the property is 
 29.16  located in this state.  Receipts from the lease or rental of 
 29.17  tangible personal property that is characteristically moving 
 29.18  property, including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, rolling 
 29.19  stock, aircraft, vessels, or mobile equipment are included in 
 29.20  the numerator of the receipts factor to the extent that the 
 29.21  property is used in this state.  The extent of the use of moving 
 29.22  property is determined as follows: 
 29.23     (1) A motor vehicle is used wholly in the state in which it 
 29.24  is registered. 
 29.25     (2) The extent that rolling stock is used in this state is 
 29.26  determined by multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental 
 29.27  of the rolling stock by a fraction, the numerator of which is 
 29.28  the miles traveled within this state by the leased or rented 
 29.29  rolling stock and the denominator of which is the total miles 
 29.30  traveled by the leased or rented rolling stock. 
 29.31     (3) The extent that an aircraft is used in this state is 
 29.32  determined by multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental 
 29.33  of the aircraft by a fraction, the numerator of which is the 
 29.34  number of landings of the aircraft in this state and the 
 29.35  denominator of which is the total number of landings of the 
 29.36  aircraft. 
 30.1      (4) The extent that a vessel, mobile equipment, or other 
 30.2   mobile property is used in the state is determined by 
 30.3   multiplying the receipts from the lease or rental of property by 
 30.4   a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days during 
 30.5   the taxable year the property was in this state and the 
 30.6   denominator of which is the total days in the taxable year. 
 30.7      (f) Interest income and other receipts from assets in the 
 30.8   nature of loans that are secured primarily by real estate or 
 30.9   tangible personal property must be attributed to this state if 
 30.10  the security property is located in this state under the 
 30.11  principles stated in paragraph (e).  
 30.12     (g) Interest income and other receipts from consumer loans 
 30.13  not secured by real or tangible personal property that are made 
 30.14  to residents of this state, whether at a place of business, by 
 30.15  traveling loan officer, by mail, by telephone or other 
 30.16  electronic means, must be attributed to this state.  
 30.17     (h) Interest income and other receipts from commercial 
 30.18  loans and installment obligations that are unsecured by real or 
 30.19  tangible personal property or secured by intangible property 
 30.20  must be attributed to this state if the proceeds of the loan are 
 30.21  to be applied in this state.  If it cannot be determined where 
 30.22  the funds are to be applied, the income and receipts are 
 30.23  attributed to the state in which the office of the borrower from 
 30.24  which the application would be made in the regular course of 
 30.25  business is located.  If this cannot be determined, the 
 30.26  transaction is disregarded in the apportionment formula. 
 30.27     (i) Interest income and other receipts from a participating 
 30.28  financial institution's portion of participation and syndication 
 30.29  loans must be attributed under paragraphs (e) to (h).  A 
 30.30  participation loan is an arrangement in which a lender makes a 
 30.31  loan to a borrower and then sells, assigns, or otherwise 
 30.32  transfers all or a part of the loan to a purchasing financial 
 30.33  institution.  A syndication loan is a loan transaction involving 
 30.34  multiple financial institutions in which all the lenders are 
 30.35  named as parties to the loan documentation, are known to the 
 30.36  borrower, and have privity of contract with the borrower.  
 31.1      (j) Interest income and other receipts including service 
 31.2   charges from financial institution credit card and travel and 
 31.3   entertainment credit card receivables and credit card holders' 
 31.4   fees must be attributed to the state to which the card charges 
 31.5   and fees are regularly billed.  
 31.6      (k) Merchant discount income derived from financial 
 31.7   institution credit card holder transactions with a merchant must 
 31.8   be attributed to the state in which the merchant is located.  In 
 31.9   the case of merchants located within and outside the state, only 
 31.10  receipts from merchant discounts attributable to sales made from 
 31.11  locations within the state are attributed to this state.  It is 
 31.12  presumed, subject to rebuttal, that the location of a merchant 
 31.13  is the address shown on the invoice submitted by the merchant to 
 31.14  the taxpayer. 
 31.15     (l) Receipts from the performance of fiduciary and other 
 31.16  services must be attributed to the state in which the services 
 31.17  are received.  For the purposes of this section, services 
 31.18  provided to a corporation, partnership, or trust must be 
 31.19  attributed to a state where it has a fixed place of doing 
 31.20  business.  If the state where the services are received is not 
 31.21  readily determinable or is a state where the corporation, 
 31.22  partnership, or trust does not have a fixed place of doing 
 31.23  business, the services shall be deemed to be received at the 
 31.24  location of the office of the customer from which the services 
 31.25  were ordered in the regular course of the customer's trade or 
 31.26  business.  If the ordering office cannot be determined, the 
 31.27  services shall be deemed to be received at the office of the 
 31.28  customer to which the services are billed.  
 31.29     (m) Receipts from the issuance of travelers checks and 
 31.30  money orders must be attributed to the state in which the checks 
 31.31  and money orders are purchased.  
 31.32     (n) Receipts from investments of a financial institution in 
 31.33  securities and from money market instruments must be apportioned 
 31.34  to this state based on the ratio that total deposits from this 
 31.35  state, its residents, including any business with an office or 
 31.36  other place of business in this state, its political 
 32.1   subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities bear to the total 
 32.2   deposits from all states, their residents, their political 
 32.3   subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities.  In the case of 
 32.4   an unregulated financial institution subject to this section, 
 32.5   these receipts are apportioned to this state based on the ratio 
 32.6   that its gross business income, excluding such receipts, earned 
 32.7   from sources within this state bears to gross business income, 
 32.8   excluding such receipts, earned from sources within all states.  
 32.9   For purposes of this subdivision, deposits made by this state, 
 32.10  its residents, its political subdivisions, agencies, and 
 32.11  instrumentalities must be attributed to this state, whether or 
 32.12  not the deposits are accepted or maintained by the taxpayer at 
 32.13  locations within this state. 
 32.14     (o) A financial institution's interest in property 
 32.15  described in section 290.015, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), is 
 32.16  included in the receipts factor in the same manner as assets in 
 32.17  the nature of securities or money market instruments are 
 32.18  included in paragraph (n). 
 32.19     (p) Receipts from leases, service contracts, or other 
 32.20  arrangements for tax-exempt property, as defined in and subject 
 32.21  to section 290.0711, are excluded from the receipts factor. 
 32.22     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 32.23  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 32.24  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 32.25  31, 2003. 
 32.26     Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 32.27  subdivision 10, is amended to read: 
 32.28     Subd. 10.  [PROPERTY FACTOR; TANGIBLE PROPERTY.] (a) 
 32.29  Tangible property includes land, buildings, machinery and 
 32.30  equipment, inventories, and other tangible personal property 
 32.31  actually used by the taxpayer during the taxable year in 
 32.32  carrying on the business activities of the taxpayer.  Tangible 
 32.33  property which is separately allocated under section 290.17 is 
 32.34  not includable in the property factor.  
 32.35     (b) Cash on hand or in banks, shares of stock, notes, 
 32.36  bonds, accounts receivable, or other evidences of indebtedness, 
 33.1   special privileges, franchises, and goodwill, are specifically 
 33.2   excluded from the property factor, except as otherwise provided 
 33.3   for financial institutions in subdivision 11.  
 33.4      (c) The value of tangible property that is owned by the 
 33.5   taxpayer and that is to be used in the apportionment fraction is 
 33.6   the original cost adjusted for any later capital additions or 
 33.7   improvements and partial disposition by reason of sale, 
 33.8   exchange, or abandonment.  
 33.9      (d) For purposes of computing the property factor, United 
 33.10  States government property that is used by the taxpayer must be 
 33.11  considered owned by the taxpayer.  
 33.12     (e) Property that is rented by the taxpayer is valued at 
 33.13  eight times the net annual rental.  Net annual rental is the 
 33.14  annual rental paid by the taxpayer less any annual rental 
 33.15  received by the taxpayer from subrentals.  If the subrents taken 
 33.16  into account in determining the net annual rental produce a 
 33.17  negative or clearly inaccurate value for any item of property, 
 33.18  another method that will properly reflect the value of rented 
 33.19  property may be required by the commissioner or requested by the 
 33.20  taxpayer.  In no case, however, shall the value be less than an 
 33.21  amount which bears the same ratio to the annual rental paid by 
 33.22  the taxpayer for such property as the fair market value of that 
 33.23  portion of the property used by the taxpayer bears to the total 
 33.24  fair market value of the rented property.  Rents paid during the 
 33.25  year cannot be averaged.  
 33.26     (f) A person filing a combined report shall use this method 
 33.27  of calculating the property factor for all members of the group. 
 33.28     (g) Tax-exempt property, as defined in and subject to 
 33.29  section 290.0711, is excluded from the property factor. 
 33.30     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 33.31  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 33.32  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 33.33  31, 2003. 
 33.34     Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, 
 33.35  subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
 33.36     Subd. 11.  [FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; PROPERTY FACTOR.] (a) 
 34.1   For financial institutions, the property factor includes, as 
 34.2   well as tangible property, intangible property as set forth in 
 34.3   this subdivision.  
 34.4      (b) Intangible personal property must be included at its 
 34.5   tax basis for federal income tax purposes.  
 34.6      (c) Goodwill must not be included in the property factor.  
 34.7      (d) Coin and currency located in this state must be 
 34.8   attributed to this state.  
 34.9      (e) Lease financing receivables must be attributed to this 
 34.10  state if and to the extent that the property is located within 
 34.11  this state.  
 34.12     (f) Assets in the nature of loans that are secured by real 
 34.13  or tangible personal property must be attributed to this state 
 34.14  if and to the extent that the security property is located 
 34.15  within this state.  
 34.16     (g) Assets in the nature of consumer loans and installment 
 34.17  obligations that are unsecured or secured by intangible property 
 34.18  must be attributed to this state if the loan was made to a 
 34.19  resident of this state.  
 34.20     (h) Assets in the nature of commercial loan and installment 
 34.21  obligations that are unsecured by real or tangible personal 
 34.22  property or secured by intangible property must be attributed to 
 34.23  this state if the proceeds of the loan are to be applied in this 
 34.24  state.  If it cannot be determined where the funds are to be 
 34.25  applied, the assets must be attributed to the state in which 
 34.26  there is located the office of the borrower from which the 
 34.27  application would be made in the regular course of business.  If 
 34.28  this cannot be determined, the transaction is disregarded in the 
 34.29  apportionment formula.  
 34.30     (i) A participating financial institution's portion of 
 34.31  participation and syndication loans must be attributed under 
 34.32  paragraphs (e) to (h).  
 34.33     (j) Financial institution credit card and travel and 
 34.34  entertainment credit card receivables must be attributed to the 
 34.35  state to which the credit card charges and fees are regularly 
 34.36  billed.  
 35.1      (k) Receivables arising from merchant discount income 
 35.2   derived from financial institution credit card holder 
 35.3   transactions with a merchant are attributed to the state in 
 35.4   which the merchant is located.  In the case of merchants located 
 35.5   within and without the state, only receivables from merchant 
 35.6   discounts attributable to sales made from locations within the 
 35.7   state are attributed to this state.  It is presumed, subject to 
 35.8   rebuttal, that the location of a merchant is the address shown 
 35.9   on the invoice submitted by the merchant to the taxpayer. 
 35.10     (l) Assets in the nature of securities and money market 
 35.11  instruments are apportioned to this state based upon the ratio 
 35.12  that total deposits from this state, its residents, its 
 35.13  political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities bear to 
 35.14  the total deposits from all states, their residents, their 
 35.15  political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities.  In the 
 35.16  case of an unregulated financial institution, the assets are 
 35.17  apportioned to this state based upon the ratio that its gross 
 35.18  business income earned from sources within this state bears to 
 35.19  gross business income earned from sources within all states.  
 35.20  For purposes of this paragraph, deposits made by this state, its 
 35.21  residents, its political subdivisions, agencies, and 
 35.22  instrumentalities are attributed to this state, whether or not 
 35.23  the deposits are accepted or maintained by the taxpayer at 
 35.24  locations within this state. 
 35.25     (m) A financial institution's interest in any property 
 35.26  described in section 290.015, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), is 
 35.27  included in the property factor in the same manner as assets in 
 35.28  the nature of securities or money market instruments are 
 35.29  included under paragraph (1).  
 35.30     (n) Tax-exempt property, as defined in and subject to 
 35.31  section 290.0711, is excluded from the property factor. 
 35.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases and 
 35.33  service contracts or similar arrangements entered into after 
 35.34  February 5, 2004, and for taxable years beginning after December 
 35.35  31, 2003. 
 35.36     Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.92, 
 36.1   subdivision 4b, is amended to read: 
 36.2      Subd. 4b.  [WITHHOLDING BY PARTNERSHIPS.] (a) A partnership 
 36.3   shall deduct and withhold a tax as provided in paragraph (b) for 
 36.4   nonresident individual partners based on their distributive 
 36.5   shares of partnership income for a taxable year of the 
 36.6   partnership. 
 36.7      (b) The amount of tax withheld is determined by multiplying 
 36.8   the partner's distributive share allocable to Minnesota under 
 36.9   section 290.17, paid or credited during the taxable year by the 
 36.10  highest rate used to determine the income tax liability for an 
 36.11  individual under section 290.06, subdivision 2c, except that the 
 36.12  amount of tax withheld may be determined by the commissioner if 
 36.13  the partner submits a withholding exemption certificate under 
 36.14  subdivision 5. 
 36.15     (c) The commissioner may reduce or abate the tax withheld 
 36.16  under this subdivision if the partnership had reasonable cause 
 36.17  to believe that no tax was due under this section. 
 36.18     (d) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a partnership is not 
 36.19  required to deduct and withhold tax for a nonresident partner if:
 36.20     (1) the partner elects to have the tax due paid as part of 
 36.21  the partnership's composite return under section 289A.08, 
 36.22  subdivision 7; 
 36.23     (2) the partner has Minnesota assignable federal adjusted 
 36.24  gross income from the partnership of less than $1,000; or 
 36.25     (3) the partnership is liquidated or terminated, the income 
 36.26  was generated by a transaction related to the termination or 
 36.27  liquidation, and no cash or other property was distributed in 
 36.28  the current or prior taxable year; or 
 36.29     (4) the distributive shares of partnership income are 
 36.30  attributable to: 
 36.31     (i) income required to be recognized because of discharge 
 36.32  of indebtedness; 
 36.33     (ii) income recognized because of a sale, exchange, or 
 36.34  other disposition of real estate, depreciable property, or 
 36.35  property described in section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 36.36  or 
 37.1      (iii) income recognized on the sale, exchange, or other 
 37.2   disposition of any property that has been the subject of a basis 
 37.3   reduction pursuant to section 108, 734, 743, 754, or 1017 of the 
 37.4   Internal Revenue Code 
 37.5   to the extent that the income does not include cash received or 
 37.6   receivable or, if there is cash received or receivable, to the 
 37.7   extent that the cash is required to be used to pay indebtedness 
 37.8   by the partnership or a secured debt on partnership property; or 
 37.9      (5) the partnership is a publicly traded partnership, as 
 37.10  defined in section 7704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 37.11     (e) For purposes of subdivision 6a, and sections 289A.09, 
 37.12  subdivision 2, 289A.20, subdivision 2, paragraph (c), 289A.50, 
 37.13  289A.56, 289A.60, and 289A.63, a partnership is considered an 
 37.14  employer.  
 37.15     (f) To the extent that income is exempt from withholding 
 37.16  under paragraph (d), clause (4), the commissioner has a lien in 
 37.17  an amount up to the amount that would be required to be withheld 
 37.18  with respect to the income of the partner attributable to the 
 37.19  partnership interest, but for the application of paragraph (d), 
 37.20  clause (4).  The lien arises under section 270.69 from the date 
 37.21  of assessment of the tax against the partner, and attaches to 
 37.22  that partner's share of the profits and any other money due or 
 37.23  to become due to that partner in respect of the partnership.  
 37.24  Notice of the lien may be sent by mail to the partnership, 
 37.25  without the necessity for recording the lien.  The notice has 
 37.26  the force and effect of a levy under section 270.70, and is 
 37.27  enforceable against the partnership in the manner provided by 
 37.28  that section.  Upon payment in full of the liability subsequent 
 37.29  to the notice of lien, the partnership must be notified that the 
 37.30  lien has been satisfied.  
 37.31     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 37.32  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 37.33     Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 298.01, 
 37.34  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 37.35     Subd. 3.  [OCCUPATION TAX; OTHER ORES.] Every person 
 37.36  engaged in the business of mining or producing ores in this 
 38.1   state, except iron ore or taconite concentrates, shall pay an 
 38.2   occupation tax to the state of Minnesota as provided in this 
 38.3   subdivision.  The tax is determined in the same manner as the 
 38.4   tax imposed by section 290.02, except that sections 290.05, 
 38.5   subdivision 1, clause (a), and 290.17, subdivision 4, and 
 38.6   290.191, subdivision 2, do not apply.  A person subject to 
 38.7   occupation tax under this section shall apportion its net income 
 38.8   on the basis of the percentage obtained by taking the sum of: 
 38.9      (1) 75 percent of the percentage which the sales made 
 38.10  within this state in connection with the trade or business 
 38.11  during the tax period are of the total sales wherever made in 
 38.12  connection with the trade or business during the tax period; 
 38.13     (2) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the total tangible 
 38.14  property used by the taxpayer in this state in connection with 
 38.15  the trade or business during the tax period is of the total 
 38.16  tangible property, wherever located, used by the taxpayer in 
 38.17  connection with the trade or business during the tax period; and 
 38.18     (3) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the taxpayer's 
 38.19  total payrolls paid or incurred in this state or paid in respect 
 38.20  to labor performed in this state in connection with the trade or 
 38.21  business during the tax period are of the taxpayer's total 
 38.22  payrolls paid or incurred in connection with the trade or 
 38.23  business during the tax period. 
 38.24     The tax is in addition to all other taxes. 
 38.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
 38.26  beginning after December 31, 2004. 
 38.27     Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 298.01, 
 38.28  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 38.29     Subd. 4.  [OCCUPATION TAX; IRON ORE; TACONITE 
 38.30  CONCENTRATES.] A person engaged in the business of mining or 
 38.31  producing of iron ore, taconite concentrates or direct reduced 
 38.32  ore in this state shall pay an occupation tax to the state of 
 38.33  Minnesota.  The tax is determined in the same manner as the tax 
 38.34  imposed by section 290.02, except that sections 290.05, 
 38.35  subdivision 1, clause (a), and 290.17, subdivision 4, and 
 38.36  290.191, subdivision 2, do not apply.  A person subject to 
 39.1   occupation tax under this section shall apportion its net income 
 39.2   on the basis of the percentage obtained by taking the sum of:  
 39.3      (1) 75 percent of the percentage which the sales made 
 39.4   within this state in connection with the trade or business 
 39.5   during the tax period are of the total sales wherever made in 
 39.6   connection with the trade or business during the tax period; 
 39.7      (2) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the total tangible 
 39.8   property used by the taxpayer in this state in connection with 
 39.9   the trade or business during the tax period is of the total 
 39.10  tangible property, wherever located, used by the taxpayer in 
 39.11  connection with the trade or business during the tax period; and 
 39.12     (3) 12.5 percent of the percentage which the taxpayer's 
 39.13  total payrolls paid or incurred in this state or paid in respect 
 39.14  to labor performed in this state in connection with the trade or 
 39.15  business during the tax period are of the taxpayer's total 
 39.16  payrolls paid or incurred in connection with the trade or 
 39.17  business during the tax period. 
 39.18     The tax is in addition to all other taxes. 
 39.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
 39.20  beginning after December 31, 2004. 
 39.21     Sec. 21.  [REFUND PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED.] 
 39.22     The commissioner of revenue may allow a taxpayer to claim a 
 39.23  refund of Minnesota individual income tax paid on a distribution 
 39.24  from a qualified governmental pension plan, an individual 
 39.25  retirement account, a simplified employee pension, or a 
 39.26  qualified plan covering a self-employed person in a taxable year 
 39.27  beginning after December 31, 2001, and before January 1, 2004, 
 39.28  if the individual was unable to claim the subtraction under 
 39.29  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 290.01, subdivision 
 39.30  19b, clause (4), for taxable year 2000 or 2001 because the 
 39.31  individual was not a resident and had no Minnesota taxable 
 39.32  income.  The amount of the refund equals the lesser of (1) the 
 39.33  tax on the distribution or (2) the marginal tax rate for the 
 39.34  taxpayer's tax year in which the distribution was received 
 39.35  multiplied by the subtraction under clause (4) that would have 
 39.36  been allowed if the taxpayer were a resident in tax year 2001.  
 40.1   The commissioner may process refunds under this section 
 40.2   separately from administration of the individual income tax in 
 40.3   the most efficient and lowest cost manner. 
 40.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 40.5   following final enactment. 
 40.6                              ARTICLE 2 
 40.7                            FEDERAL UPDATE 
 40.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 40.9   289A.02, subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
 40.10     Subd. 7.  [INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.] Unless specifically 
 40.11  defined otherwise, "Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal 
 40.12  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through June 15, 2003 April 10, 
 40.13  2004. 
 40.14     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for actions 
 40.15  required on or after November 11, 2003. 
 40.16     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 40.17  290.01, subdivision 19, is amended to read: 
 40.18     Subd. 19.  [NET INCOME.] The term "net income" means the 
 40.19  federal taxable income, as defined in section 63 of the Internal 
 40.20  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through the date named in this 
 40.21  subdivision, incorporating any elections made by the taxpayer in 
 40.22  accordance with the Internal Revenue Code in determining federal 
 40.23  taxable income for federal income tax purposes, and with the 
 40.24  modifications provided in subdivisions 19a to 19f. 
 40.25     In the case of a regulated investment company or a fund 
 40.26  thereof, as defined in section 851(a) or 851(g) of the Internal 
 40.27  Revenue Code, federal taxable income means investment company 
 40.28  taxable income as defined in section 852(b)(2) of the Internal 
 40.29  Revenue Code, except that:  
 40.30     (1) the exclusion of net capital gain provided in section 
 40.31  852(b)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply; 
 40.32     (2) the deduction for dividends paid under section 
 40.33  852(b)(2)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code must be applied by 
 40.34  allowing a deduction for capital gain dividends and 
 40.35  exempt-interest dividends as defined in sections 852(b)(3)(C) 
 40.36  and 852(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code; and 
 41.1      (3) the deduction for dividends paid must also be applied 
 41.2   in the amount of any undistributed capital gains which the 
 41.3   regulated investment company elects to have treated as provided 
 41.4   in section 852(b)(3)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code.  
 41.5      The net income of a real estate investment trust as defined 
 41.6   and limited by section 856(a), (b), and (c) of the Internal 
 41.7   Revenue Code means the real estate investment trust taxable 
 41.8   income as defined in section 857(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue 
 41.9   Code.  
 41.10     The net income of a designated settlement fund as defined 
 41.11  in section 468B(d) of the Internal Revenue Code means the gross 
 41.12  income as defined in section 468B(b) of the Internal Revenue 
 41.13  Code. 
 41.14     The provisions of sections 1113(a), 1117, 1206(a), 1313(a), 
 41.15  1402(a), 1403(a), 1443, 1450, 1501(a), 1605, 1611(a), 1612, 
 41.16  1616, 1617, 1704(l), and 1704(m) of the Small Business Job 
 41.17  Protection Act, Public Law 104-188, the provisions of Public Law 
 41.18  104-117, the provisions of sections 313(a) and (b)(1), 602(a), 
 41.19  913(b), 941, 961, 971, 1001(a) and (b), 1002, 1003, 1012, 1013, 
 41.20  1014, 1061, 1062, 1081, 1084(b), 1086, 1087, 1111(a), 1131(b) 
 41.21  and (c), 1211(b), 1213, 1530(c)(2), 1601(f)(5) and (h), and 
 41.22  1604(d)(1) of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Public Law 
 41.23  105-34, the provisions of section 6010 of the Internal Revenue 
 41.24  Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, Public Law 
 41.25  105-206, the provisions of section 4003 of the Omnibus 
 41.26  Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
 41.27  1999, Public Law 105-277, and the provisions of section 318 of 
 41.28  the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2001, Public Law 106-554, 
 41.29  shall become effective at the time they become effective for 
 41.30  federal purposes. 
 41.31     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through 
 41.32  December 31, 1996, shall be in effect for taxable years 
 41.33  beginning after December 31, 1996. 
 41.34     The provisions of sections 202(a) and (b), 221(a), 225, 
 41.35  312, 313, 913(a), 934, 962, 1004, 1005, 1052, 1063, 1084(a) and 
 41.36  (c), 1089, 1112, 1171, 1204, 1271(a) and (b), 1305(a), 1306, 
 42.1   1307, 1308, 1309, 1501(b), 1502(b), 1504(a), 1505, 1527, 1528, 
 42.2   1530, 1601(d), (e), (f), and (i) and 1602(a), (b), (c), and (e) 
 42.3   of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Public Law 105-34, the 
 42.4   provisions of sections 6004, 6005, 6012, 6013, 6015, 6016, 7002, 
 42.5   and 7003 of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and 
 42.6   Reform Act of 1998, Public Law 105-206, the provisions of 
 42.7   section 3001 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
 42.8   Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, Public Law 105-277, the 
 42.9   provisions of section 3001 of the Miscellaneous Trade and 
 42.10  Technical Corrections Act of 1999, Public Law 106-36, and the 
 42.11  provisions of section 316 of the Consolidated Appropriation Act 
 42.12  of 2001, Public Law 106-554, and the provision of section 101 of 
 42.13  the Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003, Public Law 108-121, 
 42.14  shall become effective at the time they become effective for 
 42.15  federal purposes. 
 42.16     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through 
 42.17  December 31, 1997, shall be in effect for taxable years 
 42.18  beginning after December 31, 1997. 
 42.19     The provisions of sections 5002, 6009, 6011, and 7001 of 
 42.20  the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 
 42.21  1998, Public Law 105-206, the provisions of section 9010 of the 
 42.22  Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, Public Law 
 42.23  105-178, the provisions of sections 1004, 4002, and 5301 of the 
 42.24  Omnibus Consolidation and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
 42.25  Act, 1999, Public Law 105-277, the provision of section 303 of 
 42.26  the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998, Public Law 
 42.27  105-369, the provisions of sections 532, 534, 536, 537, and 538 
 42.28  of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 
 42.29  1999, Public Law 106-170, the provisions of the Installment Tax 
 42.30  Correction Act of 2000, Public Law 106-573, and the provisions 
 42.31  of section 309 of the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2001, 
 42.32  Public Law 106-554, shall become effective at the time they 
 42.33  become effective for federal purposes. 
 42.34     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through 
 42.35  December 31, 1998, shall be in effect for taxable years 
 42.36  beginning after December 31, 1998.  
 43.1      The provisions of the FSC Repeal and Extraterritorial 
 43.2   Income Exclusion Act of 2000, Public Law 106-519, and the 
 43.3   provision of section 412 of the Job Creation and Worker 
 43.4   Assistance Act of 2002, Public Law 107-147, shall become 
 43.5   effective at the time it became effective for federal purposes. 
 43.6      The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through 
 43.7   December 31, 1999, shall be in effect for taxable years 
 43.8   beginning after December 31, 1999.  The provisions of sections 
 43.9   306 and 401 of the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2001, 
 43.10  Public Law 106-554, and the provision of section 632(b)(2)(A) of 
 43.11  the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, 
 43.12  Public Law 107-16, and provisions of sections 101 and 402 of the 
 43.13  Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, Public Law 
 43.14  107-147, shall become effective at the same time it became 
 43.15  effective for federal purposes. 
 43.16     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through 
 43.17  December 31, 2000, shall be in effect for taxable years 
 43.18  beginning after December 31, 2000.  The provisions of sections 
 43.19  659a and 671 of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief 
 43.20  Reconciliation Act of 2001, Public Law 107-16, the provisions of 
 43.21  sections 104, 105, and 111 of the Victims of Terrorism Tax 
 43.22  Relief Act of 2001, Public Law 107-134, and the provisions of 
 43.23  sections 201, 403, 413, and 606 of the Job Creation and Worker 
 43.24  Assistance Act of 2002, Public Law 107-147, and the provision of 
 43.25  section 102 of the Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003, 
 43.26  Public Law 108-121, shall become effective at the same time it 
 43.27  became effective for federal purposes. 
 43.28     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through March 
 43.29  15, 2002, shall be in effect for taxable years beginning after 
 43.30  December 31, 2001. 
 43.31     The provisions of sections 101 and 102 of the Victims of 
 43.32  Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001, Public Law 107-134, shall 
 43.33  become effective at the same time it becomes effective for 
 43.34  federal purposes. 
 43.35     The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through June 
 43.36  15, 2003, shall be in effect for taxable years beginning after 
 44.1   December 31, 2002.  The provisions of section 201 of the Jobs 
 44.2   and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003, H.R. 2, if 
 44.3   it is enacted into law Public Law 108-27, and the provisions of 
 44.4   sections 103, 106, 108, 109, and 110 of the Military Family Tax 
 44.5   Relief Act of 2003, Public Law 108-121, are effective at the 
 44.6   same time it became effective for federal purposes. 
 44.7      The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through April 
 44.8   10, 2004, shall be in effect for taxable years beginning after 
 44.9   December 31, 2003. 
 44.10     Except as otherwise provided, references to the Internal 
 44.11  Revenue Code in subdivisions 19a to 19g mean the code in effect 
 44.12  for purposes of determining net income for the applicable year. 
 44.13     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 44.14  following final enactment. 
 44.15     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 44.16  290.01, subdivision 19a, is amended to read: 
 44.17     Subd. 19a.  [ADDITIONS TO FEDERAL TAXABLE INCOME.] For 
 44.18  individuals, estates, and trusts, there shall be added to 
 44.19  federal taxable income: 
 44.20     (1)(i) interest income on obligations of any state other 
 44.21  than Minnesota or a political or governmental subdivision, 
 44.22  municipality, or governmental agency or instrumentality of any 
 44.23  state other than Minnesota exempt from federal income taxes 
 44.24  under the Internal Revenue Code or any other federal statute; 
 44.25  and 
 44.26     (ii) exempt-interest dividends as defined in section 
 44.27  852(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code, except the portion of 
 44.28  the exempt-interest dividends derived from interest income on 
 44.29  obligations of the state of Minnesota or its political or 
 44.30  governmental subdivisions, municipalities, governmental agencies 
 44.31  or instrumentalities, but only if the portion of the 
 44.32  exempt-interest dividends from such Minnesota sources paid to 
 44.33  all shareholders represents 95 percent or more of the 
 44.34  exempt-interest dividends that are paid by the regulated 
 44.35  investment company as defined in section 851(a) of the Internal 
 44.36  Revenue Code, or the fund of the regulated investment company as 
 45.1   defined in section 851(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, making 
 45.2   the payment; and 
 45.3      (iii) for the purposes of items (i) and (ii), interest on 
 45.4   obligations of an Indian tribal government described in section 
 45.5   7871(c) of the Internal Revenue Code shall be treated as 
 45.6   interest income on obligations of the state in which the tribe 
 45.7   is located; 
 45.8      (2) the amount of income taxes paid or accrued within the 
 45.9   taxable year under this chapter and income taxes paid to any 
 45.10  other state or to any province or territory of Canada, to the 
 45.11  extent allowed as a deduction under section 63(d) of the 
 45.12  Internal Revenue Code, but the addition may not be more than the 
 45.13  amount by which the itemized deductions as allowed under section 
 45.14  63(d) of the Internal Revenue Code exceeds the amount of the 
 45.15  standard deduction as defined in section 63(c) of the Internal 
 45.16  Revenue Code.  For the purpose of this paragraph, the 
 45.17  disallowance of itemized deductions under section 68 of the 
 45.18  Internal Revenue Code of 1986, income tax is the last itemized 
 45.19  deduction disallowed; 
 45.20     (3) the capital gain amount of a lump sum distribution to 
 45.21  which the special tax under section 1122(h)(3)(B)(ii) of the Tax 
 45.22  Reform Act of 1986, Public Law 99-514, applies; 
 45.23     (4) the amount of income taxes paid or accrued within the 
 45.24  taxable year under this chapter and income taxes paid to any 
 45.25  other state or any province or territory of Canada, to the 
 45.26  extent allowed as a deduction in determining federal adjusted 
 45.27  gross income.  For the purpose of this paragraph, income taxes 
 45.28  do not include the taxes imposed by sections 290.0922, 
 45.29  subdivision 1, paragraph (b), 290.9727, 290.9728, and 290.9729; 
 45.30     (5) the amount of expense, interest, or taxes disallowed 
 45.31  pursuant to section 290.10; 
 45.32     (6) the amount of a partner's pro rata share of net income 
 45.33  which does not flow through to the partner because the 
 45.34  partnership elected to pay the tax on the income under section 
 45.35  6242(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; and 
 45.36     (7) 80 percent of the depreciation deduction allowed under 
 46.1   section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For purposes of 
 46.2   this clause, if the taxpayer has an activity that in the taxable 
 46.3   year generates a deduction for depreciation under section 168(k) 
 46.4   and the activity generates a loss for the taxable year that the 
 46.5   taxpayer is not allowed to claim for the taxable year, "the 
 46.6   depreciation allowed under section 168(k)" for the taxable year 
 46.7   is limited to excess of the depreciation claimed by the activity 
 46.8   under section 168(k) over the amount of the loss from the 
 46.9   activity that is not allowed in the taxable year.  In succeeding 
 46.10  taxable years when the losses not allowed in the taxable year 
 46.11  are allowed, the depreciation under section 168(k) is allowed; 
 46.12  and 
 46.13     (8) the exclusion allowed under section 139A of the 
 46.14  Internal Revenue Code for federal subsidies for prescription 
 46.15  drug plans. 
 46.16     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 46.17  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 46.18     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 46.19  290.01, subdivision 19b, is amended to read: 
 46.20     Subd. 19b.  [SUBTRACTIONS FROM FEDERAL TAXABLE INCOME.] For 
 46.21  individuals, estates, and trusts, there shall be subtracted from 
 46.22  federal taxable income: 
 46.23     (1) interest income on obligations of any authority, 
 46.24  commission, or instrumentality of the United States to the 
 46.25  extent includable in taxable income for federal income tax 
 46.26  purposes but exempt from state income tax under the laws of the 
 46.27  United States; 
 46.28     (2) if included in federal taxable income, the amount of 
 46.29  any overpayment of income tax to Minnesota or to any other 
 46.30  state, for any previous taxable year, whether the amount is 
 46.31  received as a refund or as a credit to another taxable year's 
 46.32  income tax liability; 
 46.33     (3) the amount paid to others, less the amount used to 
 46.34  claim the credit allowed under section 290.0674, not to exceed 
 46.35  $1,625 for each qualifying child in grades kindergarten to 6 and 
 46.36  $2,500 for each qualifying child in grades 7 to 12, for tuition, 
 47.1   textbooks, and transportation of each qualifying child in 
 47.2   attending an elementary or secondary school situated in 
 47.3   Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, or Wisconsin, 
 47.4   wherein a resident of this state may legally fulfill the state's 
 47.5   compulsory attendance laws, which is not operated for profit, 
 47.6   and which adheres to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 
 47.7   1964 and chapter 363A.  For the purposes of this clause, 
 47.8   "tuition" includes fees or tuition as defined in section 
 47.9   290.0674, subdivision 1, clause (1).  As used in this clause, 
 47.10  "textbooks" includes books and other instructional materials and 
 47.11  equipment purchased or leased for use in elementary and 
 47.12  secondary schools in teaching only those subjects legally and 
 47.13  commonly taught in public elementary and secondary schools in 
 47.14  this state.  Equipment expenses qualifying for deduction 
 47.15  includes expenses as defined and limited in section 290.0674, 
 47.16  subdivision 1, clause (3).  "Textbooks" does not include 
 47.17  instructional books and materials used in the teaching of 
 47.18  religious tenets, doctrines, or worship, the purpose of which is 
 47.19  to instill such tenets, doctrines, or worship, nor does it 
 47.20  include books or materials for, or transportation to, 
 47.21  extracurricular activities including sporting events, musical or 
 47.22  dramatic events, speech activities, driver's education, or 
 47.23  similar programs.  For purposes of the subtraction provided by 
 47.24  this clause, "qualifying child" has the meaning given in section 
 47.25  32(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 47.26     (4) income as provided under section 290.0802; 
 47.27     (5) to the extent included in federal adjusted gross 
 47.28  income, income realized on disposition of property exempt from 
 47.29  tax under section 290.491; 
 47.30     (6) to the extent included in federal taxable income, 
 47.31  postservice benefits for youth community service under section 
 47.32  124D.42 for volunteer service under United States Code, title 
 47.33  42, sections 12601 to 12604; 
 47.34     (7) to the extent not deducted in determining federal 
 47.35  taxable income by an individual who does not itemize deductions 
 47.36  for federal income tax purposes for the taxable year, an amount 
 48.1   equal to 50 percent of the excess of charitable contributions 
 48.2   allowable as a deduction for the taxable year under section 
 48.3   170(a) of the Internal Revenue Code over $500; 
 48.4      (8) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2008, the 
 48.5   amount of the federal small ethanol producer credit allowed 
 48.6   under section 40(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which is 
 48.7   included in gross income under section 87 of the Internal 
 48.8   Revenue Code; 
 48.9      (9) for individuals who are allowed a federal foreign tax 
 48.10  credit for taxes that do not qualify for a credit under section 
 48.11  290.06, subdivision 22, an amount equal to the carryover of 
 48.12  subnational foreign taxes for the taxable year, but not to 
 48.13  exceed the total subnational foreign taxes reported in claiming 
 48.14  the foreign tax credit.  For purposes of this clause, "federal 
 48.15  foreign tax credit" means the credit allowed under section 27 of 
 48.16  the Internal Revenue Code, and "carryover of subnational foreign 
 48.17  taxes" equals the carryover allowed under section 904(c) of the 
 48.18  Internal Revenue Code minus national level foreign taxes to the 
 48.19  extent they exceed the federal foreign tax credit; 
 48.20     (10) in each of the five tax years immediately following 
 48.21  the tax year in which an addition is required under subdivision 
 48.22  19a, clause (7), an amount equal to one-fifth of the delayed 
 48.23  depreciation.  For purposes of this clause, "delayed 
 48.24  depreciation" means the amount of the addition made by the 
 48.25  taxpayer under subdivision 19a, clause (7), minus the positive 
 48.26  value of any net operating loss under section 172 of the 
 48.27  Internal Revenue Code generated for the tax year of the 
 48.28  addition.  The resulting delayed depreciation cannot be less 
 48.29  than zero; and 
 48.30     (11) job opportunity building zone income as provided under 
 48.31  section 469.316; and 
 48.32     (12) to the extent included in federal taxable income, 
 48.33  compensation paid to a service member as defined in United 
 48.34  States Code, title 10, section 101(a)(5), for military service 
 48.35  as defined in the Service Members Civil Relief Act, Public Law 
 48.36  108-189, section 101(2), performed by a nonresident.  This 
 49.1   subtraction does not apply to "retirement income" as defined in 
 49.2   section 290.17, subdivision 2, paragraph (a), clause (3). 
 49.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
 49.4   beginning after December 31, 2002.  
 49.5      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 49.6   290.01, subdivision 19c, is amended to read: 
 49.7      Subd. 19c.  [CORPORATIONS; ADDITIONS TO FEDERAL TAXABLE 
 49.8   INCOME.] For corporations, there shall be added to federal 
 49.9   taxable income: 
 49.10     (1) the amount of any deduction taken for federal income 
 49.11  tax purposes for income, excise, or franchise taxes based on net 
 49.12  income or related minimum taxes, including but not limited to 
 49.13  the tax imposed under section 290.0922, paid by the corporation 
 49.14  to Minnesota, another state, a political subdivision of another 
 49.15  state, the District of Columbia, or any foreign country or 
 49.16  possession of the United States; 
 49.17     (2) interest not subject to federal tax upon obligations 
 49.18  of:  the United States, its possessions, its agencies, or its 
 49.19  instrumentalities; the state of Minnesota or any other state, 
 49.20  any of its political or governmental subdivisions, any of its 
 49.21  municipalities, or any of its governmental agencies or 
 49.22  instrumentalities; the District of Columbia; or Indian tribal 
 49.23  governments; 
 49.24     (3) exempt-interest dividends received as defined in 
 49.25  section 852(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 49.26     (4) the amount of any net operating loss deduction taken 
 49.27  for federal income tax purposes under section 172 or 832(c)(10) 
 49.28  of the Internal Revenue Code or operations loss deduction under 
 49.29  section 810 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 49.30     (5) the amount of any special deductions taken for federal 
 49.31  income tax purposes under sections 241 to 247 of the Internal 
 49.32  Revenue Code; 
 49.33     (6) losses from the business of mining, as defined in 
 49.34  section 290.05, subdivision 1, clause (a), that are not subject 
 49.35  to Minnesota income tax; 
 49.36     (7) the amount of any capital losses deducted for federal 
 50.1   income tax purposes under sections 1211 and 1212 of the Internal 
 50.2   Revenue Code; 
 50.3      (8) the exempt foreign trade income of a foreign sales 
 50.4   corporation under sections 921(a) and 291 of the Internal 
 50.5   Revenue Code; 
 50.6      (9) the amount of percentage depletion deducted under 
 50.7   sections 611 through 614 and 291 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 50.8      (10) for certified pollution control facilities placed in 
 50.9   service in a taxable year beginning before December 31, 1986, 
 50.10  and for which amortization deductions were elected under section 
 50.11  169 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended through 
 50.12  December 31, 1985, the amount of the amortization deduction 
 50.13  allowed in computing federal taxable income for those 
 50.14  facilities; 
 50.15     (11) the amount of any deemed dividend from a foreign 
 50.16  operating corporation determined pursuant to section 290.17, 
 50.17  subdivision 4, paragraph (g); 
 50.18     (12) the amount of any environmental tax paid under section 
 50.19  59(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 50.20     (13) the amount of a partner's pro rata share of net income 
 50.21  which does not flow through to the partner because the 
 50.22  partnership elected to pay the tax on the income under section 
 50.23  6242(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 50.24     (14) the amount of net income excluded under section 114 of 
 50.25  the Internal Revenue Code; 
 50.26     (15) any increase in subpart F income, as defined in 
 50.27  section 952(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, for the taxable 
 50.28  year when subpart F income is calculated without regard to the 
 50.29  provisions of section 614 of Public Law 107-147; and 
 50.30     (16) 80 percent of the depreciation deduction allowed under 
 50.31  section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For purposes of 
 50.32  this clause, if the taxpayer has an activity that in the taxable 
 50.33  year generates a deduction for depreciation under section 168(k) 
 50.34  and the activity generates a loss for the taxable year that the 
 50.35  taxpayer is not allowed to claim for the taxable year, "the 
 50.36  depreciation allowed under section 168(k)" for the taxable year 
 51.1   is limited to excess of the depreciation claimed by the activity 
 51.2   under section 168(k) over the amount of the loss from the 
 51.3   activity that is not allowed in the taxable year.  In succeeding 
 51.4   taxable years when the losses not allowed in the taxable year 
 51.5   are allowed, the depreciation under section 168(k) is allowed; 
 51.6   and 
 51.7      (17) the exclusion allowed under section 139A of the 
 51.8   Internal Revenue Code for federal subsidies for prescription 
 51.9   drug plans. 
 51.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 51.11  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 51.12     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 51.13  290.01, subdivision 31, is amended to read: 
 51.14     Subd. 31.  [INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.] Unless specifically 
 51.15  defined otherwise, "Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal 
 51.16  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through June 15, 2003 April 10, 
 51.17  2004. 
 51.18     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 51.19  following final enactment except the changes incorporated by 
 51.20  federal changes are effective at the same times as the changes 
 51.21  were effective for federal purposes. 
 51.22     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 51.23  290.06, subdivision 2c, is amended to read: 
 51.24     Subd. 2c.  [SCHEDULES OF RATES FOR INDIVIDUALS, ESTATES, 
 51.25  AND TRUSTS.] (a) The income taxes imposed by this chapter upon 
 51.26  married individuals filing joint returns and surviving spouses 
 51.27  as defined in section 2(a) of the Internal Revenue Code must be 
 51.28  computed by applying to their taxable net income the following 
 51.29  schedule of rates: 
 51.30     (1) On the first $25,680, 5.35 percent; 
 51.31     (2) On all over $25,680, but not over $102,030, 7.05 
 51.32  percent; 
 51.33     (3) On all over $102,030, 7.85 percent. 
 51.34     Married individuals filing separate returns, estates, and 
 51.35  trusts must compute their income tax by applying the above rates 
 51.36  to their taxable income, except that the income brackets will be 
 52.1   one-half of the above amounts.  
 52.2      (b) The income taxes imposed by this chapter upon unmarried 
 52.3   individuals must be computed by applying to taxable net income 
 52.4   the following schedule of rates: 
 52.5      (1) On the first $17,570, 5.35 percent; 
 52.6      (2) On all over $17,570, but not over $57,710, 7.05 
 52.7   percent; 
 52.8      (3) On all over $57,710, 7.85 percent. 
 52.9      (c) The income taxes imposed by this chapter upon unmarried 
 52.10  individuals qualifying as a head of household as defined in 
 52.11  section 2(b) of the Internal Revenue Code must be computed by 
 52.12  applying to taxable net income the following schedule of rates: 
 52.13     (1) On the first $21,630, 5.35 percent; 
 52.14     (2) On all over $21,630, but not over $86,910, 7.05 
 52.15  percent; 
 52.16     (3) On all over $86,910, 7.85 percent. 
 52.17     (d) In lieu of a tax computed according to the rates set 
 52.18  forth in this subdivision, the tax of any individual taxpayer 
 52.19  whose taxable net income for the taxable year is less than an 
 52.20  amount determined by the commissioner must be computed in 
 52.21  accordance with tables prepared and issued by the commissioner 
 52.22  of revenue based on income brackets of not more than $100.  The 
 52.23  amount of tax for each bracket shall be computed at the rates 
 52.24  set forth in this subdivision, provided that the commissioner 
 52.25  may disregard a fractional part of a dollar unless it amounts to 
 52.26  50 cents or more, in which case it may be increased to $1. 
 52.27     (e) An individual who is not a Minnesota resident for the 
 52.28  entire year must compute the individual's Minnesota income tax 
 52.29  as provided in this subdivision.  After the application of the 
 52.30  nonrefundable credits provided in this chapter, the tax 
 52.31  liability must then be multiplied by a fraction in which:  
 52.32     (1) the numerator is the individual's Minnesota source 
 52.33  federal adjusted gross income as defined in section 62 of the 
 52.34  Internal Revenue Code and increased by the additions required 
 52.35  under section 290.01, subdivision 19a, clauses (1), (5), and 
 52.36  (6), and reduced by the subtraction subtractions under section 
 53.1   290.01, subdivision 19b, clause clauses (11) and (12), and the 
 53.2   Minnesota assignable portion of the subtraction for United 
 53.3   States government interest under section 290.01, subdivision 
 53.4   19b, clause (1), after applying the allocation and assignability 
 53.5   provisions of section 290.081, clause (a), or 290.17; and 
 53.6      (2) the denominator is the individual's federal adjusted 
 53.7   gross income as defined in section 62 of the Internal Revenue 
 53.8   Code of 1986, increased by the amounts specified in section 
 53.9   290.01, subdivision 19a, clauses (1), (5), and (6), and reduced 
 53.10  by the amounts specified in section 290.01, subdivision 19b, 
 53.11  clauses (1) and, (11), and (12). 
 53.12     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 53.13  years beginning after December 31, 2002. 
 53.14     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 53.15  290.091, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 53.16     Subd. 2.  [DEFINITIONS.] For purposes of the tax imposed by 
 53.17  this section, the following terms have the meanings given: 
 53.18     (a) "Alternative minimum taxable income" means the sum of 
 53.19  the following for the taxable year: 
 53.20     (1) the taxpayer's federal alternative minimum taxable 
 53.21  income as defined in section 55(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue 
 53.22  Code; 
 53.23     (2) the taxpayer's itemized deductions allowed in computing 
 53.24  federal alternative minimum taxable income, but excluding: 
 53.25     (i) the charitable contribution deduction under section 170 
 53.26  of the Internal Revenue Code to the extent that the deduction 
 53.27  exceeds 1.0 percent of adjusted gross income, as defined in 
 53.28  section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
 53.29     (ii) the medical expense deduction; 
 53.30     (iii) the casualty, theft, and disaster loss deduction; and 
 53.31     (iv) the impairment-related work expenses of a disabled 
 53.32  person; 
 53.33     (3) for depletion allowances computed under section 613A(c) 
 53.34  of the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to each property (as 
 53.35  defined in section 614 of the Internal Revenue Code), to the 
 53.36  extent not included in federal alternative minimum taxable 
 54.1   income, the excess of the deduction for depletion allowable 
 54.2   under section 611 of the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable 
 54.3   year over the adjusted basis of the property at the end of the 
 54.4   taxable year (determined without regard to the depletion 
 54.5   deduction for the taxable year); 
 54.6      (4) to the extent not included in federal alternative 
 54.7   minimum taxable income, the amount of the tax preference for 
 54.8   intangible drilling cost under section 57(a)(2) of the Internal 
 54.9   Revenue Code determined without regard to subparagraph (E); 
 54.10     (5) to the extent not included in federal alternative 
 54.11  minimum taxable income, the amount of interest income as 
 54.12  provided by section 290.01, subdivision 19a, clause (1); and 
 54.13     (6) the amount of addition required by section 290.01, 
 54.14  subdivision 19a, clause (7); and 
 54.15     (7) the amount of addition required by section 290.01, 
 54.16  subdivision 19a, clause (8); 
 54.17     less the sum of the amounts determined under the following: 
 54.18     (1) interest income as defined in section 290.01, 
 54.19  subdivision 19b, clause (1); 
 54.20     (2) an overpayment of state income tax as provided by 
 54.21  section 290.01, subdivision 19b, clause (2), to the extent 
 54.22  included in federal alternative minimum taxable income; 
 54.23     (3) the amount of investment interest paid or accrued 
 54.24  within the taxable year on indebtedness to the extent that the 
 54.25  amount does not exceed net investment income, as defined in 
 54.26  section 163(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Interest does 
 54.27  not include amounts deducted in computing federal adjusted gross 
 54.28  income; and 
 54.29     (4) amounts subtracted from federal taxable income as 
 54.30  provided by section 290.01, subdivision 19b, clauses (10) and 
 54.31  (11) to (12). 
 54.32     In the case of an estate or trust, alternative minimum 
 54.33  taxable income must be computed as provided in section 59(c) of 
 54.34  the Internal Revenue Code. 
 54.35     (b) "Investment interest" means investment interest as 
 54.36  defined in section 163(d)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 55.1      (c) "Tentative minimum tax" equals 6.4 percent of 
 55.2   alternative minimum taxable income after subtracting the 
 55.3   exemption amount determined under subdivision 3. 
 55.4      (d) "Regular tax" means the tax that would be imposed under 
 55.5   this chapter (without regard to this section and section 
 55.6   290.032), reduced by the sum of the nonrefundable credits 
 55.7   allowed under this chapter.  
 55.8      (e) "Net minimum tax" means the minimum tax imposed by this 
 55.9   section. 
 55.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 55.11  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 55.12     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 55.13  290.0921, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 55.14     Subd. 3.  [ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAXABLE INCOME.] 
 55.15  "Alternative minimum taxable income" is Minnesota net income as 
 55.16  defined in section 290.01, subdivision 19, and includes the 
 55.17  adjustments and tax preference items in sections 56, 57, 58, and 
 55.18  59(d), (e), (f), and (h) of the Internal Revenue Code.  If a 
 55.19  corporation files a separate company Minnesota tax return, the 
 55.20  minimum tax must be computed on a separate company basis.  If a 
 55.21  corporation is part of a tax group filing a unitary return, the 
 55.22  minimum tax must be computed on a unitary basis.  The following 
 55.23  adjustments must be made. 
 55.24     (1) For purposes of the depreciation adjustments under 
 55.25  section 56(a)(1) and 56(g)(4)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code, 
 55.26  the basis for depreciable property placed in service in a 
 55.27  taxable year beginning before January 1, 1990, is the adjusted 
 55.28  basis for federal income tax purposes, including any 
 55.29  modification made in a taxable year under section 290.01, 
 55.30  subdivision 19e, or Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
 55.31  subdivision 7, paragraph (c). 
 55.32     For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2000, the 
 55.33  amount of any remaining modification made under section 290.01, 
 55.34  subdivision 19e, or Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
 55.35  subdivision 7, paragraph (c), not previously deducted is a 
 55.36  depreciation allowance in the first taxable year after December 
 56.1   31, 2000. 
 56.2      (2) The portion of the depreciation deduction allowed for 
 56.3   federal income tax purposes under section 168(k) of the Internal 
 56.4   Revenue Code that is required as an addition under section 
 56.5   290.01, subdivision 19c, clause (16), is disallowed in 
 56.6   determining alternative minimum taxable income. 
 56.7      (3) The subtraction for depreciation allowed under section 
 56.8   290.01, subdivision 19d, clause (19), is allowed as a 
 56.9   depreciation deduction in determining alternative minimum 
 56.10  taxable income. 
 56.11     (4) The alternative tax net operating loss deduction under 
 56.12  sections 56(a)(4) and 56(d) of the Internal Revenue Code does 
 56.13  not apply. 
 56.14     (5) The special rule for certain dividends under section 
 56.15  56(g)(4)(C)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply. 
 56.16     (6) The special rule for dividends from section 936 
 56.17  companies under section 56(g)(4)(C)(iii) does not apply. 
 56.18     (7) The tax preference for depletion under section 57(a)(1) 
 56.19  of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply. 
 56.20     (8) The tax preference for intangible drilling costs under 
 56.21  section 57(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code must be calculated 
 56.22  without regard to subparagraph (E) and the subtraction under 
 56.23  section 290.01, subdivision 19d, clause (4). 
 56.24     (9) The tax preference for tax exempt interest under 
 56.25  section 57(a)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply.  
 56.26     (10) The tax preference for charitable contributions of 
 56.27  appreciated property under section 57(a)(6) of the Internal 
 56.28  Revenue Code does not apply. 
 56.29     (11) For purposes of calculating the tax preference for 
 56.30  accelerated depreciation or amortization on certain property 
 56.31  placed in service before January 1, 1987, under section 57(a)(7) 
 56.32  of the Internal Revenue Code, the deduction allowable for the 
 56.33  taxable year is the deduction allowed under section 290.01, 
 56.34  subdivision 19e. 
 56.35     For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2000, the 
 56.36  amount of any remaining modification made under section 290.01, 
 57.1   subdivision 19e, not previously deducted is a depreciation or 
 57.2   amortization allowance in the first taxable year after December 
 57.3   31, 2004. 
 57.4      (12) For purposes of calculating the adjustment for 
 57.5   adjusted current earnings in section 56(g) of the Internal 
 57.6   Revenue Code, the term "alternative minimum taxable income" as 
 57.7   it is used in section 56(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, means 
 57.8   alternative minimum taxable income as defined in this 
 57.9   subdivision, determined without regard to the adjustment for 
 57.10  adjusted current earnings in section 56(g) of the Internal 
 57.11  Revenue Code. 
 57.12     (13) For purposes of determining the amount of adjusted 
 57.13  current earnings under section 56(g)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
 57.14  Code, no adjustment shall be made under section 56(g)(4) of the 
 57.15  Internal Revenue Code with respect to (i) the amount of foreign 
 57.16  dividend gross-up subtracted as provided in section 290.01, 
 57.17  subdivision 19d, clause (1), (ii) the amount of refunds of 
 57.18  income, excise, or franchise taxes subtracted as provided in 
 57.19  section 290.01, subdivision 19d, clause (10), or (iii) the 
 57.20  amount of royalties, fees or other like income subtracted as 
 57.21  provided in section 290.01, subdivision 19d, clause (11). 
 57.22     (14) Alternative minimum taxable income excludes the income 
 57.23  from operating in a job opportunity building zone as provided 
 57.24  under section 469.317. 
 57.25     (15) Alternative minimum taxable income excludes the income 
 57.26  from operating in a biotechnology and health sciences industry 
 57.27  zone as provided under section 469.337. 
 57.28     (16) The addition required under section 290.01, 
 57.29  subdivision 19c, clause (17), is included in determining 
 57.30  alternative minimum taxable income. 
 57.31     Items of tax preference must not be reduced below zero as a 
 57.32  result of the modifications in this subdivision. 
 57.33     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
 57.34  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
 57.35     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 57.36  290A.03, subdivision 15, is amended to read: 
 58.1      Subd. 15.  [INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.] "Internal Revenue Code" 
 58.2   means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through June 
 58.3   15, 2003 April 10, 2004. 
 58.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 58.5   following final enactment except the changes to household income 
 58.6   generated by federal changes to federal adjusted gross income 
 58.7   are effective at the same time federal changes are effective. 
 58.8      Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 58.9   291.005, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 58.10     Subdivision 1.  Unless the context otherwise clearly 
 58.11  requires, the following terms used in this chapter shall have 
 58.12  the following meanings: 
 58.13     (1) "Federal gross estate" means the gross estate of a 
 58.14  decedent as valued and otherwise determined for federal estate 
 58.15  tax purposes by federal taxing authorities pursuant to the 
 58.16  provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 58.17     (2) "Minnesota gross estate" means the federal gross estate 
 58.18  of a decedent after (a) excluding therefrom any property 
 58.19  included therein which has its situs outside Minnesota, and (b) 
 58.20  including therein any property omitted from the federal gross 
 58.21  estate which is includable therein, has its situs in Minnesota, 
 58.22  and was not disclosed to federal taxing authorities.  
 58.23     (3) "Personal representative" means the executor, 
 58.24  administrator or other person appointed by the court to 
 58.25  administer and dispose of the property of the decedent.  If 
 58.26  there is no executor, administrator or other person appointed, 
 58.27  qualified, and acting within this state, then any person in 
 58.28  actual or constructive possession of any property having a situs 
 58.29  in this state which is included in the federal gross estate of 
 58.30  the decedent shall be deemed to be a personal representative to 
 58.31  the extent of the property and the Minnesota estate tax due with 
 58.32  respect to the property. 
 58.33     (4) "Resident decedent" means an individual whose domicile 
 58.34  at the time of death was in Minnesota. 
 58.35     (5) "Nonresident decedent" means an individual whose 
 58.36  domicile at the time of death was not in Minnesota. 
 59.1      (6) "Situs of property" means, with respect to real 
 59.2   property, the state or country in which it is located; with 
 59.3   respect to tangible personal property, the state or country in 
 59.4   which it was normally kept or located at the time of the 
 59.5   decedent's death; and with respect to intangible personal 
 59.6   property, the state or country in which the decedent was 
 59.7   domiciled at death. 
 59.8      (7) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of revenue or any 
 59.9   person to whom the commissioner has delegated functions under 
 59.10  this chapter. 
 59.11     (8) "Internal Revenue Code" means the United States 
 59.12  Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through December 31, 
 59.13  2002 2003. 
 59.14     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for estates of 
 59.15  decedents dying after January 31, 2003. 
 59.16                             ARTICLE 3 
 59.17                           PROPERTY TAXES 
 59.18     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 97A.061, 
 59.19  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 59.20     Subdivision 1.  [APPLICABILITY; AMOUNT.] (a) The 
 59.21  commissioner shall annually make a payment to each county having 
 59.22  public hunting areas and game refuges.  Money to make the 
 59.23  payments is annually appropriated for that purpose from the 
 59.24  general fund.  Except as provided in paragraph (b), this section 
 59.25  does not apply to state trust fund land and other state land not 
 59.26  purchased for game refuge or public hunting purposes.  Except as 
 59.27  provided in paragraph (b), the payment shall be the greatest of: 
 59.28     (1) 35 percent of the gross receipts from all special use 
 59.29  permits and leases of land acquired for public hunting and game 
 59.30  refuges; 
 59.31     (2) 50 cents per acre on land purchased actually used for 
 59.32  public hunting or game refuges; or 
 59.33     (3) three-fourths of one percent of the appraised value of 
 59.34  purchased land actually used for public hunting and game refuges.
 59.35     (b) The payment shall be 50 percent of the dollar amount 
 59.36  adjusted for inflation as determined under section 477A.12, 
 60.1   subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (1), multiplied by the 
 60.2   number of acres of land in the county that are owned by another 
 60.3   state agency for military purposes and designated as a game 
 60.4   refuge under section 97A.085. 
 60.5      (c) The payment must be reduced by the amount paid under 
 60.6   subdivision 3 for croplands managed for wild geese.  
 60.7      (c) (d) The appraised value is the purchase price for five 
 60.8   years after acquisition.  The appraised value shall be 
 60.9   determined by the county assessor every five years after 
 60.10  acquisition. 
 60.11     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 60.12  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 60.13     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 144F.01, 
 60.14  subdivision 10, is amended to read: 
 60.15     Subd. 10.  [REPORTS.] On or before March 15, 2005 2006, and 
 60.16  March 15, 2007 2008, the special taxing district shall submit a 
 60.17  levy and expenditure report to the commissioner of revenue and 
 60.18  to the chairs of the house and senate committees with 
 60.19  jurisdiction over taxes.  Each report must include the amount of 
 60.20  the district's levies for taxes payable for each of the two 
 60.21  previous years and its actual expenditures of those revenues.  
 60.22  Expenditures must be reported by general service category, as 
 60.23  listed in subdivision 5, and include a separate category for 
 60.24  administrative expenses. 
 60.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 60.26  following final enactment. 
 60.27     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, 
 60.28  subdivision 22, is amended to read: 
 60.29     Subd. 22.  [WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS.] All real and 
 60.30  personal property of a wind energy conversion system as defined 
 60.31  in section 272.029, subdivision 2, is exempt from property tax 
 60.32  except that the land on which the property is located remains 
 60.33  taxable.  The value of the land on which the wind energy 
 60.34  conversion system is located shall not be increased or 
 60.35  decreased, but shall be valued in the same manner as similar 
 60.36  land that has not been improved with a wind energy conversion 
 61.1   system.  The land shall be classified based on the most probable 
 61.2   use of the property if it were not improved with a wind energy 
 61.3   conversion system. 
 61.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 61.5   year 2004 and thereafter, for taxes payable in 2005 and 
 61.6   thereafter. 
 61.7      Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 61.8   272.02, subdivision 47, is amended to read: 
 61.9      Subd. 47.  [POULTRY LITTER BIOMASS GENERATION FACILITY; 
 61.10  PERSONAL PROPERTY.] Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), 
 61.11  attached machinery and other personal property which is part of 
 61.12  an electrical generating facility that meets the requirements of 
 61.13  this subdivision is exempt.  At the time of construction, the 
 61.14  facility must: 
 61.15     (1) be designed to utilize poultry litter as a primary fuel 
 61.16  source; and 
 61.17     (2) be constructed for the purpose of generating power at 
 61.18  the facility that will be sold pursuant to a contract approved 
 61.19  by the Public Utilities Commission in accordance with the 
 61.20  biomass mandate imposed under section 216B.2424. 
 61.21     Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 61.22  January 1, 2003, and before December 31, 2003 2004.  Property 
 61.23  eligible for this exemption does not include electric 
 61.24  transmission lines and interconnections or gas pipelines and 
 61.25  interconnections appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 61.26     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 61.27  year 2004, taxes payable in 2005, and thereafter. 
 61.28     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 61.29  272.02, subdivision 56, is amended to read: 
 61.30     Subd. 56.  [ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY; PERSONAL 
 61.31  PROPERTY.] (a) Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), 
 61.32  attached machinery and other personal property which is part of 
 61.33  a combined-cycle combustion-turbine electric generation facility 
 61.34  that exceeds 550 300 megawatts of installed capacity and that 
 61.35  meets the requirements of this subdivision is exempt.  At the 
 61.36  time of construction, the facility must: 
 62.1      (1) be designed to utilize natural gas as a primary fuel; 
 62.2      (2) not be owned by a public utility as defined in section 
 62.3   216B.02, subdivision 4; 
 62.4      (3) be located within five miles of an existing natural gas 
 62.5   pipeline and within four miles of an existing electrical 
 62.6   transmission substation; 
 62.7      (4) be located outside the metropolitan area as defined 
 62.8   under section 473.121, subdivision 2; and 
 62.9      (5) be designed to provide energy and ancillary services 
 62.10  and have received a certificate of need under section 216B.243. 
 62.11     (b) Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 62.12  January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2007, except that 
 62.13  property eligible for this exemption includes any expansion of 
 62.14  the facility that also meets the requirements of paragraph (a), 
 62.15  clauses (1) to (5), without regard to the date that construction 
 62.16  of the expansion commences.  Property eligible for this 
 62.17  exemption does not include electric transmission lines and 
 62.18  interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 62.19  appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 62.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 62.21  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 62.22     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 62.23  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 62.24     Subd. 68.  [ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY; PERSONAL 
 62.25  PROPERTY.] Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), attached 
 62.26  machinery and other personal property which is part of a 
 62.27  simple-cycle, combustion-turbine electric generation facility 
 62.28  that exceeds 300 megawatts of installed capacity and that meets 
 62.29  the requirements of this subdivision is exempt.  At the time of 
 62.30  the construction, the facility must: 
 62.31     (1) be designed to utilize natural gas as a primary fuel; 
 62.32     (2) be owned by a public utility as defined in section 
 62.33  216B.02, subdivision 4, and be located at or interconnected with 
 62.34  an existing generating plant of the utility; 
 62.35     (3) be designed to provide peaking, emergency backup, or 
 62.36  contingency services; 
 63.1      (4) satisfy a resource need identified in an approved 
 63.2   integrated resource plan filed under section 216B.2422; and 
 63.3      (5) have received, by resolution, the approval from the 
 63.4   governing body of the county and the city for the exemption of 
 63.5   personal property under this subdivision. 
 63.6      Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 63.7   January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2006.  Property eligible 
 63.8   for this exemption does not include electric transmission lines 
 63.9   and interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 63.10  appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 63.11     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 63.12  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 63.13     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 63.14  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 63.15     Subd. 69.  [ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY; PERSONAL 
 63.16  PROPERTY.] (a) Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), 
 63.17  attached machinery and other personal property which is part of 
 63.18  a simple-cycle combustion-turbine electric generation facility 
 63.19  that exceeds 290 megawatts of installed capacity and that meets 
 63.20  the requirements of this subdivision is exempt.  At the time of 
 63.21  construction, the facility must: 
 63.22     (1) be designed to utilize natural gas as a primary fuel; 
 63.23     (2) not be owned by a public utility as defined in section 
 63.24  216B.02, subdivision 4; 
 63.25     (3) be located within five miles of an existing natural gas 
 63.26  pipeline and within five miles of an existing electrical 
 63.27  transmission substation; 
 63.28     (4) be located outside the metropolitan area as defined 
 63.29  under section 473.121, subdivision 2; 
 63.30     (5) be designed to provide peaking capacity energy and 
 63.31  ancillary services and have satisfied all of the requirements 
 63.32  under section 216B.243; and 
 63.33     (6) have received, by resolution, the approval from the 
 63.34  governing body of the county, city, and school district in which 
 63.35  the proposed facility is to be located for the exemption of 
 63.36  personal property under this subdivision. 
 64.1      (b) Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 64.2   January 1, 2005, and before January 1, 2009.  Property eligible 
 64.3   for this exemption does not include electric transmission lines 
 64.4   and interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 64.5   appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 64.6      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 64.7   year 2006, taxes payable in 2007, and thereafter. 
 64.8      Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 64.9   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 64.10     Subd. 70.  [ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY PERSONAL 
 64.11  PROPERTY.] (a) Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), and 
 64.12  section 453.54, subdivision 20, attached machinery and other 
 64.13  personal property which is part of an electric generation 
 64.14  facility that exceeds 150 megawatts of installed capacity and 
 64.15  meets the requirements of this subdivision is exempt.  At the 
 64.16  time of construction, the facility must: 
 64.17     (1) be designed to utilize natural gas as a primary fuel; 
 64.18     (2) be owned and operated by a municipal power agency as 
 64.19  defined in section 453.52, subdivision 8; 
 64.20     (3) have received the certificate of need under section 
 64.21  216B.243; 
 64.22     (4) be located outside the metropolitan area as defined 
 64.23  under section 473.121, subdivision 2; and 
 64.24     (5) be designed to be a combined-cycle facility, although 
 64.25  initially the facility will be operated as a simple-cycle 
 64.26  combustion turbine. 
 64.27     (b) To qualify under this subdivision, an agreement must be 
 64.28  negotiated between the municipal power agency and the host city, 
 64.29  for a payment in lieu of property taxes to the host city. 
 64.30     (c) Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 64.31  January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2006.  Property eligible 
 64.32  for this exemption does not include electric transmission lines 
 64.33  and interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 64.34  appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 64.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 64.36  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 65.1      Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 65.2   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 65.3      Subd. 71.  [BIOMASS ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY; PERSONAL 
 65.4   PROPERTY.] (a) Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), 
 65.5   attached machinery and other personal property which is a part 
 65.6   of an electric generation facility generating up to 30 megawatts 
 65.7   of installed capacity and that meets the requirements of this 
 65.8   subdivision is exempt.  At the time of construction, the 
 65.9   facility must: 
 65.10     (1) be designed to utilize a minimum 90 percent waste 
 65.11  biomass as a fuel; 
 65.12     (2) not be owned by a public utility as defined in section 
 65.13  216B.02, subdivision 4; 
 65.14     (3) be located within a city of the first class and have 
 65.15  its primary location at a former garbage transfer station; and 
 65.16     (4) be designed to have capability to provide baseload 
 65.17  energy and district heating. 
 65.18     (b) Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 65.19  January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2008.  Property eligible 
 65.20  for this exemption does not include electric transmission lines 
 65.21  and interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 65.22  appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 65.23     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 65.24  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 65.25     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 65.26  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 65.27     Subd. 72.  [ELECTRIC GENERATION FACILITY; PERSONAL 
 65.28  PROPERTY.] (a) Notwithstanding subdivision 9, clause (a), 
 65.29  attached machinery and other personal property that is part of 
 65.30  either a simple-cycle, combustion-turbine electric generation 
 65.31  facility that equals or exceeds 150 megawatts of installed 
 65.32  capacity, or a combined-cycle, combustion-turbine electric 
 65.33  generation facility that equals or exceeds 225 megawatts of 
 65.34  installed capacity, and that in either case meets the 
 65.35  requirements of this subdivision, is exempt.  At the time of 
 65.36  construction, the facility must: 
 66.1      (1) be designed to utilize natural gas as a primary fuel; 
 66.2      (2) not be owned by a public utility as defined in section 
 66.3   216B.02, subdivision 4; 
 66.4      (3) be located in a metropolitan county defined in section 
 66.5   473.121, subdivision 4, that has a population greater than 
 66.6   190,000 and less than 225,000 in the most recent federal 
 66.7   decennial census, within one mile of an existing natural gas 
 66.8   pipeline, and within one mile of an existing electrical 
 66.9   transmission substation; and 
 66.10     (4) be designed to provide energy and ancillary services 
 66.11  and have received a certificate of need under section 216B.243. 
 66.12     (b) Construction of the facility must be commenced after 
 66.13  January 1, 2005, and before January 1, 2008.  Property eligible 
 66.14  for this exemption does not include electric transmission lines 
 66.15  and interconnections or gas pipelines and interconnections 
 66.16  appurtenant to the property or the facility. 
 66.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 66.18  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 66.19     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
 66.20  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 66.21     Subd. 73.  [HOMESTEAD OF DISABLED VETERAN OR SURVIVING 
 66.22  SPOUSE.] (a) Property otherwise qualifying for homestead 
 66.23  classification under section 273.13 is exempt from taxation if 
 66.24  it serves as the homestead of a military veteran, as defined in 
 66.25  section 197.447, who has a total and permanent service-connected 
 66.26  disability.  To qualify for exemption under this subdivision, 
 66.27  the veteran must have been honorably discharged from the United 
 66.28  States armed forces, as indicated by United States Government 
 66.29  Form DD214 or other official military discharge papers, and must 
 66.30  be certified by the United States Veterans Administration as 
 66.31  having a total (100 percent) and permanent service-connected 
 66.32  disability. 
 66.33     (b) If a disabled veteran qualifying for exemption under 
 66.34  paragraph (a) predeceases the veteran's spouse, and if upon the 
 66.35  death of the veteran the spouse holds the legal or beneficial 
 66.36  title to the homestead and permanently resides there, the 
 67.1   exemption from taxation shall carry over to the benefit of the 
 67.2   veteran's spouse until such time as the spouse remarries or 
 67.3   sells or otherwise disposes of the property. 
 67.4      (c) In the case of an agricultural homestead, only the 
 67.5   portion of the property consisting of the house and garage and 
 67.6   immediately surrounding one acre of land qualifies for exemption 
 67.7   under this subdivision. 
 67.8      (d) A property owner attempting to first qualify for 
 67.9   exemption under this section must apply to the assessor by July 
 67.10  1 of the assessment year, except that for assessment year 2004 
 67.11  application may be made until October 1, 2004.  The application 
 67.12  must be accompanied by supporting documentation as required by 
 67.13  the assessor.  Once a property has been accepted for exemption 
 67.14  under this section, the property continues to qualify until 
 67.15  there is a change in ownership of the property. 
 67.16     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 67.17  year 2004 and thereafter, for taxes payable in 2005 and 
 67.18  thereafter. 
 67.19     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.0212, 
 67.20  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 67.21     Subdivision 1.  [EXEMPTION.] All qualified property in a 
 67.22  zone is exempt to the extent and for a period up to the duration 
 67.23  provided by the zone designation and under sections 469.1731 to 
 67.24  469.1735. 
 67.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for development 
 67.26  agreements approved after the day following final enactment and 
 67.27  beginning for property taxes payable in 2005. 
 67.28     Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.0212, 
 67.29  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 67.30     Subd. 2.  [LIMITS ON EXEMPTION.] (a) Property in a zone is 
 67.31  not exempt under this section from the following: 
 67.32     (1) special assessments; 
 67.33     (2) ad valorem property taxes specifically levied for the 
 67.34  payment of principal and interest on debt obligations; and 
 67.35     (3) all taxes levied by a school district, except equalized 
 67.36  school levies as defined in section 273.1398, subdivision 1, 
 68.1   paragraph (e). 
 68.2      (b) The city may limit the property tax exemption to a 
 68.3   shorter period than the duration of the zone or to a percentage 
 68.4   of the property taxes payable or both. 
 68.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for development 
 68.6   agreements approved after the day following final enactment and 
 68.7   beginning for property taxes payable in 2005. 
 68.8      Sec. 14.  [272.0275] [PERSONAL PROPERTY USED TO GENERATE 
 68.9   ELECTRICITY; EXEMPTION.] 
 68.10     Subdivision 1.  [NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION AFTER JANUARY 1, 
 68.11  2004.] For a new generating plant built and placed in service 
 68.12  after January 1, 2004, its personal property used to generate 
 68.13  electric power is exempt from property taxation, including under 
 68.14  section 453.54, subdivision 20, if an exemption of generation 
 68.15  personal property form, with an attached siting agreement, is 
 68.16  filed with the Department of Revenue.  The form must be signed 
 68.17  by the utility, and the county and city or town where the 
 68.18  facility is proposed to be located. 
 68.19     Subd. 2.  [EXISTING PLANT; INCREASE IN NAMEPLATE CAPACITY.] 
 68.20  For a plant existing or under construction on the day of final 
 68.21  enactment of this act, a partial exemption applies if the 
 68.22  nameplate capacity of the plant is increased from that existing 
 68.23  on the day of final enactment of this act, and if an exemption 
 68.24  of generation personal property form, with an attached siting 
 68.25  agreement is filed with the Department of Revenue.  The form 
 68.26  must be signed by the utility, and the county and city or town 
 68.27  where the facility expansion is located.  This partial exemption 
 68.28  must be computed by taking the increase in megawatts over the 
 68.29  total megawatt nameplate capacity after construction is 
 68.30  complete, multiplied by the market value of all taxable tools, 
 68.31  implements, and machinery of the generating plant as determined 
 68.32  by the commissioner of revenue.  The resulting exemption is 
 68.33  effective beginning in the next assessment year. 
 68.34     Subd. 3.  [IN-LIEU PAYMENT; LIMITATION.] If an in-lieu 
 68.35  payment or service fee is negotiated between a facility exempted 
 68.36  under this section and the county, city, or town where the 
 69.1   facility is located, the payment or fee in any year may not 
 69.2   exceed the property tax revenue that the jurisdiction would 
 69.3   receive from the facility if it were not exempt. 
 69.4      Subd. 4.  [DEFINITION; APPLICABILITY.] For purposes of this 
 69.5   section, "personal property" means tools, implements, and 
 69.6   machinery of the generating plant.  The exemption under this 
 69.7   section does not apply to transformers, transmission lines, 
 69.8   distribution lines, or any other tools, implements, and 
 69.9   machinery that are part of an electric substation, wherever 
 69.10  located. 
 69.11     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 69.12  following final enactment. 
 69.13     Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.029, 
 69.14  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 69.15     Subd. 4.  [REPORTS.] (a) An owner of a wind energy 
 69.16  conversion system subject to tax under subdivision 3 shall file 
 69.17  a report with the commissioner of revenue annually on or before 
 69.18  March 1 February 1 detailing the amount of electricity in 
 69.19  kilowatt-hours that was produced by the wind energy conversion 
 69.20  system for the previous calendar year.  The commissioner shall 
 69.21  prescribe the form of the report.  The report must contain the 
 69.22  information required by the commissioner to determine the tax 
 69.23  due to each county under this section for the current year.  If 
 69.24  an owner of a wind energy conversion system subject to taxation 
 69.25  under this section fails to file the report by the due date, the 
 69.26  commissioner of revenue shall determine the tax based upon the 
 69.27  nameplate capacity of the system multiplied by a capacity factor 
 69.28  of 40 percent. 
 69.29     (b) On or before March 31 February 28, the commissioner of 
 69.30  revenue shall notify the owner of the wind energy conversion 
 69.31  systems of the tax due to each county for the current year and 
 69.32  shall certify to the county auditor of each county in which the 
 69.33  systems are located the tax due from each owner for the current 
 69.34  year. 
 69.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
 69.36  payable in 2005 and thereafter. 
 70.1      Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.029, 
 70.2   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
 70.3      Subd. 6.  [DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUES.] Revenues from the 
 70.4   taxes imposed under subdivision 5 must be part of the settlement 
 70.5   between the county treasurer and the county auditor under 
 70.6   section 276.09.  The revenue must be distributed by the county 
 70.7   auditor or the county treasurer to all local taxing 
 70.8   jurisdictions in which the wind energy conversion system is 
 70.9   located, in the same proportion that each of the taxing 
 70.10  jurisdiction's current previous year's net tax capacity based 
 70.11  tax rate is to the current previous year's total local net tax 
 70.12  capacity based rate. 
 70.13     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
 70.14  payable in 2004 and thereafter. 
 70.15     Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 70.16  273.11, subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
 70.17     Subd. 1a.  [LIMITED MARKET VALUE.] In the case of all 
 70.18  property classified as agricultural homestead or nonhomestead, 
 70.19  residential homestead or nonhomestead, timber, or noncommercial 
 70.20  seasonal residential recreational, or class 1c resort property, 
 70.21  the assessor shall compare the value with the taxable portion of 
 70.22  the value determined in the preceding assessment, except that 
 70.23  for class 1c resort property for assessment year 2004, the 
 70.24  assessor shall determine the limited market value as provided in 
 70.25  subdivision 1b.  
 70.26     For assessment year 2002, the amount of the increase shall 
 70.27  not exceed the greater of (1) ten percent of the value in the 
 70.28  preceding assessment, or (2) 15 percent of the difference 
 70.29  between the current assessment and the preceding assessment. 
 70.30     For assessment year 2003, the amount of the increase shall 
 70.31  not exceed the greater of (1) 12 percent of the value in the 
 70.32  preceding assessment, or (2) 20 percent of the difference 
 70.33  between the current assessment and the preceding assessment. 
 70.34     For assessment year 2004, the amount of the increase shall 
 70.35  not exceed the greater of (1) 15 percent of the value in the 
 70.36  preceding assessment, or (2) 25 percent of the difference 
 71.1   between the current assessment and the preceding assessment. 
 71.2      For assessment year 2005, the amount of the increase shall 
 71.3   not exceed the greater of (1) 15 percent of the value in the 
 71.4   preceding assessment, or (2) 33 percent of the difference 
 71.5   between the current assessment and the preceding assessment.  
 71.6      For assessment year 2006, the amount of the increase shall 
 71.7   not exceed the greater of (1) 15 percent of the value in the 
 71.8   preceding assessment, or (2) 50 percent of the difference 
 71.9   between the current assessment and the preceding assessment. 
 71.10     This limitation shall not apply to increases in value due 
 71.11  to improvements.  For purposes of this subdivision, the term 
 71.12  "assessment" means the value prior to any exclusion under 
 71.13  subdivision 16. 
 71.14     The provisions of this subdivision shall be in effect 
 71.15  through assessment year 2006 as provided in this subdivision. 
 71.16     For purposes of this subdivision and subdivision 1b, "class 
 71.17  1c resort property" includes the portion of the property 
 71.18  classified class 1a or 1b homestead, the portion of the property 
 71.19  classified 1c, plus any remaining portion of the resort that is 
 71.20  classified 4c under section 273.13, subdivision 25, paragraph 
 71.21  (d), clause (1). 
 71.22     For purposes of the assessment/sales ratio study conducted 
 71.23  under section 127A.48, and the computation of state aids paid 
 71.24  under chapters 122A, 123A, 123B, 124D, 125A, 126C, 127A, and 
 71.25  477A, market values and net tax capacities determined under this 
 71.26  subdivision and subdivision 16, shall be used. 
 71.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 71.28  year 2004 through 2006, for taxes payable in 2005 through 2007. 
 71.29     Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.11, is 
 71.30  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 71.31     Subd. 1b.  [CLASS 1C RESORTS; 2004 ASSESSMENT ONLY.] For 
 71.32  assessment year 2004, the valuation increase on class 1c resort 
 71.33  property shall not exceed the greater of (1) 15 percent of the 
 71.34  value of its 2002 assessment, or (2) 25 percent of the 
 71.35  difference in value between its 2004 assessment and its 2002 
 71.36  assessment.  The valuation increase on class 1c resort property 
 72.1   for the 2005 and 2006 assessment years shall be determined based 
 72.2   upon the schedule contained in subdivision 1a.  
 72.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 72.4   following final enactment. 
 72.5      Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.111, 
 72.6   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
 72.7      Subd. 6.  [AGRICULTURAL USE.] Real property qualifying 
 72.8   under subdivision 3 shall be considered to be in agricultural 
 72.9   use provided that annually: 
 72.10     (1) at least 33-1/3 percent of the total family income of 
 72.11  the owner is derived therefrom, or the total production income 
 72.12  including rental from the property is $300 $500 plus $10 $50 per 
 72.13  tillable acre; and 
 72.14     (2) it is devoted to the production for sale of 
 72.15  agricultural products as defined in section 273.13, subdivision 
 72.16  23, paragraph (e). 
 72.17     Slough, wasteland, and woodland contiguous to or surrounded 
 72.18  by land that is entitled to valuation and tax deferment under 
 72.19  this section is considered to be in agricultural use if under 
 72.20  the same ownership and management. 
 72.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 72.22  year 2005, taxes payable in 2006, and thereafter. 
 72.23     Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.124, is 
 72.24  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 72.25     Subd. 22.  [RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY ALSO USED TO PROVIDE DAY 
 72.26  CARE.] Residential and agricultural property that is also used 
 72.27  to provide day care must be classified without regard to its use 
 72.28  in providing the day care, provided that the operator of the day 
 72.29  care service is occupying the property as the operator's 
 72.30  permanent residence.  For purposes of this subdivision, "day 
 72.31  care" means family day care or adult family day care licensed 
 72.32  under section 245A.03, or provided without license under section 
 72.33  245A.03, subdivision 2, paragraph (a), clause (2). 
 72.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 72.35  year 2004 and thereafter, for taxes payable in 2005 and 
 72.36  thereafter. 
 73.1      Sec. 21.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 73.2   273.13, subdivision 22, is amended to read: 
 73.3      Subd. 22.  [CLASS 1.] (a) Except as provided in subdivision 
 73.4   23 and in paragraphs (b) and (c), real estate which is 
 73.5   residential and used for homestead purposes is class 1a.  In the 
 73.6   case of a duplex or triplex in which one of the units is used 
 73.7   for homestead purposes, the entire property is deemed to be used 
 73.8   for homestead purposes.  The market value of class 1a property 
 73.9   must be determined based upon the value of the house, garage, 
 73.10  and land.  
 73.11     The first $500,000 of market value of class 1a property has 
 73.12  a net class rate of one percent of its market value; and the 
 73.13  market value of class 1a property that exceeds $500,000 has a 
 73.14  class rate of 1.25 percent of its market value. 
 73.15     (b) Class 1b property includes homestead real estate or 
 73.16  homestead manufactured homes used for the purposes of a 
 73.17  homestead by 
 73.18     (1) any person who is blind as defined in section 256D.35, 
 73.19  or the blind person and the blind person's spouse; or 
 73.20     (2) any person, hereinafter referred to as "veteran," who: 
 73.21     (i) served in the active military or naval service of the 
 73.22  United States; and 
 73.23     (ii) is entitled to compensation under the laws and 
 73.24  regulations of the United States for permanent and total 
 73.25  service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, by 
 73.26  reason of amputation, ankylosis, progressive muscular 
 73.27  dystrophies, or paralysis, of both lower extremities, such as to 
 73.28  preclude motion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a 
 73.29  wheelchair; and 
 73.30     (iii) has acquired a special housing unit with special 
 73.31  fixtures or movable facilities made necessary by the nature of 
 73.32  the veteran's disability, or the surviving spouse of the 
 73.33  deceased veteran for as long as the surviving spouse retains the 
 73.34  special housing unit as a homestead; or 
 73.35     (3) any person who is permanently and totally disabled. 
 73.36     Property is classified and assessed under clause (3) (2) 
 74.1   only if the government agency or income-providing source 
 74.2   certifies, upon the request of the homestead occupant, that the 
 74.3   homestead occupant satisfies the disability requirements of this 
 74.4   paragraph. 
 74.5      Property is classified and assessed pursuant to clause (1) 
 74.6   only if the commissioner of revenue certifies to the assessor 
 74.7   that the homestead occupant satisfies the requirements of this 
 74.8   paragraph.  
 74.9      Permanently and totally disabled for the purpose of this 
 74.10  subdivision means a condition which is permanent in nature and 
 74.11  totally incapacitates the person from working at an occupation 
 74.12  which brings the person an income.  The first $32,000 market 
 74.13  value of class 1b property has a net class rate of .45 percent 
 74.14  of its market value.  The remaining market value of class 1b 
 74.15  property has a class rate using the rates for class 1a or class 
 74.16  2a property, whichever is appropriate, of similar market value.  
 74.17     (c) Class 1c property is commercial use real property that 
 74.18  abuts a lakeshore line and is devoted to temporary and seasonal 
 74.19  residential occupancy for recreational purposes but not devoted 
 74.20  to commercial purposes for more than 250 days in the year 
 74.21  preceding the year of assessment, and that includes a portion 
 74.22  used as a homestead by the owner, which includes a dwelling 
 74.23  occupied as a homestead by a shareholder of a corporation that 
 74.24  owns the resort, a partner in a partnership that owns the 
 74.25  resort, or a member of a limited liability company that owns the 
 74.26  resort even if the title to the homestead is held by the 
 74.27  corporation, partnership, or limited liability company.  For 
 74.28  purposes of this clause, property is devoted to a commercial 
 74.29  purpose on a specific day if any portion of the property, 
 74.30  excluding the portion used exclusively as a homestead, is used 
 74.31  for residential occupancy and a fee is charged for residential 
 74.32  occupancy.  The first $500,000 of market value of class 1c 
 74.33  property has a class rate of one percent, and the remaining 
 74.34  market value of class 1c property has a class rate of one 
 74.35  percent, with the following limitation:  the area of the 
 74.36  property must not exceed 100 feet of lakeshore footage for each 
 75.1   cabin or campsite located on the property up to a total of 800 
 75.2   feet and 500 feet in depth, measured away from the lakeshore.  
 75.3   If any portion of the class 1c resort property is classified as 
 75.4   class 4c under subdivision 25, the entire property must meet the 
 75.5   requirements of subdivision 25, paragraph (d), clause (1), to 
 75.6   qualify for class 1c treatment under this paragraph. 
 75.7      (d) Class 1d property includes structures that meet all of 
 75.8   the following criteria: 
 75.9      (1) the structure is located on property that is classified 
 75.10  as agricultural property under section 273.13, subdivision 23; 
 75.11     (2) the structure is occupied exclusively by seasonal farm 
 75.12  workers during the time when they work on that farm, and the 
 75.13  occupants are not charged rent for the privilege of occupying 
 75.14  the property, provided that use of the structure for storage of 
 75.15  farm equipment and produce does not disqualify the property from 
 75.16  classification under this paragraph; 
 75.17     (3) the structure meets all applicable health and safety 
 75.18  requirements for the appropriate season; and 
 75.19     (4) the structure is not salable as residential property 
 75.20  because it does not comply with local ordinances relating to 
 75.21  location in relation to streets or roads. 
 75.22     The market value of class 1d property has the same class 
 75.23  rates as class 1a property under paragraph (a). 
 75.24     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for assessment 
 75.25  year 2004 and thereafter, for taxes payable in 2005 and 
 75.26  thereafter. 
 75.27     Sec. 22.  [273.1321] [VACANT COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 
 75.28  PROPERTIES.] 
 75.29     Subdivision 1.  [AUTHORITY.] A city may establish, by 
 75.30  ordinance, a program to encourage redevelopment, provide for 
 75.31  better utilization of commercial industrial property, and 
 75.32  eliminate blighting influences by revoking the eligibility of 
 75.33  individual commercial industrial properties to receive the 
 75.34  credit authorized under section 273.1398, subdivision 4.  The 
 75.35  program may revoke eligibility only if the property has been 
 75.36  vacant, as defined in subdivision 3, clauses (1) to (3), for 
 76.1   three or more consecutive years prior to the current assessment 
 76.2   year, or under subdivision 3, clause (4), for five or more 
 76.3   consecutive years prior to the current assessment year. 
 76.4      Subd. 2.  [MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.] The program must provide: 
 76.5      (1) standards for determining whether a property is vacant; 
 76.6      (2) written assessment notice by the city or county to the 
 76.7   property owner informing the owner that the property's 
 76.8   eligibility will be revoked; 
 76.9      (3) opportunity for the property owner to appeal the 
 76.10  revocation at the board of equalization; 
 76.11     (4) timely notice to the county assessor of the property's 
 76.12  eligibility revocation, if the city has a city assessor and the 
 76.13  city assessor has revoked the property's eligibility; and 
 76.14     (5) any other provisions the city determines are necessary 
 76.15  or appropriate to the operation of the program to achieve its 
 76.16  purposes. 
 76.17     Subd. 3.  [DEFINITION OF VACANT.] A program established 
 76.18  under this section may provide that a property is vacant if the 
 76.19  property is: 
 76.20     (1) condemned, dangerous, or having multiple building code 
 76.21  violations; 
 76.22     (2) condemned and illegally occupied; 
 76.23     (3) either occupied or unoccupied, during which time the 
 76.24  enforcement officer for the municipality has issued multiple 
 76.25  orders to correct nuisance conditions; or 
 76.26     (4) unoccupied and not utilized for a commercial or 
 76.27  industrial purpose.  
 76.28     Subd. 4.  [NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER.] The municipality 
 76.29  shall give notice to the property owner requiring that any 
 76.30  conditions in subdivision 3, clauses (1) to (3) be remedied, and 
 76.31  that the property be occupied and used for a commercial or 
 76.32  industrial purpose for at least 180 days during the next 
 76.33  12-month period, or else the property may cease to be eligible 
 76.34  for the credit under section 273.1398, subdivision 4. 
 76.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
 76.36  payable in 2006 and thereafter. 
 77.1      Sec. 23.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.1384, 
 77.2   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 77.3      Subdivision 1.  [RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEAD MARKET VALUE 
 77.4   CREDIT.] Each county auditor shall determine a homestead credit 
 77.5   for each class 1a, 1b, 1c, and 2a homestead property within the 
 77.6   county equal to 0.4 percent of the market value of the 
 77.7   property.  The amount of homestead credit for a homestead may 
 77.8   not exceed $304 and is reduced by .09 percent of the market 
 77.9   value in excess of $76,000.  In the case of an agricultural or 
 77.10  resort homestead, only the market value of the house, garage, 
 77.11  and immediately surrounding one acre of land is eligible in 
 77.12  determining the property's homestead credit.  In the case of a 
 77.13  property which that is classified as part a partial homestead 
 77.14  and part nonhomestead, the credit shall apply only to the 
 77.15  homestead portion of the property. because the property is not 
 77.16  occupied by all owners or both spouses, the credit is determined 
 77.17  based on the homestead portion only, except that the credit must 
 77.18  not exceed the credit that would be calculated if the entire 
 77.19  residential portion of the property was classified as homestead. 
 77.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
 77.21  payable in 2005 and thereafter. 
 77.22     Sec. 24.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 77.23  274.014, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 77.24     Subd. 3.  [PROOF OF COMPLIANCE; TRANSFER OF DUTIES.] (a) 
 77.25  Any city or town that does not conducts local boards of appeal 
 77.26  and equalization meetings must provide proof to the county 
 77.27  assessor by December 1, 2006 2005, and each year thereafter, 
 77.28  that it is in compliance with the requirements of subdivision 2, 
 77.29  and that it had.  Beginning in 2006, this notice must also 
 77.30  verify that there was a quorum of voting members at each meeting 
 77.31  of the board of appeal and equalization in the prior current 
 77.32  year,.  A city or town that does not comply with these 
 77.33  requirements is deemed to have transferred its board of appeal 
 77.34  and equalization powers to the county under section 274.01, 
 77.35  subdivision 3, for beginning with the following year's 
 77.36  assessment and continuing unless the powers are reinstated under 
 78.1   paragraph (c). 
 78.2      (b) The county shall notify the taxpayers when the board of 
 78.3   appeal and equalization for a city or town has been transferred 
 78.4   to the county under this subdivision and, prior to the meeting 
 78.5   time of the county board of equalization, the county shall make 
 78.6   available to those taxpayers a procedure for a review of the 
 78.7   assessments, including, but not limited to, open book meetings.  
 78.8   This alternate review process shall take place in April and May. 
 78.9      (c) A local board whose powers are transferred to the 
 78.10  county under this subdivision may be reinstated by resolution of 
 78.11  the governing body of the city or town and upon proof of 
 78.12  compliance with the requirements of subdivision 2.  The 
 78.13  resolution and proofs must be provided to the county assessor by 
 78.14  December 1 in order to be effective for the following year's 
 78.15  assessment. 
 78.16     Sec. 25.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
 78.17  275.065, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 78.18     Subd. 3.  [NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAXES.] (a) The 
 78.19  county auditor shall prepare and the county treasurer shall 
 78.20  deliver after November 10 and on or before November 24 each 
 78.21  year, by first class mail to each taxpayer at the address listed 
 78.22  on the county's current year's assessment roll, a notice of 
 78.23  proposed property taxes.  
 78.24     (b) The commissioner of revenue shall prescribe the form of 
 78.25  the notice. 
 78.26     (c) The notice must inform taxpayers that it contains the 
 78.27  amount of property taxes each taxing authority proposes to 
 78.28  collect for taxes payable the following year.  In the case of a 
 78.29  town, or in the case of the state general tax, the final tax 
 78.30  amount will be its proposed tax.  In the case of taxing 
 78.31  authorities required to hold a public meeting under subdivision 
 78.32  6, the notice must clearly state that each taxing authority, 
 78.33  including regional library districts established under section 
 78.34  134.201, and including the metropolitan taxing districts as 
 78.35  defined in paragraph (i), but excluding all other special taxing 
 78.36  districts and towns, will hold a public meeting to receive 
 79.1   public testimony on the proposed budget and proposed or final 
 79.2   property tax levy, or, in case of a school district, on the 
 79.3   current budget and proposed property tax levy.  It must clearly 
 79.4   state the time and place of each taxing authority's meeting, a 
 79.5   telephone number for the taxing authority that taxpayers may 
 79.6   call if they have questions related to the notice, and an 
 79.7   address where comments will be received by mail.  
 79.8      (d) The notice must state for each parcel: 
 79.9      (1) the market value of the property as determined under 
 79.10  section 273.11, and used for computing property taxes payable in 
 79.11  the following year and for taxes payable in the current year as 
 79.12  each appears in the records of the county assessor on November 1 
 79.13  of the current year; and, in the case of residential property, 
 79.14  whether the property is classified as homestead or 
 79.15  nonhomestead.  The notice must clearly inform taxpayers of the 
 79.16  years to which the market values apply and that the values are 
 79.17  final values; 
 79.18     (2) the items listed below, shown separately by county, 
 79.19  city or town, and state general tax, net of the residential and 
 79.20  agricultural homestead credit under section 273.1384, voter 
 79.21  approved school levy, other local school levy, and the sum of 
 79.22  the special taxing districts, and as a total of all taxing 
 79.23  authorities:  
 79.24     (i) the actual tax for taxes payable in the current year; 
 79.25  and 
 79.26     (ii) the proposed tax amount. 
 79.27     If the county levy under clause (2) includes an amount for 
 79.28  a lake improvement district as defined under sections 103B.501 
 79.29  to 103B.581, the amount attributable for that purpose must be 
 79.30  separately stated from the remaining county levy amount.  
 79.31     In the case of a town or the state general tax, the final 
 79.32  tax shall also be its proposed tax unless the town changes its 
 79.33  levy at a special town meeting under section 365.52.  If a 
 79.34  school district has certified under section 126C.17, subdivision 
 79.35  9, that a referendum will be held in the school district at the 
 79.36  November general election, the county auditor must note next to 
 80.1   the school district's proposed amount that a referendum is 
 80.2   pending and that, if approved by the voters, the tax amount may 
 80.3   be higher than shown on the notice.  In the case of the city of 
 80.4   Minneapolis, the levy for the Minneapolis Library Board and the 
 80.5   levy for Minneapolis Park and Recreation shall be listed 
 80.6   separately from the remaining amount of the city's levy.  In the 
 80.7   case of the city of St. Paul, the levy for the St. Paul Library 
 80.8   Agency must be listed separately from the remaining amount of 
 80.9   the city's levy.  In the case of Ramsey County, any amount 
 80.10  levied under section 134.07 may be listed separately from the 
 80.11  remaining amount of the county's levy.  In the case of a parcel 
 80.12  where tax increment or the fiscal disparities areawide tax under 
 80.13  chapter 276A or 473F applies, the proposed tax levy on the 
 80.14  captured value or the proposed tax levy on the tax capacity 
 80.15  subject to the areawide tax must each be stated separately and 
 80.16  not included in the sum of the special taxing districts; and 
 80.17     (3) the increase or decrease between the total taxes 
 80.18  payable in the current year and the total proposed taxes, 
 80.19  expressed as a percentage. 
 80.20     For purposes of this section, the amount of the tax on 
 80.21  homesteads qualifying under the senior citizens' property tax 
 80.22  deferral program under chapter 290B is the total amount of 
 80.23  property tax before subtraction of the deferred property tax 
 80.24  amount. 
 80.25     (e) The notice must clearly state that the proposed or 
 80.26  final taxes do not include the following: 
 80.27     (1) special assessments; 
 80.28     (2) levies approved by the voters after the date the 
 80.29  proposed taxes are certified, including bond referenda and 
 80.30  school district levy referenda; 
 80.31     (3) a levy limit increase approved by the voters by the 
 80.32  first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the levy 
 80.33  year as provided under section 275.73; 
 80.34     (4) amounts necessary to pay cleanup or other costs due to 
 80.35  a natural disaster occurring after the date the proposed taxes 
 80.36  are certified; 
 81.1      (5) amounts necessary to pay tort judgments against the 
 81.2   taxing authority that become final after the date the proposed 
 81.3   taxes are certified; and 
 81.4      (6) the contamination tax imposed on properties which 
 81.5   received market value reductions for contamination. 
 81.6      (f) Except as provided in subdivision 7, failure of the 
 81.7   county auditor to prepare or the county treasurer to deliver the 
 81.8   notice as required in this section does not invalidate the 
 81.9   proposed or final tax levy or the taxes payable pursuant to the 
 81.10  tax levy. 
 81.11     (g) If the notice the taxpayer receives under this section 
 81.12  lists the property as nonhomestead, and satisfactory 
 81.13  documentation is provided to the county assessor by the 
 81.14  applicable deadline, and the property qualifies for the 
 81.15  homestead classification in that assessment year, the assessor 
 81.16  shall reclassify the property to homestead for taxes payable in 
 81.17  the following year. 
 81.18     (h) In the case of class 4 residential property used as a 
 81.19  residence for lease or rental periods of 30 days or more, the 
 81.20  taxpayer must either: 
 81.21     (1) mail or deliver a copy of the notice of proposed 
 81.22  property taxes to each tenant, renter, or lessee; or 
 81.23     (2) post a copy of the notice in a conspicuous place on the 
 81.24  premises of the property.  
 81.25     The notice must be mailed or posted by the taxpayer by 
 81.26  November 27 or within three days of receipt of the notice, 
 81.27  whichever is later.  A taxpayer may notify the county treasurer 
 81.28  of the address of the taxpayer, agent, caretaker, or manager of 
 81.29  the premises to which the notice must be mailed in order to 
 81.30  fulfill the requirements of this paragraph. 
 81.31     (i) For purposes of this subdivision, subdivisions 5a and 
 81.32  6, "metropolitan special taxing districts" means the following 
 81.33  taxing districts in the seven-county metropolitan area that levy 
 81.34  a property tax for any of the specified purposes listed below: 
 81.35     (1) Metropolitan Council under section 473.132, 473.167, 
 81.36  473.249, 473.325, 473.446, 473.521, 473.547, or 473.834; 
 82.1      (2) Metropolitan Airports Commission under section 473.667, 
 82.2   473.671, or 473.672; and 
 82.3      (3) Metropolitan Mosquito Control Commission under section 
 82.4   473.711. 
 82.5      For purposes of this section, any levies made by the 
 82.6   regional rail authorities in the county of Anoka, Carver, 
 82.7   Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington under chapter 
 82.8   398A shall be included with the appropriate county's levy and 
 82.9   shall be discussed at that county's public hearing. 
 82.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for notices for 
 82.11  property taxes levied in 2004, payable in 2005, and thereafter. 
 82.12     Sec. 26.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 276.04, 
 82.13  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 82.14     Subd. 2.  [CONTENTS OF TAX STATEMENTS.] (a) The treasurer 
 82.15  shall provide for the printing of the tax statements.  The 
 82.16  commissioner of revenue shall prescribe the form of the property 
 82.17  tax statement and its contents.  The statement must contain a 
 82.18  tabulated statement of the dollar amount due to each taxing 
 82.19  authority and the amount of the state tax from the parcel of 
 82.20  real property for which a particular tax statement is prepared.  
 82.21  The dollar amounts attributable to the county, the state tax, 
 82.22  the voter approved school tax, the other local school tax, the 
 82.23  township or municipality, and the total of the metropolitan 
 82.24  special taxing districts as defined in section 275.065, 
 82.25  subdivision 3, paragraph (i), must be separately stated.  The 
 82.26  amounts due all other special taxing districts, if any, may be 
 82.27  aggregated.  If the county levy under this paragraph includes an 
 82.28  amount for a lake improvement district as defined under sections 
 82.29  103B.501 to 103B.581, the amount attributable for that purpose 
 82.30  must be separately stated from the remaining county levy 
 82.31  amount.  In the case of Ramsey County, if the county levy under 
 82.32  this paragraph includes an amount for public library service 
 82.33  under section 134.07, the amount attributable for that purpose 
 82.34  may be separately stated from the remaining county levy amount.  
 82.35  The amount of the tax on homesteads qualifying under the senior 
 82.36  citizens' property tax deferral program under chapter 290B is 
 83.1   the total amount of property tax before subtraction of the 
 83.2   deferred property tax amount.  The amount of the tax on 
 83.3   contamination value imposed under sections 270.91 to 270.98, if 
 83.4   any, must also be separately stated.  The dollar amounts, 
 83.5   including the dollar amount of any special assessments, may be 
 83.6   rounded to the nearest even whole dollar.  For purposes of this 
 83.7   section whole odd-numbered dollars may be adjusted to the next 
 83.8   higher even-numbered dollar.  The amount of market value 
 83.9   excluded under section 273.11, subdivision 16, if any, must also 
 83.10  be listed on the tax statement. 
 83.11     (b) The property tax statements for manufactured homes and 
 83.12  sectional structures taxed as personal property shall contain 
 83.13  the same information that is required on the tax statements for 
 83.14  real property.  
 83.15     (c) Real and personal property tax statements must contain 
 83.16  the following information in the order given in this paragraph.  
 83.17  The information must contain the current year tax information in 
 83.18  the right column with the corresponding information for the 
 83.19  previous year in a column on the left: 
 83.20     (1) the property's estimated market value under section 
 83.21  273.11, subdivision 1; 
 83.22     (2) the property's taxable market value after reductions 
 83.23  under section 273.11, subdivisions 1a and 16; 
 83.24     (3) the property's gross tax, calculated by adding the 
 83.25  property's total property tax to the sum of the aids enumerated 
 83.26  in clause (4); 
 83.27     (4) a total of the following aids: 
 83.28     (i) education aids payable under chapters 122A, 123A, 123B, 
 83.29  124D, 125A, 126C, and 127A; 
 83.30     (ii) local government aids for cities, towns, and counties 
 83.31  under chapter 477A; 
 83.32     (iii) disparity reduction aid under section 273.1398; and 
 83.33     (iv) homestead and agricultural credit aid under section 
 83.34  273.1398; 
 83.35     (5) for homestead residential and agricultural properties, 
 83.36  the credits under section 273.1384; 
 84.1      (6) any credits received under sections 273.119; 273.123; 
 84.2   273.135; 273.1391; 273.1398, subdivision 4; 469.171; and 
 84.3   473H.10, except that the amount of credit received under section 
 84.4   273.135 must be separately stated and identified as "taconite 
 84.5   tax relief"; and 
 84.6      (7) the net tax payable in the manner required in paragraph 
 84.7   (a). 
 84.8      (d) If the county uses envelopes for mailing property tax 
 84.9   statements and if the county agrees, a taxing district may 
 84.10  include a notice with the property tax statement notifying 
 84.11  taxpayers when the taxing district will begin its budget 
 84.12  deliberations for the current year, and encouraging taxpayers to 
 84.13  attend the hearings.  If the county allows notices to be 
 84.14  included in the envelope containing the property tax statement, 
 84.15  and if more than one taxing district relative to a given 
 84.16  property decides to include a notice with the tax statement, the 
 84.17  county treasurer or auditor must coordinate the process and may 
 84.18  combine the information on a single announcement.  
 84.19     The commissioner of revenue shall certify to the county 
 84.20  auditor the actual or estimated aids enumerated in clause (4) 
 84.21  that local governments will receive in the following year.  The 
 84.22  commissioner must certify this amount by January 1 of each year. 
 84.23     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for property 
 84.24  tax statements for taxes payable in 2005 and thereafter. 
 84.25     Sec. 27.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290A.03, 
 84.26  subdivision 13, is amended to read: 
 84.27     Subd. 13.  [PROPERTY TAXES PAYABLE.] (a) "Initial property 
 84.28  taxes payable" means (i) the property tax exclusive of payable 
 84.29  on a claimant's homestead plus (ii) any fees or charges for 
 84.30  police or fire services included in the total amount on the 
 84.31  property tax statement, excluding charges related to capital 
 84.32  expenditures and nuisance charges under section 429.101. 
 84.33     (b) "Property taxes payable" means initial property taxes 
 84.34  payable minus 
 84.35     (i) special assessments, other than fees or charges for 
 84.36  police or fire services that are included in paragraph (a)(ii); 
 85.1      (ii) penalties, and; 
 85.2      (iii) interest payable on a claimant's homestead after; 
 85.3      (iv) deductions made under sections 273.135, 273.1384, 
 85.4   273.1391, 273.42, subdivision 2, and any other state paid 
 85.5   property tax credits in any calendar year,; and after 
 85.6      (v) any refund claimed and allowable under section 290A.04, 
 85.7   subdivision 2h, that is first payable in the year that the 
 85.8   property tax is payable.  
 85.9      (c) In the case of a claimant who makes ground lease 
 85.10  payments, "property taxes payable" includes the amount of the 
 85.11  payments directly attributable to the property taxes assessed 
 85.12  against the parcel on which the house is located.  No 
 85.13  apportionment or reduction of the "property taxes payable" shall 
 85.14  be required for the use of a portion of the claimant's homestead 
 85.15  for a business purpose if the claimant does not deduct any 
 85.16  business depreciation expenses for the use of a portion of the 
 85.17  homestead in the determination of federal adjusted gross 
 85.18  income.  For homesteads which are manufactured homes as defined 
 85.19  in section 273.125, subdivision 8, and for homesteads which are 
 85.20  park trailers taxed as manufactured homes under section 168.012, 
 85.21  subdivision 9, "property taxes payable" shall also include 19 
 85.22  percent of the gross rent paid in the preceding year for the 
 85.23  site on which the homestead is located.  When a homestead is 
 85.24  owned by two or more persons as joint tenants or tenants in 
 85.25  common, such tenants shall determine between them which tenant 
 85.26  may claim the property taxes payable on the homestead.  If they 
 85.27  are unable to agree, the matter shall be referred to the 
 85.28  commissioner of revenue whose decision shall be final.  Property 
 85.29  taxes are considered payable in the year prescribed by law for 
 85.30  payment of the taxes. 
 85.31     (d) In the case of a claim relating to "property taxes 
 85.32  payable," the claimant must have owned and occupied the 
 85.33  homestead on January 2 of the year in which the tax is payable 
 85.34  and (i) the property must have been classified as homestead 
 85.35  property pursuant to section 273.124, on or before December 15 
 85.36  of the assessment year to which the "property taxes payable" 
 86.1   relate; or (ii) the claimant must provide documentation from the 
 86.2   local assessor that application for homestead classification has 
 86.3   been made on or before December 15 of the year in which the 
 86.4   "property taxes payable" were payable and that the assessor has 
 86.5   approved the application. 
 86.6      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for refunds 
 86.7   based on property taxes payable in 2005 and following years. 
 86.8      Sec. 28.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290A.07, is 
 86.9   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 86.10     Subd. 5.  [EARLY PAYMENT; E-FILE CLAIMS.] The commissioner 
 86.11  may pay a claim up to 30 days earlier than the first permitted 
 86.12  date under subdivision 2a or 3 if the claim was submitted by 
 86.13  electronic means. 
 86.14     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 86.15  following final enactment. 
 86.16     Sec. 29.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 365.43, 
 86.17  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 86.18     Subdivision 1.  [LEVIED AMOUNT IS SPENDING LIMIT TOTAL 
 86.19  REVENUE DEFINED.] A town must not contract debts or spend more 
 86.20  money in a year than the taxes levied for the year its total 
 86.21  revenue without a favorable vote of a majority of the town's 
 86.22  electors.  In this section, "total revenue" means property taxes 
 86.23  payable in that year as well as amounts received from all other 
 86.24  sources and amounts carried forward from the last year. 
 86.25     Sec. 30.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 365.431, is 
 86.26  amended to read: 
 86.27     365.431 [AMOUNT VOTED AT MEETING IS TAX LIMIT.] 
 86.28     Except as otherwise authorized by law, the tax for town 
 86.29  purposes must not be more than the amount voted to be raised at 
 86.30  the annual town meeting. 
 86.31     Sec. 31.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.11, 
 86.32  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 86.33     Subd. 4.  [OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES LAND.] "Other natural 
 86.34  resources land" means:  
 86.35     (1) any other land presently owned in fee title by the 
 86.36  state and administered by the commissioner, or any tax-forfeited 
 87.1   land, other than platted lots within a city or those lands 
 87.2   described under subdivision 3, clause (2), which is owned by the 
 87.3   state and administered by the commissioner or by the county in 
 87.4   which it is located; and 
 87.5      (2) land leased by the state from the United States of 
 87.6   America through the United States Secretary of Agriculture 
 87.7   pursuant to Title III of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act, 
 87.8   which land is commonly referred to as land utilization project 
 87.9   land that is administered by the commissioner. 
 87.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 87.11  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 87.12     Sec. 32.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.11, is 
 87.13  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 87.14     Subd. 5.  [LAND UTILIZATION PROJECT LAND.] "Land 
 87.15  utilization project land" means land that is leased by the state 
 87.16  from the United States through the United States Secretary of 
 87.17  Agriculture according to Title III of the Bankhead Jones Farm 
 87.18  Tenant Act and that is administered by the commissioner. 
 87.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 87.20  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 87.21     Sec. 33.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.12, 
 87.22  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 87.23     Subdivision 1.  [TYPES OF LAND; PAYMENTS.] (a) As an offset 
 87.24  for expenses incurred by counties and towns in support of 
 87.25  natural resources lands, the following amounts are annually 
 87.26  appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources from the 
 87.27  general fund for transfer to the commissioner of revenue.  The 
 87.28  commissioner of revenue shall pay the transferred funds to 
 87.29  counties as required by sections 477A.11 to 477A.145.  The 
 87.30  amounts are: 
 87.31     (1) for acquired natural resources land, $3, as adjusted 
 87.32  for inflation under section 477A.145, multiplied by the total 
 87.33  number of acres of acquired natural resources land or, at the 
 87.34  county's option three-fourths of one percent of the appraised 
 87.35  value of all acquired natural resources land in the county, 
 87.36  whichever is greater; 
 88.1      (2) 75 cents, as adjusted for inflation under section 
 88.2   477A.145, multiplied by the number of acres of 
 88.3   county-administered other natural resources land; and 
 88.4      (3) 75 cents, as adjusted for inflation under section 
 88.5   477A.145, multiplied by the total number of acres of land 
 88.6   utilization project land; 
 88.7      (3) (4) 37.5 cents, as adjusted for inflation under section 
 88.8   477A.145, multiplied by the number of acres of 
 88.9   commissioner-administered other natural resources land located 
 88.10  in each county as of July 1 of each year prior to the payment 
 88.11  year. 
 88.12     (b) The amount determined under paragraph (a), clause (1), 
 88.13  is payable for land that is acquired from a private owner and 
 88.14  owned by the Department of Transportation for the purpose of 
 88.15  replacing wetland losses caused by transportation projects, but 
 88.16  only if the county contains more than 500 acres of such land at 
 88.17  the time the certification is made under subdivision 2. 
 88.18     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 88.19  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 88.20     Sec. 34.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.12, 
 88.21  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 88.22     Subd. 2.  [PROCEDURE.] Lands for which payments in lieu are 
 88.23  made pursuant to section 97A.061, subdivision 3, and Laws 1973, 
 88.24  chapter 567, shall not be eligible for payments under this 
 88.25  section.  Each county auditor shall certify to the Department of 
 88.26  Natural Resources during July of each year prior to the payment 
 88.27  year the number of acres of county-administered other natural 
 88.28  resources land within the county.  The Department of Natural 
 88.29  resources may, in addition to the certification of acreage, 
 88.30  require descriptive lists of land so certified.  The 
 88.31  commissioner of natural resources shall determine and certify to 
 88.32  the commissioner of revenue by March 1 of the payment year:  
 88.33     (1) the number of acres and most recent appraised value of 
 88.34  acquired natural resources land within each county; 
 88.35     (2) the number of acres of commissioner-administered 
 88.36  natural resources land within each county; and 
 89.1      (3) the number of acres of county-administered other 
 89.2   natural resources land within each county, based on the reports 
 89.3   filed by each county auditor with the commissioner of natural 
 89.4   resources; and 
 89.5      (4) the number of acres of land utilization project land 
 89.6   within each county. 
 89.7      The commissioner of transportation shall determine and 
 89.8   certify to the commissioner of revenue by March 1 of the payment 
 89.9   year the number of acres of land and the appraised value of the 
 89.10  land described in subdivision 1, paragraph (b), but only if it 
 89.11  exceeds 500 acres. 
 89.12     The commissioner of revenue shall determine the 
 89.13  distributions provided for in this section using the number of 
 89.14  acres and appraised values certified by the commissioner of 
 89.15  natural resources and the commissioner of transportation by 
 89.16  March 1 of the payment year. 
 89.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 89.18  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 89.19     Sec. 35.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.14, 
 89.20  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 89.21     Subdivision 1.  [GENERAL DISTRIBUTION.] Except as provided 
 89.22  in subdivision 2 or in section 97A.061, subdivision 5, 40 
 89.23  percent of the total payment to the county shall be deposited in 
 89.24  the county general revenue fund to be used to provide property 
 89.25  tax levy reduction.  The remainder shall be distributed by the 
 89.26  county in the following priority:  
 89.27     (a) 37.5 cents, as adjusted for inflation under section 
 89.28  477A.145, for each acre of county-administered other natural 
 89.29  resources land shall be deposited in a resource development fund 
 89.30  to be created within the county treasury for use in resource 
 89.31  development, forest management, game and fish habitat 
 89.32  improvement, and recreational development and maintenance of 
 89.33  county-administered other natural resources land.  Any county 
 89.34  receiving less than $5,000 annually for the resource development 
 89.35  fund may elect to deposit that amount in the county general 
 89.36  revenue fund; 
 90.1      (b) From the funds remaining, within 30 days of receipt of 
 90.2   the payment to the county, the county treasurer shall pay each 
 90.3   organized township 30 cents, as adjusted for inflation under 
 90.4   section 477A.145, for each acre of acquired natural resources 
 90.5   land and each acre of land described in section 477A.12, 
 90.6   subdivision 1, paragraph (b), and 7.5 cents, as adjusted for 
 90.7   inflation under section 477A.145, for each acre of other natural 
 90.8   resources land and each acre of land utilization project land 
 90.9   located within its boundaries.  Payments for natural resources 
 90.10  lands not located in an organized township shall be deposited in 
 90.11  the county general revenue fund.  Payments to counties and 
 90.12  townships pursuant to this paragraph shall be used to provide 
 90.13  property tax levy reduction, except that of the payments for 
 90.14  natural resources lands not located in an organized township, 
 90.15  the county may allocate the amount determined to be necessary 
 90.16  for maintenance of roads in unorganized townships.  Provided 
 90.17  that, if the total payment to the county pursuant to section 
 90.18  477A.12 is not sufficient to fully fund the distribution 
 90.19  provided for in this clause, the amount available shall be 
 90.20  distributed to each township and the county general revenue fund 
 90.21  on a pro rata basis; and 
 90.22     (c) Any remaining funds shall be deposited in the county 
 90.23  general revenue fund.  Provided that, if the distribution to the 
 90.24  county general revenue fund exceeds $35,000, the excess shall be 
 90.25  used to provide property tax levy reduction. 
 90.26     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids paid 
 90.27  in calendar year 2005 and thereafter. 
 90.28     Sec. 36.  Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 3, section 41, is 
 90.29  amended to read: 
 90.30     Sec. 41.  [SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DEFERRAL AUTHORIZED.] 
 90.31     Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, chapter 429, a city may 
 90.32  defer the payment of any special assessment levied against a 
 90.33  property qualifying under section 38 as determined by the city.  
 90.34  Any special assessment, the payment of which has been deferred 
 90.35  by the city, must be paid in full or a payment agreement may be 
 90.36  approved by the city if the ownership of property is transferred 
 91.1   to anyone or any entity.  Payment or a payment agreement must be 
 91.2   made within 60 days of the transfer of ownership. 
 91.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 91.4   following final enactment.  
 91.5      Sec. 37.  Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 3, section 42, 
 91.6   subdivision 2, as amended by Laws 2002, chapter 377, article 4, 
 91.7   section 24, is amended to read: 
 91.8      Subd. 2.  [RECAPTURE.] (a) Property or any portion thereof 
 91.9   qualifying under section 38 is subject to additional taxes if: 
 91.10     (1) ownership of the property is transferred to anyone 
 91.11  other than the spouse or child of the current owner; 
 91.12     (2) the current owner or the spouse or child of the current 
 91.13  owner has not conveyed or entered into a contract before July 1, 
 91.14  2007, to convey for ownership or public easement rights, (i) a 
 91.15  portion of the property to a one or more nonprofit foundation 
 91.16  foundations or corporation operating corporations; and (ii) a 
 91.17  portion of the property to one or more local governments; and 
 91.18  those entities shall separately or jointly operate the property 
 91.19  as an art park providing the services included in section 38, 
 91.20  clauses (2) to (5), and may also use some of the property for 
 91.21  other public purposes as determined by the local governments; or 
 91.22     (3) the nonprofit foundation or corporation to which a 
 91.23  portion of the property was transferred ceases to provide the 
 91.24  services included in section 38, clauses (2) to (5), earlier 
 91.25  than ten years following the effective date of the conveyance 
 91.26  conveyances or of the execution of the contract contracts to 
 91.27  convey. 
 91.28     (b) The additional taxes are imposed at the earlier of (1) 
 91.29  the year following transfer of ownership to anyone other than 
 91.30  the spouse or child of the current owner or a nonprofit 
 91.31  foundation or corporation or local government operating the 
 91.32  property as an art park and used for other public purposes, or 
 91.33  (2) for taxes payable in 2008, or (3) in the event the nonprofit 
 91.34  foundation or corporation to which a portion of the property was 
 91.35  conveyed ceases to provide the required services within ten 
 91.36  years after the conveyance, for taxes payable in the year 
 92.1   following the year when it ceased to do so.  
 92.2      The county board, with the approval of the city council, 
 92.3   shall determine the amount of the additional taxes due on the 
 92.4   portion of property which is no longer utilized as an art park; 
 92.5   provided, however, that the additional taxes are equal to must 
 92.6   not be greater than the difference between the taxes determined 
 92.7   on that portion of the property utilized as an art park under 
 92.8   sections 39 and 40 and the amount determined under subdivision 1 
 92.9   for all years that the property qualified under section 38.  The 
 92.10  additional taxes must be extended against the property on the 
 92.11  tax list for the current year; provided, however, that No 
 92.12  interest or penalties may be levied on the additional taxes if 
 92.13  timely paid amount provided that it is paid within 30 days of 
 92.14  the county's notice. 
 92.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 92.16  following final enactment. 
 92.17     Sec. 38.  [TOWNSHIP LEVY ADJUSTMENT FOR WIND ENERGY 
 92.18  PRODUCTION TAX; PAYABLE 2004 ONLY.] 
 92.19     Notwithstanding the deadlines in Minnesota Statutes, 
 92.20  section 275.07, towns located in Lincoln or Pipestone County are 
 92.21  authorized to adjust their payable 2004 levy for all or a 
 92.22  portion of their estimated wind energy production tax amounts 
 92.23  for 2004, as computed by the commissioner of revenue from 
 92.24  reports filed under Minnesota Statutes, section 272.029, 
 92.25  subdivision 4.  The Lincoln and Pipestone county auditors may 
 92.26  adjust the payable 2004 levy certifications under Minnesota 
 92.27  Statutes, section 275.07, subdivision 1, based upon the towns 
 92.28  that have recertified their levies under this section by March 
 92.29  15, 2004. 
 92.30     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
 92.31  levied in 2003, payable in 2004 only. 
 92.32     Sec. 39.  [SAUK RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT.] 
 92.33     Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 103D.905, 
 92.34  subdivision 3, the Sauk River Watershed District may annually 
 92.35  levy an additional amount up to $100,000 for its general fund. 
 92.36     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective, without local 
 93.1   approval, beginning with the taxes levied in 2004, payable in 
 93.2   2005. 
 93.3      Sec. 40.  [PRINSBURG; SPECIAL LEVY AUTHORITY.] 
 93.4      Subdivision 1.  [BOARD APPROVAL.] Notwithstanding any law 
 93.5   to the contrary, the board of Common School District No. 815, 
 93.6   Prinsburg, may continue to operate as a common school district 
 93.7   provided that: 
 93.8      (1) the district adopts an annual resolution by May 1 of 
 93.9   each year declaring that it will be operating for the following 
 93.10  school year; 
 93.11     (2) for fiscal years 2006 and later, the district's 
 93.12  proposed budget for the following year shows that the district 
 93.13  will not return to statutory operating debt under Minnesota 
 93.14  Statutes, section 123B.81; and 
 93.15     (3) the district has passed a referendum under subdivision 
 93.16  4 authorizing levy authority for the coming school year. 
 93.17     Subd. 2.  [DETERMINATION OF OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS.] Prior 
 93.18  to exercising the authority to levy under this section, the 
 93.19  boards of Common School District No. 815 and Independent School 
 93.20  District No. 2180, MACCRAY, must mutually agree to the amount of 
 93.21  the outstanding tuition owed by the Prinsburg School District to 
 93.22  the MACCRAY School District.  If the districts cannot agree to 
 93.23  the amount of the tuition owed, the districts may submit all 
 93.24  relevant information to the commissioner of education who shall 
 93.25  determine the amount of the obligation owed to the MACCRAY 
 93.26  School District. 
 93.27     Subd. 3.  [STATUTORY OPERATING DEBT.] For taxes payable in 
 93.28  2005, 2006, and 2007, Common School District No. 815, Prinsburg, 
 93.29  may levy the amount necessary to eliminate a deficit in the net 
 93.30  unappropriated balance in the operating funds of the district, 
 93.31  determined as of June 30, 2004, and certified and adjusted by 
 93.32  the commissioner.  This levy may also include the amount 
 93.33  necessary to eliminate the estimated deficit for fiscal year 
 93.34  2005. 
 93.35     Subd. 4.  [ANNUAL LEVY AUTHORITY.] (a) Common School 
 93.36  District No. 815, Prinsburg, may levy the amount necessary to 
 94.1   eliminate any projected deficit in the district's operating 
 94.2   budget for the preceding school year, excluding the amounts 
 94.3   raised by this subdivision, if the district's voters approve a 
 94.4   referendum according to the provisions of this subdivision. 
 94.5      (b) The referendum shall be called by the school board.  
 94.6   The ballot must state that the annual levy will be the estimated 
 94.7   amount necessary to eliminate the previous year's estimated 
 94.8   operating deficit.  The ballot must designate the specific 
 94.9   number of years, not to exceed five, for which the referendum 
 94.10  authorization applies.  The ballot shall state substantially the 
 94.11  following: 
 94.12     "Shall the increase in the levy proposed by the Board of 
 94.13  Prinsburg, Common School District No. 815, be approved?" 
 94.14     If approved, the amount necessary to eliminate the previous 
 94.15  year's estimated operating deficit may be authorized for 
 94.16  certification for the number of years approved. 
 94.17     (c) The board must follow the notice provisions of 
 94.18  Minnesota Statutes, section 126C.17. 
 94.19     (d) This levy is not subject to the property tax 
 94.20  recognition shift under Minnesota Statutes, sections 123B.75, 
 94.21  subdivision 5, and 127A.441. 
 94.22     Subd. 5.  [FISCAL YEAR 2005 ONLY.] Notwithstanding the 
 94.23  provisions of this section, for fiscal year 2005 only, Common 
 94.24  School District No. 815, Prinsburg, may continue to operate as a 
 94.25  common school district upon approval of a referendum under 
 94.26  subdivision 4. 
 94.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 94.28  following final enactment. 
 94.29     Sec. 41.  [STUDY OF PROPERTY TAX AS A PERCENTAGE OF RENT.] 
 94.30     (a) The commissioner of revenue shall study the percentage 
 94.31  of rent that constitutes property tax used to calculate refunds 
 94.32  under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 290A, and provide a written 
 94.33  report and recommendations to the legislature, in compliance 
 94.34  with Minnesota Statutes, sections 3.195 and 3.197, by February 
 94.35  1, 2005.  In preparing the study, the commissioner must conduct 
 94.36  a survey of rent paid and property taxes payable on samples of 
 95.1   rental properties in (i) the metropolitan area as defined in 
 95.2   Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, (ii) each 
 95.3   remaining county that is included in a metropolitan statistical 
 95.4   area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, and (iii) the 
 95.5   remaining Minnesota counties.  The survey must include rental 
 95.6   properties classified under Minnesota Statutes, section 273.13, 
 95.7   subdivisions 22 and 25, paragraphs (a) and (c), and rental 
 95.8   property that is exempt from taxation. 
 95.9      (b) The study must report on: 
 95.10     (1) the percentage of rent constituting property tax for 
 95.11  the different types of property and different geographic regions 
 95.12  surveyed; and 
 95.13     (2) if rent paid in each geographic region surveyed differs 
 95.14  significantly between rental units subject to different 
 95.15  classifications and units in buildings exempt from taxation. 
 95.16     (c) The study must make recommendations on: 
 95.17     (1) if the percentage of rent constituting property taxes 
 95.18  specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 290A.03, subdivisions 
 95.19  11 and 13, should be changed to more accurately reflect the 
 95.20  actual percentage of rent constituting property taxes throughout 
 95.21  Minnesota; 
 95.22     (2) if the percentage of rent constituting property taxes 
 95.23  used to calculate refunds under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
 95.24  290A, should be set at one uniform percentage for the entire 
 95.25  state or should vary by geographic region and type of rental 
 95.26  property, including an analysis of the advantages and 
 95.27  disadvantages of using a uniform rate or varying the rate by 
 95.28  region and type of property; 
 95.29     (3) if the percentage of rent constituting property tax 
 95.30  should be replaced by reporting of actual property taxes on 
 95.31  rental units; 
 95.32     (4) a method by which the commissioner could regularly 
 95.33  recommend to the legislature adjustments to the percentage of 
 95.34  rent constituting property taxes; and 
 95.35     (5) proposed statutory language authorizing the 
 95.36  commissioner to adjust the percentage based on ongoing survey 
 96.1   research. 
 96.2                              ARTICLE 4 
 96.3                   SALES AND USE AND LODGING TAXES 
 96.4      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 16C.03, is 
 96.5   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 96.6      Subd. 18.  [CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN VENDORS.] (a) The 
 96.7   commissioner and other agencies to which this section applies 
 96.8   and the legislative branch of government shall not contract for 
 96.9   goods or services from a vendor or an affiliate of the vendor 
 96.10  which has not registered to collect the sales and use tax 
 96.11  imposed under chapter 297A on its sales in Minnesota or to a 
 96.12  destination in Minnesota.  A vendor that sells tangible personal 
 96.13  property or provides services subject to tax under chapter 297A 
 96.14  to an agency or the legislature, and each affiliate of that 
 96.15  vendor, is regarded as a "retailer maintaining a place of 
 96.16  business in this state" and is required to collect the Minnesota 
 96.17  sales or use tax under chapter 297A.  This subdivision does not 
 96.18  apply to state colleges and universities, the courts, and any 
 96.19  agency in the judicial branch of government.  For purposes of 
 96.20  this subdivision, the term "affiliate" means any person or 
 96.21  entity that is controlled by, or is under common control of, a 
 96.22  vendor through stock ownership or other affiliation. 
 96.23     (b) Beginning on or after January 1, 2005, each vendor or 
 96.24  affiliate of a vendor that is offered a contract to sell goods 
 96.25  or services subject to tax under chapter 297A to an agency or 
 96.26  the legislature must submit to the agency or legislature 
 96.27  certification that the vendor is registered to collect Minnesota 
 96.28  sales or use tax and acknowledging that the contract may be 
 96.29  declared void if the certification is false. 
 96.30     (c) An agency or the legislature is exempted from the 
 96.31  provisions of this subdivision in the event of an emergency or 
 96.32  when the vendor is the sole source of such goods or services. 
 96.33     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for all 
 96.34  contracts entered into after December 31, 2004. 
 96.35     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.61, 
 96.36  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 97.1      Subd. 4.  [RETAIL SALE.] (a) A "retail sale" means any 
 97.2   sale, lease, or rental for any purpose other than resale, 
 97.3   sublease, or subrent.  
 97.4      (b) A sale of property used by the owner only by leasing it 
 97.5   to others or by holding it in an effort to lease it, and put to 
 97.6   no use by the owner other than resale after the lease or effort 
 97.7   to lease, is a sale of property for resale.  
 97.8      (c) A sale of master computer software that is purchased 
 97.9   and used to make copies for sale or lease is a sale of property 
 97.10  for resale.  
 97.11     (d) A sale of building materials, supplies, and equipment 
 97.12  to owners, contractors, subcontractors, or builders for the 
 97.13  erection of buildings or the alteration, repair, or improvement 
 97.14  of real property is a retail sale in whatever quantity sold, 
 97.15  whether the sale is for purposes of resale in the form of real 
 97.16  property or otherwise.  
 97.17     (e) A sale of carpeting, linoleum, or similar floor 
 97.18  covering to a person who provides for installation of the floor 
 97.19  covering is a retail sale and not a sale for resale since a sale 
 97.20  of floor covering which includes installation is a contract for 
 97.21  the improvement of real property. 
 97.22     (f) A sale of shrubbery, plants, sod, trees, and similar 
 97.23  items to a person who provides for installation of the items is 
 97.24  a retail sale and not a sale for resale since a sale of 
 97.25  shrubbery, plants, sod, trees, and similar items that includes 
 97.26  installation is a contract for the improvement of real property. 
 97.27     (g) A sale of tangible personal property that is awarded as 
 97.28  prizes is a retail sale and is not considered a sale of property 
 97.29  for resale. 
 97.30     (h) A sale of tangible personal property utilized or 
 97.31  employed in the furnishing or providing of services under 
 97.32  subdivision 3, paragraph (g), clause (1), including, but not 
 97.33  limited to, property given as promotional items, is a retail 
 97.34  sale and is not considered a sale of property for resale. 
 97.35     (i) A sale of tangible personal property used in conducting 
 97.36  lawful gambling under chapter 349 or the state lottery under 
 98.1   chapter 349A, including, but not limited to, property given as 
 98.2   promotional items, is a retail sale and is not considered a sale 
 98.3   of property for resale. 
 98.4      (j) A sale of machines, equipment, or devices that are used 
 98.5   to furnish, provide, or dispense goods or services, including, 
 98.6   but not limited to, coin-operated devices, is a retail sale and 
 98.7   is not considered a sale of property for resale. 
 98.8      (k) In the case of a lease, a retail sale occurs when (1) 
 98.9   an obligation to make a lease payment becomes due under the 
 98.10  terms of the agreement or the trade practices of the lessor or 
 98.11  (2) in the case of a lease of a motor vehicle, as defined in 
 98.12  section 297B.01, subdivision 5, but excluding vehicles with a 
 98.13  manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 
 98.14  pounds and rentals of vehicles for not more than 28 days, at the 
 98.15  time the least is consummated. 
 98.16     (l) In the case of a conditional sales contract, a retail 
 98.17  sale occurs upon the transfer of title or possession of the 
 98.18  tangible personal property. 
 98.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases 
 98.20  entered into after June 30, 2004. 
 98.21     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.61, is 
 98.22  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 98.23     Subd. 7a.  [MOTOR VEHICLE LEASE PRICE.] In the case of a 
 98.24  lease of a motor vehicle as provided in subdivision 4, paragraph 
 98.25  (k), clause (2), the tax is imposed on the total amount to be 
 98.26  paid by the lessee under the lease agreement.  The tax shall be 
 98.27  collected in full by the lessor at the time the lease is 
 98.28  consummated or, if the tax is included in the lease and the 
 98.29  lease is assigned, the tax shall be due from the original lessor 
 98.30  at the time the lease is assigned.  The total amount to be paid 
 98.31  by the lessee under the lease agreement equals the agreed upon 
 98.32  value of the vehicle less manufacturer's rebates, the stated 
 98.33  residual value of the leased vehicle, and the total value 
 98.34  allowed for a vehicle owned by the lessee taken in trade by 
 98.35  lessor, plus the price of any taxable goods and services 
 98.36  included in the lease and the rent charge as provided by Code of 
 99.1   Federal Regulations, title 12, section 213.4, excluding any rent 
 99.2   charge related to the capitalization of the tax. 
 99.3      If the total amount paid by the lessee for use of the 
 99.4   leased vehicle includes amounts that are not calculated at the 
 99.5   time the lease is executed, the tax is imposed and shall be 
 99.6   collected by the lessor at the time such amounts are paid by the 
 99.7   lessee.  In the case of a lease which by its terms may be 
 99.8   renewed, the sales tax is due and payable on the total amount to 
 99.9   be paid during the initial term of the lease, and then for each 
 99.10  subsequent renewal period on the total amount to be paid during 
 99.11  the renewal period. 
 99.12     If a lease is canceled or rescinded on or before 90 days of 
 99.13  its consummation or in cases where a vehicle is returned to the 
 99.14  manufacturer pursuant to section 325F.665, the lessor may file a 
 99.15  claim for a refund of the total tax paid minus the amount of tax 
 99.16  due for the period the vehicle is used by the lessee. 
 99.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for leases 
 99.18  entered into after June 30, 2004. 
 99.19     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.61, is 
 99.20  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 99.21     Subd. 37.  [PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM.] "Personal rapid 
 99.22  transit system" means a transportation system: 
 99.23     (1) of small, computer-controlled vehicles, transporting 
 99.24  one to three passengers on elevated guideways in a 
 99.25  transportation network operating on demand and nonstop directly 
 99.26  to any stations in the network; 
 99.27     (2) that provides service to the public on a regular and 
 99.28  continuing basis; and 
 99.29     (3) that is operated independent of any governmental 
 99.30  subsidies, other than reduced borrowing or capital costs from 
 99.31  the issuing of state or local bonds, direct loans, loan 
 99.32  guarantees, or similar financial assistance provided by a 
 99.33  governmental entity to finance acquisition, construction, or 
 99.34  improvement of the system. 
 99.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
 99.36  following final enactment.  
100.1      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.62, is 
100.2   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
100.3      Subd. 4.  [LEASE OF MOTOR VEHICLES.] When the lease of a 
100.4   motor vehicle as defined in section 297A.61, subdivision 4, 
100.5   paragraph (k), clause (2), originates in another state, the 
100.6   sales tax under subdivision 1 shall be calculated by the lessor 
100.7   on the total amount that is due under the lease agreement after 
100.8   the vehicle is required to be registered in Minnesota.  If the 
100.9   total amount to be paid by the lessee under the lease agreement 
100.10  has already been subjected to tax by another state, a credit for 
100.11  taxes paid in the other state shall be allowed as provided in 
100.12  section 297A.80. 
100.13     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for vehicles 
100.14  registering in Minnesota after June 30, 2004. 
100.15     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.67, is 
100.16  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
100.17     Subd. 32.  [CIGARETTES.] Cigarettes upon which a tax has 
100.18  been imposed under section 297F.25 are exempt. 
100.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
100.20  purchases made after July 31, 2004. 
100.21     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
100.22  297A.68, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
100.23     Subd. 2.  [MATERIALS CONSUMED IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION.] 
100.24  (a) Materials stored, used, or consumed in industrial production 
100.25  of personal property intended to be sold ultimately at retail 
100.26  are exempt, whether or not the item so used becomes an 
100.27  ingredient or constituent part of the property produced.  
100.28  Materials that qualify for this exemption include, but are not 
100.29  limited to, the following: 
100.30     (1) chemicals, including chemicals used for cleaning food 
100.31  processing machinery and equipment; 
100.32     (2) materials, including chemicals, fuels, and electricity 
100.33  purchased by persons engaged in industrial production to treat 
100.34  waste generated as a result of the production process; 
100.35     (3) fuels, electricity, gas, and steam used or consumed in 
100.36  the production process, except that electricity, gas, or steam 
101.1   used for space heating, cooling, or lighting is exempt if (i) it 
101.2   is in excess of the average climate control or lighting for the 
101.3   production area, and (ii) it is necessary to produce that 
101.4   particular product; 
101.5      (4) petroleum products and lubricants; 
101.6      (5) packaging materials, including returnable containers 
101.7   used in packaging food and beverage products; 
101.8      (6) accessory tools, equipment, and other items that are 
101.9   separate detachable units with an ordinary useful life of less 
101.10  than 12 months used in producing a direct effect upon the 
101.11  product; and 
101.12     (7) the following materials, tools, and equipment used in 
101.13  metalcasting:  crucibles, thermocouple protection sheaths and 
101.14  tubes, stalk tubes, refractory materials, molten metal filters 
101.15  and filter boxes, degassing lances, and base blocks. 
101.16     (b) This exemption does not include: 
101.17     (1) machinery, equipment, implements, tools, accessories, 
101.18  appliances, contrivances and furniture and fixtures, except 
101.19  those listed in paragraph (a), clause (6); and 
101.20     (2) petroleum and special fuels used in producing or 
101.21  generating power for propelling ready-mixed concrete trucks on 
101.22  the public highways of this state. 
101.23     (c) Industrial production includes, but is not limited to, 
101.24  research, development, design or production of any tangible 
101.25  personal property, manufacturing, processing (other than by 
101.26  restaurants and consumers) of agricultural products (whether 
101.27  vegetable or animal), commercial fishing, refining, smelting, 
101.28  reducing, brewing, distilling, printing, mining, quarrying, 
101.29  lumbering, generating electricity, the production of road 
101.30  building materials, and the research, development, design, or 
101.31  production of computer software.  Industrial production does not 
101.32  include painting, cleaning, repairing or similar processing of 
101.33  property except as part of the original manufacturing process.  
101.34  Industrial production does not include the transportation, 
101.35  transmission, or distribution of petroleum, liquefied gas, 
101.36  natural gas, water, or steam, in, by, or through pipes, lines, 
102.1   tanks, mains, or other means of transporting those products, 
102.2   except transportation, transmission, and distribution do not 
102.3   include blending of petroleum or biodiesel fuel, as defined in 
102.4   section 239.77. 
102.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
102.6   purchases made after June 30, 2004. 
102.7      Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
102.8   297A.68, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
102.9      Subd. 5.  [CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.] (a) Capital equipment is 
102.10  exempt.  The tax must be imposed and collected as if the rate 
102.11  under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, applied, and then refunded 
102.12  in the manner provided in section 297A.75. 
102.13     "Capital equipment" means machinery and equipment purchased 
102.14  or leased, and used in this state by the purchaser or lessee 
102.15  primarily for manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or refining 
102.16  tangible personal property to be sold ultimately at retail if 
102.17  the machinery and equipment are essential to the integrated 
102.18  production process of manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or 
102.19  refining.  Capital equipment also includes machinery and 
102.20  equipment used to electronically transmit results retrieved by a 
102.21  customer of an on-line computerized data retrieval system. 
102.22     (b) Capital equipment includes, but is not limited to: 
102.23     (1) machinery and equipment used to operate, control, or 
102.24  regulate the production equipment; 
102.25     (2) machinery and equipment used for research and 
102.26  development, design, quality control, and testing activities; 
102.27     (3) environmental control devices that are used to maintain 
102.28  conditions such as temperature, humidity, light, or air pressure 
102.29  when those conditions are essential to and are part of the 
102.30  production process; 
102.31     (4) materials and supplies used to construct and install 
102.32  machinery or equipment; 
102.33     (5) repair and replacement parts, including accessories, 
102.34  whether purchased as spare parts, repair parts, or as upgrades 
102.35  or modifications to machinery or equipment; 
102.36     (6) materials used for foundations that support machinery 
103.1   or equipment; 
103.2      (7) materials used to construct and install special purpose 
103.3   buildings used in the production process; 
103.4      (8) ready-mixed concrete equipment in which the ready-mixed 
103.5   concrete is mixed as part of the delivery process regardless if 
103.6   mounted on a chassis and leases of ready-mixed concrete trucks; 
103.7   and 
103.8      (9) machinery or equipment used for research, development, 
103.9   design, or production of computer software.  
103.10     (c) Capital equipment does not include the following: 
103.11     (1) motor vehicles taxed under chapter 297B; 
103.12     (2) machinery or equipment used to receive or store raw 
103.13  materials; 
103.14     (3) building materials, except for materials included in 
103.15  paragraph (b), clauses (6) and (7); 
103.16     (4) machinery or equipment used for nonproduction purposes, 
103.17  including, but not limited to, the following:  plant security, 
103.18  fire prevention, first aid, and hospital stations; support 
103.19  operations or administration; pollution control; and plant 
103.20  cleaning, disposal of scrap and waste, plant communications, 
103.21  space heating, cooling, lighting, or safety; 
103.22     (5) farm machinery and aquaculture production equipment as 
103.23  defined by section 297A.61, subdivisions 12 and 13; 
103.24     (6) machinery or equipment purchased and installed by a 
103.25  contractor as part of an improvement to real property; or 
103.26     (7) machinery or equipment used in the transportation, 
103.27  transmission, or distribution of petroleum, liquefied gas, 
103.28  natural gas, water, or steam, in, by, or through pipes, lines, 
103.29  tanks, mains, or other means of transporting those products.  
103.30  This clause does not apply to machinery and equipment used to 
103.31  blend petroleum or biodiesel fuel, as defined in section 239.77; 
103.32  or 
103.33     (8) any other item that is not essential to the integrated 
103.34  process of manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or refining. 
103.35     (d) For purposes of this subdivision: 
103.36     (1) "Equipment" means independent devices or tools separate 
104.1   from machinery but essential to an integrated production 
104.2   process, including computers and computer software, used in 
104.3   operating, controlling, or regulating machinery and equipment; 
104.4   and any subunit or assembly comprising a component of any 
104.5   machinery or accessory or attachment parts of machinery, such as 
104.6   tools, dies, jigs, patterns, and molds.  
104.7      (2) "Fabricating" means to make, build, create, produce, or 
104.8   assemble components or property to work in a new or different 
104.9   manner. 
104.10     (3) "Integrated production process" means a process or 
104.11  series of operations through which tangible personal property is 
104.12  manufactured, fabricated, mined, or refined.  For purposes of 
104.13  this clause, (i) manufacturing begins with the removal of raw 
104.14  materials from inventory and ends when the last process prior to 
104.15  loading for shipment has been completed; (ii) fabricating begins 
104.16  with the removal from storage or inventory of the property to be 
104.17  assembled, processed, altered, or modified and ends with the 
104.18  creation or production of the new or changed product; (iii) 
104.19  mining begins with the removal of overburden from the site of 
104.20  the ores, minerals, stone, peat deposit, or surface materials 
104.21  and ends when the last process before stockpiling is completed; 
104.22  and (iv) refining begins with the removal from inventory or 
104.23  storage of a natural resource and ends with the conversion of 
104.24  the item to its completed form. 
104.25     (4) "Machinery" means mechanical, electronic, or electrical 
104.26  devices, including computers and computer software, that are 
104.27  purchased or constructed to be used for the activities set forth 
104.28  in paragraph (a), beginning with the removal of raw materials 
104.29  from inventory through completion of the product, including 
104.30  packaging of the product. 
104.31     (5) "Machinery and equipment used for pollution control" 
104.32  means machinery and equipment used solely to eliminate, prevent, 
104.33  or reduce pollution resulting from an activity described in 
104.34  paragraph (a).  
104.35     (6) "Manufacturing" means an operation or series of 
104.36  operations where raw materials are changed in form, composition, 
105.1   or condition by machinery and equipment and which results in the 
105.2   production of a new article of tangible personal property.  For 
105.3   purposes of this subdivision, "manufacturing" includes the 
105.4   generation of electricity or steam to be sold at retail. 
105.5      (7) "Mining" means the extraction of minerals, ores, stone, 
105.6   or peat. 
105.7      (8) "On-line data retrieval system" means a system whose 
105.8   cumulation of information is equally available and accessible to 
105.9   all its customers. 
105.10     (9) "Primarily" means machinery and equipment used 50 
105.11  percent or more of the time in an activity described in 
105.12  paragraph (a). 
105.13     (10) "Refining" means the process of converting a natural 
105.14  resource to an intermediate or finished product, including the 
105.15  treatment of water to be sold at retail. 
105.16     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
105.17  purchases made after June 30, 2004. 
105.18     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.68, is 
105.19  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
105.20     Subd. 40.  [PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM.] (a) Machinery, 
105.21  equipment, and supplies purchased or leased, and used by the 
105.22  purchaser or lessee in this state directly in the provision of a 
105.23  personal rapid transit system as defined in section 297A.61, 
105.24  subdivision 37, are exempt.  Machinery, equipment, and supplies 
105.25  that qualify for this exemption include, but are not limited to, 
105.26  the following: 
105.27     (1) vehicles, guideways, and related parts used directly in 
105.28  the transit system; 
105.29     (2) computers and equipment used primarily for operating, 
105.30  controlling, and regulating the system; 
105.31     (3) machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures necessary 
105.32  for the functioning of system stations; 
105.33     (4) machinery, equipment, implements, tools, and supplies 
105.34  used to maintain vehicles, guideways, and stations; and 
105.35     (5) electricity and other fuels used in the provision of 
105.36  the transit service, including heating, cooling, and lighting of 
106.1   system stations. 
106.2      (b) This exemption does not include machinery, equipment, 
106.3   and supplies used for nonproduction purposes such as operations 
106.4   support and administration. 
106.5      (c) This subdivision expires three years after completion 
106.6   of a public safety certification and training facility. 
106.7      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
106.8   purchases made after June 30, 2004. 
106.9      Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
106.10  297A.70, subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
106.11     Subd. 8.  [REGIONWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO COMMUNICATION 
106.12  SYSTEM; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.] Products and services including, 
106.13  but not limited to, end user equipment used for construction, 
106.14  ownership, operation, maintenance, and enhancement of the 
106.15  backbone system of the regionwide or statewide public safety 
106.16  radio communication system established under sections 403.21 to 
106.17  403.34, are exempt.  For purposes of this subdivision, backbone 
106.18  system is defined in section 403.21, subdivision 9.  This 
106.19  subdivision is effective for purchases, sales, storage, use, or 
106.20  consumption occurring before August 1, 2005, in the counties of 
106.21  Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and 
106.22  Washington Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright, and all 
106.23  counties located in the west metro, east metro, and southeast 
106.24  districts of the State Patrol. 
106.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales made 
106.26  beginning the day after final enactment. 
106.27     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.70, is 
106.28  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
106.29     Subd. 17.  [DONATED MEALS.] Meals that are normally sold at 
106.30  retail in the ordinary business activities of the taxpayer are 
106.31  exempt if the meals are donated to a nonprofit group as defined 
106.32  in subdivision 4 for fund-raising purposes. 
106.33     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for donations 
106.34  made after June 30, 2004. 
106.35     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.71, is 
106.36  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
107.1      Subd. 33.  [PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM.] Materials, 
107.2   equipment, and supplies used in the construction, expansion, or 
107.3   improvement of a personal rapid transit system as defined in 
107.4   section 297A.61, subdivision 37. 
107.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
107.6   purchases made after June 30, 2004. 
107.7      Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.87, 
107.8   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
107.9      Subd. 2.  [SELLER'S PERMIT OR ALTERNATE STATEMENT.] (a) The 
107.10  operator of an event under subdivision 1 shall obtain one of the 
107.11  following from a person who wishes to do business as a seller at 
107.12  the event: 
107.13     (1) evidence that the person holds a valid seller's permit 
107.14  under section 297A.84; or 
107.15     (2) a written statement that the person is not offering for 
107.16  sale any item that is taxable under this chapter; or 
107.17     (3) a written statement that this is the only selling event 
107.18  that the person will be participating in for that calendar year, 
107.19  that the person will be participating for three or fewer days, 
107.20  and that the person will make less than $500 in total sales at 
107.21  the event.  The written statement shall include the person's 
107.22  name, address, and telephone number. 
107.23     (b) The operator shall require the evidence or statement as 
107.24  a prerequisite to participating in the event as a seller. 
107.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for selling 
107.26  events occurring after June 15, 2004. 
107.27     Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.87, 
107.28  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
107.29     Subd. 3.  [OCCASIONAL SALE PROVISIONS NOT APPLICABLE UNDER 
107.30  LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.] The isolated and occasional 
107.31  sale provisions provision under section 297A.67, subdivision 23, 
107.32  or applies, provided that the seller only participates for three 
107.33  or fewer days in one event per calendar year, makes $500 or less 
107.34  in sales at the event, and provides the written statement 
107.35  required in subdivision 2, paragraph (a), clause (3).  The 
107.36  isolated and occasional sales provision under section 297A.68, 
108.1   subdivision 25, do does not apply to a seller at an event under 
108.2   this section. 
108.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for selling 
108.4   events occurring after June 15, 2004. 
108.5      Sec. 15.  Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 8, section 43, 
108.6   subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
108.7      Subd. 3.  [USE OF REVENUES.] Revenues received from the 
108.8   taxes authorized by subdivisions 1 and 2 must be used by the 
108.9   city to pay for the cost of collecting and administering the 
108.10  taxes and to pay for the following projects: 
108.11     (1) transportation infrastructure improvements including 
108.12  both highway and airport improvements; 
108.13     (2) improvements to the civic center complex; 
108.14     (3) a municipal water, sewer, and storm sewer project 
108.15  necessary to improve regional ground water quality; and 
108.16     (4) construction of a regional recreation and sports center 
108.17  and associated other higher education facilities available for 
108.18  both community and student use, located at or adjacent to the 
108.19  Rochester center. 
108.20  The total amount of capital expenditures or bonds for these 
108.21  projects that may be paid from the revenues raised from the 
108.22  taxes authorized in this section may not exceed $71,500,000.  
108.23  The total amount of capital expenditures or bonds for the 
108.24  project in clause (4) that may be paid from the revenues raised 
108.25  from the taxes authorized in this section may not exceed 
108.26  $20,000,000. 
108.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day after 
108.28  the governing body of Rochester and its chief clerical officer 
108.29  timely complete their compliance with Minnesota Statutes, 
108.30  section 645.021, subdivisions 2 and 3. 
108.31     Sec. 16.  Laws 2002, chapter 377, article 3, section 4, the 
108.32  effective date, is amended to read: 
108.33     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> With the exception of clause (2), item 
108.34  (ii), This section is effective for sales and purchases made 
108.35  after June 30, 2002.  Clause (2), item (ii), is effective for 
108.36  sales and purchases made after June 30, 2002, and before January 
109.1   1, 2006. 
109.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
109.3   following final enactment. 
109.4                              ARTICLE 5 
109.5                            SPECIAL TAXES 
109.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 295.582, is 
109.7   amended to read: 
109.8      295.582 [AUTHORITY.] 
109.9      (a) A hospital, surgical center, or health care provider 
109.10  that is subject to a tax under section 295.52, or a pharmacy 
109.11  that has paid additional expense transferred under this section 
109.12  by a wholesale drug distributor, may transfer additional expense 
109.13  generated by section 295.52 obligations on to all third-party 
109.14  contracts for the purchase of health care services on behalf of 
109.15  a patient or consumer.  The additional expense transferred to 
109.16  the third-party purchaser must not exceed the tax percentage 
109.17  specified in section 295.52 multiplied against the gross 
109.18  revenues received under the third-party contract, and the tax 
109.19  percentage specified in section 295.52 multiplied against 
109.20  co-payments and deductibles paid by the individual patient or 
109.21  consumer.  The expense must not be generated on revenues derived 
109.22  from payments that are excluded from the tax under section 
109.23  295.53.  All third-party purchasers of health care services 
109.24  including, but not limited to, third-party purchasers regulated 
109.25  under chapter 60A, 62A, 62C, 62D, 62H, 62N, 64B, 65A, 65B, 79, 
109.26  or 79A, or under section 471.61 or 471.617, must pay the 
109.27  transferred expense in addition to any payments due under 
109.28  existing contracts with the hospital, surgical center, pharmacy, 
109.29  or health care provider, to the extent allowed under federal 
109.30  law.  A third-party purchaser of health care services includes, 
109.31  but is not limited to, a health carrier or community integrated 
109.32  service network that pays for health care services on behalf of 
109.33  patients or that reimburses, indemnifies, compensates, or 
109.34  otherwise insures patients for health care services.  A 
109.35  third-party purchaser shall comply with this section regardless 
109.36  of whether the third-party purchaser is a for-profit, 
110.1   not-for-profit, or nonprofit entity or whether the health care 
110.2   provider has chosen to itemize the tax on patient billings.  A 
110.3   wholesale drug distributor may transfer additional expense 
110.4   generated by section 295.52 obligations to entities that 
110.5   purchase from the wholesaler, and the entities must pay the 
110.6   additional expense.  Nothing in this section limits the ability 
110.7   of a hospital, surgical center, pharmacy, wholesale drug 
110.8   distributor, or health care provider to recover all or part of 
110.9   the section 295.52 obligation by other methods, including 
110.10  increasing fees or charges.  If a provider elects to separately 
110.11  itemize the tax on the patient's bill and collect the tax, a 
110.12  third-party purchaser that has already incorporated the tax in 
110.13  its calculation of the payment amount due to the provider may 
110.14  deduct the additional itemized tax amount from the payment made 
110.15  to the provider. 
110.16     (b) Each third-party purchaser regulated under any chapter 
110.17  cited in paragraph (a) shall include with its annual renewal for 
110.18  certification of authority or licensure documentation indicating 
110.19  compliance with paragraph (a).  
110.20     (c) Any hospital, surgical center, or health care provider 
110.21  subject to a tax under section 295.52 or a pharmacy that has 
110.22  paid additional expense transferred under this section by a 
110.23  wholesale drug distributor may file a complaint with the 
110.24  commissioner responsible for regulating the third-party 
110.25  purchaser if at any time the third-party purchaser fails to 
110.26  comply with paragraph (a).  
110.27     (d) If the commissioner responsible for regulating the 
110.28  third-party purchaser finds at any time that the third-party 
110.29  purchaser has not complied with paragraph (a), the commissioner 
110.30  may take enforcement action against a third-party purchaser 
110.31  which is subject to the commissioner's regulatory jurisdiction 
110.32  and which does not allow a hospital, surgical center, pharmacy, 
110.33  or provider to pass-through the tax.  The commissioner may by 
110.34  order fine or censure the third-party purchaser or revoke or 
110.35  suspend the certificate of authority or license of the 
110.36  third-party purchaser to do business in this state if the 
111.1   commissioner finds that the third-party purchaser has not 
111.2   complied with this section.  The third-party purchaser may 
111.3   appeal the commissioner's order through a contested case hearing 
111.4   in accordance with chapter 14.  
111.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective January 1, 
111.6   2005, and applies to actions arising from services provided on 
111.7   or after that date. 
111.8      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297F.01, is 
111.9   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
111.10     Subd. 10a.  [OUT-OF-STATE RETAILER.] "Out-of-state retailer"
111.11  means a person engaged outside of this state in the business of 
111.12  selling, or offering to sell, cigarettes or tobacco products to 
111.13  consumers located in this state. 
111.14     Sec. 3.  [297F.031] [REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT.] 
111.15     Prior to making delivery sales or shipping cigarettes or 
111.16  tobacco products in connection with any sales, an out-of-state 
111.17  retailer shall file with the Department of Revenue a statement 
111.18  setting forth the out-of-state retailer's name and trade name, 
111.19  and the address of the out-of-state retailer's principal place 
111.20  of business and any other place of business. 
111.21     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297F.09, is 
111.22  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
111.23     Subd. 4a.  [REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.] No later than the 18th 
111.24  day of each calendar month, an out-of-state retailer that has 
111.25  made a delivery of cigarettes or tobacco products or shipped or 
111.26  delivered cigarettes or tobacco products into the state in a 
111.27  delivery sale in the previous calendar month shall file with the 
111.28  Department of Revenue reports in the form and in the manner 
111.29  prescribed by the commissioner of revenue that provides for each 
111.30  delivery sale, the name and address of the purchaser and the 
111.31  brand or brands and quantity of cigarettes or tobacco products 
111.32  sold.  A tobacco retailer that meets the requirements of United 
111.33  States Code, title 15, section 375 et seq. satisfies the 
111.34  requirements of this subdivision. 
111.35     Sec. 5.  [297F.25] [CIGARETTE WHOLESALE TAX.] 
111.36     Subdivision 1.  [IMPOSITION.] A tax is imposed on the sale 
112.1   of cigarettes by a cigarette distributor to a retailer or 
112.2   cigarette subjobber for resale in this state.  The tax is equal 
112.3   to 6.5 percent of: 
112.4      (1) 112 percent of the distributor's gross invoice price, 
112.5   before any discounts and including the full face value of any 
112.6   cigarette stamps and the fee imposed under section 297F.24, of 
112.7   the cigarettes sold to a retailer; or 
112.8      (2) 112 percent of the cost of the retailer, as defined in 
112.9   section 325D.32, subdivision 11, and any fees imposed under 
112.10  section 297F.24 of the cigarettes sold to a cigarette subjobber. 
112.11     Subd. 2.  [TAX COLLECTION REQUIRED.] A cigarette 
112.12  distributor must collect the tax imposed under subdivision 1 
112.13  from the retailer or cigarette subjobber and the tax must be 
112.14  stated and charged separately.  The tax collected must be 
112.15  remitted to the commissioner in the manner prescribed by 
112.16  subdivision 4. 
112.17     Subd. 3.  [PAYMENT.] Each taxpayer must remit payments of 
112.18  the taxes to the commissioner on the same dates prescribed under 
112.19  section 297F.09, subdivision 1, for cigarette tax returns, 
112.20  including the accelerated remittance of the June liability. 
112.21     Subd. 4.  [RETURN.] A taxpayer must file a return with the 
112.22  commissioner on the same dates prescribed under section 297F.09, 
112.23  subdivision 1, for cigarette tax returns. 
112.24     Subd. 5.  [FORM OF RETURN.] The return must contain the 
112.25  information and be in the form prescribed by the commissioner. 
112.26     Subd. 6.  [TAX AS DEBT.] The tax that is required to be 
112.27  collected by the distributor is a debt from the retailer or 
112.28  cigarette subjobber to the distributor recoverable at law in the 
112.29  same manner as other debts. 
112.30     Subd. 7.  [ADMINISTRATION.] The audit, assessment, 
112.31  interest, appeal, refund, and collection provisions applicable 
112.32  to the taxes imposed under this chapter apply to taxes imposed 
112.33  under this section. 
112.34     Subd. 8.  [DEPOSIT OF REVENUES.] Notwithstanding the 
112.35  provisions of section 297F.10, the commissioner shall deposit 
112.36  all revenues, including penalties and interest, derived from the 
113.1   tax imposed by this section, in the general fund. 
113.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for all sales 
113.3   made on or after August 1, 2004. 
113.4      Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.01, is 
113.5   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
113.6      Subd. 6a.  [DIRECT BUSINESS.] (a) "Direct business" means 
113.7   all insurance provided by an insurance company or its agents, 
113.8   and specifically includes stop-loss insurance purchased in 
113.9   connection with a self-insurance plan for employee health 
113.10  benefits or for other purposes, but excludes: 
113.11     (1) reinsurance; and 
113.12     (2) self-insurance. 
113.13     (b) For purposes of this subdivision, an insurance company 
113.14  includes a nonprofit health service corporation, health 
113.15  maintenance organization, and community integrated service 
113.16  network. 
113.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for insurance 
113.18  premiums received after June 30, 2004. 
113.19     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.05, 
113.20  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
113.21     Subd. 4.  [MUTUAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANIES WITH 
113.22  TOTAL ASSETS LESS THAN $1,600,000,000 ON DECEMBER 31, 1989.] A 
113.23  tax is imposed on mutual property and casualty companies that 
113.24  had total assets greater than $5,000,000 at the end of the 
113.25  calendar year but that had total assets less than $1,600,000,000 
113.26  on December 31, 1989.  The rate of tax is equal to: 
113.27     (1) two percent of gross premiums less return premiums on 
113.28  all direct business received by the insurer or agents of the 
113.29  insurer in Minnesota the tax under subdivision 14 for life 
113.30  insurance, in cash or otherwise, during the year; and 
113.31     (2) 1.26 percent of gross premiums less return premiums on 
113.32  all other direct business received by the insurer or agents of 
113.33  the insurer in Minnesota, in cash or otherwise, during the year. 
113.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for premiums 
113.35  received after June 30, 2004. 
113.36     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.05, is 
114.1   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
114.2      Subd. 14.  [LIFE INSURANCE.] A tax is imposed on life 
114.3   insurance.  The rate of tax equals a percentage of gross 
114.4   premiums less return premiums on all direct business received by 
114.5   the insurer or agents of the insurer in Minnesota for life 
114.6   insurance, in cash or otherwise, during the year.  For premiums 
114.7   received after December 31, 2004, but before January 1, 2006, 
114.8   the rate of tax is 1.9 percent.  For premiums received after 
114.9   December 31, 2005, but before January 1, 2007, the rate of tax 
114.10  is 1.8 percent.  For premiums received after December 31, 2006, 
114.11  but before January 1, 2008, the rate of tax is 1.7 percent.  For 
114.12  premiums received after December 31, 2007, but before January 1, 
114.13  2009, the rate of tax is 1.6 percent.  For premiums received 
114.14  after December 31, 2008, the rate of tax is 1.5 percent. 
114.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for premiums 
114.16  received after December 31, 2004. 
114.17     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
114.18  298.75, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
114.19     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] Except as may otherwise be 
114.20  provided, the following words, when used in this section, shall 
114.21  have the meanings herein ascribed to them.  
114.22     (1) "Aggregate material" shall mean nonmetallic natural 
114.23  mineral aggregate including, but not limited to sand, silica 
114.24  sand, gravel, crushed rock, limestone, granite, and borrow, but 
114.25  only if the borrow is transported on a public road, street, or 
114.26  highway.  Aggregate material shall not include dimension stone 
114.27  and dimension granite.  Aggregate material must be measured or 
114.28  weighed after it has been extracted from the pit, quarry, or 
114.29  deposit.  
114.30     (2) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, 
114.31  corporation, organization, trustee, association, or other entity.
114.32     (3) "Operator" shall mean any person engaged in the 
114.33  business of removing aggregate material from the surface or 
114.34  subsurface of the soil, for the purpose of sale, either directly 
114.35  or indirectly, through the use of the aggregate material in a 
114.36  marketable product or service; except that operator does not 
115.1   include persons engaged in a transaction in which the aggregate 
115.2   is moved within a project's construction limits, as defined in 
115.3   the official project construction plan documents, to other 
115.4   locations within that same project's construction limits. 
115.5      (4) "Extraction site" shall mean a pit, quarry, or deposit 
115.6   containing aggregate material and any contiguous property to the 
115.7   pit, quarry, or deposit which is used by the operator for 
115.8   stockpiling the aggregate material.  
115.9      (5) "Importer" shall mean any person who buys aggregate 
115.10  material produced from a county not listed in paragraph (6) or 
115.11  another state and causes the aggregate material to be imported 
115.12  into a county in this state which imposes a tax on aggregate 
115.13  material.  
115.14     (6) "County" shall mean the counties of Pope, Stearns, 
115.15  Benton, Sherburne, Carver, Scott, Dakota, Le Sueur, Kittson, 
115.16  Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Polk, Norman, Mahnomen, Clay, 
115.17  Becker, Carlton, St. Louis, Rock, Murray, Wilkin, Big Stone, 
115.18  Sibley, Hennepin, Washington, Chisago, and Ramsey.  County also 
115.19  means any other county whose board has voted after a public 
115.20  hearing to impose the tax under this section and has notified 
115.21  the commissioner of revenue of the imposition of the tax. 
115.22     (7) "Borrow" shall mean granular borrow, consisting of 
115.23  durable particles of gravel and sand, crushed quarry or mine 
115.24  rock, crushed gravel or stone, or any combination thereof, the 
115.25  ratio of the portion passing the (#200) sieve divided by the 
115.26  portion passing the (1 inch) sieve may not exceed 20 percent by 
115.27  mass. 
115.28     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aggregate 
115.29  sold, imported, transported, or used from a stockpile after June 
115.30  30, 2004. 
115.31     Sec. 10.  [325F.781] [REQUIREMENTS; TOBACCO PRODUCT 
115.32  DELIVERY SALES.] 
115.33     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] (a) For purposes of this 
115.34  section, the following terms have the meanings given, unless the 
115.35  language or context clearly provides otherwise. 
115.36     (b) "Consumer" means an individual who purchases, receives, 
116.1   or possesses tobacco products for personal consumption and not 
116.2   for resale. 
116.3      (c)(1) "Delivery sale" means: 
116.4      (i) a sale of tobacco products to a consumer in this state 
116.5   when: 
116.6      (A) the purchaser submits the order for the sale by means 
116.7   of a telephonic or other method of voice transmission, the mail 
116.8   or any other delivery service, or the Internet or other on-line 
116.9   service; or 
116.10     (B) the tobacco products are delivered by use of the mail 
116.11  or other delivery service; or 
116.12     (ii) a sale of tobacco products that satisfies the criteria 
116.13  in clause (1), item (i), regardless of whether the seller is 
116.14  located inside or outside the state. 
116.15     (2) A sale of tobacco products to an individual in this 
116.16  state must be treated as a sale to a consumer, unless the 
116.17  individual is licensed as a distributor or retailer of tobacco 
116.18  products. 
116.19     (d) "Delivery service" means a person, including the United 
116.20  States Postal Service, that is engaged in the commercial 
116.21  delivery of letters, packages, or other containers. 
116.22     (e) "Distributor" means a person, whether located inside or 
116.23  outside this state, other than a retailer, who sells or 
116.24  distributes tobacco products in the state.  Distributor does not 
116.25  include a tobacco products manufacturer, export warehouse 
116.26  proprietor, or importer with a valid permit under United States 
116.27  Code, title 26, section 5712 (1997), if the person sells or 
116.28  distributes tobacco products in this state only to distributors 
116.29  who hold valid and current licenses under the laws of a state, 
116.30  or to an export warehouse proprietor or another manufacturer.  
116.31  Distributor does not include a common or contract carrier that 
116.32  is transporting tobacco products under a proper bill of lading 
116.33  or freight bill that states the quantity, source, and 
116.34  destination of tobacco products, or a person who ships tobacco 
116.35  products through this state by common or contract carrier under 
116.36  a bill of lading or freight bill. 
117.1      (f) "Retailer" means a person, whether located inside or 
117.2   outside this state, who sells or distributes tobacco products to 
117.3   a consumer in this state. 
117.4      (g) "Tobacco products" means: 
117.5      (1) cigarettes, as defined in section 297F.01, subdivision 
117.6   3; and 
117.7      (2) smokeless tobacco as defined in section 325F.76. 
117.8      Subd. 2.  [REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCEPTING ORDER FOR DELIVERY 
117.9   SALE.] (a) This subdivision applies to acceptance of an order 
117.10  for a delivery sale of tobacco products. 
117.11     (b) When accepting the first order for a delivery sale from 
117.12  a consumer, the tobacco retailer shall obtain the following 
117.13  information from the person placing the order: 
117.14     (1) a copy of a valid government-issued document that 
117.15  provides the person's name, current address, photograph, and 
117.16  date of birth; and 
117.17     (2) an original written statement signed by the person 
117.18  documenting that the person: 
117.19     (i) is of legal age to purchase tobacco products in the 
117.20  state; 
117.21     (ii) has made a choice whether to receive mailings from a 
117.22  tobacco retailer; 
117.23     (iii) understands that providing false information may be a 
117.24  violation of law; and 
117.25     (iv) understands that it is a violation of law to purchase 
117.26  tobacco products for subsequent resale or for delivery to 
117.27  persons who are under the legal age to purchase tobacco products.
117.28     (c) If an order is made as a result of advertisement over 
117.29  the Internet, the tobacco retailer shall request the e-mail 
117.30  address of the purchaser and shall receive payment by credit 
117.31  card or check prior to shipping. 
117.32     (d) Prior to shipping the tobacco products, the tobacco 
117.33  retailer shall verify the information provided under paragraph 
117.34  (b) against a commercially available database.  Any such 
117.35  database or databases may also include age and identity 
117.36  information from other government or validated commercial 
118.1   sources, if that additional information is regularly used by 
118.2   government and businesses for the purpose of identity 
118.3   verification and authentication, and if the additional 
118.4   information is used only to supplement and not to replace the 
118.5   government-issued identification data in the age and identity 
118.6   verification process. 
118.7      Subd. 3.  [REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIPPING A DELIVERY SALE.] (a) 
118.8   This subdivision applies to a tobacco retailer shipping tobacco 
118.9   products pursuant to a delivery sale. 
118.10     (b) The tobacco retailer shall clearly mark the outside of 
118.11  the package of tobacco products to be shipped "tobacco products -
118.12  adult signature required" and to show the name of the tobacco 
118.13  retailer. 
118.14     (c) The tobacco retailer shall utilize a delivery service 
118.15  that imposes the following requirements: 
118.16     (1) an adult must sign for the delivery; and 
118.17     (2) the person signing for the delivery must show valid 
118.18  government-issued identification that contains a photograph of 
118.19  the person signing for the delivery and indicates that the 
118.20  person signing for the delivery is of legal age to purchase 
118.21  tobacco products and resides at the delivery address. 
118.22     (d) The retailer must provide delivery instructions that 
118.23  clearly indicate the requirements of this subdivision and must 
118.24  declare that state law requires compliance with the requirements.
118.25     Subd. 4.  [COMMON CARRIERS.] This section may not be 
118.26  construed as imposing liability upon any common carrier, or 
118.27  officers or employees of the common carrier, when acting within 
118.28  the scope of business of the common carrier. 
118.29     Subd. 5.  [REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT.] Prior to making 
118.30  delivery sales or shipping tobacco products in connection with 
118.31  any sales, an out-of-state retailer must meet the requirements 
118.32  of section 297F.031. 
118.33     Subd. 6.  [COLLECTION OF TAXES.] (a) Prior to shipping any 
118.34  tobacco products to a purchaser in this state, the out-of-state 
118.35  retailer shall comply with all requirements of chapter 297F and 
118.36  shall ensure that all state excise taxes and fees that apply to 
119.1   such tobacco products have been collected and paid to the state 
119.2   and that all related state excise tax stamps or other indicators 
119.3   of state excise tax payment have been properly affixed to those 
119.4   tobacco products. 
119.5      (b) In addition to any penalties under chapter 297F, a 
119.6   distributor who fails to pay any tax due according to paragraph 
119.7   (a) shall pay, in addition to any other penalty, a penalty of 50 
119.8   percent of the tax due but unpaid. 
119.9      Subd. 7.  [APPLICATION OF STATE LAWS.] All state laws that 
119.10  apply to in-state tobacco product retailers shall apply to 
119.11  Internet and mail-order sellers that sell into this state. 
119.12     Subd. 8.  [FORFEITURE.] Any tobacco product sold or 
119.13  attempted to be sold in a delivery sale that does not meet the 
119.14  requirements of this section is deemed to be contraband and is 
119.15  subject to forfeiture in the same manner as and in accordance 
119.16  with the provisions of section 297F.21. 
119.17     Subd. 9.  [CIVIL PENALTIES.] (a) A tobacco retailer or 
119.18  distributor who violates this section or rules adopted under 
119.19  this section is subject to the following fines: 
119.20     (1) for the first violation, a fine of not more than 
119.21  $1,000; and 
119.22     (2) for the second and any subsequent violation, a fine of 
119.23  not more than $5,000. 
119.24     (b) A person who submits ordering information under 
119.25  subdivision 2, paragraph (b), in another person's name is 
119.26  subject to a fine of not more than $1,000. 
119.27     Subd. 10.  [ENFORCEMENT.] The attorney general may bring an 
119.28  action to enforce this section and may seek injunctive relief, 
119.29  including a preliminary or final injunction, and fines, 
119.30  penalties, and equitable relief and may seek to prevent or 
119.31  restrain actions in violation of this section by any person or 
119.32  any person controlling such person.  In addition, a violation of 
119.33  this section is a violation of the Unlawful Trade Practices Act, 
119.34  sections 325D.09 to 325D.16. 
119.35     Sec. 11.  [FLOOR STOCKS TAX.] 
119.36     Subdivision 1.  [CIGARETTES.] A floor stocks tax is imposed 
120.1   on every retailer or cigarette subjobber, on the stamped 
120.2   cigarettes in the retailer's or cigarette subjobber's possession 
120.3   or under the retailer's or cigarette subjobber's control, at 
120.4   12:01 a.m. on July 31, 2004.  The tax is imposed at the 
120.5   following rates: 
120.6      (1) on cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds per 
120.7   thousand, 13.5 mills on each cigarette; and 
120.8      (2) on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 
120.9   thousand, 27 mills on each cigarette. 
120.10  Each retailer shall file a return with the commissioner, in the 
120.11  form the commissioner prescribes, showing the cigarettes on hand 
120.12  at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 2004, and pay the tax due thereon by 
120.13  September 1, 2004.  Tax not paid by the due date bears interest 
120.14  at the rate of one percent a month. 
120.15     Subd. 2.  [AUDIT AND ENFORCEMENT.] The tax imposed by this 
120.16  section is subject to the audit, assessment, and collection 
120.17  provisions applicable to the taxes imposed under Minnesota 
120.18  Statutes, chapter 297F.  The commissioner may require a 
120.19  distributor to receive and maintain copies of floor stocks tax 
120.20  returns filed by all retailers requesting a credit for returned 
120.21  cigarettes. 
120.22     Subd. 3.  [DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS.] Notwithstanding the 
120.23  provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 297F.10, the revenue 
120.24  from the tax imposed under this section shall be deposited by 
120.25  the commissioner in the general fund. 
120.26     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
120.27  following final enactment. 
120.28                             ARTICLE 6 
120.29                      TAX INCREMENT FINANCING 
120.30     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
120.31  116J.556, is amended to read: 
120.32     116J.556 [LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT.] 
120.33     (a) In order to qualify for a grant under sections 116J.551 
120.34  to 116J.557, the municipality must pay for at least one-quarter 
120.35  of the project costs as a local match.  The municipality shall 
120.36  pay an amount of the project costs equal to at least 12 percent 
121.1   of the cleanup costs from the municipality's general fund, a 
121.2   property tax levy for that purpose, or other unrestricted money 
121.3   available to the municipality (excluding tax increments).  These 
121.4   unrestricted moneys may be spent for project costs, other than 
121.5   cleanup costs, and qualify for the local match payment equal to 
121.6   12 percent of cleanup costs.  The rest of the local match may be 
121.7   paid with tax increments, regional, state, or federal money 
121.8   available for the redevelopment of brownfields or any other 
121.9   money available to the municipality. 
121.10     (b) If the development authority establishes a tax 
121.11  increment financing district or hazardous substance subdistrict 
121.12  on the site to pay for part of the local match requirement, the 
121.13  district or subdistrict must be decertified when an amount of 
121.14  tax increments equal to no more than three times the costs of 
121.15  implementing the response action plan for the site and the 
121.16  administrative costs for the district or subdistrict have been 
121.17  received, after deducting the amount of the state grant. 
121.18     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
121.19  following final enactment.  
121.20     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.174, 
121.21  subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
121.22     Subd. 11.  [HOUSING DISTRICT.] "Housing district" means a 
121.23  type of tax increment financing district which consists of a 
121.24  project, or a portion of a project, intended for occupancy, in 
121.25  part, by persons or families of low and moderate income, as 
121.26  defined in chapter 462A, Title II of the National Housing Act of 
121.27  1934, the National Housing Act of 1959, the United States 
121.28  Housing Act of 1937, as amended, Title V of the Housing Act of 
121.29  1949, as amended, any other similar present or future federal, 
121.30  state, or municipal legislation, or the regulations promulgated 
121.31  under any of those acts.  A district does not qualify as a 
121.32  housing district under this subdivision if the fair market value 
121.33  of the improvements which are constructed in the district for 
121.34  commercial uses or for uses other than low and moderate income 
121.35  housing consists of more than 20 percent of the total fair 
121.36  market value of the planned improvements in the development plan 
122.1   or agreement.  The fair market value of the improvements may be 
122.2   determined using the cost of construction, capitalized income, 
122.3   or other appropriate method of estimating market value, and that 
122.4   satisfies the requirements of section 469.1761.  Housing project 
122.5   means a project, or a portion of a project, that meets all of 
122.6   the qualifications of a housing district under this subdivision, 
122.7   whether or not actually established as a housing district. 
122.8      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for districts 
122.9   for which the request for certification was filed with the 
122.10  county auditor after October 5, 1989, except (1) the new 
122.11  language is effective for requests for certification made after 
122.12  June 30, 2004, and (2) the fair market value of the improvements 
122.13  which are constructed for commercial uses in a district for 
122.14  which the request for certification was filed with the county 
122.15  auditor after October 5, 1989, and before July 1, 2004, may not 
122.16  exceed more than 20 percent of total fair market value of the 
122.17  planned improvements in the development plan or agreement. 
122.18     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
122.19  469.174, subdivision 25, is amended to read: 
122.20     Subd. 25.  [INCREMENT.] "Increment," "tax increment," "tax 
122.21  increment revenues," "revenues derived from tax increment," and 
122.22  other similar terms for a district include: 
122.23     (1) taxes paid by the captured net tax capacity, but 
122.24  excluding any excess taxes, as computed under section 469.177; 
122.25     (2) the proceeds from the sale or lease of property, 
122.26  tangible or intangible, to the extent the property was purchased 
122.27  by the authority with tax increments; 
122.28     (3) principal and interest received on loans or other 
122.29  advances made by the authority with tax increments; and 
122.30     (4) interest or other investment earnings on or from tax 
122.31  increments; 
122.32     (5) repayment or return of tax increments made to the 
122.33  authority under agreements for districts for which the request 
122.34  for certification was made after August 1, 1993; and 
122.35     (6) the market value homestead credit paid to the authority 
122.36  under section 273.1384. 
123.1      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax 
123.2   increment financing districts, regardless of when the request 
123.3   for certification was made, including districts for which the 
123.4   request for certification was made before August 1, 1979, 
123.5   provided that the amendment to clause (2) applies only to the 
123.6   extent that the underlying provisions of clause (2) apply to the 
123.7   district and to the sale or lease under prior law. 
123.8      Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.175, 
123.9   subdivision 4a, is amended to read: 
123.10     Subd. 4a.  [FILING PLAN WITH STATE.] (a) The authority must 
123.11  file a copy of the tax increment financing plan and amendments 
123.12  to the plan with the commissioner of revenue and the state 
123.13  auditor.  The authority must also file a copy of the development 
123.14  plan or the project plan for the project area with the 
123.15  commissioner of revenue.  The commissioner of revenue shall 
123.16  provide a copy of a plan to the state auditor upon request and 
123.17  the state auditor. 
123.18     (b) Filing under this subdivision must be made within 60 
123.19  days after the latest of: 
123.20     (1) the filing of the request for certification of the 
123.21  district; 
123.22     (2) approval of the plan by the municipality; or 
123.23     (3) adoption of the plan by the authority. 
123.24     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for plans filed 
123.25  after July 1, 2004. 
123.26     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.176, 
123.27  subdivision 4d, is amended to read: 
123.28     Subd. 4d.  [HOUSING DISTRICTS.] Revenue derived from tax 
123.29  increment from a housing district must be used solely to finance 
123.30  the cost of housing projects as defined in section sections 
123.31  469.174, subdivision 11, and 469.1761.  The cost of public 
123.32  improvements directly related to the housing projects and the 
123.33  allocated administrative expenses of the authority may be 
123.34  included in the cost of a housing project. 
123.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for all 
123.36  districts to which the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 
124.1   469.1761, applies.  
124.2      Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.1761, 
124.3   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
124.4      Subdivision 1.  [REQUIREMENT IMPOSED.] (a) In order for a 
124.5   tax increment financing district to qualify as a housing 
124.6   district,: 
124.7      (1) the income limitations provided in this section must be 
124.8   satisfied; and 
124.9      (2) no more than 20 percent of the square footage of 
124.10  buildings that receive assistance from tax increments may 
124.11  consist of commercial, retail, or other nonresidential uses.  
124.12     (b) The requirements imposed by this section apply to 
124.13  residential property receiving assistance financed with tax 
124.14  increments, including interest reduction, land transfers at less 
124.15  than the authority's cost of acquisition, utility service or 
124.16  connections, roads, parking facilities, or other subsidies.  The 
124.17  provisions of this section do not apply to districts located in 
124.18  a targeted area as defined in section 462C.02, subdivision 9, 
124.19  clause (e). 
124.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for districts 
124.21  for which the request for certification was made after June 30, 
124.22  2004. 
124.23     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.1761, 
124.24  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
124.25     Subd. 3.  [RENTAL PROPERTY.] For residential rental 
124.26  property, the property must satisfy the income requirements for 
124.27  a qualified residential rental project as defined in section 
124.28  142(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.  A property also satisfies 
124.29  the requirements of section 142(d) if 50 percent of the 
124.30  residential units in the project are occupied by individuals 
124.31  whose income is 80 percent or less of area median gross income.  
124.32  The requirements of this subdivision apply for the duration of 
124.33  the tax increment financing district. 
124.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for districts 
124.35  for which the request for certification was made after June 30, 
124.36  2004. 
125.1      Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
125.2   469.177, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
125.3      Subdivision 1.  [ORIGINAL NET TAX CAPACITY.] (a) Upon or 
125.4   after adoption of a tax increment financing plan, the auditor of 
125.5   any county in which the district is situated shall, upon request 
125.6   of the authority, certify the original net tax capacity of the 
125.7   tax increment financing district and that portion of the 
125.8   district overlying any subdistrict as described in the tax 
125.9   increment financing plan and shall certify in each year 
125.10  thereafter the amount by which the original net tax capacity has 
125.11  increased or decreased as a result of a change in tax exempt 
125.12  status of property within the district and any subdistrict, 
125.13  reduction or enlargement of the district or changes pursuant to 
125.14  subdivision 4.  
125.15     (b) If the classification under section 273.13 of property 
125.16  located in a district changes to a classification that has a 
125.17  different assessment ratio, the original net tax capacity of 
125.18  that property must be redetermined at the time when its use is 
125.19  changed as if the property had originally been classified in the 
125.20  same class in which it is classified after its use is changed. 
125.21     (c) The amount to be added to the original net tax capacity 
125.22  of the district as a result of previously tax exempt real 
125.23  property within the district becoming taxable equals the net tax 
125.24  capacity of the real property as most recently assessed pursuant 
125.25  to section 273.18 or, if that assessment was made more than one 
125.26  year prior to the date of title transfer rendering the property 
125.27  taxable, the net tax capacity assessed by the assessor at the 
125.28  time of the transfer.  If improvements are made to tax exempt 
125.29  property after certification of the district and before the 
125.30  parcel becomes taxable, the assessor shall, at the request of 
125.31  the authority, separately assess the estimated market value of 
125.32  the improvements.  If the property becomes taxable, the county 
125.33  auditor shall add to original net tax capacity, the net tax 
125.34  capacity of the parcel, excluding the separately assessed 
125.35  improvements.  If substantial taxable improvements were made to 
125.36  a parcel after certification of the district and if the property 
126.1   later becomes tax exempt, in whole or part, as a result of the 
126.2   authority acquiring the property through foreclosure or exercise 
126.3   of remedies under a lease or other revenue agreement or as a 
126.4   result of tax forfeiture, the amount to be added to the original 
126.5   net tax capacity of the district as a result of the property 
126.6   again becoming taxable is the amount of the parcel's value that 
126.7   was included in original net tax capacity when the parcel was 
126.8   first certified.  The amount to be added to the original net tax 
126.9   capacity of the district as a result of enlargements equals the 
126.10  net tax capacity of the added real property as most recently 
126.11  certified by the commissioner of revenue as of the date of 
126.12  modification of the tax increment financing plan pursuant to 
126.13  section 469.175, subdivision 4. 
126.14     (d) If the net tax capacity of a property increases because 
126.15  the property no longer qualifies under the Minnesota 
126.16  Agricultural Property Tax Law, section 273.111; the Minnesota 
126.17  Open Space Property Tax Law, section 273.112; or the 
126.18  Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Act, chapter 473H, or 
126.19  because platted, unimproved property is improved or three years 
126.20  pass market value is increased after approval of the plat under 
126.21  section 273.11, subdivision 1 subdivision 14, 14a, or 14b, the 
126.22  increase in net tax capacity must be added to the original net 
126.23  tax capacity.  
126.24     (e) The amount to be subtracted from the original net tax 
126.25  capacity of the district as a result of previously taxable real 
126.26  property within the district becoming tax exempt, or a reduction 
126.27  in the geographic area of the district, shall be the amount of 
126.28  original net tax capacity initially attributed to the property 
126.29  becoming tax exempt or being removed from the district.  If the 
126.30  net tax capacity of property located within the tax increment 
126.31  financing district is reduced by reason of a court-ordered 
126.32  abatement, stipulation agreement, voluntary abatement made by 
126.33  the assessor or auditor or by order of the commissioner of 
126.34  revenue, the reduction shall be applied to the original net tax 
126.35  capacity of the district when the property upon which the 
126.36  abatement is made has not been improved since the date of 
127.1   certification of the district and to the captured net tax 
127.2   capacity of the district in each year thereafter when the 
127.3   abatement relates to improvements made after the date of 
127.4   certification.  The county auditor may specify reasonable form 
127.5   and content of the request for certification of the authority 
127.6   and any modification thereof pursuant to section 469.175, 
127.7   subdivision 4.  
127.8      (f) If a parcel of property contained a substandard 
127.9   building that was demolished or removed and if the authority 
127.10  elects to treat the parcel as occupied by a substandard building 
127.11  under section 469.174, subdivision 10, paragraph (b), the 
127.12  auditor shall certify the original net tax capacity of the 
127.13  parcel using the greater of (1) the current net tax capacity of 
127.14  the parcel, or (2) the estimated market value of the parcel for 
127.15  the year in which the building was demolished or removed, but 
127.16  applying the class rates for the current year. 
127.17     (g) For a redevelopment district qualifying under section 
127.18  469.174, subdivision 10, paragraph (a), clause (4), as a 
127.19  qualified disaster area, the auditor shall certify the value of 
127.20  the land as the original tax capacity for any parcel in the 
127.21  district that contains a building that suffered substantial 
127.22  damage as a result of the disaster or emergency. 
127.23     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for land 
127.24  platted on or after August 1, 1991.  
127.25     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.1771, 
127.26  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
127.27     Subd. 5.  [DISPOSITION OF PAYMENTS.] If the authority does 
127.28  not have sufficient increments or other available money to make 
127.29  a payment required by this section, the municipality that 
127.30  approved the district must use any available money to make the 
127.31  payment including the levying of property taxes.  Money received 
127.32  by the county auditor under this section must be distributed as 
127.33  excess increments under section 469.176, subdivision 2, 
127.34  paragraph (a) (c), clause (4), except that if the county auditor 
127.35  receives the payment after (1) 60 days from a municipality's 
127.36  receipt of the state auditor's notification under subdivision 1, 
128.1   paragraph (c), of noncompliance requiring the payment, or (2) 
128.2   the commencement of an action by the county attorney to compel 
128.3   the payment, then no distributions may be made to the 
128.4   municipality that approved the tax increment financing district. 
128.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective at the same 
128.6   time as the amendments to Minnesota Statutes, section 469.176, 
128.7   subdivision 2, by Laws 2003, chapter 127, article 10, section 11.
128.8      Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.178, 
128.9   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
128.10     Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY.] Notwithstanding any other law, 
128.11  no bonds, payment for which tax increment is pledged, shall be 
128.12  issued in connection with any project for which tax increment 
128.13  financing has been undertaken except as authorized in this 
128.14  section.  The proceeds from the bonds shall be used only in 
128.15  accordance with section 469.176, subdivision subdivisions 4 to 
128.16  4l, as if the proceeds were tax increment, except that a tax 
128.17  increment financing plan need not be adopted for any project for 
128.18  which tax increment financing has been undertaken prior to 
128.19  August 1, 1979, pursuant to laws not requiring a tax increment 
128.20  financing plan.  The bonds are not included for purposes of 
128.21  computing the net debt of any municipality. 
128.22     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax 
128.23  increment financing districts for which the request for 
128.24  certification was made after August 1, 1979. 
128.25     Sec. 11.  Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 11, section 24, 
128.26  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
128.27     Subdivision 1.  [SPECIAL RULES.] (a) If the city elects 
128.28  upon the adoption of the tax increment financing plan for the 
128.29  district, the rules under this section apply to redevelopment or 
128.30  soils condition tax increment financing districts established by 
128.31  the city of New Brighton or a development authority of the city 
128.32  in the area bounded on the north by the south boundary line of 
128.33  tax increment district number 8 extended to Long Lake regional 
128.34  park, on the east by interstate highway 35W, on the south by 
128.35  interstate highway 694, and on the west by Long Lake regional 
128.36  park. 
129.1      (b) The five-year rule under Minnesota Statutes, section 
129.2   469.1763, subdivision 3, is extended to nine ten years for the 
129.3   district. 
129.4      (c) The limitations on spending increment outside of the 
129.5   district under Minnesota Statutes, section 469.1763, subdivision 
129.6   2, do not apply, but increments may only be expended on 
129.7   improvements or activities within the area defined in paragraph 
129.8   (a) and increments collected from parcels identified in 
129.9   paragraph (d) may only be spent on eligible expenses within the 
129.10  area consisting of those parcels, sanitary sewer relocation and 
129.11  the cost of road improvements directly resulting from 
129.12  development of the parcels, and for administrative expenses. 
129.13     (d) The requirements for qualifying a redevelopment 
129.14  district under Minnesota Statutes, section 469.174, subdivision 
129.15  10, do not apply to the parcels identified as that part of 
129.16  20-30-23-13-0005 lying east of Old Highway 8, 20-30-23-14-0001, 
129.17  20-30-23-14-0002, 20-30-23-14-0004, 20-30-23-14-0003, 
129.18  20-30-23-41-0001, 21-30-23-32-0009, 21-30-23-32-0010, 
129.19  20-30-23-41-0015, 20-30-23-41-0003, 21-30-23-32-0013, 
129.20  20-30-23-41-0004, 20-30-23-41-0016, 20-30-23-41-0005, 
129.21  20-30-23-41-0006, 20-30-23-41-0007, 20-30-23-41-0014, 
129.22  20-30-23-41-0010, and 20-30-23-44-0002.  The area of each parcel 
129.23  is deemed eligible for the purpose of qualifying for inclusion 
129.24  in a redevelopment district. 
129.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective upon approval 
129.26  by the governing bodies of the city of New Brighton and Ramsey 
129.27  County and upon compliance by the city with Minnesota Statutes, 
129.28  section 645.021, subdivision 3. 
129.29     Sec. 12.  Laws 1998, chapter 389, article 11, section 24, 
129.30  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
129.31     Subd. 2.  [EXPIRATION.] (a) The exception from the 
129.32  limitations of Minnesota Statutes, section 469.1763, subdivision 
129.33  2, expires 18 years after the receipt of the first increment 
129.34  from a district to which the city has elected that this section 
129.35  applies. 
129.36     (b) The authority to approve tax increment financing plans 
130.1   to establish a tax increment financing district or districts 
130.2   under this section expires on December 31, 2008. 
130.3      (c) If parcels identified in subdivision 1, paragraph (d), 
130.4   are released from the development agreement without being 
130.5   developed and the right to develop the parcels is returned to 
130.6   the city, the authority to approve tax increment financing plans 
130.7   and districts under this section for those parcels is extended 
130.8   for five additional years from the date the development rights 
130.9   are returned to the city. 
130.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective upon approval 
130.11  by the governing bodies of the city of New Brighton and Ramsey 
130.12  County and upon compliance by the city with Minnesota Statutes, 
130.13  section 645.021, subdivision 3. 
130.14     Sec. 13.  [EXTENSION OF TIME TO EXPEND TAX INCREMENT.] 
130.15     Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law or charter, 
130.16  for tax increment financing district number 3, established on 
130.17  December 19, 1994, by Brooklyn Center Resolution No. 94-273, 
130.18  Minnesota Statutes, section 469.1763, subdivision 3, applies to 
130.19  the district by permitting a period of 13 years for commencement 
130.20  of activities within the district. 
130.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective upon approval 
130.22  by the governing body of the city of Brooklyn Center and 
130.23  compliance with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 
130.24  3. 
130.25     Sec. 14. [CITY OF ROBBINSDALE; TIF.] 
130.26     The governing body of the city of Robbinsdale and its 
130.27  economic development authority may treat the building located at 
130.28  the corner of Regent Avenue and County Road 9 in the city of 
130.29  Robbinsdale and originally constructed as the Robbinsdale High 
130.30  School along with the subsequent additions to and improvements 
130.31  of that building as a structurally substandard building for 
130.32  purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 469.174, subdivision 10, 
130.33  without regard to the requirements of paragraph (c) of that 
130.34  subdivision. 
130.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective upon approval 
130.36  by the governing body of the city of Robbinsdale under Minnesota 
131.1   Statutes, section 645.021. 
131.2      Sec. 15.  [WABASHA TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT.] 
131.3      Subdivision 1.  [DISTRICT EXTENSION.] The governing body of 
131.4   the city of Wabasha may elect to extend the duration of its 
131.5   redevelopment tax increment financing district number 3 by up to 
131.6   three additional years. 
131.7      Subd. 2.  [FIVE-YEAR RULE.] The requirements of Minnesota 
131.8   Statutes, section 469.1763, subdivision 3, that activities must 
131.9   be undertaken within a five-year period from the date of 
131.10  certification of a tax increment financing district must be 
131.11  considered to be met for the city of Wabasha redevelopment tax 
131.12  increment district number 3, if the activities are undertaken 
131.13  within ten years from the date of certification of the district. 
131.14     Subd. 3.  [NATIONAL EAGLE CENTER.] Notwithstanding the 
131.15  provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 469.176, subdivision 
131.16  4l, or any other law, the city of Wabasha may spend the proceeds 
131.17  of tax increment bonds issued prior to January 1, 2000, to pay 
131.18  the costs of acquiring and constructing a National Eagle Center 
131.19  in the city.  The city of Wabasha may also use tax increment 
131.20  from its tax increment districts to pay the debt service on such 
131.21  bonds, or any bonds issued to refund such bonds, subject to 
131.22  legal restrictions on the pooling of tax increment.  These bonds 
131.23  may not be treated as preexisting obligations for purposes of 
131.24  Minnesota Statutes, section 469.1794. 
131.25     Subd. 4.  [POOLING.] Except as otherwise specifically 
131.26  provided in this section, all increments from district number 3 
131.27  must be spent on activities within the district and 
131.28  administrative expenses. 
131.29     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> Subdivision 1 is effective upon 
131.30  compliance with the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, sections 
131.31  469.1782, subdivision 2, and 645.021.  Subdivisions 2 and 3 are 
131.32  effective upon compliance by the governing body of the city of 
131.33  Wabasha with the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 
131.34  645.021. 
131.35     Sec. 16.  [REPEALER.] 
131.36     Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 469.176, subdivision 1a; 
132.1   and 469.1766, are repealed. 
132.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> The repeal of Minnesota Statutes, section 
132.3   469.1766, is effective for districts for which the request for 
132.4   certification was made after August 1, 1993.  The repeal of 
132.5   Minnesota Statutes, section 469.176, subdivision 1a, is 
132.6   effective the day following final enactment, provided that 
132.7   Minnesota Statutes, section 469.176, subdivision 1a, is 
132.8   satisfied for any district to which it applies, if bonds have 
132.9   been issued, property acquired, or public improvements 
132.10  constructed before the end of the three-year period, regardless 
132.11  of whether the action was undertaken before or after 
132.12  certification of the district. 
132.13                             ARTICLE 7 
132.14              INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES 
132.15     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
132.16  amended by adding a subdivision to read:  
132.17     Subd. 73.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE 
132.18  PROPERTY.] (a) Improvements to real property, and personal 
132.19  property, classified under section 273.13, subdivision 24, and 
132.20  located within an international economic development zone 
132.21  designated under section 469.322, are exempt from ad valorem 
132.22  taxes levied under chapter 275, if the occupant of the property 
132.23  is a qualified business, as defined in section 469.321. 
132.24     (b) The exemption applies beginning for the first 
132.25  assessment year after designation of the international economic 
132.26  development zone.  The exemption applies to each assessment year 
132.27  that begins during the duration of the international economic 
132.28  development zone and to property occupied by July 1 of the 
132.29  assessment year by a qualified business for the duration 
132.30  permitted under section 469.324, subdivision 2. 
132.31     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.06, is 
132.32  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
132.33     Subd. 32.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE JOB 
132.34  CREDIT.] A taxpayer that is a qualified business, as defined in 
132.35  section 469.321, subdivision 6, is allowed a credit as 
132.36  determined under section 469.325 against the tax imposed by this 
133.1   chapter. 
133.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
133.3   following final enactment. 
133.4      Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.191, is 
133.5   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
133.6      Subd. 13.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES.] (a) 
133.7   A qualified business as defined under section 469.321 may 
133.8   exclude from: 
133.9      (1) the numerator of its payroll factor the amount of its 
133.10  international economic development zone payroll; and 
133.11     (2) the numerator of its property factor the amount of its 
133.12  property with a situs in the international economic development 
133.13  zone. 
133.14     (b) The provisions of this subdivision apply to a qualified 
133.15  business for the duration provided under section 469.324. 
133.16     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
133.17  following final enactment. 
133.18     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.68, is 
133.19  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
133.20     Subd. 41.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES.] (a) 
133.21  Purchases of tangible personal property or taxable services by a 
133.22  qualified business, as defined in section 469.321, are exempt if 
133.23  the property or services are primarily used or consumed in an 
133.24  international economic development zone designated under section 
133.25  469.322. 
133.26     (b) Purchase and use of construction materials and supplies 
133.27  for construction of improvements to real property in an 
133.28  international economic development zone are exempt if the 
133.29  improvements after completion of construction are to be used in 
133.30  the conduct of a qualified business, as defined in section 
133.31  469.321.  This exemption applies regardless of whether the 
133.32  purchases are made by the business or a contractor. 
133.33     (c) The exemptions under this subdivision apply to a local 
133.34  sales and use tax, regardless of whether the local tax is 
133.35  imposed on sales taxable under this chapter or in another law, 
133.36  ordinance, or charter provision. 
134.1      (d) This subdivision applies to sales, if the purchase was 
134.2   made and delivery received during the period provided under 
134.3   section 469.324, subdivision 2. 
134.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales made 
134.5   on or after the day following final enactment. 
134.6      Sec. 5.  [469.321] [DEFINITIONS.] 
134.7      Subdivision 1.  [SCOPE.] For purposes of sections 469.321 
134.8   to 469.327, the following terms have the meanings given. 
134.9      Subd. 2.  [FOREIGN TRADE ZONE.] "Foreign trade zone" means 
134.10  a foreign trade zone designated pursuant to United States Code, 
134.11  title 19, section 81b, for the right to use the powers provided 
134.12  in United States Code, title 19, sections 81a to 81u, or a 
134.13  subzone authorized by the foreign trade zone. 
134.14     Subd. 3.  [FOREIGN TRADE ZONE AUTHORITY.] "Foreign trade 
134.15  zone authority" means the Greater Metropolitan Foreign Trade 
134.16  Zone Commission number 119, a joint powers authority created by 
134.17  the county of Hennepin, the cities of Minneapolis and 
134.18  Bloomington, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission, under the 
134.19  authority of section 469.059 or 469.101, which includes any 
134.20  other political subdivisions that enter into the authority after 
134.21  its creation. 
134.22     Subd. 4.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE.] An 
134.23  "international economic development zone" or "zone" is a zone so 
134.24  designated under section 469.322. 
134.25     Subd. 5.  [PERSON.] "Person" includes an individual, 
134.26  corporation, partnership, limited liability company, 
134.27  association, or any other entity. 
134.28     Subd. 6.  [QUALIFIED BUSINESS.] (a) "Qualified business" 
134.29  means a person carrying on a trade or business at a place of 
134.30  business located within an international economic development 
134.31  zone that is: 
134.32     (1) engaged in the furtherance of international export or 
134.33  import of goods; and 
134.34     (2) certified by the foreign trade zone authority as a 
134.35  trade or business that furthers the purpose of developing 
134.36  international distribution capacity and capability. 
135.1      (b) A person that relocates a trade or business from within 
135.2   Minnesota but outside an international economic development zone 
135.3   into an international economic development zone is not a 
135.4   qualified business, unless the business: 
135.5      (1)(i) increases full-time employment in the first full 
135.6   year of operation within the international economic development 
135.7   zone by at least 20 percent measured relative to the operations 
135.8   that were relocated and maintains the required level of 
135.9   employment for each year that tax incentives under section 
135.10  469.324 are claimed; or 
135.11     (ii) makes a capital investment in the property located 
135.12  within a zone equal to at least ten percent of the gross 
135.13  revenues of the operations that were relocated in the 
135.14  immediately proceeding taxable year; and 
135.15     (2) enters a binding written agreement with the foreign 
135.16  trade zone authority that: 
135.17     (i) pledges that the business will meet the requirements of 
135.18  clause (1); 
135.19     (ii) provides for repayment of all tax benefits enumerated 
135.20  under section 469.324 to the business under the procedures in 
135.21  section 469.326, if the requirements of clause (1) are not met 
135.22  for the taxable year or for taxes payable during a year in which 
135.23  the requirements were not met; and 
135.24     (iii) contains any other terms the foreign trade zone 
135.25  authority determines appropriate. 
135.26     Clause (1) of this paragraph does not apply to a freight 
135.27  forwarder. 
135.28     Subd. 7.  [REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER.] A "regional 
135.29  distribution center" is a distribution center developed within a 
135.30  foreign trade zone.  The regional distribution center must have 
135.31  as its primary purpose to facilitate gathering of freight for 
135.32  the purpose of centralizing the functions necessary for the 
135.33  shipment of freight in international commerce, including, but 
135.34  not limited to, security and customs functions. 
135.35     Subd. 8.  [RELOCATE.] (a) "Relocate" means that a trade or 
135.36  business: 
136.1      (1) ceases one or more operations or functions at another 
136.2   location in Minnesota and begins performing substantially the 
136.3   same operations or functions at a location in an international 
136.4   economic development zone; or 
136.5      (2) reduces employment at another location in Minnesota 
136.6   during a period starting one year before and ending one year 
136.7   after it begins operations in an international economic 
136.8   development zone and its employees in the international economic 
136.9   development zone are engaged in the same line of business as the 
136.10  employees at the location where it reduced employment. 
136.11     (b) "Relocate" does not include an expansion by a business 
136.12  that establishes a new facility that does not replace or 
136.13  supplant an existing operation or employment, in whole or in 
136.14  part. 
136.15     (c) "Trade or business" includes any business entity that 
136.16  is substantially similar in operation or ownership to the 
136.17  business entity seeking to be a qualified business. 
136.18     Subd. 9.  [INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE PAYROLL 
136.19  FACTOR.] "International economic development zone payroll 
136.20  factor" or "international economic development zone payroll" is 
136.21  that portion of the payroll factor under section 290.191 that 
136.22  represents: 
136.23     (1) wages or salaries paid to an individual for services 
136.24  performed in an international economic development zone; or 
136.25     (2) wages or salaries paid to individuals working from 
136.26  offices within an international economic development zone, if 
136.27  their employment requires them to work outside the zone and the 
136.28  work is incidental to the work performed by the individual 
136.29  within the zone. 
136.30     Subd. 10.  [FREIGHT FORWARDER.] "Freight forwarder" is a 
136.31  business that, for compensation, ensures that goods produced or 
136.32  sold by another business move from point of origin to point of 
136.33  destination. 
136.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
136.35  following final enactment. 
136.36     Sec. 6.  [469.322] [DESIGNATION OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC 
137.1   DEVELOPMENT ZONE.] 
137.2      (a) An area designated as a foreign trade zone may be 
137.3   designated by the foreign trade zone authority as an 
137.4   international economic development zone if within the zone a 
137.5   regional distribution center is being developed pursuant to 
137.6   section 469.323.  The zone must consist of contiguous area of 
137.7   not less than 500 acres and not more than 1,000 acres.  The 
137.8   designation authority under this section is limited to one zone. 
137.9      (b) In making the designation, the foreign trade zone 
137.10  authority, in consultation with the Minnesota Department of 
137.11  Transportation and the Metropolitan Council, shall consider 
137.12  access to major transportation routes, consistency with current 
137.13  state transportation and air cargo planning, adequacy of the 
137.14  size of the site, access to airport facilities, present and 
137.15  future capacity at the designated airport, the capability to 
137.16  meet integrated present and future air cargo, security, and 
137.17  inspection services, and access to other infrastructure and 
137.18  financial incentives.  The border of the international economic 
137.19  development zone must be no more than 60 miles distant or 90 
137.20  minutes drive time from the border of the Minneapolis-St. Paul 
137.21  International Airport.  The county in which the zone is located 
137.22  must be a member of the foreign trade zone authority. 
137.23     (c) Prior to a final site designation, a transportation 
137.24  impact study based on the regional model and utilizing traffic 
137.25  forecasting and assignments must be conducted.  The results must 
137.26  be used to evaluate the effects of the proposed use on the 
137.27  transportation system and identify any needed improvements.  If 
137.28  the site is in the metropolitan area the study must also 
137.29  evaluate the effect of the transportation impacts on the 
137.30  Metropolitan Transportation System plan as well as the 
137.31  comprehensive plans of the municipalities that would be affected.
137.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
137.33  following final enactment. 
137.34     Sec. 7.  [469.323] [FOREIGN TRADE ZONE AUTHORITY POWERS.] 
137.35     Subdivision 1.  [DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION 
137.36  CENTER.] The foreign trade zone authority is responsible for 
138.1   creating a development plan for the regional distribution 
138.2   center.  The regional distribution center must be developed with 
138.3   the purpose of expanding, on a regional basis, international 
138.4   distribution capacity and capability.  The foreign trade zone 
138.5   authority shall consult with municipalities that have indicated 
138.6   to the authority an interest in locating the international 
138.7   economic development zone within their boundaries, as well as 
138.8   interested businesses, potential financiers, and appropriate 
138.9   state and federal agencies. 
138.10     Subd. 2.  [PORT AUTHORITY POWERS.] The governing body of 
138.11  the foreign trade zone authority may establish a port authority 
138.12  that has the same powers as a port authority established under 
138.13  section 469.049.  If the foreign trade zone authority 
138.14  establishes a port authority, the governing body of the foreign 
138.15  trade zone authority may exercise all powers granted to a city 
138.16  by sections 469.048 to 469.068, except it may not impose or 
138.17  request imposition of a property tax levy under section 469.053 
138.18  by any city. 
138.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
138.20  following final enactment. 
138.21     Sec. 8.  [469.324] [TAX INCENTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL 
138.22  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE.] 
138.23     Subdivision 1.  [AVAILABILITY.] Qualified businesses that 
138.24  operate in an international economic development zone, 
138.25  individuals who invest in a regional distribution center or 
138.26  qualified businesses that operate in an international economic 
138.27  development zone, and property located in an international 
138.28  economic development zone qualify for: 
138.29     (1) exemption from the state sales and use tax and any 
138.30  local sales and use taxes on qualifying purchases as provided in 
138.31  section 297A.68, subdivision 41; 
138.32     (2) exemption from the property tax as provided in section 
138.33  272.02, subdivision 73; 
138.34     (3) the jobs credit allowed under section 469.325; 
138.35     (4) the corporate franchise tax exemption under section 
138.36  290.191, subdivision 13. 
139.1      Subd. 2.  [DURATION.] (a) Except as provided in paragraph 
139.2   (b), the jobs credit described in subdivision 1, clause (3), and 
139.3   the corporate franchise exemption under subdivision 1, clause 
139.4   (4), is available for no more than eight consecutive taxable 
139.5   years for any taxpayer.  The sales and use tax exemption 
139.6   described in subdivision 1, clause (1), is available for each 
139.7   taxpayer that claims it for taxes otherwise payable on 
139.8   transactions during a period of eight years from the date when 
139.9   the first exemption is claimed by that taxpayer.  The property 
139.10  tax exemption described under subdivision 1, clause (2), is 
139.11  available for any parcel of property for eight consecutive taxes 
139.12  payable years.  No incentives described in subdivision 1, 
139.13  clauses (1) to (4), are available after December 31, 2020. 
139.14     (b) For taxpayers that are freight forwarders, the 
139.15  durations provided under paragraph (a) are reduced to four years.
139.16     Sec. 9.  [469.325] [JOBS CREDIT.] 
139.17     Subdivision 1.  [CREDIT ALLOWED.] A qualified business is 
139.18  allowed a credit against the taxes imposed under chapter 290.  
139.19  The credit equals seven percent of the: 
139.20     (1) lesser of: 
139.21     (i) zone payroll for the taxable year, less the zone 
139.22  payroll for the base year; or 
139.23     (ii) total Minnesota payroll for the taxable year, less 
139.24  total Minnesota payroll for the base year; minus 
139.25     (2) $30,000 multiplied by the number of full-time 
139.26  equivalent employees that the qualified business employs in the 
139.27  international economic development zone for the taxable year, 
139.28  minus the number of full-time equivalent employees the business 
139.29  employed in the zone in the base year, but not less than zero. 
139.30     Subd. 2.  [DEFINITIONS.] (a) For purposes of this section, 
139.31  the following terms have the meanings given. 
139.32     (b) "Base year" means the taxable year beginning during the 
139.33  calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the zone 
139.34  designation took effect. 
139.35     (c) "Full-time equivalent employees" means the equivalent 
139.36  of annualized expected hours of work equal to 2,080 hours. 
140.1      (d) "Minnesota payroll" means the wages or salaries 
140.2   attributed to Minnesota under section 290.191, subdivision 12, 
140.3   for the qualified business or the unitary business of which the 
140.4   qualified business is a part, whichever is greater. 
140.5      (e) "Zone payroll" means wages or salaries used to 
140.6   determine the zone payroll factor for the qualified business, 
140.7   less the amount of compensation attributable to any employee 
140.8   that exceeds $100,000. 
140.9      Subd. 3.  [INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.] For taxable years 
140.10  beginning after December 31, 2005, the dollar amounts in 
140.11  subdivision 1, clause (2), and subdivision 2, paragraph (e), are 
140.12  annually adjusted for inflation.  The commissioner of revenue 
140.13  shall adjust the amounts by the percentage determined under 
140.14  section 290.06, subdivision 2d, for the taxable year. 
140.15     Subd. 4.  [REFUNDABLE.] If the amount of the credit exceeds 
140.16  the liability for tax under chapter 290, the commissioner of 
140.17  revenue shall refund the excess to the qualified business. 
140.18     Subd. 5.  [APPROPRIATION.] An amount sufficient to pay the 
140.19  refunds authorized by this section is appropriated to the 
140.20  commissioner of revenue from the general fund. 
140.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
140.22  years beginning after December 31, 2004. 
140.23     Sec. 10.  [469.326] [REPAYMENT OF TAX BENEFITS.] 
140.24     Subdivision 1.  [REPAYMENT OBLIGATION.] A person must repay 
140.25  the amount of the tax reduction received under section 469.324, 
140.26  subdivision 1, clauses (1) and (2), or a refund received under 
140.27  section 469.325, during the two years immediately before it 
140.28  ceased to operate in the zone, if the person ceased to operate 
140.29  its facility located within the zone or otherwise ceases to be 
140.30  or is not a qualified business. 
140.31     Subd. 2.  [DISPOSITION OF REPAYMENT.] The repayment must be 
140.32  paid to the state to the extent it represents a state tax 
140.33  reduction and to the county to the extent it represents a 
140.34  property tax reduction.  Any amount repaid to the state must be 
140.35  deposited in the general fund.  Any amount repaid to the county 
140.36  for the property tax exemption must be distributed to the local 
141.1   governments with authority to levy taxes in the zone in the same 
141.2   manner provided for distribution of payment of delinquent 
141.3   property taxes.  Any repayment of local sales or use taxes must 
141.4   be repaid to the jurisdiction imposing the local sales or use 
141.5   tax. 
141.6      Subd. 3.  [REPAYMENT PROCEDURES.] (a) For the repayment of 
141.7   taxes imposed under chapter 290 or 297A or local taxes collected 
141.8   under section 297A.99, a person must file an amended return with 
141.9   the commissioner of revenue and pay any taxes required to be 
141.10  repaid within 30 days after ceasing to be a qualified business.  
141.11  The amount required to be repaid is determined by calculating 
141.12  the tax for the period for which repayment is required without 
141.13  regard to the tax reductions allowed under section 469.324. 
141.14     (b) For the repayment of property taxes, the county auditor 
141.15  shall prepare a tax statement for the person, applying the 
141.16  applicable tax extension rates for each payable year and provide 
141.17  a copy to the business.  The person must pay the taxes to the 
141.18  county treasurer within 30 days after receipt of the tax 
141.19  statement.  The taxpayer may appeal the valuation and 
141.20  determination of the property tax to the tax court within 30 
141.21  days after receipt of the tax statement. 
141.22     (c) The provisions of chapters 270 and 289A relating to the 
141.23  commissioner of revenue's authority to audit, assess, and 
141.24  collect the tax and to hear appeals apply to the repayment 
141.25  required under paragraph (a).  The commissioner may impose civil 
141.26  penalties as provided in chapter 289A, and the additional tax 
141.27  and penalties are subject to interest at the rate provided in 
141.28  section 270.75, from 30 days after ceasing to do business in the 
141.29  zone until the date the tax is paid. 
141.30     (d) If a property tax is not repaid under paragraph (b), 
141.31  the county treasurer shall add the amount required to be repaid 
141.32  to the property taxes assessed against the property for payment 
141.33  in the year following the year in which the treasurer discovers 
141.34  that the person ceased to operate in the international economic 
141.35  development zone. 
141.36     (e) For determining the tax required to be repaid, a tax 
142.1   reduction is deemed to have been received on the date that the 
142.2   tax would have been due if the person had not been entitled to 
142.3   the tax reduction. 
142.4      (f) The commissioner of revenue may assess the repayment of 
142.5   taxes under paragraph (c) at any time within two years after the 
142.6   person ceases to be a qualified business, or within any period 
142.7   of limitations for the assessment of tax under section 289A.38, 
142.8   whichever is later. 
142.9      Subd. 4.  [WAIVER AUTHORITY.] The commissioner may waive 
142.10  all or part of a repayment, if the commissioner of revenue, in 
142.11  consultation with the foreign trade zone authority and 
142.12  appropriate officials from the state and local government units, 
142.13  determines that requiring repayment of the tax is not in the 
142.14  best interest of the state or local government and the business 
142.15  ceased operating as a result of circumstances beyond its 
142.16  control, including, but not limited to: 
142.17     (1) a natural disaster; 
142.18     (2) unforeseen industry trends; or 
142.19     (3) loss of a major supplier or customer. 
142.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
142.21  following final enactment. 
142.22     Sec. 11.  [469.327] [REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.] 
142.23     Before designation of an international economic development 
142.24  zone under section 469.322, the foreign trade zone authority 
142.25  shall establish performance goals for the zone.  These goals 
142.26  must set out, at a minimum, the amount of investment, the number 
142.27  of jobs, and the amount of freight handled expected to be 
142.28  attained at the end of three, five, and 10 year periods by the 
142.29  zone.  The authority must annually report to the commissioner of 
142.30  the Department of Employment and Economic Development on its 
142.31  progress in attaining these goals. 
142.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
142.33  following final enactment. 
142.34                             ARTICLE 8 
142.35              DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE POLICY PROVISIONS 
142.36     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 16D.10, is 
143.1   amended to read: 
143.2      16D.10 [CASE REVIEWER.] 
143.3      Subdivision 1.  [DUTIES.] The commissioner shall make a 
143.4   case reviewer available to debtors.  The reviewer must be 
143.5   available to answer a debtor's questions concerning the 
143.6   collection process and to review the collection activity taken.  
143.7   If the reviewer reasonably believes that the particular action 
143.8   being taken is unreasonable or unfair, the reviewer may make 
143.9   recommendations to the commissioner in regard to the collection 
143.10  action.  
143.11     Subd. 2.  [AUTHORITY TO ISSUE DEBTOR ASSISTANCE ORDER.] On 
143.12  application filed by a debtor with the case reviewer, in the 
143.13  form, manner, and in the time prescribed by the commissioner, 
143.14  and after thorough investigation, the case reviewer may issue a 
143.15  debtor assistance order if, in the determination of the case 
143.16  reviewer, the manner in which the state debt collection laws are 
143.17  being administered is creating or will create an unjust and 
143.18  inequitable result for the debtor.  Debtor assistance orders are 
143.19  governed by the provisions relating to taxpayer assistance 
143.20  orders under section 270.273. 
143.21     Subd. 3.  [TRANSFER OF DUTIES TO TAXPAYER RIGHTS ADVOCATE.] 
143.22  All duties and authority of the case reviewer under subdivisions 
143.23  1 and 2 are transferred to the taxpayer rights advocate. 
143.24     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
143.25  following final enactment. 
143.26     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 270.02, 
143.27  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
143.28     Subd. 3.  [POWERS, ORGANIZATION, ASSISTANTS.] Subject to 
143.29  the provisions of this chapter and other applicable laws the 
143.30  commissioner shall have power to organize the department with 
143.31  such divisions and other agencies as the commissioner deems 
143.32  necessary and to appoint one deputy commissioner, a department 
143.33  secretary, directors of divisions, and such other officers, 
143.34  employees, and agents as the commissioner may deem necessary to 
143.35  discharge the functions of the department, define the duties of 
143.36  such officers, employees, and agents, and delegate to them any 
144.1   of the commissioner's powers or duties, subject to the 
144.2   commissioner's control and under such conditions as the 
144.3   commissioner may prescribe.  Appointments to exercise delegated 
144.4   power to sign documents which require the signature of the 
144.5   commissioner or a delegate by law shall be by written order 
144.6   filed with the secretary of state.  The delegations of authority 
144.7   granted by the commissioner remain in effect until revoked by 
144.8   the commissioner or a successor commissioner. 
144.9      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
144.10  following final enactment. 
144.11     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
144.12  270.06, is amended to read: 
144.13     270.06 [POWERS AND DUTIES.] 
144.14     The commissioner of revenue shall: 
144.15     (1) have and exercise general supervision over the 
144.16  administration of the assessment and taxation laws of the state, 
144.17  over assessors, town, county, and city boards of review and 
144.18  equalization, and all other assessing officers in the 
144.19  performance of their duties, to the end that all assessments of 
144.20  property be made relatively just and equal in compliance with 
144.21  the laws of the state; 
144.22     (2) confer with, advise, and give the necessary 
144.23  instructions and directions to local assessors and local boards 
144.24  of review throughout the state as to their duties under the laws 
144.25  of the state; 
144.26     (3) direct proceedings, actions, and prosecutions to be 
144.27  instituted to enforce the laws relating to the liability and 
144.28  punishment of public officers and officers and agents of 
144.29  corporations for failure or negligence to comply with the 
144.30  provisions of the laws of this state governing returns of 
144.31  assessment and taxation of property, and cause complaints to be 
144.32  made against local assessors, members of boards of equalization, 
144.33  members of boards of review, or any other assessing or taxing 
144.34  officer, to the proper authority, for their removal from office 
144.35  for misconduct or negligence of duty; 
144.36     (4) require county attorneys to assist in the commencement 
145.1   of prosecutions in actions or proceedings for removal, 
145.2   forfeiture and punishment for violation of the laws of this 
145.3   state in respect to the assessment and taxation of property in 
145.4   their respective districts or counties; 
145.5      (5) require town, city, county, and other public officers 
145.6   to report information as to the assessment of property, 
145.7   collection of taxes received from licenses and other sources, 
145.8   and such other information as may be needful in the work of the 
145.9   Department of Revenue, in such form and upon such blanks as the 
145.10  commissioner may prescribe; 
145.11     (6) require individuals, copartnerships, companies, 
145.12  associations, and corporations to furnish information concerning 
145.13  their capital, funded or other debt, current assets and 
145.14  liabilities, earnings, operating expenses, taxes, as well as all 
145.15  other statements now required by law for taxation purposes; 
145.16     (7) subpoena witnesses, at a time and place reasonable 
145.17  under the circumstances, to appear and give testimony, and to 
145.18  produce books, records, papers and documents for inspection and 
145.19  copying relating to any matter which the commissioner may have 
145.20  authority to investigate or determine; 
145.21     (8) issue a subpoena which does not identify the person or 
145.22  persons with respect to whose liability the subpoena is issued, 
145.23  but only if (a) the subpoena relates to the investigation of a 
145.24  particular person or ascertainable group or class of persons, 
145.25  (b) there is a reasonable basis for believing that such person 
145.26  or group or class of persons may fail or may have failed to 
145.27  comply with any law administered by the commissioner, (c) the 
145.28  information sought to be obtained from the examination of the 
145.29  records (and the identity of the person or persons with respect 
145.30  to whose liability the subpoena is issued) is not readily 
145.31  available from other sources, (d) the subpoena is clear and 
145.32  specific as to the information sought to be obtained, and (e) 
145.33  the information sought to be obtained is limited solely to the 
145.34  scope of the investigation.  Provided further that the party 
145.35  served with a subpoena which does not identify the person or 
145.36  persons with respect to whose tax liability the subpoena is 
146.1   issued shall have the right, within 20 days after service of the 
146.2   subpoena, to petition the district court for the judicial 
146.3   district in which lies the county in which that party is located 
146.4   for a determination as to whether the commissioner of revenue 
146.5   has complied with all the requirements in (a) to (e), and thus, 
146.6   whether the subpoena is enforceable.  If no such petition is 
146.7   made by the party served within the time prescribed, the 
146.8   subpoena shall have the force and effect of a court order; 
146.9      (9) cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or 
146.10  without the state, or absent therefrom, to be taken, upon notice 
146.11  to the interested party, if any, in like manner that depositions 
146.12  of witnesses are taken in civil actions in the district court, 
146.13  in any matter which the commissioner may have authority to 
146.14  investigate or determine; 
146.15     (10) investigate the tax laws of other states and countries 
146.16  and to formulate and submit to the legislature such legislation 
146.17  as the commissioner may deem expedient to prevent evasions of 
146.18  assessment and taxing laws, and secure just and equal taxation 
146.19  and improvement in the system of assessment and taxation in this 
146.20  state; 
146.21     (11) consult and confer with the governor upon the subject 
146.22  of taxation, the administration of the laws in regard thereto, 
146.23  and the progress of the work of the Department of Revenue, and 
146.24  furnish the governor, from time to time, such assistance and 
146.25  information as the governor may require relating to tax matters; 
146.26     (12) transmit to the governor, on or before the third 
146.27  Monday in December of each even-numbered year, and to each 
146.28  member of the legislature, on or before November 15 of each 
146.29  even-numbered year, the report of the Department of Revenue for 
146.30  the preceding years, showing all the taxable property in the 
146.31  state and the value of the same, in tabulated form; 
146.32     (13) inquire into the methods of assessment and taxation 
146.33  and ascertain whether the assessors faithfully discharge their 
146.34  duties, particularly as to their compliance with the laws 
146.35  requiring the assessment of all property not exempt from 
146.36  taxation; 
147.1      (14) administer and enforce the assessment and collection 
147.2   of state taxes and fees, including the use of any remedy 
147.3   available to nongovernmental creditors, and, from time to time, 
147.4   make, publish, and distribute rules for the administration and 
147.5   enforcement of laws administered by the commissioner and state 
147.6   tax laws.  The rules have the force of law; 
147.7      (15) prepare blank forms for the returns required by state 
147.8   tax law and distribute them throughout the state, furnishing 
147.9   them subject to charge on application; 
147.10     (16) prescribe rules governing the qualification and 
147.11  practice of agents, attorneys, or other persons representing 
147.12  taxpayers before the commissioner.  The rules may require that 
147.13  those persons, agents, and attorneys show that they are of good 
147.14  character and in good repute, have the necessary qualifications 
147.15  to give taxpayers valuable services, and are otherwise competent 
147.16  to advise and assist taxpayers in the presentation of their case 
147.17  before being recognized as representatives of taxpayers.  After 
147.18  due notice and opportunity for hearing, the commissioner may 
147.19  suspend and bar from further practice before the commissioner 
147.20  any person, agent, or attorney who is shown to be incompetent or 
147.21  disreputable, who refuses to comply with the rules, or who with 
147.22  intent to defraud, willfully or knowingly deceives, misleads, or 
147.23  threatens a taxpayer or prospective taxpayer, by words, 
147.24  circular, letter, or by advertisement.  This clause does not 
147.25  curtail the rights of individuals to appear in their own behalf 
147.26  or partners or corporations' officers to appear in behalf of 
147.27  their respective partnerships or corporations; 
147.28     (17) appoint agents as the commissioner considers necessary 
147.29  to make examinations and determinations.  The agents have the 
147.30  rights and powers conferred on the commissioner to subpoena, 
147.31  examine, and copy books, records, papers, or memoranda, subpoena 
147.32  witnesses, administer oaths and affirmations, and take 
147.33  testimony.  In addition to administrative subpoenas of the 
147.34  commissioner and the agents, upon demand of the commissioner or 
147.35  an agent, the court administrator of any district court shall 
147.36  issue a subpoena for the attendance of a witness or the 
148.1   production of books, papers, records, or memoranda before the 
148.2   agent for inspection and copying.  Disobedience of a court 
148.3   administrator's subpoena shall be punished by the district court 
148.4   of the district in which the subpoena is issued, or in the case 
148.5   of a subpoena issued by the commissioner or an agent, by the 
148.6   district court of the district in which the party served with 
148.7   the subpoena is located, in the same manner as contempt of the 
148.8   district court; 
148.9      (18) appoint and employ additional help, purchase supplies 
148.10  or materials, or incur other expenditures in the enforcement of 
148.11  state tax laws as considered necessary.  The salaries of all 
148.12  agents and employees provided for in this chapter shall be fixed 
148.13  by the appointing authority, subject to the approval of the 
148.14  commissioner of administration; 
148.15     (19) execute and administer any agreement with the 
148.16  secretary of the treasury of the United States or a 
148.17  representative of another state regarding the exchange of 
148.18  information and administration of the tax laws; 
148.19     (20) authorize the use of unmarked motor vehicles to 
148.20  conduct seizures or criminal investigations pursuant to the 
148.21  commissioner's authority; and 
148.22     (21) exercise other powers and perform other duties 
148.23  required of or imposed upon the commissioner of revenue by law; 
148.24  and 
148.25     (22) negotiate with other member states as to the amount of 
148.26  the monetary allowance for sellers and certified service 
148.27  providers who purchase certified software for sales tax 
148.28  collection as described in the streamlined sales tax agreement.  
148.29     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
148.30  following final enactment. 
148.31     Sec. 4.  [270.0611] [SUFFICIENCY OF NOTICE OF DETERMINATION 
148.32  OR ACTION OF COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE.] 
148.33     When a method of notification of a written determination or 
148.34  action of the commissioner is not specifically provided for by 
148.35  law, notice of the determination or action sent postage prepaid 
148.36  by United States mail to the taxpayer or other person affected 
149.1   by the determination or action at the taxpayer's or person's 
149.2   last known address is sufficient.  If the taxpayer or person 
149.3   being notified is deceased or is under a legal disability, or if 
149.4   a corporation being notified has terminated its existence, 
149.5   notice to the last known address of the taxpayer, person, or 
149.6   corporation is sufficient, unless the department has been 
149.7   provided with a new address by a party authorized to receive 
149.8   notices from the commissioner. 
149.9      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for notices 
149.10  sent on or after the day following final enactment. 
149.11     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 270.69, 
149.12  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
149.13     Subd. 4.  [PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS.] The lien imposed by this 
149.14  section shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the 
149.15  contrary, be enforceable from the time the lien arises and for 
149.16  ten years from the date of filing the notice of lien, which must 
149.17  be filed by the commissioner within five years after the date of 
149.18  assessment of the tax or final administrative or judicial 
149.19  determination of the assessment.  A notice of lien filed in one 
149.20  county may be transcribed to the secretary of state or to any 
149.21  other county within ten years after the date of its filing, but 
149.22  the transcription shall not extend the period during which the 
149.23  lien is enforceable.  A notice of lien may be renewed by the 
149.24  commissioner before the expiration of the ten-year period for an 
149.25  additional ten years.  The taxpayer must receive written notice 
149.26  of the renewal. 
149.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
149.28  following final enactment. 
149.29     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 270B.01, 
149.30  subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
149.31     Subd. 8.  [MINNESOTA TAX LAWS.] For purposes of this 
149.32  chapter only, unless expressly stated otherwise, "Minnesota tax 
149.33  laws" means: 
149.34     (1) the taxes, refunds, and fees administered by or paid to 
149.35  the commissioner under chapters 115B (except taxes imposed under 
149.36  sections 115B.21 to 115B.24), 289A (except taxes imposed under 
150.1   sections 298.01, 298.015, and 298.24), 290, 290A, 291, 295, 
150.2   297A, and 297H, or any similar Indian tribal tax administered by 
150.3   the commissioner pursuant to any tax agreement between the state 
150.4   and the Indian tribal government, and includes any laws for the 
150.5   assessment, collection, and enforcement of those taxes, refunds, 
150.6   and fees; and 
150.7      (2) section 273.1315. 
150.8      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
150.9   following final enactment. 
150.10     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
150.11  270B.12, subdivision 13, is amended to read: 
150.12     Subd. 13.  [COUNTY ASSESSORS; CLASS 1B HOMESTEADS.] The 
150.13  commissioner may disclose to a county assessor, and to the 
150.14  assessor's designated agents or employees, a listing of parcels 
150.15  of property qualifying for the class 1b property tax 
150.16  classification under section 273.13, subdivision 22, and the 
150.17  names and addresses of qualified applicants. 
150.18     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
150.19  following final enactment. 
150.20     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
150.21  272.02, subdivision 65, is amended to read: 
150.22     Subd. 65.  [BIOTECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES INDUSTRY ZONE 
150.23  PROPERTY.] (a) Improvements to real property, and personal 
150.24  property, classified under section 273.13, subdivision 24, and 
150.25  located within a biotechnology and health sciences industry zone 
150.26  are exempt from ad valorem taxes levied under chapter 275, as 
150.27  provided in this subdivision. 
150.28     (b) For property to qualify for exemption under paragraph 
150.29  (a), the occupant must be a qualified business, as defined in 
150.30  section 469.330. 
150.31     (c) The exemption applies beginning for the first 
150.32  assessment year after designation of the biotechnology and 
150.33  health sciences industry zone by the commissioner of employment 
150.34  and economic development.  The exemption applies to each 
150.35  assessment year that begins during the duration of the 
150.36  biotechnology and health sciences industry zone and to property 
151.1   occupied by July 1 of the assessment year by a qualified 
151.2   business.  This exemption does not apply to: 
151.3      (1) a levy under section 475.61 or similar levy provisions 
151.4   under any other law to pay general obligation bonds; or 
151.5      (2) a levy under section 126C.17, if the levy was approved 
151.6   by the voters before the designation of the biotechnology and 
151.7   health sciences industry zone. 
151.8      (d) The exemption does not apply to taxes imposed by a 
151.9   city, town, or county, unless the governing body adopts a 
151.10  resolution granting the exemption.  A city, town, or county may 
151.11  provide a complete property tax exemption, partial property tax 
151.12  exemption, or no property tax exemption to qualified businesses 
151.13  in the biotechnology and health sciences industry zone.  "City" 
151.14  includes a statutory or home rule charter city. 
151.15     (e) For property located in a tax increment financing 
151.16  district, the county shall not adjust the original net tax 
151.17  capacity of the district under section 469.177, subdivision 1, 
151.18  paragraph (a), upon the expiration of an exemption under this 
151.19  subdivision. 
151.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective beginning for 
151.21  property taxes assessed in 2004, payable in 2005. 
151.22     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.12, 
151.23  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
151.24     Subd. 3.  [RETURNS OR REPORTS BY PARTNERSHIPS, FIDUCIARIES, 
151.25  AND S CORPORATIONS.] (a) Partnerships must file a return with 
151.26  the commissioner for each taxable year.  The return must conform 
151.27  to the requirements of section 290.311, and must include the 
151.28  names and addresses of the partners entitled to a distributive 
151.29  share in their taxable net income, gain, loss, or credit, and 
151.30  the amount of the distributive share to which each is entitled.  
151.31  A partnership required to file a return for a partnership 
151.32  taxable year must furnish a copy of the information required to 
151.33  be shown on the return to a person who is a partner at any time 
151.34  during the taxable year, on or before the day on which the 
151.35  return for the taxable year was filed.  A partnership with more 
151.36  than 100 partners that is required to file a federal partnership 
152.1   return electronically under Code of Federal Regulations, title 
152.2   26, section 301.6011-3 (2003), must also file the return due 
152.3   under this section electronically.  If a return required to be 
152.4   filed electronically is filed on paper, the return is still 
152.5   valid but a penalty of $50 for each partner over 100 partners is 
152.6   imposed for failing to file electronically.  The commissioner 
152.7   may waive the penalty if the partnership can demonstrate that 
152.8   filing the return electronically creates a hardship. 
152.9      (b) The fiduciary of an estate or trust making the return 
152.10  required to be filed under section 289A.08, subdivision 2, for a 
152.11  taxable year must give a beneficiary who receives a distribution 
152.12  from the estate or trust with respect to the taxable year or to 
152.13  whom any item with respect to the taxable year is allocated, a 
152.14  statement containing the information required to be shown on the 
152.15  return, on or before the date on which the return was filed. 
152.16     (c) An S corporation must file a return with the 
152.17  commissioner for a taxable year during which an election under 
152.18  section 290.9725 is in effect, stating specifically the names 
152.19  and addresses of the persons owning stock in the corporation at 
152.20  any time during the taxable year, the number of shares of stock 
152.21  owned by a shareholder at all times during the taxable year, the 
152.22  shareholder's pro rata share of each item of the corporation for 
152.23  the taxable year, and other information the commissioner 
152.24  requires.  An S corporation required to file a return under this 
152.25  paragraph for any taxable year must furnish a copy of the 
152.26  information shown on the return to the person who is a 
152.27  shareholder at any time during the taxable year, on or before 
152.28  the day on which the return for the taxable year was filed. 
152.29     (d) The partnership or S corporation return must be signed 
152.30  by someone designated by the partnership or S corporation. 
152.31     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxable 
152.32  years beginning after December 31, 2003. 
152.33     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.31, 
152.34  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
152.35     Subd. 2.  [JOINT INCOME TAX RETURNS.] (a) If a joint income 
152.36  tax return is made by a husband and wife, the liability for the 
153.1   tax is joint and several.  A spouse who qualifies for relief 
153.2   from a liability attributable to an underpayment under section 
153.3   6015(b) of the Internal Revenue Code is relieved of the state 
153.4   income tax liability on the underpayment.  
153.5      (b) In the case of individuals who were a husband and wife 
153.6   prior to the dissolution of their marriage or their legal 
153.7   separation, or prior to the death of one of the individuals, for 
153.8   tax liabilities reported on a joint or combined return, the 
153.9   liability of each person is limited to the proportion of the tax 
153.10  due on the return that equals that person's proportion of the 
153.11  total tax due if the husband and wife filed separate returns for 
153.12  the taxable year.  This provision is effective only when the 
153.13  commissioner receives written notice of the marriage 
153.14  dissolution, legal separation, or death of a spouse from the 
153.15  husband or wife.  No refund may be claimed by an ex-spouse, 
153.16  legally separated or widowed spouse for any taxes paid more than 
153.17  60 days before receipt by the commissioner of the written notice.
153.18     (c) A request for calculation of separate liability 
153.19  pursuant to paragraph (b) for taxes reported on a return must be 
153.20  made within six years after the due date of the return.  For 
153.21  calculation of separate liability for taxes assessed by the 
153.22  commissioner under section 289A.35 or 289A.37, the request must 
153.23  be made within six years after the date of assessment.  The 
153.24  commissioner is not required to calculate separate liability if 
153.25  the remaining unpaid liability for which recalculation is 
153.26  requested is $100 or less. 
153.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for requests 
153.28  for relief made on or after the day following final enactment. 
153.29     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.56, is 
153.30  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
153.31     Subd. 7.  [BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BORDER CITY ZONE 
153.32  REFUNDS.] Notwithstanding subdivision 3, for refunds payable 
153.33  under sections 297A.68, subdivision 38, and 469.1734, 
153.34  subdivision 6, interest is computed from 90 days after the 
153.35  refund claim is filed with the commissioner. 
153.36     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for refund 
154.1   claims filed on or after July 1, 2004. 
154.2      Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
154.3   290.01, subdivision 19d, is amended to read: 
154.4      Subd. 19d.  [CORPORATIONS; MODIFICATIONS DECREASING FEDERAL 
154.5   TAXABLE INCOME.] For corporations, there shall be subtracted 
154.6   from federal taxable income after the increases provided in 
154.7   subdivision 19c:  
154.8      (1) the amount of foreign dividend gross-up added to gross 
154.9   income for federal income tax purposes under section 78 of the 
154.10  Internal Revenue Code; 
154.11     (2) the amount of salary expense not allowed for federal 
154.12  income tax purposes due to claiming the federal jobs credit 
154.13  under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code; 
154.14     (3) any dividend (not including any distribution in 
154.15  liquidation) paid within the taxable year by a national or state 
154.16  bank to the United States, or to any instrumentality of the 
154.17  United States exempt from federal income taxes, on the preferred 
154.18  stock of the bank owned by the United States or the 
154.19  instrumentality; 
154.20     (4) amounts disallowed for intangible drilling costs due to 
154.21  differences between this chapter and the Internal Revenue Code 
154.22  in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1987, as follows: 
154.23     (i) to the extent the disallowed costs are represented by 
154.24  physical property, an amount equal to the allowance for 
154.25  depreciation under Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
154.26  subdivision 7, subject to the modifications contained in 
154.27  subdivision 19e; and 
154.28     (ii) to the extent the disallowed costs are not 
154.29  represented by physical property, an amount equal to the 
154.30  allowance for cost depletion under Minnesota Statutes 1986, 
154.31  section 290.09, subdivision 8; 
154.32     (5) the deduction for capital losses pursuant to sections 
154.33  1211 and 1212 of the Internal Revenue Code, except that: 
154.34     (i) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning 
154.35  after December 31, 1986, capital loss carrybacks shall not be 
154.36  allowed; 
155.1      (ii) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning
155.2   after December 31, 1986, a capital loss carryover to each of the 
155.3   15 taxable years succeeding the loss year shall be allowed; 
155.4      (iii) for capital losses incurred in taxable years 
155.5   beginning before January 1, 1987, a capital loss carryback to 
155.6   each of the three taxable years preceding the loss year, subject 
155.7   to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.16, 
155.8   shall be allowed; and 
155.9      (iv) for capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning
155.10  before January 1, 1987, a capital loss carryover to each of the 
155.11  five taxable years succeeding the loss year to the extent such 
155.12  loss was not used in a prior taxable year and subject to the 
155.13  provisions of Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.16, shall be 
155.14  allowed; 
155.15     (6) an amount for interest and expenses relating to income 
155.16  not taxable for federal income tax purposes, if (i) the income 
155.17  is taxable under this chapter and (ii) the interest and expenses 
155.18  were disallowed as deductions under the provisions of section 
155.19  171(a)(2), 265 or 291 of the Internal Revenue Code in computing 
155.20  federal taxable income; 
155.21     (7) in the case of mines, oil and gas wells, other natural 
155.22  deposits, and timber for which percentage depletion was 
155.23  disallowed pursuant to subdivision 19c, clause (11), a 
155.24  reasonable allowance for depletion based on actual cost.  In the 
155.25  case of leases the deduction must be apportioned between the 
155.26  lessor and lessee in accordance with rules prescribed by the 
155.27  commissioner.  In the case of property held in trust, the 
155.28  allowable deduction must be apportioned between the income 
155.29  beneficiaries and the trustee in accordance with the pertinent 
155.30  provisions of the trust, or if there is no provision in the 
155.31  instrument, on the basis of the trust's income allocable to 
155.32  each; 
155.33     (8) for certified pollution control facilities placed in 
155.34  service in a taxable year beginning before December 31, 1986, 
155.35  and for which amortization deductions were elected under section 
155.36  169 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended through 
156.1   December 31, 1985, an amount equal to the allowance for 
156.2   depreciation under Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 290.09, 
156.3   subdivision 7; 
156.4      (9) amounts included in federal taxable income that are due 
156.5   to refunds of income, excise, or franchise taxes based on net 
156.6   income or related minimum taxes paid by the corporation to 
156.7   Minnesota, another state, a political subdivision of another 
156.8   state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country or 
156.9   possession of the United States to the extent that the taxes 
156.10  were added to federal taxable income under section 290.01, 
156.11  subdivision 19c, clause (1), in a prior taxable year; 
156.12     (10) 80 percent of royalties, fees, or other like income 
156.13  accrued or received from a foreign operating corporation or a 
156.14  foreign corporation which is part of the same unitary business 
156.15  as the receiving corporation; 
156.16     (11) income or gains from the business of mining as defined 
156.17  in section 290.05, subdivision 1, clause (a), that are not 
156.18  subject to Minnesota franchise tax; 
156.19     (12) the amount of handicap access expenditures in the 
156.20  taxable year which are not allowed to be deducted or capitalized 
156.21  under section 44(d)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
156.22     (13) the amount of qualified research expenses not allowed 
156.23  for federal income tax purposes under section 280C(c) of the 
156.24  Internal Revenue Code, but only to the extent that the amount 
156.25  exceeds the amount of the credit allowed under section 
156.26  290.068 or 469.339; 
156.27     (14) the amount of salary expenses not allowed for federal 
156.28  income tax purposes due to claiming the Indian employment credit 
156.29  under section 45A(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; 
156.30     (15) the amount of any refund of environmental taxes paid 
156.31  under section 59A of the Internal Revenue Code; 
156.32     (16) for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2008, 
156.33  the amount of the federal small ethanol producer credit allowed 
156.34  under section 40(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which is 
156.35  included in gross income under section 87 of the Internal 
156.36  Revenue Code; 
157.1      (17) for a corporation whose foreign sales corporation, as 
157.2   defined in section 922 of the Internal Revenue Code, constituted 
157.3   a foreign operating corporation during any taxable year ending 
157.4   before January 1, 1995, and a return was filed by August 15, 
157.5   1996, claiming the deduction under section 290.21, subdivision 
157.6   4, for income received from the foreign operating corporation, 
157.7   an amount equal to 1.23 multiplied by the amount of income 
157.8   excluded under section 114 of the Internal Revenue Code, 
157.9   provided the income is not income of a foreign operating 
157.10  company; 
157.11     (18) any decrease in subpart F income, as defined in 
157.12  section 952(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, for the taxable 
157.13  year when subpart F income is calculated without regard to the 
157.14  provisions of section 614 of Public Law 107-147; and 
157.15     (19) in each of the five tax years immediately following 
157.16  the tax year in which an addition is required under subdivision 
157.17  19c, clause (16), an amount equal to one-fifth of the delayed 
157.18  depreciation.  For purposes of this clause, "delayed 
157.19  depreciation" means the amount of the addition made by the 
157.20  taxpayer under subdivision 19c, clause (16).  The resulting 
157.21  delayed depreciation cannot be less than zero. 
157.22     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
157.23  beginning after December 31, 2003. 
157.24     Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.9705, 
157.25  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
157.26     Subdivision 1.  [WITHHOLDING OF PAYMENTS TO OUT-OF-STATE 
157.27  CONTRACTORS.] (a) In this section, "person" means a person, 
157.28  corporation, or cooperative, the state of Minnesota and its 
157.29  political subdivisions, and a city, county, and school district 
157.30  in Minnesota. 
157.31     (b) A person who in the regular course of business is 
157.32  hiring, contracting, or having a contract with a nonresident 
157.33  person or foreign corporation, as defined in Minnesota Statutes 
157.34  1986, section 290.01, subdivision 5, to perform construction 
157.35  work in Minnesota, shall deduct and withhold eight percent of 
157.36  every payment cumulative calendar year payments to the 
158.1   contractor if the contract exceeds or can reasonably be expected 
158.2   to exceed $100,000 which exceed $50,000. 
158.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for payments 
158.4   made after December 31, 2004. 
158.5      Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
158.6   290C.10, is amended to read: 
158.7      290C.10 [WITHDRAWAL PROCEDURES.] 
158.8      An approved claimant under the sustainable forest incentive 
158.9   program for a minimum of four years may notify the commissioner 
158.10  of the intent to terminate enrollment.  Within 90 days of 
158.11  receipt of notice to terminate enrollment, the commissioner 
158.12  shall inform the claimant in writing, acknowledging receipt of 
158.13  this notice and indicating the effective date of termination 
158.14  from the sustainable forest incentive program.  Termination of 
158.15  enrollment in the sustainable forest incentive program occurs on 
158.16  January 1 of the fifth calendar year that begins after receipt 
158.17  by the commissioner of the termination notice.  After the 
158.18  commissioner issues an effective date of termination, a claimant 
158.19  wishing to continue the land's enrollment in the sustainable 
158.20  forest incentive program beyond the termination date must apply 
158.21  for enrollment as prescribed in section 290C.04.  A claimant who 
158.22  withdraws a parcel of land from this program may not reenroll 
158.23  the parcel for a period of three years.  Within 90 days after 
158.24  the termination date, the commissioner shall execute and 
158.25  acknowledge a document releasing the land from the covenant 
158.26  required under this chapter.  The document must be mailed to the 
158.27  claimant and is entitled to be recorded.  The commissioner may 
158.28  allow early withdrawal from the Sustainable Forest Incentive Act 
158.29  without penalty in cases of condemnation when the state of 
158.30  Minnesota, any local government unit, or any other entity which 
158.31  has the right of eminent domain acquires title or possession to 
158.32  the land for a public purpose notwithstanding the provisions of 
158.33  this section.  In the case of such acquisition, the commissioner 
158.34  shall execute and acknowledge a document releasing the land 
158.35  acquired by the state, local government unit, or other entity 
158.36  from the covenant.  All other enrolled land must remain in the 
159.1   program. 
159.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
159.3   following final enactment. 
159.4      Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297A.995, 
159.5   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
159.6      Subd. 6.  [AGREEMENT REQUIREMENTS.] The commissioner of 
159.7   revenue shall not enter into the agreement unless the agreement 
159.8   requires each state to abide by the following requirements: 
159.9      (a)  [UNIFORM STATE RATE.] The agreement must set 
159.10  restrictions to achieve more uniform state rates through the 
159.11  following: 
159.12     (1) limiting the number of state rates; 
159.13     (2) eliminating maximums on the amount of state tax that is 
159.14  due on a transaction; and 
159.15     (3) eliminating thresholds on the application of state tax. 
159.16     (b)  [UNIFORM STANDARDS.] The agreement must establish 
159.17  uniform standards for the following: 
159.18     (1) the sourcing of transactions to taxing jurisdictions; 
159.19     (2) the administration of exempt sales; 
159.20     (3) the allowances a seller can take for bad debts; and 
159.21     (4) sales and use tax returns and remittances. 
159.22     (c)  [UNIFORM DEFINITIONS.] The agreement must require 
159.23  states to develop and adopt uniform definitions of sales and use 
159.24  tax terms.  The definitions must enable a state to preserve its 
159.25  ability to make policy choices not inconsistent with the uniform 
159.26  definitions. 
159.27     (d)  [CENTRAL REGISTRATION.] The agreement must provide a 
159.28  central, electronic registration system that allows a seller to 
159.29  register to collect and remit sales and use taxes for all 
159.30  signatory states. 
159.31     (e)  [NO NEXUS ATTRIBUTION.] The agreement must provide 
159.32  that registration with the central registration system and the 
159.33  collection of sales and use taxes in the signatory states will 
159.34  not be used as a factor in determining whether the seller has 
159.35  nexus with a state for any tax. 
159.36     (f)  [LOCAL SALES AND USE TAXES.] The agreement must 
160.1   provide for reduction of the burdens of complying with local 
160.2   sales and use taxes through the following: 
160.3      (1) restricting and eliminating variances between the state 
160.4   and local tax bases; 
160.5      (2) requiring states to administer any sales and use taxes 
160.6   levied by local jurisdictions within the state so that sellers 
160.7   collecting and remitting these taxes will not have to register 
160.8   or file returns with, remit funds to, or be subject to 
160.9   independent audits from local taxing jurisdictions; 
160.10     (3) restricting the frequency of changes in the local sales 
160.11  and use tax rates and setting effective dates for the 
160.12  application of local jurisdictional boundary changes to local 
160.13  sales and use taxes; and 
160.14     (4) providing notice of changes in local sales and use tax 
160.15  rates and of changes in the boundaries of local taxing 
160.16  jurisdictions. 
160.17     (g)  [MONETARY ALLOWANCES.] The agreement must outline any 
160.18  monetary allowances that are to be provided by the states to 
160.19  sellers or certified service providers.  The allowances must be 
160.20  funded from the money collected by the seller or certified 
160.21  service provider and must be subtracted by the seller or 
160.22  certified service provider before remitting the tax collected to 
160.23  the Department of Revenue. 
160.24     (h)  [STATE COMPLIANCE.] The agreement must require each 
160.25  state to certify compliance with the terms of the agreement 
160.26  prior to joining and to maintain compliance, under the laws of 
160.27  the member state, with all provisions of the agreement while a 
160.28  member. 
160.29     (i)  [CONSUMER PRIVACY.] The agreement must require each 
160.30  state to adopt a uniform policy for certified service providers 
160.31  that protects the privacy of consumers and maintains the 
160.32  confidentiality of tax information. 
160.33     (j)  [ADVISORY COUNCILS.] The agreement must provide for 
160.34  the appointment of an advisory council of private sector 
160.35  representatives and an advisory council of nonmember state 
160.36  representatives to consult with in the administration of the 
161.1   agreement. 
161.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
161.3   following final enactment. 
161.4      Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.1734, 
161.5   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
161.6      Subd. 6.  [SALES TAX EXEMPTION; EQUIPMENT; CONSTRUCTION 
161.7   MATERIALS.] (a) The gross receipts from the sale of machinery 
161.8   and equipment and repair parts are exempt from taxation under 
161.9   chapter 297A, if the machinery and equipment: 
161.10     (1) are used in connection with a trade or business; 
161.11     (2) are placed in service in a city that is authorized to 
161.12  designate a zone under section 469.1731, regardless of whether 
161.13  the machinery and equipment are used in a zone; and 
161.14     (3) have a useful life of 12 months or more. 
161.15     (b) The gross receipts from the sale of construction 
161.16  materials are exempt, if they are used to construct: 
161.17     (1) a facility for use in a trade or business located in a 
161.18  city that is authorized to designate a zone under section 
161.19  469.1731, regardless of whether the facility is located in a 
161.20  zone; or 
161.21     (2) housing that is located in a zone.  
161.22  The exemptions under this paragraph apply regardless of whether 
161.23  the purchase is made by the owner, the user, or a contractor. 
161.24     (c) A purchaser may claim an exemption under this 
161.25  subdivision for tax on the purchases up to, but not exceeding: 
161.26     (1) the amount of the tax credit certificates received from 
161.27  the city, less 
161.28     (2) any tax credit certificates used under the provisions 
161.29  of subdivisions 4 and 5, and section 469.1732, subdivision 2. 
161.30     (d) The tax on sales of items exempted under this 
161.31  subdivision shall be imposed and collected as if the applicable 
161.32  rate under section 297A.62 applied.  Upon application by the 
161.33  purchaser, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, a refund 
161.34  equal to the tax paid shall be paid to the purchaser.  The 
161.35  application must include sufficient information to permit the 
161.36  commissioner to verify the sales tax paid and the eligibility of 
162.1   the claimant to receive the credit.  No more than two 
162.2   applications for refunds may be filed under this subdivision in 
162.3   a calendar year.  The provisions of section 289A.40 apply to the 
162.4   refunds payable under this subdivision.  There is annually 
162.5   appropriated to the commissioner of revenue the amount required 
162.6   to make the refunds, which must be deducted from the amount of 
162.7   the city's allocation under section 469.169, subdivision 12, 
162.8   that remains available and its limitation under section 469.1735.
162.9   The amount to be refunded shall bear interest at the rate in 
162.10  section 270.76 from 90 days after the date the refund claim is 
162.11  filed with the commissioner. 
162.12     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for refund 
162.13  claims filed on or after July 1, 2004. 
162.14     Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
162.15  469.310, subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
162.16     Subd. 11.  [QUALIFIED BUSINESS.] (a) "Qualified business" 
162.17  means a person carrying on a trade or business at a place of 
162.18  business located within a job opportunity building zone.  A 
162.19  person is a qualified business only on those parcels of land for 
162.20  which it has entered into a business subsidy agreement, as 
162.21  required under section 469.313, with the appropriate local 
162.22  government unit in which the parcels are located. 
162.23     (b) A person that relocates a trade or business from 
162.24  outside a job opportunity building zone into a zone is not a 
162.25  qualified business, unless the business: 
162.26     (1)(i) increases full-time employment in the first full 
162.27  year of operation within the job opportunity building zone by at 
162.28  least 20 percent measured relative to the operations that were 
162.29  relocated and maintains the required level of employment for 
162.30  each year the zone designation applies; or 
162.31     (ii) makes a capital investment in the property located 
162.32  within a zone equivalent to ten percent of the gross revenues of 
162.33  operation that were relocated in the immediately preceding 
162.34  taxable year; and 
162.35     (2) enters a binding written agreement with the 
162.36  commissioner that: 
163.1      (i) pledges the business will meet the requirements of 
163.2   clause (1); 
163.3      (ii) provides for repayment of all tax benefits enumerated 
163.4   under section 469.315 to the business under the procedures in 
163.5   section 469.319, if the requirements of clause (1) are not met 
163.6   for the taxable year or for taxes payable during the year in 
163.7   which the requirements were not met; and 
163.8      (iii) contains any other terms the commissioner determines 
163.9   appropriate. 
163.10     (c) A business is not a qualified business if, at its 
163.11  location or locations in the zone, the business is primarily 
163.12  engaged in making retail sales to purchasers who are physically 
163.13  present at the business's zone location.  
163.14     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> The amendment to paragraph (a) of this 
163.15  section is effective retroactively from June 9, 2003.  Paragraph 
163.16  (c) of this section is effective the day following final 
163.17  enactment and applies to any business entering a business 
163.18  subsidy agreement for a job opportunity development zone after 
163.19  that date. 
163.20     Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
163.21  469.330, subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
163.22     Subd. 11.  [QUALIFIED BUSINESS.] (a) "Qualified business" 
163.23  means a person carrying on a trade or business at a 
163.24  biotechnology and health sciences industry facility located 
163.25  within a biotechnology and health sciences industry zone.  A 
163.26  person is a qualified business only on those parcels of land for 
163.27  which it has entered into a business subsidy agreement, as 
163.28  required under section 469.333, with the appropriate local 
163.29  government unit in which the parcels are located. 
163.30     (b) A person that relocates a biotechnology and health 
163.31  sciences industry facility from outside a biotechnology and 
163.32  health sciences industry zone into a zone is not a qualified 
163.33  business, unless the business: 
163.34     (1)(i) increases full-time employment in the first full 
163.35  year of operation within the biotechnology and health sciences 
163.36  industry zone by at least 20 percent measured relative to the 
164.1   operations that were relocated and maintains the required level 
164.2   of employment for each year the zone designation applies; or 
164.3      (ii) makes a capital investment in the property located 
164.4   within a zone equivalent to ten percent of the gross revenues of 
164.5   operation that were relocated in the immediately preceding 
164.6   taxable year; and 
164.7      (2) enters a binding written agreement with the 
164.8   commissioner that: 
164.9      (i) pledges the business will meet the requirements of 
164.10  clause (1); 
164.11     (ii) provides for repayment of all tax benefits enumerated 
164.12  under section 469.336 to the business under the procedures in 
164.13  section 469.340, if the requirements of clause (1) are not met; 
164.14  and 
164.15     (iii) contains any other terms the commissioner determines 
164.16  appropriate. 
164.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective retroactively 
164.18  from June 9, 2003. 
164.19     Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
164.20  469.337, is amended to read: 
164.21     469.337 [CORPORATE FRANCHISE TAX EXEMPTION.] 
164.22     (a) A qualified business is exempt from taxation under 
164.23  section 290.02, the alternative minimum tax under section 
164.24  290.0921, and the minimum fee under section 290.0922, on the 
164.25  portion of its income attributable to operations of a qualified 
164.26  business within the biotechnology and health sciences industry 
164.27  zone.  This exemption is determined as follows: 
164.28     (1) for purposes of the tax imposed under section 290.02, 
164.29  by multiplying its taxable net income by its zone percentage and 
164.30  subtracting the result in determining taxable income; 
164.31     (2) for purposes of the alternative minimum tax under 
164.32  section 290.0921, by multiplying its alternative minimum taxable 
164.33  income by its zone percentage and reducing alternative minimum 
164.34  taxable income by this amount; and 
164.35     (3) for purposes of the minimum fee under section 290.0922, 
164.36  by excluding zone property and payroll in the zone from the 
165.1   computations of the fee.  The qualified business is exempt from 
165.2   the minimum fee if all of its property is located in the zone 
165.3   and all of its payroll is zone payroll. 
165.4      (b) No subtraction is allowed under this section in excess 
165.5   of 20 percent of the sum of the corporation's biotechnology and 
165.6   health sciences industry zone payroll and the adjusted basis of 
165.7   the property at the time that the property is first used in the 
165.8   biotechnology and health sciences industry zone by the 
165.9   corporation. 
165.10     (c) No reduction in tax is allowed in excess of the amount 
165.11  allocated under section 469.335. 
165.12     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
165.13  beginning after December 31, 2003. 
165.14     Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 473F.02, 
165.15  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
165.16     Subd. 2.  [AREA.] "Area" means the territory included 
165.17  within the boundaries of Anoka, Carver, Dakota excluding the 
165.18  city of Northfield, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott excluding the city 
165.19  of New Prague, and Washington Counties, excluding lands 
165.20  constituting a major or an intermediate airport as defined under 
165.21  section 473.625. 
165.22     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
165.23  payable in 2005 and thereafter. 
165.24     Sec. 21.  [REPEALER.] 
165.25     Laws 1975, chapter 287, section 5, and Laws 2003, chapter 
165.26  127, article 9, section 9, subdivision 4, are repealed. 
165.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective without local 
165.28  approval for taxes payable in 2005 and thereafter. 
165.29                             ARTICLE 9 
165.30                           MISCELLANEOUS 
165.31     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
165.32  16A.152, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
165.33     Subd. 2.  [ADDITIONAL REVENUES; PRIORITY.] (a) If on the 
165.34  basis of a forecast of general fund revenues and expenditures, 
165.35  the commissioner of finance determines that there will be a 
165.36  positive unrestricted budgetary general fund balance at the 
166.1   close of the biennium, the commissioner of finance must allocate 
166.2   money to the following accounts and purposes in priority order: 
166.3      (1) the cash flow account established in subdivision 1 
166.4   until that account reaches $350,000,000; and 
166.5      (2) the budget reserve account established in subdivision 
166.6   1a until that account reaches $653,000,000; 
166.7      (3) the amount necessary to eliminate all or a portion of 
166.8   the property tax revenue recognition shift in section 123B.75, 
166.9   subdivision 5; and 
166.10     (4) the amount necessary to increase the aid payment 
166.11  schedule for school district aids and credits payments in 
166.12  section 127A.45 to not more than 90 percent. 
166.13     (b) The amounts necessary to meet the requirements of this 
166.14  section are appropriated from the general fund within two weeks 
166.15  after the forecast is released or, in the case of transfers 
166.16  under paragraph (a), clauses (3) and (4), as necessary to meet 
166.17  the appropriations schedules otherwise established in statute. 
166.18     (c) To the extent that a positive unrestricted budgetary 
166.19  general fund balance is projected, appropriations under this 
166.20  section must be made before any transfer is made under section 
166.21  16A.1522. 
166.22     (d) The commissioner of finance shall certify the total 
166.23  dollar amount of the reductions under paragraph (a), clauses (3) 
166.24  and (4), to the commissioner of education.  The commissioner of 
166.25  education shall increase the aid payment percentage and reduce 
166.26  the property tax shift percentage by these amounts and apply 
166.27  those reductions to the current fiscal year and thereafter. 
166.28     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
166.29  following final enactment. 
166.30     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 168A.02, 
166.31  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
166.32     Subd. 2.  [NO VEHICLE REGISTRATION WITHOUT TITLE.] The 
166.33  department shall not register or renew the registration of a 
166.34  vehicle for which a certificate of title is required unless a 
166.35  certificate of title has been issued to the owner or, an 
166.36  application therefor has been delivered to and approved by the 
167.1   department, or the vehicle has a Minnesota certificate of title 
167.2   and is being held for resale by a dealer under section 168A.11. 
167.3      Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 168A.11, 
167.4   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
167.5      Subdivision 1.  [APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS UPON SUBSEQUENT 
167.6   TRANSFER.] (a) If A dealer who buys a vehicle and holds it for 
167.7   resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner, and 
167.8   complies with subdivision 2 hereof, the dealer need not apply 
167.9   for a certificate of title, but.  Upon transferring the vehicle 
167.10  to another person, other than by the creation of a security 
167.11  interest, the dealer shall promptly execute the assignment and 
167.12  warranty of title by a dealer, showing the names and addresses 
167.13  of the transferee and of any secured party holding a security 
167.14  interest created or reserved at the time of the resale, and the 
167.15  date of the security agreement in the spaces provided therefor 
167.16  on the certificate of title or secure reassignment. 
167.17     (b) If a dealer elects to apply for a certificate of title 
167.18  on a vehicle held for resale, the dealer need not register the 
167.19  vehicle but shall pay one month's registration tax.  If a dealer 
167.20  elects to apply for a certificate of title on a vehicle held for 
167.21  resale, the department shall not place any legend on the title 
167.22  that no motor vehicle sales tax was paid by the dealer, but may 
167.23  indicate on the title whether the vehicle is a new or used 
167.24  vehicle. 
167.25     (c) With respect to motor vehicles subject to the 
167.26  provisions of section 325E.15, the dealer shall also, in the 
167.27  space provided therefor on the certificate of title or secure 
167.28  reassignment, state the true cumulative mileage registered on 
167.29  the odometer or that the exact mileage is unknown if the 
167.30  odometer reading is known by the transferor to be different from 
167.31  the true mileage.  
167.32     (c) (d) The transferee shall complete the application for 
167.33  title section on the certificate of title or separate title 
167.34  application form prescribed by the department.  The dealer shall 
167.35  mail or deliver the certificate to the registrar or deputy 
167.36  registrar with the transferee's application for a new 
168.1   certificate and appropriate taxes and fees, within ten business 
168.2   days. 
168.3      (e) With respect to vehicles sold to buyers who will remove 
168.4   the vehicle from this state, the dealer shall remove any license 
168.5   plates from the vehicle, issue a 31-day temporary permit 
168.6   pursuant to section 168.091, and notify the registrar within 48 
168.7   hours of the sale that the vehicle has been removed from this 
168.8   state.  The notification must be made in an electronic format 
168.9   prescribed by the registrar.  The dealer may contract with a 
168.10  deputy registrar for the notification of sale to an out-of-state 
168.11  buyer.  The deputy registrar may charge a fee not to exceed $7 
168.12  per transaction to provide this service. 
168.13     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 168A.11, 
168.14  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
168.15     Subd. 2.  [PURCHASE RECEIPT NOTIFICATION ON VEHICLE HELD 
168.16  FOR RESALE.] A dealer, on buying a vehicle for which the seller 
168.17  does not present a certificate of title, shall at the time of 
168.18  taking delivery of the vehicle execute a purchase receipt for 
168.19  the vehicle in a format designated by the department, and 
168.20  deliver a copy to the seller.  In a format and at a time 
168.21  prescribed by the registrar, the dealer shall notify the 
168.22  registrar that the vehicle is being held for resale by the 
168.23  dealer.  Within 48 hours of acquiring a vehicle titled and 
168.24  registered in Minnesota, a dealer shall notify the registrar 
168.25  that the dealership is holding the vehicle for resale.  The 
168.26  notification must be made electronically as prescribed by the 
168.27  registrar.  The dealer may contract this service to a deputy 
168.28  registrar and the registrar may charge a fee not to exceed $7 
168.29  per transaction to provide this service. 
168.30     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 168A.11, is 
168.31  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
168.32     Subd. 4.  [CENTRALIZED RECORD KEEPING.] Three or more new 
168.33  motor vehicle dealers under common management or control may 
168.34  designate to the department in writing a single location for 
168.35  maintaining the records required by this section that are more 
168.36  than 12 months old.  The records must be open to inspection by a 
169.1   representative of the department or a peace officer during 
169.2   reasonable business hours.  The location must be at the 
169.3   established place of business of one of the affiliated dealers 
169.4   or at a location within Minnesota not further than 25 miles from 
169.5   the established place of business of one of the affiliated 
169.6   dealers. 
169.7      Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 240.30, is 
169.8   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
169.9      Subd. 11.  [FRANCHISE FEE.] As a condition of operating a 
169.10  card club under this section, the licensee must pay a fee to the 
169.11  commission equal to five percent of the gross revenues, less any 
169.12  refunds, for charges imposed under subdivision 4.  Payment, 
169.13  collection, and administration of the fee must be made in the 
169.14  same manner and under the terms provided under section 240.15 
169.15  for the tax on pari-mutuel pools.  The commission shall deposit 
169.16  all of the revenues from the fee in the state treasury and 
169.17  amounts deposited must be credited to the general fund.  The 
169.18  amount of the fee under this subdivision does not reduce the 
169.19  obligation to set aside revenues from the card club under 
169.20  section 240.135. 
169.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for charges and 
169.22  revenues received after June 30, 2004. 
169.23     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
169.24  270.30, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
169.25     Subdivision 1.  [SCOPE.] (a) This section applies to a 
169.26  person who offers, provides, or facilitates the provision of 
169.27  refund anticipation loans, as part of or in connection with the 
169.28  provision of tax preparation services. 
169.29     (b) This section does not apply to: 
169.30     (1) a tax preparer who provides tax preparation services 
169.31  for fewer than six clients in a calendar year; 
169.32     (2) the provision by a person of tax preparation services 
169.33  to a spouse, parent, grandparent, child, or sibling; and 
169.34     (3) the provision of services by an employee for an 
169.35  employer. 
169.36     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
170.1   270.30, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
170.2      Subd. 5.  [ITEMIZED BILL REQUIRED.] A tax preparer who 
170.3   provides services for a fee or other consideration must provide 
170.4   an itemized statement of the charges for services, at least 
170.5   separately stating the charges for: 
170.6      (1) return preparation; 
170.7      (2) electronic filing; and 
170.8      (3) providing or facilitating a refund anticipation loan. 
170.9      Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
170.10  270.30, subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
170.11     Subd. 8.  [EXEMPTIONS; ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS.] The 
170.12  provisions of subdivisions 3, 6, and 7 do not apply to: 
170.13     (1) an attorney admitted to practice under section 481.01; 
170.14     (2) a certified public accountant holding a certificate 
170.15  under section 326A.04 or a person issued a permit to practice 
170.16  under section 326A.05; 
170.17     (3) a person designated as a registered accounting 
170.18  practitioner under Minnesota Rules, part 1105.6600, or a 
170.19  registered accounting practitioner firm issued a permit under 
170.20  Minnesota Rules, part 1105.7100; 
170.21     (4) an enrolled agent who has passed the special enrollment 
170.22  examination administered by the Internal Revenue Service; and 
170.23     (5) any fiduciary, or the regular employees of a fiduciary, 
170.24  while acting on behalf of the fiduciary estate, the testator, 
170.25  trustor, grantor, or beneficiaries of them; 
170.26     (6) a tax preparer who provides tax preparation services 
170.27  for fewer than six clients in a calendar year; 
170.28     (7) a person who provides tax preparation services to a 
170.29  spouse, parent, grandparent, child, or sibling; and 
170.30     (8) an employee who provides tax preparation services for 
170.31  an employer. 
170.32     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
170.33  291.03, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
170.34     Subdivision 1.  [TAX AMOUNT.] (a) The tax imposed shall be 
170.35  an amount equal to the proportion of the maximum credit computed 
170.36  under section 2011 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended 
171.1   through December 31, 2000, for state death taxes as the 
171.2   Minnesota gross estate bears to the value of the federal gross 
171.3   estate.  The tax determined under this paragraph shall not be 
171.4   greater than the federal estate tax computed under section 2001 
171.5   of the Internal Revenue Code after the allowance of the federal 
171.6   credits allowed under section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code 
171.7   of 1986, as amended through December 31, 2000.  
171.8      (b) For the purposes of this section, the following are not 
171.9   allowed in computing the tax under this chapter: 
171.10     (1) expenses which are deducted for federal income tax 
171.11  purposes under section 642(g) of the Internal Revenue Code as 
171.12  amended through December 31, 2002, are not allowable in 
171.13  computing the tax under this chapter. 2003; and 
171.14     (2) state death taxes which are deducted under section 2058 
171.15  of the Internal Revenue Code as amended through December 31, 
171.16  2003; 
171.17     (c) For qualified terminable interest property, as defined 
171.18  in section 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code, the executor 
171.19  may make an election for purposes of the tax under this chapter 
171.20  that is different than the amount elected for federal estate tax 
171.21  purposes.  The election must be made on the return for tax under 
171.22  this chapter and is irrevocable.  All tax under this chapter 
171.23  must be determined using the qualified terminable interest 
171.24  property election made on the Minnesota return. 
171.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for decedents 
171.26  dying after December 31, 2004. 
171.27     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 298.24, 
171.28  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
171.29     Subdivision 1.  (a) For concentrate produced in 2001, 2002, 
171.30  and 2003, there is imposed upon taconite and iron sulphides, and 
171.31  upon the mining and quarrying thereof, and upon the production 
171.32  of iron ore concentrate therefrom, and upon the concentrate so 
171.33  produced, a tax of $2.103 per gross ton of merchantable iron ore 
171.34  concentrate produced therefrom.  
171.35     (b) For concentrates produced in 2004 and subsequent years, 
171.36  the tax rate shall be equal to the preceding year's tax rate 
172.1   plus an amount equal to the preceding year's tax rate multiplied 
172.2   by the percentage increase in the implicit price deflator from 
172.3   the fourth quarter of the second preceding year to the fourth 
172.4   quarter of the preceding year.  "Implicit price deflator" means 
172.5   the implicit price deflator for the gross domestic product 
172.6   prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the United States 
172.7   Department of Commerce.  
172.8      (c) On concentrates produced in 1997 and thereafter, an 
172.9   additional tax is imposed equal to three cents per gross ton of 
172.10  merchantable iron ore concentrate for each one percent that the 
172.11  iron content of the product exceeds 72 percent, when dried at 
172.12  212 degrees Fahrenheit. 
172.13     (d) The tax shall be imposed on the average of the 
172.14  production for the current year and the previous two years.  The 
172.15  rate of the tax imposed will be the current year's tax rate.  
172.16  This clause shall not apply in the case of the closing of a 
172.17  taconite facility if the property taxes on the facility would be 
172.18  higher if this clause and section 298.25 were not applicable.  
172.19     (e) If the tax or any part of the tax imposed by this 
172.20  subdivision is held to be unconstitutional, a tax of $2.103 per 
172.21  gross ton of merchantable iron ore concentrate produced shall be 
172.22  imposed.  
172.23     (f) Consistent with the intent of this subdivision to 
172.24  impose a tax based upon the weight of merchantable iron ore 
172.25  concentrate, the commissioner of revenue may indirectly 
172.26  determine the weight of merchantable iron ore concentrate 
172.27  included in fluxed pellets by subtracting the weight of the 
172.28  limestone, dolomite, or olivine derivatives or other basic flux 
172.29  additives included in the pellets from the weight of the 
172.30  pellets.  For purposes of this paragraph, "fluxed pellets" are 
172.31  pellets produced in a process in which limestone, dolomite, 
172.32  olivine, or other basic flux additives are combined with 
172.33  merchantable iron ore concentrate.  No subtraction from the 
172.34  weight of the pellets shall be allowed for binders, mineral and 
172.35  chemical additives other than basic flux additives, or moisture. 
172.36     (g)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
173.1   subdivision, for the first two years of a plant's commercial 
173.2   production of direct reduced ore, no tax is imposed under this 
173.3   section.  As used in this paragraph, "commercial production" is 
173.4   production of more than 50,000 tons of direct reduced ore in the 
173.5   current year or in any prior year, and "direct reduced ore" is 
173.6   ore that results in a product that has an iron content of at 
173.7   least 75 percent.  For the third year of a plant's commercial 
173.8   production of direct reduced ore, the rate to be applied to 
173.9   direct reduced ore is 25 percent of the rate otherwise 
173.10  determined under this subdivision.  For the fourth 
173.11  such commercial production year, the rate is 50 percent of the 
173.12  rate otherwise determined under this subdivision; for the 
173.13  fifth such commercial production year, the rate is 75 percent of 
173.14  the rate otherwise determined under this subdivision; and for 
173.15  all subsequent commercial production years, the full rate is 
173.16  imposed. 
173.17     (2) Subject to clause (1), production of direct reduced ore 
173.18  in this state is subject to the tax imposed by this section, but 
173.19  if that production is not produced by a producer of taconite or 
173.20  iron sulfides, the production of taconite or iron sulfides 
173.21  consumed in the production of direct reduced iron in this state 
173.22  is not subject to the tax imposed by this section on taconite or 
173.23  iron sulfides. 
173.24     (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
173.25  subdivision, no tax is imposed under this section during the 
173.26  facility's noncommercial production of direct reduced ore. 
173.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for direct 
173.28  reduced ore produced after the date of final enactment. 
173.29     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
173.30  469.335, is amended to read: 
173.31     469.335 [APPLICATION FOR TAX BENEFITS.] 
173.32     (a) To claim a tax credit or exemption against a state tax 
173.33  under section 469.336, clauses (2) through (5), a business must 
173.34  apply to the commissioner for a tax credit certificate.  As a 
173.35  condition of its application, the business must agree to furnish 
173.36  information to the commissioner that is sufficient to verify the 
174.1   eligibility for any credits or exemptions claimed.  The total 
174.2   amount of the state tax credits and exemptions allowed for the 
174.3   specified period may not exceed the amount of the tax credit 
174.4   certificates provided by the commissioner to the business.  The 
174.5   commissioner must verify to the commissioner of revenue the 
174.6   amount of tax exemptions or credits for which each business is 
174.7   eligible. 
174.8      (b) A tax credit certificate issued under this section may 
174.9   specify the particular tax exemptions or credits against a state 
174.10  tax that the qualified business is eligible to claim under 
174.11  section 469.336, clauses (2) through (5), and the amount of each 
174.12  exemption or credit allowed. 
174.13     (c) The commissioner may issue $1,000,000 $2,000,000 of tax 
174.14  credits or exemptions in fiscal year 2004.  Any tax credits or 
174.15  exemptions not awarded in fiscal year 2004 may be awarded in 
174.16  fiscal year 2005. 
174.17     (d) A qualified business must use the tax credits or tax 
174.18  exemptions granted under this section by the later of the end of 
174.19  the state fiscal year or the taxpayer's tax year in which the 
174.20  credits or exemptions are granted. 
174.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
174.22  following final enactment. 
174.23     Sec. 13.  Laws 2000, chapter 391, section 1, subdivision 1, 
174.24  is amended to read: 
174.25     Subdivision 1.  [TASK FORCE; MEMBERSHIP.] (a) The secretary 
174.26  of state shall establish serve as the chair of a task force of 
174.27  15 members to study and make recommendations for the 
174.28  establishment of a system for the electronic filing and 
174.29  recording of real estate documents.  Members who are appointed 
174.30  under this section shall serve for a term of two years 
174.31  commencing on June 30, 2004.  Upon expiration of their term, 
174.32  members may be reappointed for an additional year by their 
174.33  appointing authority.  Two county board members to be appointed 
174.34  by the Association of Minnesota Counties, including one board 
174.35  member from within the seven-county metropolitan area, as 
174.36  designated under Minnesota Statutes, section 16E.02, shall serve 
175.1   as the vice-chairs of the task force.  The task force must 
175.2   include: 
175.3      (1) two members of the senate appointed by the subcommittee 
175.4   on committees of the committee on rules and administration and 
175.5   two members of the house appointed by the speaker of the house; 
175.6      (2) representatives of county recorders and other three 
175.7   county government officials appointed by the Association of 
175.8   County Officers, including one county recorder, one county 
175.9   auditor, and one county treasurer; 
175.10     (2) the commissioner of administration or the designee of 
175.11  the commissioner; 
175.12     (3) seven members from the private sector appointed by the 
175.13  chair, including representatives of: 
175.14     (i) real estate attorneys, real estate agents, and public 
175.15  and private land surveyors; 
175.16     (4) representatives of (ii) title companies, mortgage 
175.17  companies, and other real estate lenders; and 
175.18     (5) a representative of the Minnesota historical society 
175.19  and other state and local government archivists; 
175.20     (6) (iii) technical and industry experts in electronic 
175.21  commerce and electronic records management and preservation; and 
175.22     (7) representatives of federal government-sponsored 
175.23  enterprises active in the real estate industry; 
175.24     (8) the commissioner of revenue; and 
175.25     (9) other members appointed by the secretary of state 
175.26     (4) a representative selected by the Minnesota Historical 
175.27  Society.  
175.28     (b) The task force may refer items to subcommittees.  The 
175.29  chair shall appoint the membership of a subcommittee.  An 
175.30  individual may be appointed to serve on a subcommittee without 
175.31  serving on the task force. 
175.32     (c) Any member of the task force representing a 
175.33  jurisdiction or private interest receiving funding from the task 
175.34  force in any way must resign from the task force and be replaced 
175.35  by the member's appointing authority. 
175.36     Sec. 14.  Laws 2000, chapter 391, section 1, subdivision 2, 
176.1   as amended by Laws 2002, chapter 365, section 5, is amended to 
176.2   read: 
176.3      Subd. 2.  [STUDY AND RECOMMENDATIONS.] The task force shall 
176.4   study and make recommendations regarding implementation of a 
176.5   system for electronic filing and recording of real estate 
176.6   documents and shall consider:  
176.7      (1) technology and computer needs; 
176.8      (2) legal issues such as authenticity, security, timing and 
176.9   priority of recordings, and the relationship between electronic 
176.10  and paper recording systems; 
176.11     (3) cost-effectiveness of electronic recording systems; 
176.12     (4) timetable and plan for implementing an electronic 
176.13  recording system, considering types of documents and entities 
176.14  using the system and volume of recordings; 
176.15     (5) permissive versus mandatory systems; and 
176.16     (6) other relevant issues identified by the task force.  
176.17     The task force shall submit a report to the legislature by 
176.18  January 15, 2001, outlining a proposed work plan and budget for 
176.19  consideration by the legislature.  By January 15, 2005, the task 
176.20  force shall provide an updated report to the legislature 
176.21  containing a revised work plan and budget.  The task force 
176.22  expires June 30, 2004 2007. 
176.23     Sec. 15.  Laws 2001, First Special Session chapter 10, 
176.24  article 2, section 77, the effective date, as amended by Laws 
176.25  2002, chapter 365, section 7, is amended to read: 
176.26     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective only between 
176.27  August 1, 2001, and June 30, 2004 2007. 
176.28     Sec. 16.  Laws 2002, chapter 365, section 9, is amended to 
176.29  read: 
176.30     Sec. 9.  [EFFECTIVE DATES AND APPLICATION.] 
176.31     The amendments made by sections 3 and 4 are effective until 
176.32  June 30, 2004 2007, for documents last acknowledged ten or more 
176.33  days after the date of final enactment of this act; or filed 45 
176.34  days or more after the date of final enactment.  Sections 6 to 8 
176.35  are effective the day following final enactment. 
176.36     Sec. 17.  Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 1, 
177.1   article 2, section 123, is amended to read: 
177.2      Sec. 123.  [REAL ESTATE FILING SURCHARGE.] 
177.3      All funds collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 
177.4   2007, the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, the fiscal year 
177.5   ending June 30, 2005, the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, and 
177.6   funds collected in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, that 
177.7   carry forward into the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, 
177.8   pursuant to the additional 50-cent surcharges imposed by Laws 
177.9   2001, First Special Session chapter 10, article 2, section 77, 
177.10  and Laws 2002, chapter 365, as amended by this act, are 
177.11  appropriated to the legislative coordinating commission for the 
177.12  real estate task force established by Laws 2000, chapter 391, 
177.13  for the purposes set forth in Laws 2001, First Special Session 
177.14  chapter 10, article 2, sections 98 to 101.  $25,000 in each 
177.15  fiscal year from those funds are to be retained by the 
177.16  legislative coordinating commission for the services described 
177.17  in Laws 2001, First Special Session chapter 10, article 2, 
177.18  section 99. 
177.19     Sec. 18.  [TASK FORCE TRANSITION.] 
177.20     The members of the electronic real estate document task 
177.21  force created in Laws 2000, chapter 391, section 1, who are 
177.22  serving on the task force on the effective date of this act 
177.23  shall end their service on that date unless reappointed or 
177.24  designated under section 13. 
177.25     Sec. 19.  [GAMING MACHINES; IN-LIEU TAX; CONTRACTS.] 
177.26     If a bill providing for gaming machines at a racetrack is 
177.27  enacted in a 2004 regular or special session, then, 
177.28  notwithstanding any other law to the contrary: 
177.29     (1) from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2007, the state lottery 
177.30  must on or before the 20th day of each month transmit to the 
177.31  commissioner of revenue an amount equal to at least the adjusted 
177.32  gross revenue from the operation of gaming machines multiplied 
177.33  by 36.7 percent; and 
177.34     (2) from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2007, contracts for the 
177.35  location of gaming machines must provide for compensation to the 
177.36  racetrack in an amount equal to 48.3 percent of adjusted gross 
178.1   gaming machine revenue. 
178.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective at the same 
178.3   time as any bill that provides for gaming machines at a 
178.4   racetrack and is enacted in a 2004 regular or special session. 
178.5      Sec. 20.  [FUNDS TRANSFER.] 
178.6      Subdivision 1.  [BUDGET RESERVE TO CASH FLOW.] On July 2, 
178.7   2004, the commissioner of finance shall transfer $350,000,000 
178.8   from the general fund budget reserve account under Minnesota 
178.9   Statutes, section 16A.152, subdivision 1a, to the cash flow 
178.10  reserve account under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.152, 
178.11  subdivision 1. 
178.12     Subd. 2.  [GENERAL FUND TO BUDGET RESERVE.] On or before 
178.13  July 2, 2004, the commissioner of finance shall transfer 
178.14  $8,566,000 from the general fund to the budget reserve account 
178.15  under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.152, subdivision 1a. 
178.16     Sec. 21.  [FEDERAL FUNDS.] 
178.17     The first $167,000,000 of the general fund appropriation in 
178.18  fiscal year 2004 for general education aid is from general 
178.19  revenue sharing with states and their local governments provided 
178.20  to Minnesota in the 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief 
178.21  Reconciliation Act. 
178.22     Sec. 22.  [APPROPRIATIONS.] 
178.23     Subdivision 1.  [TAX COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE.] (a) $3,678,000 
178.24  is appropriated to the commissioner of revenue in fiscal year 
178.25  2005 for additional activities to identify and collect tax 
178.26  liabilities from individuals and businesses that currently do 
178.27  not pay all taxes owed.  $800,000 of this amount is for 
178.28  corporate compliance related to foreign operating corporations.  
178.29  $120,000 of this amount is considered a onetime appropriation.  
178.30  The base for this additional activity is $3,558,000 per year. 
178.31     (b) This initiative is expected to result in new general 
178.32  fund revenues of $16,000,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 
178.33  2005, and $16,000,000 annually thereafter. 
178.34     (c) The commissioner must provide written reports to the 
178.35  chairs of the house Taxes and senate Taxes Committees, and to 
178.36  the chairs of the house and senate committees with jurisdiction 
179.1   over state government finance, in compliance with Minnesota 
179.2   Statutes, sections 3.195 and 3.197, by March 1, 2005, and 
179.3   January 15, 2006.  The reports must address the following 
179.4   performance indicators: 
179.5      (1) the number of corporations noncompliant with the 
179.6   corporate tax system each year and the percentage and dollar 
179.7   amounts of valid tax liabilities collected; 
179.8      (2) the number of businesses noncompliant with the sales 
179.9   and use tax system and the percentage and dollar amounts of the 
179.10  valid tax liabilities collected; and 
179.11     (3) the number of insurers, agents, or others that are 
179.12  noncompliant with insurance tax statutes and cases resolved and 
179.13  the percentage and dollar amounts of valid tax liabilities 
179.14  collected. 
179.15     The reports must also identify base level expenditures and 
179.16  staff positions related to compliance and audit activities, 
179.17  including baseline information as of January 1, 2002.  The 
179.18  reports must provide this information at the budget activity 
179.19  level. 
179.20     Subd. 2.  [PROPERTY TAX REFUND STUDY.] $50,000 is 
179.21  appropriated from the general fund for fiscal year 2005 to the 
179.22  commissioner of revenue for the study of the percentage that 
179.23  property taxes constitute of rent.  This is a onetime 
179.24  appropriation and is not added to the base. 
179.25     Subd. 3.  [INCOME AND HOME VALUE DATASET.] $50,000 is 
179.26  appropriated from the general fund for fiscal year 2005 to the 
179.27  commissioner of revenue to prepare a dataset linking homeowners' 
179.28  incomes and the estimated market values of their homes.  The 
179.29  commissioner shall prepare the dataset using Minnesota tax data 
179.30  gathered directly from taxpayers, counties, and sources other 
179.31  than the Internal Revenue Service.  This is a onetime 
179.32  appropriation and is not added to the base. 
179.33     Sec. 23.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
179.34     Sections 13 to 18 are effective the day following final 
179.35  enactment. 
179.36                             ARTICLE 10 
180.1                       PROPERTY TAXES TECHNICAL 
180.2      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
180.3   4A.02, is amended to read: 
180.4      4A.02 [STATE DEMOGRAPHER.] 
180.5      (a) The director shall appoint a state demographer.  The 
180.6   demographer must be professionally competent in demography and 
180.7   must possess demonstrated ability based upon past performance.  
180.8      (b) The demographer shall: 
180.9      (1) continuously gather and develop demographic data 
180.10  relevant to the state; 
180.11     (2) design and test methods of research and data 
180.12  collection; 
180.13     (3) periodically prepare population projections for the 
180.14  state and designated regions and periodically prepare 
180.15  projections for each county or other political subdivision of 
180.16  the state as necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
180.17  section; 
180.18     (4) review, comment on, and prepare analysis of population 
180.19  estimates and projections made by state agencies, political 
180.20  subdivisions, other states, federal agencies, or nongovernmental 
180.21  persons, institutions, or commissions; 
180.22     (5) serve as the state liaison with the United States 
180.23  Bureau of the Census, coordinate state and federal demographic 
180.24  activities to the fullest extent possible, and aid the 
180.25  legislature in preparing a census data plan and form for each 
180.26  decennial census; 
180.27     (6) compile an annual study of population estimates on the 
180.28  basis of county, regional, or other political or geographical 
180.29  subdivisions as necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
180.30  section and section 4A.03; 
180.31     (7) by January 1 of each year, issue a report to the 
180.32  legislature containing an analysis of the demographic 
180.33  implications of the annual population study and population 
180.34  projections; 
180.35     (8) prepare maps for all counties in the state, all 
180.36  municipalities with a population of 10,000 or more, and other 
181.1   municipalities as needed for census purposes, according to scale 
181.2   and detail recommended by the United States Bureau of the 
181.3   Census, with the maps of cities showing precinct boundaries; 
181.4      (9) prepare an estimate of population and of the number of 
181.5   households for each governmental subdivision for which the 
181.6   Metropolitan Council does not prepare an annual estimate, and 
181.7   convey the estimates to the governing body of each political 
181.8   subdivision by May June 1 of each year; 
181.9      (10) direct, under section 414.01, subdivision 14, and 
181.10  certify population and household estimates of annexed or 
181.11  detached areas of municipalities or towns after being notified 
181.12  of the order or letter of approval by the director; 
181.13     (11) prepare, for any purpose for which a population 
181.14  estimate is required by law or needed to implement a law, a 
181.15  population estimate of a municipality or town whose population 
181.16  is affected by action under section 379.02 or 414.01, 
181.17  subdivision 14; and 
181.18     (12) prepare an estimate of average household size for each 
181.19  statutory or home rule charter city with a population of 2,500 
181.20  or more by May June 1 of each year. 
181.21     (c) A governing body may challenge an estimate made under 
181.22  paragraph (b) by filing their specific objections in writing 
181.23  with the state demographer by June 10 24.  If the challenge does 
181.24  not result in an acceptable estimate by June 24, the governing 
181.25  body may have a special census conducted by the United States 
181.26  Bureau of the Census.  The political subdivision must notify the 
181.27  state demographer by July 1 of its intent to have the special 
181.28  census conducted.  The political subdivision must bear all costs 
181.29  of the special census.  Results of the special census must be 
181.30  received by the state demographer by the next April 15 to be 
181.31  used in that year's May June 1 estimate to the political 
181.32  subdivision under paragraph (b).  
181.33     (d) The state demographer shall certify the estimates of 
181.34  population and number of households to the commissioner of 
181.35  revenue by July 15 each year, including any estimates still 
181.36  under objection.  No changes in population or household 
182.1   estimates made after July 15 in an aid calculation year shall be 
182.2   considered in determining aids under sections 477A.011 to 
182.3   477A.014.  Clerical errors in certification or use of the 
182.4   estimates and counts established as of July 15 in the aid 
182.5   calculation year are subject to correction under section 
182.6   477A.014. 
182.7      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
182.8   following final enactment. 
182.9      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
182.10  168A.05, subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
182.11     Subd. 1a.  [MANUFACTURED HOME; STATEMENT OF PROPERTY TAX 
182.12  PAYMENT.] In the case of a manufactured home as defined in 
182.13  section 327.31, subdivision 6, the department shall not issue a 
182.14  certificate of title unless the application under section 
182.15  168A.04 is accompanied with a statement from the county auditor 
182.16  or county treasurer where the manufactured home is presently 
182.17  located, stating that all manufactured home personal property 
182.18  taxes levied on the unit in the name of the current owner at the 
182.19  time of transfer have been paid.  For this purpose, manufactured 
182.20  home personal property taxes are treated as levied on January 1 
182.21  of the payable year. 
182.22     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
182.23  following final enactment. 
182.24     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 270B.12, 
182.25  subdivision 9, is amended to read: 
182.26     Subd. 9.  [COUNTY ASSESSORS; HOMESTEAD APPLICATION, 
182.27  DETERMINATION, AND INCOME TAX STATUS.] (a) If, as a result of an 
182.28  audit, the commissioner determines that a person is a Minnesota 
182.29  nonresident or part-year resident for income tax purposes, the 
182.30  commissioner may disclose the person's name, address, and Social 
182.31  Security number to the assessor of any political subdivision in 
182.32  the state, when there is reason to believe that the person may 
182.33  have claimed or received homestead property tax benefits for a 
182.34  corresponding assessment year in regard to property apparently 
182.35  located in the assessor's jurisdiction. 
182.36     (b) To the extent permitted by section 273.124, subdivision 
183.1   1, paragraph (a), the Department of Revenue may verify to a 
183.2   county assessor whether an individual who is requesting or 
183.3   receiving a homestead classification has filed a Minnesota 
183.4   income tax return as a resident for the most recent taxable year 
183.5   for which the information is available. 
183.6      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
183.7   following final enactment. 
183.8      Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.01, 
183.9   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
183.10     Subd. 2.  (a) When any real or personal property which is 
183.11  exempt from ad valorem taxes, and taxes in lieu thereof, is 
183.12  leased, loaned, or otherwise made available and used by a 
183.13  private individual, association, or corporation in connection 
183.14  with a business conducted for profit, there shall be imposed a 
183.15  tax, for the privilege of so using or possessing such real or 
183.16  personal property, in the same amount and to the same extent as 
183.17  though the lessee or user was the owner of such property. 
183.18     (b) The tax imposed by this subdivision shall not apply to: 
183.19     (1) property leased or used as a concession in or relative 
183.20  to the use in whole or part of a public park, market, 
183.21  fairgrounds, port authority, economic development authority 
183.22  established under chapter 469, municipal auditorium, municipal 
183.23  parking facility, municipal museum, or municipal stadium; 
183.24     (2) property of an airport owned by a city, town, county, 
183.25  or group thereof which is:  
183.26     (i) leased to or used by any person or entity including a 
183.27  fixed base operator; and 
183.28     (ii) used as a hangar for the storage or repair of aircraft 
183.29  or to provide aviation goods, services, or facilities to the 
183.30  airport or general public; 
183.31  the exception from taxation provided in this clause does not 
183.32  apply to: 
183.33     (i) property located at an airport owned or operated by the 
183.34  Metropolitan Airports Commission or by a city of over 50,000 
183.35  population according to the most recent federal census or such a 
183.36  city's airport authority; 
184.1      (ii) hangars leased by a private individual, association, 
184.2   or corporation in connection with a business conducted for 
184.3   profit other than an aviation-related business; or 
184.4      (iii) facilities leased by a private individual, 
184.5   association, or corporation in connection with a business for 
184.6   profit, that consists of a major jet engine repair facility 
184.7   financed, in whole or part, with the proceeds of state bonds and 
184.8   located in a tax increment financing district; 
184.9      (3) property constituting or used as a public pedestrian 
184.10  ramp or concourse in connection with a public airport; or 
184.11     (4) property constituting or used as a passenger check-in 
184.12  area or ticket sale counter, boarding area, or luggage claim 
184.13  area in connection with a public airport but not the airports 
184.14  owned or operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission or 
184.15  cities of over 50,000 population or an airport authority 
184.16  therein.  Real estate owned by a municipality in connection with 
184.17  the operation of a public airport and leased or used for 
184.18  agricultural purposes is not exempt; 
184.19     (5) property leased, loaned, or otherwise made available to 
184.20  a private individual, corporation, or association under a 
184.21  cooperative farming agreement made pursuant to section 97A.135; 
184.22  or 
184.23     (6) property leased, loaned, or otherwise made available to 
184.24  a private individual, corporation, or association under section 
184.25  272.68, subdivision 4. 
184.26     (c) Taxes imposed by this subdivision are payable as in the 
184.27  case of personal property taxes and shall be assessed to the 
184.28  lessees or users of real or personal property in the same manner 
184.29  as taxes assessed to owners of real or personal property, except 
184.30  that such taxes shall not become a lien against the property.  
184.31  When due, the taxes shall constitute a debt due from the lessee 
184.32  or user to the state, township, city, county, and school 
184.33  district for which the taxes were assessed and shall be 
184.34  collected in the same manner as personal property taxes.  If 
184.35  property subject to the tax imposed by this subdivision is 
184.36  leased or used jointly by two or more persons, each lessee or 
185.1   user shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of the 
185.2   tax. 
185.3      (d) The tax on real property of the state or any of its 
185.4   political subdivisions that is leased by a private individual, 
185.5   association, or corporation and becomes taxable under this 
185.6   subdivision or other provision of law must be assessed and 
185.7   collected as a personal property assessment.  The taxes do not 
185.8   become a lien against the real property. 
185.9      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
185.10  following final enactment. 
185.11     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, 
185.12  subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
185.13     Subd. 1a.  [LIMITATIONS ON EXEMPTIONS.] The exemptions 
185.14  granted by subdivision 1 are subject to the limits contained in 
185.15  the other subdivisions of this section, section 272.025, or 
185.16  273.13, subdivision 25, paragraph (c), clause (1) or (2), or 
185.17  paragraph (d), clause (2) and all other provisions of applicable 
185.18  law.  
185.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
185.20  following final enactment. 
185.21     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, 
185.22  subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
185.23     Subd. 7.  [INSTITUTIONS OF PUBLIC CHARITY.] Institutions of 
185.24  purely public charity are exempt except parcels of property 
185.25  containing structures and the structures described in section 
185.26  273.13, subdivision 25, paragraph (e), other than those that 
185.27  qualify for exemption under subdivision 26.  In determining 
185.28  whether rental housing property qualifies for exemption under 
185.29  this subdivision, the following are not gifts or donations to 
185.30  the owner of the rental housing: 
185.31     (1) rent assistance provided by the government to or on 
185.32  behalf of tenants, and 
185.33     (2) financing assistance or tax credits provided by the 
185.34  government to the owner on condition that specific units or a 
185.35  specific quantity of units be set aside for persons or families 
185.36  with certain income characteristics. 
186.1      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for taxes 
186.2   payable in 2004 and thereafter. 
186.3      Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
186.4   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
186.5      Subd. 68.  [PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TACONITE PRODUCTION TAX OR 
186.6   NET PROCEEDS TAX.] (a) Except for mineral interests taxed under 
186.7   section 273.165, and except for lands taxed under section 
186.8   298.26, real and personal property described in section 298.25 
186.9   is exempt to the extent the tax on taconite and iron sulphides 
186.10  under section 298.24 is described in section 298.25 as being in 
186.11  lieu of other taxes on such property.  This exemption applies 
186.12  for taxes payable in each year that the tax under section 298.24 
186.13  is payable with respect to such property. 
186.14     (b) Except for mineral interests taxed under section 
186.15  273.165, deposits of mineral, metal, or energy resources the 
186.16  mining of which is subject to taxation under section 298.015 are 
186.17  exempt.  This exemption applies for taxes payable in each year 
186.18  that the tax under section 298.015 is payable with respect to 
186.19  such property. 
186.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
186.21  following final enactment. 
186.22     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
186.23  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
186.24     Subd. 69.  [RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS.] Personal and real 
186.25  property that a religious corporation, formed under section 
186.26  317A.909, necessarily uses for a religious purpose is exempt to 
186.27  the extent provided in section 317A.909, subdivision 3. 
186.28     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
186.29  following final enactment. 
186.30     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
186.31  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
186.32     Subd. 70.  [CHILDREN'S HOMES.] Personal and real property 
186.33  owned by a corporation formed under section 317A.907 is exempt 
186.34  to the extent provided in section 317A.907, subdivision 7. 
186.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
186.36  following final enactment. 
187.1      Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 272.02, is 
187.2   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
187.3      Subd. 71.  [HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND TRIBAL 
187.4   HOUSING AUTHORITY PROPERTY.] Property owned by a housing and 
187.5   redevelopment authority described in chapter 469, or by a 
187.6   designated housing authority described in section 469.040, 
187.7   subdivision 5, is exempt to the extent provided in chapter 469. 
187.8      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
187.9   following final enactment. 
187.10     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.124, 
187.11  subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
187.12     Subd. 8.  [HOMESTEAD OWNED BY OR LEASED TO FAMILY FARM 
187.13  CORPORATION, JOINT FARM VENTURE, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, OR 
187.14  PARTNERSHIP.] (a) Each family farm corporation, each; each joint 
187.15  family farm venture,; and each limited liability company, and 
187.16  each or partnership operating which operates a family farm; is 
187.17  entitled to class 1b under section 273.13, subdivision 22, 
187.18  paragraph (b), or class 2a assessment for one homestead occupied 
187.19  by a shareholder, member, or partner thereof who is residing on 
187.20  the land, and actively engaged in farming of the land owned by 
187.21  the family farm corporation, joint family farm venture, limited 
187.22  liability company, or partnership operating a family farm.  
187.23  Homestead treatment applies even if legal title to the property 
187.24  is in the name of the family farm corporation, joint family farm 
187.25  venture, limited liability company, or partnership operating the 
187.26  family farm, and not in the name of the person residing on it. 
187.27     "Family farm corporation," "family farm," and "partnership 
187.28  operating a family farm" have the meanings given in section 
187.29  500.24, except that the number of allowable shareholders, 
187.30  members, or partners under this subdivision shall not exceed 
187.31  12.  "Limited liability company" has the meaning contained in 
187.32  sections 322B.03, subdivision 28, and 500.24, subdivision 2, 
187.33  paragraphs (l) and (m).  "Joint family farm venture" means a 
187.34  cooperative agreement among two or more farm enterprises 
187.35  authorized to operate a family farm under section 500.24. 
187.36     (b) In addition to property specified in paragraph (a), any 
188.1   other residences owned by family farm corporations, joint family 
188.2   farm ventures, limited liability companies, or partnerships 
188.3   operating a family farm described in paragraph (a) which are 
188.4   located on agricultural land and occupied as homesteads by its 
188.5   shareholders, members, or partners who are actively engaged in 
188.6   farming on behalf of that corporation, joint farm venture, 
188.7   limited liability company, or partnership must also be assessed 
188.8   as class 2a property or as class 1b property under section 
188.9   273.13. 
188.10     (c) Agricultural property that is owned by a member, 
188.11  partner, or shareholder of a family farm corporation or joint 
188.12  family farm venture, limited liability company operating a 
188.13  family farm, or by a partnership operating a family farm and 
188.14  leased to the family farm corporation, limited liability 
188.15  company, or partnership operating a family farm, or joint farm 
188.16  venture, as defined in paragraph (a), is eligible for 
188.17  classification as class 1b or class 2a under section 273.13, if 
188.18  the owner is actually residing on the property, and is actually 
188.19  engaged in farming the land on behalf of that corporation, joint 
188.20  farm venture, limited liability company, or partnership.  This 
188.21  paragraph applies without regard to any legal possession rights 
188.22  of the family farm corporation, joint family farm venture, 
188.23  limited liability company, or partnership operating a family 
188.24  farm under the lease. 
188.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
188.26  following final enactment. 
188.27     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 273.19, 
188.28  subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
188.29     Subd. 1a.  For purposes of this section, a lease includes 
188.30  any agreement, except a cooperative farming agreement pursuant 
188.31  to section 97A.135, subdivision 3, or a lease executed pursuant 
188.32  to section 272.68, subdivision 4, permitting a nonexempt person 
188.33  or entity to use the property, regardless of whether the 
188.34  agreement is characterized as a lease.  A lease has a "term of 
188.35  at least one year" if the term is for a period of less than one 
188.36  year and the lease permits the parties to renew the lease 
189.1   without requiring that similar terms for leasing the property 
189.2   will be offered to other applicants or bidders through a 
189.3   competitive bidding or other form of offer to potential lessees 
189.4   or users. 
189.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
189.6   following final enactment. 
189.7      Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 274.14, is 
189.8   amended to read: 
189.9      274.14 [LENGTH OF SESSION; RECORD.] 
189.10     The county board of equalization or the special board of 
189.11  equalization appointed by it shall meet during the last ten 
189.12  meeting days in June.  For this purpose, "meeting days" are 
189.13  defined as any day of the week excluding Saturday and Sunday.  
189.14  The board may meet on any ten consecutive meeting days in June, 
189.15  after the second Friday in June, if.  The actual meeting dates 
189.16  are must be contained on the valuation notices mailed to each 
189.17  property owner in the county under as provided in section 
189.18  273.121.  For this purpose, "meeting days" is defined as any day 
189.19  of the week excluding Saturday and Sunday.  No action taken by 
189.20  the county board of review after June 30 is valid, except for 
189.21  corrections permitted in sections 273.01 and 274.01.  The county 
189.22  auditor shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings and 
189.23  orders of the board.  The record must be published like other 
189.24  proceedings of county commissioners.  A copy of the published 
189.25  record must be sent to the commissioner of revenue, with the 
189.26  abstract of assessment required by section 274.16.  
189.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
189.28  following final enactment. 
189.29     Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 275.065, 
189.30  subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
189.31     Subd. 1a.  [OVERLAPPING JURISDICTIONS.] In the case of a 
189.32  taxing authority lying in two or more counties, the home county 
189.33  auditor shall certify the proposed levy and the proposed local 
189.34  tax rate to the other county auditor by September 20 October 5.  
189.35  The home county auditor must estimate the levy or rate in 
189.36  preparing the notices required in subdivision 3, if the other 
190.1   county has not certified the appropriate information.  If 
190.2   requested by the home county auditor, the other county auditor 
190.3   must furnish an estimate to the home county auditor. 
190.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
190.5   following final enactment. 
190.6      Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 275.07, 
190.7   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
190.8      Subdivision 1.  [CERTIFICATION OF LEVY.] (a) Except as 
190.9   provided under paragraph (b), the taxes voted by cities, 
190.10  counties, school districts, and special districts shall be 
190.11  certified by the proper authorities to the county auditor on or 
190.12  before five working days after December 20 in each year.  A town 
190.13  must certify the levy adopted by the town board to the county 
190.14  auditor by September 15 each year.  If the town board modifies 
190.15  the levy at a special town meeting after September 15, the town 
190.16  board must recertify its levy to the county auditor on or before 
190.17  five working days after December 20.  The taxes certified shall 
190.18  not be reduced by the county auditor by the aid received under 
190.19  section 273.1398, subdivision 2, but shall be reduced by the 
190.20  county auditor by the aid received under section 273.1398, 
190.21  subdivision 3.  If a city, town, county, school district, or 
190.22  special district fails to certify its levy by that date, its 
190.23  levy shall be the amount levied by it for the preceding year. 
190.24     (b)(i) The taxes voted by counties under sections 103B.241, 
190.25  103B.245, and 103B.251 shall be separately certified by the 
190.26  county to the county auditor on or before five working days 
190.27  after December 20 in each year.  The taxes certified shall not 
190.28  be reduced by the county auditor by the aid received under 
190.29  section 273.1398, subdivisions 2 and 3.  If a county fails to 
190.30  certify its levy by that date, its levy shall be the amount 
190.31  levied by it for the preceding year.  
190.32     (ii) For purposes of the proposed property tax notice under 
190.33  section 275.065 and the property tax statement under section 
190.34  276.04, for the first year in which the county implements the 
190.35  provisions of this paragraph, the county auditor shall reduce 
190.36  the county's levy for the preceding year to reflect any amount 
191.1   levied for water management purposes under clause (i) included 
191.2   in the county's levy. 
191.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
191.4   following final enactment. 
191.5      Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 275.07, 
191.6   subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
191.7      Subd. 4.  [REPORT TO COMMISSIONER.] (a) On or before 
191.8   October 8 of each year, the county auditor shall report to the 
191.9   commissioner of revenue the proposed levy certified by local 
191.10  units of government under section 275.065, subdivision 1.  If 
191.11  any taxing authorities have notified the county auditor that 
191.12  they are in the process of negotiating an agreement for sharing, 
191.13  merging, or consolidating services but that when the proposed 
191.14  levy was certified under section 275.065, subdivision 1c, the 
191.15  agreement was not yet finalized, the county auditor shall supply 
191.16  that information to the commissioner when filing the report 
191.17  under this section and shall recertify the affected levies as 
191.18  soon as practical after October 10. 
191.19     (b) On or before January 15 of each year, the county 
191.20  auditor shall report to the commissioner of revenue the final 
191.21  levy certified by local units of government under subdivision 1. 
191.22     (c) The levies must be reported in the manner prescribed by 
191.23  the commissioner.  The reports must show a total levy and the 
191.24  amount of each special levy. 
191.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
191.26  following final enactment. 
191.27     Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
191.28  276.112, is amended to read: 
191.29     276.112 [STATE PROPERTY TAXES; COUNTY TREASURER.] 
191.30     On or before January 25 each year, for the period ending 
191.31  December 31 of the prior year, and on or before two business 
191.32  days before June 29 30 each year, for the period ending on the 
191.33  most recent settlement day determined in section 276.09, and on 
191.34  or before December 2 each year, for the period ending November 
191.35  20, the county treasurer must make full settlement with the 
191.36  county auditor according to sections 276.09, 276.10, and 276.111 
192.1   for all receipts of state property taxes levied under section 
192.2   275.025, and must transmit those receipts to the commissioner of 
192.3   revenue by electronic means. 
192.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
192.5   following final enactment. 
192.6      Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 282.016, is 
192.7   amended to read: 
192.8      282.016 [PROHIBITED PURCHASERS.] 
192.9      No (a) A county auditor, county treasurer, county attorney, 
192.10  court administrator of the district court, or county assessor 
192.11  or, supervisor of assessments, or deputy or clerk or an employee 
192.12  of such officer, and no a commissioner for tax-forfeited lands 
192.13  or an assistant to such commissioner may, must not become a 
192.14  purchaser, either personally or as an agent or attorney for 
192.15  another person, of the properties offered for sale under the 
192.16  provisions of this chapter, either personally, or as agent or 
192.17  attorney for any other person, except that in the county for 
192.18  which the person performs duties.  A person prohibited from 
192.19  purchasing property under this section must not directly or 
192.20  indirectly have another person purchase it on behalf of the 
192.21  prohibited purchaser for the prohibited purchaser's benefit or 
192.22  gain. 
192.23     (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), such officer, deputy, 
192.24  court administrator clerk, or employee or commissioner for 
192.25  tax-forfeited lands or assistant to such commissioner may (1) 
192.26  purchase lands owned by that official at the time the state 
192.27  became the absolute owner thereof or (2) bid upon and purchase 
192.28  forfeited property offered for sale under the alternate sale 
192.29  procedure described in section 282.01, subdivision 7a. 
192.30     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
192.31  following final enactment. 
192.32     Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 282.21, is 
192.33  amended to read: 
192.34     282.21 [FORM OF CONVEYANCE.] 
192.35     When any sale has been made under sections 282.14 to 
192.36  282.22, upon payment in full of the purchase price, appropriate 
193.1   conveyance in fee in such form as may be prescribed by the 
193.2   attorney general shall be issued by the commissioner of finance 
193.3   to the purchaser or the purchaser's assigns and this conveyance 
193.4   shall have the force and effect of a patent from the state.  
193.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
193.6   following final enactment. 
193.7      Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 282.224, is 
193.8   amended to read: 
193.9      282.224 [FORM OF CONVEYANCE.] 
193.10     When any sale has been made under sections 282.221 to 
193.11  282.226, upon payment in full of the purchase price, appropriate 
193.12  conveyance in fee, in such form as may be prescribed by the 
193.13  attorney general, shall be issued by the commissioner of natural 
193.14  resources to the purchaser or the purchaser's assignee, and the 
193.15  conveyance shall have the force and effect of a patent from the 
193.16  state.  
193.17     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
193.18  following final enactment. 
193.19     Sec. 21.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 282.301, is 
193.20  amended to read: 
193.21     282.301 [RECEIPTS FOR PAYMENTS.] 
193.22     When any sale has been made under sections 282.012 and 
193.23  282.241 to 282.324, the purchaser shall receive from the county 
193.24  auditor at the time of repurchase a receipt, in such form as may 
193.25  be prescribed by the attorney general.  When the purchase price 
193.26  of a parcel of land shall be paid in full, the following facts 
193.27  shall be certified by the county auditor to the commissioner of 
193.28  revenue of the state of Minnesota:  the description of land, the 
193.29  date of sale, the name of the purchaser or the purchaser's 
193.30  assignee, and the date when the final installment of the 
193.31  purchase price was paid.  Upon payment in full of the purchase 
193.32  price, the purchaser or the assignee shall receive a quitclaim 
193.33  deed from the state, to be executed by the commissioner of 
193.34  revenue.  The deed must be sent to the county auditor who shall 
193.35  have it recorded before it is forwarded to the purchaser.  
193.36  Failure to make any payment herein required shall constitute 
194.1   default and upon such default and cancellation in accord with 
194.2   section 282.40, the right, title and interest of the purchaser 
194.3   or the purchaser's heirs, representatives, or assigns in such 
194.4   parcel shall terminate.  
194.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
194.6   following final enactment. 
194.7      Sec. 22.  [473.24] [POPULATION ESTIMATES.] 
194.8      (a) The Metropolitan Council shall prepare an estimate of 
194.9   population and of the number of households for each city and 
194.10  town in the metropolitan area annually and convey the estimates 
194.11  to the governing body of each city or town by June 1 each year.  
194.12  In the case of a city or town that is located partly within and 
194.13  partly without the metropolitan area, the Metropolitan Council 
194.14  shall estimate the proportion of the total population and number 
194.15  of households that reside within the area.  The Metropolitan 
194.16  Council may prepare an estimate of the population and of the 
194.17  number of households for any other political subdivision located 
194.18  in the metropolitan area. 
194.19     (b) A governing body may challenge an estimate made under 
194.20  this section by filing its specific objections in writing with 
194.21  the Metropolitan Council by June 24.  If the challenge does not 
194.22  result in an acceptable estimate, the governing body may have a 
194.23  special census conducted by the United States Bureau of the 
194.24  Census.  The political subdivision must notify the Metropolitan 
194.25  Council on or before July 1 of its intent to have the special 
194.26  census conducted.  The political subdivision must bear all costs 
194.27  of the special census.  Results of the special census must be 
194.28  received by the Metropolitan Council by the next April 15 to be 
194.29  used in that year's June 1 estimate under this section.  The 
194.30  Metropolitan Council shall certify the estimates of population 
194.31  and number of households to the state demographer and to the 
194.32  commissioner of revenue by July 15 each year, including any 
194.33  estimates still under objection.  
194.34     (c) No changes in population or household estimates after 
194.35  July 15 in an aid calculation year shall be considered in 
194.36  determining aids under sections 477A.011 to 477A.014.  Clerical 
195.1   errors in certification or use of the estimates and counts 
195.2   established as of July 15 in the aid calculation year are 
195.3   subject to correction under section 477A.014. 
195.4      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
195.5   following final enactment. 
195.6      Sec. 23.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 473F.02, 
195.7   subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
195.8      Subd. 7.  [POPULATION.] "Population" means the most recent 
195.9   estimate of the population of a municipality made by the 
195.10  Metropolitan Council under section 473.24 and filed with the 
195.11  commissioner of revenue as of July 1 15 of the year in which a 
195.12  municipality's distribution net tax capacity is calculated.  The 
195.13  council shall annually estimate the population of each 
195.14  municipality as of a date which it determines and, in the case 
195.15  of a municipality which is located partly within and partly 
195.16  without the area, the proportion of the total which resides 
195.17  within the area, and shall promptly thereafter file its 
195.18  estimates with the commissioner of revenue. 
195.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
195.20  following final enactment. 
195.21     Sec. 24.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
195.22  477A.011, subdivision 36, is amended to read: 
195.23     Subd. 36.  [CITY AID BASE.] (a) Except as otherwise 
195.24  provided in this subdivision, "city aid base" is zero. 
195.25     (b) The city aid base for any city with a population less 
195.26  than 500 is increased by $40,000 for aids payable in calendar 
195.27  year 1995 and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total aid it 
195.28  may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph 
195.29  (c), is also increased by $40,000 for aids payable in calendar 
195.30  year 1995 only, provided that: 
195.31     (i) the average total tax capacity rate for taxes payable 
195.32  in 1995 exceeds 200 percent; 
195.33     (ii) the city portion of the tax capacity rate exceeds 100 
195.34  percent; and 
195.35     (iii) its city aid base is less than $60 per capita. 
195.36     (c) The city aid base for a city is increased by $20,000 in 
196.1   1998 and thereafter and the maximum amount of total aid it may 
196.2   receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph (c), is 
196.3   also increased by $20,000 in calendar year 1998 only, provided 
196.4   that: 
196.5      (i) the city has a population in 1994 of 2,500 or more; 
196.6      (ii) the city is located in a county, outside of the 
196.7   metropolitan area, which contains a city of the first class; 
196.8      (iii) the city's net tax capacity used in calculating its 
196.9   1996 aid under section 477A.013 is less than $400 per capita; 
196.10  and 
196.11     (iv) at least four percent of the total net tax capacity, 
196.12  for taxes payable in 1996, of property located in the city is 
196.13  classified as railroad property. 
196.14     (d) The city aid base for a city is increased by $200,000 
196.15  in 1999 and thereafter and the maximum amount of total aid it 
196.16  may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph 
196.17  (c), is also increased by $200,000 in calendar year 1999 only, 
196.18  provided that: 
196.19     (i) the city was incorporated as a statutory city after 
196.20  December 1, 1993; 
196.21     (ii) its city aid base does not exceed $5,600; and 
196.22     (iii) the city had a population in 1996 of 5,000 or more. 
196.23     (e) The city aid base for a city is increased by $450,000 
196.24  in 1999 to 2008 and the maximum amount of total aid it may 
196.25  receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph (c), is 
196.26  also increased by $450,000 in calendar year 1999 only, provided 
196.27  that: 
196.28     (i) the city had a population in 1996 of at least 50,000; 
196.29     (ii) its population had increased by at least 40 percent in 
196.30  the ten-year period ending in 1996; and 
196.31     (iii) its city's net tax capacity for aids payable in 1998 
196.32  is less than $700 per capita. 
196.33     (f) Beginning in 2004, the city aid base for a city is 
196.34  equal to the sum of its city aid base in 2003 and the amount of 
196.35  additional aid it was certified to receive under section 477A.06 
196.36  in 2003.  For 2004 only, the maximum amount of total aid a city 
197.1   may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph 
197.2   (c), is also increased by the amount it was certified to receive 
197.3   under section 477A.06 in 2003. 
197.4      (g) The city aid base for a city is increased by $150,000 
197.5   for aids payable in 2000 and thereafter, and the maximum amount 
197.6   of total aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 
197.7   9, paragraph (c), is also increased by $150,000 in calendar year 
197.8   2000 only, provided that: 
197.9      (1) the city has a population that is greater than 1,000 
197.10  and less than 2,500; 
197.11     (2) its commercial and industrial percentage for aids 
197.12  payable in 1999 is greater than 45 percent; and 
197.13     (3) the total market value of all commercial and industrial 
197.14  property in the city for assessment year 1999 is at least 15 
197.15  percent less than the total market value of all commercial and 
197.16  industrial property in the city for assessment year 1998. 
197.17     (h) (g) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
197.18  $200,000 in 2000 and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total 
197.19  aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, 
197.20  paragraph (c), is also increased by $200,000 in calendar year 
197.21  2000 only, provided that: 
197.22     (1) the city had a population in 1997 of 2,500 or more; 
197.23     (2) the net tax capacity of the city used in calculating 
197.24  its 1999 aid under section 477A.013 is less than $650 per 
197.25  capita; 
197.26     (3) the pre-1940 housing percentage of the city used in 
197.27  calculating 1999 aid under section 477A.013 is greater than 12 
197.28  percent; 
197.29     (4) the 1999 local government aid of the city under section 
197.30  477A.013 is less than 20 percent of the amount that the formula 
197.31  aid of the city would have been if the need increase percentage 
197.32  was 100 percent; and 
197.33     (5) the city aid base of the city used in calculating aid 
197.34  under section 477A.013 is less than $7 per capita. 
197.35     (i) (h) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
197.36  $102,000 in 2000 and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total 
198.1   aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, 
198.2   paragraph (c), is also increased by $102,000 in calendar year 
198.3   2000 only, provided that: 
198.4      (1) the city has a population in 1997 of 2,000 or more; 
198.5      (2) the net tax capacity of the city used in calculating 
198.6   its 1999 aid under section 477A.013 is less than $455 per 
198.7   capita; 
198.8      (3) the net levy of the city used in calculating 1999 aid 
198.9   under section 477A.013 is greater than $195 per capita; and 
198.10     (4) the 1999 local government aid of the city under section 
198.11  477A.013 is less than 38 percent of the amount that the formula 
198.12  aid of the city would have been if the need increase percentage 
198.13  was 100 percent. 
198.14     (j) (i) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
198.15  $32,000 in 2001 and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total 
198.16  aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, 
198.17  paragraph (c), is also increased by $32,000 in calendar year 
198.18  2001 only, provided that: 
198.19     (1) the city has a population in 1998 that is greater than 
198.20  200 but less than 500; 
198.21     (2) the city's revenue need used in calculating aids 
198.22  payable in 2000 was greater than $200 per capita; 
198.23     (3) the city net tax capacity for the city used in 
198.24  calculating aids available in 2000 was equal to or less than 
198.25  $200 per capita; 
198.26     (4) the city aid base of the city used in calculating aid 
198.27  under section 477A.013 is less than $65 per capita; and 
198.28     (5) the city's formula aid for aids payable in 2000 was 
198.29  greater than zero. 
198.30     (k) (j) The city aid base for a city is increased by $7,200 
198.31  in 2001 and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total aid it 
198.32  may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph 
198.33  (c), is also increased by $7,200 in calendar year 2001 only, 
198.34  provided that: 
198.35     (1) the city had a population in 1998 that is greater than 
198.36  200 but less than 500; 
199.1      (2) the city's commercial industrial percentage used in 
199.2   calculating aids payable in 2000 was less than ten percent; 
199.3      (3) more than 25 percent of the city's population was 60 
199.4   years old or older according to the 1990 census; 
199.5      (4) the city aid base of the city used in calculating aid 
199.6   under section 477A.013 is less than $15 per capita; and 
199.7      (5) the city's formula aid for aids payable in 2000 was 
199.8   greater than zero. 
199.9      (l) (k) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
199.10  $45,000 in 2001 and thereafter and by an additional $50,000 in 
199.11  calendar years 2002 to 2011, and the maximum amount of total aid 
199.12  it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph 
199.13  (c), is also increased by $45,000 in calendar year 2001 only, 
199.14  and by $50,000 in calendar year 2002 only, provided that: 
199.15     (1) the net tax capacity of the city used in calculating 
199.16  its 2000 aid under section 477A.013 is less than $810 per 
199.17  capita; 
199.18     (2) the population of the city declined more than two 
199.19  percent between 1988 and 1998; 
199.20     (3) the net levy of the city used in calculating 2000 aid 
199.21  under section 477A.013 is greater than $240 per capita; and 
199.22     (4) the city received less than $36 per capita in aid under 
199.23  section 477A.013, subdivision 9, for aids payable in 2000. 
199.24     (m) (l) The city aid base for a city with a population of 
199.25  10,000 or more which is located outside of the seven-county 
199.26  metropolitan area is increased in 2002 and thereafter, and the 
199.27  maximum amount of total aid it may receive under section 
199.28  477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph (b) or (c), is also increased 
199.29  in calendar year 2002 only, by an amount equal to the lesser of: 
199.30     (1)(i) the total population of the city, as determined by 
199.31  the United States Bureau of the Census, in the 2000 census, (ii) 
199.32  minus 5,000, (iii) times 60; or 
199.33     (2) $2,500,000. 
199.34     (n) (m) The city aid base is increased by $50,000 in 2002 
199.35  and thereafter, and the maximum amount of total aid it may 
199.36  receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, paragraph (c), is 
200.1   also increased by $50,000 in calendar year 2002 only, provided 
200.2   that: 
200.3      (1) the city is located in the seven-county metropolitan 
200.4   area; 
200.5      (2) its population in 2000 is between 10,000 and 20,000; 
200.6   and 
200.7      (3) its commercial industrial percentage, as calculated for 
200.8   city aid payable in 2001, was greater than 25 percent. 
200.9      (o) (n) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
200.10  $150,000 in calendar years 2002 to 2011 and the maximum amount 
200.11  of total aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 
200.12  9, paragraph (c), is also increased by $150,000 in calendar year 
200.13  2002 only, provided that: 
200.14     (1) the city had a population of at least 3,000 but no more 
200.15  than 4,000 in 1999; 
200.16     (2) its home county is located within the seven-county 
200.17  metropolitan area; 
200.18     (3) its pre-1940 housing percentage is less than 15 
200.19  percent; and 
200.20     (4) its city net tax capacity per capita for taxes payable 
200.21  in 2000 is less than $900 per capita. 
200.22     (p) (o) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
200.23  $200,000 beginning in calendar year 2003 and the maximum amount 
200.24  of total aid it may receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 
200.25  9, paragraph (c), is also increased by $200,000 in calendar year 
200.26  2003 only, provided that the city qualified for an increase in 
200.27  homestead and agricultural credit aid under Laws 1995, chapter 
200.28  264, article 8, section 18. 
200.29     (q) (p) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
200.30  $200,000 in 2004 only and the maximum amount of total aid it may 
200.31  receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, is also increased 
200.32  by $200,000 in calendar year 2004 only, if the city is the site 
200.33  of a nuclear dry cask storage facility. 
200.34     (r) (q) The city aid base for a city is increased by 
200.35  $10,000 in 2004 and thereafter and the maximum total aid it may 
200.36  receive under section 477A.013, subdivision 9, is also increased 
201.1   by $10,000 in calendar year 2004 only, if the city was included 
201.2   in a federal major disaster designation issued on April 1, 1998, 
201.3   and its pre-1940 housing stock was decreased by more than 40 
201.4   percent between 1990 and 2000. 
201.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective beginning with 
201.6   aids payable in 2004. 
201.7      Sec. 25.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
201.8   477A.03, subdivision 2b, is amended to read: 
201.9      Subd. 2b.  [COUNTIES.] (a) For aids payable in calendar 
201.10  year 2005 and thereafter, the total aids paid to counties under 
201.11  section 477A.0124, subdivision 3, are limited to $100,500,000.  
201.12  Each calendar year, $500,000 shall be retained by the 
201.13  commissioner of revenue to make reimbursements to the 
201.14  commissioner of finance for payments made under section 611.27.  
201.15  For calendar year 2004, the amount shall be $500,000 is 
201.16  appropriated from the general fund for this purpose in addition 
201.17  to the payments authorized under section 477A.0124, subdivision 
201.18  1.  For calendar year 2005 and subsequent years, the amount 
201.19  shall be deducted from the appropriation under this paragraph 
201.20  for section 477A.0124, subdivision 1.  The reimbursements shall 
201.21  be to defray the additional costs associated with court-ordered 
201.22  counsel under section 611.27.  Any retained amounts not used for 
201.23  reimbursement in a year shall be included in the next 
201.24  distribution of county need aid that is certified to the county 
201.25  auditors for the purpose of property tax reduction for the next 
201.26  taxes payable year. 
201.27     (b) For aids payable in 2005 and thereafter, the total aids 
201.28  under section 477A.0124, subdivision 4, are limited to 
201.29  $105,000,000.  The commissioner of finance shall bill the 
201.30  commissioner of revenue for the cost of preparation of local 
201.31  impact notes as required by section 3.987, not to exceed 
201.32  $207,000 in fiscal year 2004 and thereafter.  The commissioner 
201.33  of education shall bill the commissioner of revenue for the cost 
201.34  of preparation of local impact notes for school districts as 
201.35  required by section 3.987, not to exceed $7,000 in fiscal year 
201.36  2004 and thereafter.  For aids payable in 2004, $214,000 is 
202.1   appropriated from the general fund for this purpose.  For aids 
202.2   payable in 2005 and thereafter, the commissioner of revenue 
202.3   shall deduct the amounts billed under this paragraph from the 
202.4   appropriation under this paragraph section for section 
202.5   477A.0124, subdivision 4.  The amounts deducted are appropriated 
202.6   to the commissioner of finance and the commissioner of education 
202.7   for the preparation of local impact notes. 
202.8      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids 
202.9   payable in 2004 and thereafter. 
202.10     Sec. 26.  Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 21, 
202.11  article 5, section 13, is amended to read: 
202.12     Sec. 13.  [2004 CITY AID REDUCTIONS.] 
202.13     The commissioner of revenue shall compute an aid reduction 
202.14  amount for 2004 for each city as provided in this section. 
202.15     The initial aid reduction amount for each city is the 
202.16  amount by which the city's aid distribution under Minnesota 
202.17  Statutes, section 477A.013, and related provisions payable in 
202.18  2003 exceeds the city's 2004 distribution under those provisions.
202.19     The minimum aid reduction amount for a city is the amount 
202.20  of its reduction in 2003 under section 12.  If a city receives 
202.21  an increase to its city aid base under Minnesota Statutes, 
202.22  section 477A.011, subdivision 36, its minimum aid reduction is 
202.23  reduced by an equal amount. 
202.24     The maximum aid reduction amount for a city is an amount 
202.25  equal to 14 percent of the city's total 2004 levy plus aid 
202.26  revenue base, except that if the city has a city net tax 
202.27  capacity for aids payable in 2004, as defined in Minnesota 
202.28  Statutes, section 477A.011, subdivision 20, of $700 per capita 
202.29  or less, the maximum aid reduction shall not exceed an amount 
202.30  equal to 13 percent of the city's total 2004 levy plus aid 
202.31  revenue base. 
202.32     If the initial aid reduction amount for a city is less than 
202.33  the minimum aid reduction amount for that city, the final aid 
202.34  reduction amount for the city is the sum of the initial aid 
202.35  reduction amount and the lesser of the amount of the city's 
202.36  payable 2004 reimbursement under Minnesota Statutes, section 
203.1   273.1384, or the difference between the minimum and initial aid 
203.2   reduction amounts for the city, and the amount of the final aid 
203.3   reduction in excess of the initial aid reduction is deducted 
203.4   from the city's reimbursements pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, 
203.5   section 273.1384. 
203.6      If the initial aid reduction amount for a city is greater 
203.7   than the maximum aid reduction amount for the city, the city 
203.8   receives an additional distribution under this section equal to 
203.9   the result of subtracting the maximum aid reduction amount from 
203.10  the initial aid reduction amount.  This distribution shall be 
203.11  paid in equal installments in 2004 on the dates specified in 
203.12  Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.015.  The amount necessary for 
203.13  these additional distributions is appropriated to the 
203.14  commissioner of revenue from the general fund in fiscal year 
203.15  2005. 
203.16     The initial aid reduction is applied to the city's 
203.17  distribution pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.013, 
203.18  and any aid reduction in excess of the initial aid reduction is 
203.19  applied to the city's reimbursements pursuant to Minnesota 
203.20  Statutes, section 273.1384. 
203.21     To the extent that sufficient information is available on 
203.22  each payment date in 2004, the commissioner of revenue shall pay 
203.23  the reimbursements reduced under this section in equal 
203.24  installments on the payment dates provided in law. 
203.25     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids 
203.26  payable in 2004. 
203.27     Sec. 27.  Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 21, 
203.28  article 6, section 9, is amended to read: 
203.29     Sec. 9.  [DEFINITIONS.] 
203.30     (a) For purposes of sections 9 to 15, the following terms 
203.31  have the meanings given them in this section. 
203.32     (b) The 2003 and 2004 "levy plus aid revenue base" for a 
203.33  county is the sum of that county's certified property tax levy 
203.34  for taxes payable in 2003, plus the sum of the amounts the 
203.35  county was certified to receive in the designated calendar year 
203.36  as: 
204.1      (1) homestead and agricultural credit aid under Minnesota 
204.2   Statutes, section 273.1398, subdivision 2, plus any additional 
204.3   aid under section 16, minus the amount calculated under section 
204.4   273.1398, subdivision 4a, paragraph (b), for counties in 
204.5   judicial districts one, three, six, and ten, and 25 percent of 
204.6   the amount calculated under section 273.1398, subdivision 4a, 
204.7   paragraph (b), for counties in judicial districts two and four; 
204.8      (2) the amount of county manufactured home homestead and 
204.9   agricultural credit aid computed for the county for payment in 
204.10  2003 under section 273.166; 
204.11     (3) criminal justice aid under Minnesota Statutes, section 
204.12  477A.0121; 
204.13     (4) family preservation aid under Minnesota Statutes, 
204.14  section 477A.0122; 
204.15     (5) taconite aids under Minnesota Statutes, sections 298.28 
204.16  and 298.282, including any aid which was required to be placed 
204.17  in a special fund for expenditure in the next succeeding year; 
204.18  and 
204.19     (6) county program aid under section 477A.0124, exclusive 
204.20  of the attached machinery aid component. 
204.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for aids 
204.22  payable in 2004. 
204.23     Sec. 28.  [REPEALER.] 
204.24     Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 273.19, subdivision 5; 
204.25  274.05; 275.15; and 283.07, are repealed effective the day 
204.26  following final enactment. 
204.27                             ARTICLE 11 
204.28                   SALES AND USE TAXES TECHNICAL 
204.29     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.38, 
204.30  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
204.31     Subd. 6.  [OMISSION IN EXCESS OF 25 PERCENT.] Additional 
204.32  taxes may be assessed within 6-1/2 years after the due date of 
204.33  the return or the date the return was filed, whichever is later, 
204.34  if: 
204.35     (1) the taxpayer omits from gross income an amount properly 
204.36  includable in it that is in excess of 25 percent of the amount 
205.1   of gross income stated in the return; 
205.2      (2) the taxpayer omits from a sales, use, or withholding 
205.3   tax return an amount of taxes in excess of 25 percent of the 
205.4   taxes reported in the return; or 
205.5      (3) the taxpayer omits from the gross estate assets in 
205.6   excess of 25 percent of the gross estate reported in the return. 
205.7      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
205.8   following final enactment. 
205.9      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
205.10  289A.40, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
205.11     Subd. 2.  [BAD DEBT LOSS.] If a claim relates to an 
205.12  overpayment because of a failure to deduct a loss due to a bad 
205.13  debt or to a security becoming worthless, the claim is 
205.14  considered timely if filed within seven years from the date 
205.15  prescribed for the filing of the return.  A claim relating to an 
205.16  overpayment of taxes under chapter 297A must be filed within 
205.17  3-1/2 years from the date prescribed for filing the return, plus 
205.18  any extensions granted for filing the return, but only if filed 
205.19  within the extended time.  The refund or credit is limited to 
205.20  the amount of overpayment attributable to the loss.  "Bad debt" 
205.21  for purposes of this subdivision, has the same meaning as that 
205.22  term is used in United States Code, title 26, section 166, 
205.23  except that for a claim relating to an overpayment of taxes 
205.24  under chapter 297A the following are excluded from the 
205.25  calculation of bad debt:  financing charges or interest; sales 
205.26  or use taxes charged on the purchase price; uncollectible 
205.27  amounts on property that remain in the possession of the seller 
205.28  until the full purchase price is paid; expenses incurred in 
205.29  attempting to collect any debt; and repossessed property. 
205.30     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> For claims relating to an overpayment of 
205.31  taxes under chapter 297A, this section is effective for sales 
205.32  and purchases made on or after January 1, 2004; for all other 
205.33  bad debts or claims, this section is effective on or after July 
205.34  1, 2003. 
205.35     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
205.36  297A.668, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
206.1      Subdivision 1.  [ APPLICABILITY.] The provisions of this 
206.2   section apply regardless of the characterization of a product as 
206.3   tangible personal property, a digital good, or a service; but do 
206.4   not apply to telecommunications services, or the sales of motor 
206.5   vehicles, watercraft, aircraft, modular homes, manufactured 
206.6   homes, or mobile homes.  These provisions only apply to 
206.7   determine a seller's obligation to pay or collect and remit a 
206.8   sales or use tax with respect to the seller's sale of a 
206.9   product.  These provisions do not affect the obligation of a 
206.10  seller as purchaser to remit tax on the use of the product. 
206.11     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
206.12  following final enactment. 
206.13     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
206.14  297A.668, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
206.15     Subd. 3.  [LEASE OR RENTAL OF TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY.] 
206.16  The lease or rental of tangible personal property, other than 
206.17  property identified in subdivision 4 or 5, shall be sourced as 
206.18  required in paragraphs (a) to (c). 
206.19     (a) For a lease or rental that requires recurring periodic 
206.20  payments, the first periodic payment is sourced the same as a 
206.21  retail sale in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 6 2.
206.22  Periodic payments made subsequent to the first payment are 
206.23  sourced to the primary property location for each period covered 
206.24  by the payment.  The primary property location must be as 
206.25  indicated by an address for the property provided by the lessee 
206.26  that is available to the lessor from its records maintained in 
206.27  the ordinary course of business, when use of this address does 
206.28  not constitute bad faith.  The property location must not be 
206.29  altered by intermittent use at different locations, such as use 
206.30  of business property that accompanies employees on business 
206.31  trips and service calls. 
206.32     (b) For a lease or rental that does not require recurring 
206.33  periodic payments, the payment is sourced the same as a retail 
206.34  sale in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 2. 
206.35     (c) This subdivision does not affect the imposition or 
206.36  computation of sales or use tax on leases or rentals based on a 
207.1   lump sum or accelerated basis, or on the acquisition of property 
207.2   for lease. 
207.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
207.4   purchases made on or after January 1, 2004. 
207.5      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
207.6   297A.668, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
207.7      Subd. 5.  [TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT.] (a) The retail sale, 
207.8   including lease or rental, of transportation equipment shall be 
207.9   sourced the same as a retail sale in accordance with the 
207.10  provisions of subdivision 2, notwithstanding the exclusion of 
207.11  lease or rental in subdivision 2. 
207.12     (b) "Transportation equipment" means any of the following: 
207.13     (1) locomotives and railcars that are utilized for the 
207.14  carriage of persons or property in interstate commerce; and/or 
207.15     (2) trucks and truck-tractors with a gross vehicle weight 
207.16  rating (GVWR) of 10,001 pounds or greater, trailers, 
207.17  semitrailers, or passenger buses that are: 
207.18     (i) registered through the international registration plan; 
207.19  and 
207.20     (ii) operated under authority of a carrier authorized and 
207.21  certified by the United States Department of Transportation or 
207.22  another federal authority to engage in the carriage of persons 
207.23  or property in interstate commerce; 
207.24     (3) aircraft that are operated by air carriers authorized 
207.25  and certificated by the United States Department of 
207.26  Transportation or another federal or a foreign authority to 
207.27  engage in the carriage of persons or property in interstate 
207.28  commerce; or 
207.29     (4) containers designed for use on and component parts 
207.30  attached or secured on the transportation equipment described in 
207.31  items (1) through (3).  
207.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
207.33  purchases made on or after January 1, 2004. 
207.34     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
207.35  297A.669, subdivision 16, is amended to read: 
207.36     Subd. 16.  [SERVICE ADDRESS.] "Service address," for 
208.1   purposes of this section, means: 
208.2      (1) the location of the telecommunications equipment to 
208.3   which a customer's call is charged and from which the call 
208.4   originates or terminates, regardless of where the call is billed 
208.5   or paid; 
208.6      (2) if the location in paragraph (a) (1) is not known, 
208.7   service address means the origination point of the signal of the 
208.8   telecommunications services first identified by either the 
208.9   seller's telecommunications system or in information received by 
208.10  the seller from its service provider, where the system used to 
208.11  transport the signals is not that of the seller; or 
208.12     (3) if the location in paragraphs (a) (1) and (b) (2) is 
208.13  not known, the service address means the location of the 
208.14  customer's place of primary use. 
208.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for sales and 
208.16  purchases made on or after January 1, 2004. 
208.17     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
208.18  297A.68, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
208.19     Subd. 2.  [MATERIALS CONSUMED IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION.] 
208.20  (a) Materials stored, used, or consumed in industrial production 
208.21  of personal property intended to be sold ultimately at retail 
208.22  are exempt, whether or not the item so used becomes an 
208.23  ingredient or constituent part of the property produced.  
208.24  Materials that qualify for this exemption include, but are not 
208.25  limited to, the following: 
208.26     (1) chemicals, including chemicals used for cleaning food 
208.27  processing machinery and equipment; 
208.28     (2) materials, including chemicals, fuels, and electricity 
208.29  purchased by persons engaged in industrial production to treat 
208.30  waste generated as a result of the production process; 
208.31     (3) fuels, electricity, gas, and steam used or consumed in 
208.32  the production process, except that electricity, gas, or steam 
208.33  used for space heating, cooling, or lighting is exempt if (i) it 
208.34  is in excess of the average climate control or lighting for the 
208.35  production area, and (ii) it is necessary to produce that 
208.36  particular product; 
209.1      (4) petroleum products and lubricants; 
209.2      (5) packaging materials, including returnable containers 
209.3   used in packaging food and beverage products; 
209.4      (6) accessory tools, equipment, and other items that are 
209.5   separate detachable units with an ordinary useful life of less 
209.6   than 12 months used in producing a direct effect upon the 
209.7   product; and 
209.8      (7) the following materials, tools, and equipment used in 
209.9   metalcasting:  crucibles, thermocouple protection sheaths and 
209.10  tubes, stalk tubes, refractory materials, molten metal filters 
209.11  and filter boxes, degassing lances, and base blocks. 
209.12     (b) This exemption does not include: 
209.13     (1) machinery, equipment, implements, tools, accessories, 
209.14  appliances, contrivances and furniture and fixtures, except 
209.15  those listed in paragraph (a), clause (6); and 
209.16     (2) petroleum and special fuels used in producing or 
209.17  generating power for propelling ready-mixed concrete trucks on 
209.18  the public highways of this state. 
209.19     (c) Industrial production includes, but is not limited to, 
209.20  research, development, design or production of any tangible 
209.21  personal property, manufacturing, processing (other than by 
209.22  restaurants and consumers) of agricultural products (whether 
209.23  vegetable or animal), commercial fishing, refining, smelting, 
209.24  reducing, brewing, distilling, printing, mining, quarrying, 
209.25  lumbering, generating electricity, the production of road 
209.26  building materials, and the research, development, design, or 
209.27  production of computer software.  Industrial production does not 
209.28  include painting, cleaning, repairing or similar processing of 
209.29  property except as part of the original manufacturing process.  
209.30  Industrial production does not include the furnishing of 
209.31  services listed in section 297A.61, subdivision 3, paragraph 
209.32  (g), clause (6), items (i) to (vi) and (viii). 
209.33     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
209.34  following final enactment. 
209.35     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
209.36  297A.68, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
210.1      Subd. 5.  [CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.] (a) Capital equipment is 
210.2   exempt.  The tax must be imposed and collected as if the rate 
210.3   under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, applied, and then refunded 
210.4   in the manner provided in section 297A.75. 
210.5      "Capital equipment" means machinery and equipment purchased 
210.6   or leased, and used in this state by the purchaser or lessee 
210.7   primarily for manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or refining 
210.8   tangible personal property to be sold ultimately at retail if 
210.9   the machinery and equipment are essential to the integrated 
210.10  production process of manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or 
210.11  refining.  Capital equipment also includes machinery and 
210.12  equipment used primarily to electronically transmit results 
210.13  retrieved by a customer of an on-line computerized data 
210.14  retrieval system. 
210.15     (b) Capital equipment includes, but is not limited to: 
210.16     (1) machinery and equipment used to operate, control, or 
210.17  regulate the production equipment; 
210.18     (2) machinery and equipment used for research and 
210.19  development, design, quality control, and testing activities; 
210.20     (3) environmental control devices that are used to maintain 
210.21  conditions such as temperature, humidity, light, or air pressure 
210.22  when those conditions are essential to and are part of the 
210.23  production process; 
210.24     (4) materials and supplies used to construct and install 
210.25  machinery or equipment; 
210.26     (5) repair and replacement parts, including accessories, 
210.27  whether purchased as spare parts, repair parts, or as upgrades 
210.28  or modifications to machinery or equipment; 
210.29     (6) materials used for foundations that support machinery 
210.30  or equipment; 
210.31     (7) materials used to construct and install special purpose 
210.32  buildings used in the production process; 
210.33     (8) ready-mixed concrete equipment in which the ready-mixed 
210.34  concrete is mixed as part of the delivery process regardless if 
210.35  mounted on a chassis and leases of ready-mixed concrete trucks; 
210.36  and 
211.1      (9) machinery or equipment used for research, development, 
211.2   design, or production of computer software.  
211.3      (c) Capital equipment does not include the following: 
211.4      (1) motor vehicles taxed under chapter 297B; 
211.5      (2) machinery or equipment used to receive or store raw 
211.6   materials; 
211.7      (3) building materials, except for materials included in 
211.8   paragraph (b), clauses (6) and (7); 
211.9      (4) machinery or equipment used for nonproduction purposes, 
211.10  including, but not limited to, the following:  plant security, 
211.11  fire prevention, first aid, and hospital stations; support 
211.12  operations or administration; pollution control; and plant 
211.13  cleaning, disposal of scrap and waste, plant communications, 
211.14  space heating, cooling, lighting, or safety; 
211.15     (5) farm machinery and aquaculture production equipment as 
211.16  defined by section 297A.61, subdivisions 12 and 13; 
211.17     (6) machinery or equipment purchased and installed by a 
211.18  contractor as part of an improvement to real property; or 
211.19     (7) machinery and equipment used by restaurants in the 
211.20  furnishing, preparing, or serving of prepared foods as defined 
211.21  in section 297A.61, subdivision 31; 
211.22     (8) machinery and equipment used to furnish the services 
211.23  listed in section 297A.61, subdivision 3, paragraph (g), clause 
211.24  (6), items (i) to (vi) and (viii); or 
211.25     (9) any other item that is not essential to the integrated 
211.26  process of manufacturing, fabricating, mining, or refining. 
211.27     (d) For purposes of this subdivision: 
211.28     (1) "Equipment" means independent devices or tools separate 
211.29  from machinery but essential to an integrated production 
211.30  process, including computers and computer software, used in 
211.31  operating, controlling, or regulating machinery and equipment; 
211.32  and any subunit or assembly comprising a component of any 
211.33  machinery or accessory or attachment parts of machinery, such as 
211.34  tools, dies, jigs, patterns, and molds.  
211.35     (2) "Fabricating" means to make, build, create, produce, or 
211.36  assemble components or property to work in a new or different 
212.1   manner. 
212.2      (3) "Integrated production process" means a process or 
212.3   series of operations through which tangible personal property is 
212.4   manufactured, fabricated, mined, or refined.  For purposes of 
212.5   this clause, (i) manufacturing begins with the removal of raw 
212.6   materials from inventory and ends when the last process prior to 
212.7   loading for shipment has been completed; (ii) fabricating begins 
212.8   with the removal from storage or inventory of the property to be 
212.9   assembled, processed, altered, or modified and ends with the 
212.10  creation or production of the new or changed product; (iii) 
212.11  mining begins with the removal of overburden from the site of 
212.12  the ores, minerals, stone, peat deposit, or surface materials 
212.13  and ends when the last process before stockpiling is completed; 
212.14  and (iv) refining begins with the removal from inventory or 
212.15  storage of a natural resource and ends with the conversion of 
212.16  the item to its completed form. 
212.17     (4) "Machinery" means mechanical, electronic, or electrical 
212.18  devices, including computers and computer software, that are 
212.19  purchased or constructed to be used for the activities set forth 
212.20  in paragraph (a), beginning with the removal of raw materials 
212.21  from inventory through completion of the product, including 
212.22  packaging of the product. 
212.23     (5) "Machinery and equipment used for pollution control" 
212.24  means machinery and equipment used solely to eliminate, prevent, 
212.25  or reduce pollution resulting from an activity described in 
212.26  paragraph (a).  
212.27     (6) "Manufacturing" means an operation or series of 
212.28  operations where raw materials are changed in form, composition, 
212.29  or condition by machinery and equipment and which results in the 
212.30  production of a new article of tangible personal property.  For 
212.31  purposes of this subdivision, "manufacturing" includes the 
212.32  generation of electricity or steam to be sold at retail. 
212.33     (7) "Mining" means the extraction of minerals, ores, stone, 
212.34  or peat. 
212.35     (8) "On-line data retrieval system" means a system whose 
212.36  cumulation of information is equally available and accessible to 
213.1   all its customers. 
213.2      (9) "Primarily" means machinery and equipment used 50 
213.3   percent or more of the time in an activity described in 
213.4   paragraph (a). 
213.5      (10) "Refining" means the process of converting a natural 
213.6   resource to an intermediate or finished product, including the 
213.7   treatment of water to be sold at retail. 
213.8      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
213.9   following final enactment. 
213.10     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
213.11  297A.68, subdivision 39, is amended to read: 
213.12     Subd. 39.  [PREEXISTING BIDS OR CONTRACTS.] (a) The sale of 
213.13  tangible personal property or services is exempt from tax or a 
213.14  tax rate increase for a period of six months from the effective 
213.15  date of the law change that results in the imposition of the tax 
213.16  or the tax rate increase under this chapter if: 
213.17     (1) the act imposing the tax or increasing the tax rate 
213.18  does not have transitional effective date language for existing 
213.19  construction contracts and construction bids; and 
213.20     (2) the requirements of paragraph (b) are met. 
213.21     (b) A sale is tax exempt under paragraph (a) if it meets 
213.22  the requirements of either clause (1) or (2): 
213.23     (1) For a construction contract: 
213.24     (i) the goods or services sold must be used for the 
213.25  performance of a bona fide written lump sum or fixed price 
213.26  construction contract; 
213.27     (ii) the contract must be entered into before the date the 
213.28  goods or services become subject to the sales tax or the tax 
213.29  rate was increased; 
213.30     (iii) the contract must not provide for allocation of 
213.31  future taxes; and 
213.32     (iv) for each qualifying contract the contractor must give 
213.33  the seller documentation of the contract on which an exemption 
213.34  is to be claimed. 
213.35     (2) For a construction bid: 
213.36     (i) the goods or services sold must be used pursuant to an 
214.1   obligation of a bid or bids; 
214.2      (ii) the bid or bids must be submitted and accepted before 
214.3   the date the goods or services became subject to the sales 
214.4   tax or the tax rate was increased; 
214.5      (iii) the bid or bids must not be able to be withdrawn, 
214.6   modified, or changed without forfeiting a bond; and 
214.7      (iv) for each qualifying bid, the contractor must give the 
214.8   seller documentation of the bid on which an exemption is to be 
214.9   claimed. 
214.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
214.11  following final enactment. 
214.12     Sec. 10.  [REPEALER.] 
214.13     Minnesota Rules, parts 8130.0110, subpart 4; 8130.0200, 
214.14  subparts 5 and 6; 8130.0400, subpart 9; 8130.1200, subparts 5 
214.15  and 6; 8130.2900; 8130.3100, subpart 1; 8130.4000, subparts 1 
214.16  and 2; 8130.4200, subpart 1; 8130.4400, subpart 3; 8130.5200; 
214.17  8130.5600, subpart 3; 8130.5800, subpart 5; 8130.7300, subpart 
214.18  5; and 8130.8800, subpart 4, are repealed. 
214.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
214.20  following final enactment. 
214.21                             ARTICLE 12 
214.22                      SPECIAL TAXES TECHNICAL 
214.23     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 287.04, is 
214.24  amended to read: 
214.25     287.04 [EXEMPTIONS.] 
214.26     The tax imposed by section 287.035 does not apply to:  
214.27     (a) A decree of marriage dissolution or an instrument made 
214.28  pursuant to it.  
214.29     (b) A mortgage given to correct a misdescription of the 
214.30  mortgaged property. 
214.31     (c) A mortgage or other instrument that adds additional 
214.32  security for the same debt for which mortgage registry tax has 
214.33  been paid.  
214.34     (d) A contract for the conveyance of any interest in real 
214.35  property, including a contract for deed. 
214.36     (e) A mortgage secured by real property subject to the 
215.1   minerals production tax of sections 298.24 to 298.28. 
215.2      (f) The principal amount of a mortgage loan made under a 
215.3   low and moderate income or other affordable housing program, if 
215.4   the mortgagee is a federal, state, or local government agency. 
215.5      (g) Mortgages granted by fraternal benefit societies 
215.6   subject to section 64B.24. 
215.7      (h) A mortgage amendment or extension, as defined in 
215.8   section 287.01. 
215.9      (i) An agricultural mortgage if the proceeds of the loan 
215.10  secured by the mortgage are used to acquire or improve real 
215.11  property classified under section 273.13, subdivision 23, 
215.12  paragraph (a), or (b), clause (1), (2), or (3). 
215.13     (j) A mortgage on an armory building as set forth in 
215.14  section 193.147. 
215.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
215.16  following final enactment. 
215.17     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 295.50, 
215.18  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
215.19     Subd. 4.  [HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.] (a) "Health care 
215.20  provider" means: 
215.21     (1) a person whose health care occupation is regulated or 
215.22  required to be regulated by the state of Minnesota furnishing 
215.23  any or all of the following goods or services directly to a 
215.24  patient or consumer:  medical, surgical, optical, visual, 
215.25  dental, hearing, nursing services, drugs, laboratory, diagnostic 
215.26  or therapeutic services; 
215.27     (2) a person who provides goods and services not listed in 
215.28  clause (1) that qualify for reimbursement under the medical 
215.29  assistance program provided under chapter 256B; 
215.30     (3) a staff model health plan company; 
215.31     (4) an ambulance service required to be licensed; or 
215.32     (5) a person who sells or repairs hearing aids and related 
215.33  equipment or prescription eyewear. 
215.34     (b) Health care provider does not include: 
215.35     (1) hospitals; medical supplies distributors, except as 
215.36  specified under paragraph (a), clause (5); nursing homes 
216.1   licensed under chapter 144A or licensed in any other 
216.2   jurisdiction; pharmacies; surgical centers; bus and taxicab 
216.3   transportation, or any other providers of transportation 
216.4   services other than ambulance services required to be licensed; 
216.5   supervised living facilities for persons with mental retardation 
216.6   or related conditions, licensed under Minnesota Rules, parts 
216.7   4665.0100 to 4665.9900; residential care homes licensed under 
216.8   chapter 144B housing with services establishments required to be 
216.9   registered under chapter 144D; board and lodging establishments 
216.10  providing only custodial services that are licensed under 
216.11  chapter 157 and registered under section 157.17 to provide 
216.12  supportive services or health supervision services; adult foster 
216.13  homes as defined in Minnesota Rules, part 9555.5105; day 
216.14  training and habilitation services for adults with mental 
216.15  retardation and related conditions as defined in section 252.41, 
216.16  subdivision 3; boarding care homes, as defined in Minnesota 
216.17  Rules, part 4655.0100; and adult day care centers as defined in 
216.18  Minnesota Rules, part 9555.9600; 
216.19     (2) home health agencies as defined in Minnesota Rules, 
216.20  part 9505.0175, subpart 15; a person providing personal care 
216.21  services and supervision of personal care services as defined in 
216.22  Minnesota Rules, part 9505.0335; a person providing private duty 
216.23  nursing services as defined in Minnesota Rules, part 9505.0360; 
216.24  and home care providers required to be licensed under chapter 
216.25  144A; 
216.26     (3) a person who employs health care providers solely for 
216.27  the purpose of providing patient services to its employees; and 
216.28     (4) an educational institution that employs health care 
216.29  providers solely for the purpose of providing patient services 
216.30  to its students if the institution does not receive fee for 
216.31  service payments or payments for extended coverage. 
216.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
216.33  following final enactment. 
216.34     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 296A.22, is 
216.35  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
216.36     Subd. 9.  [ABATEMENT OF PENALTY.] (a) The commissioner may 
217.1   by written order abate any penalty imposed under this section, 
217.2   if in the commissioner's opinion there is reasonable cause to do 
217.3   so. 
217.4      (b) A request for abatement of penalty must be filed with 
217.5   the commissioner within 60 days of the date the notice stating 
217.6   that a penalty has been imposed was mailed to the taxpayer's 
217.7   last known address. 
217.8      (c) If the commissioner issues an order denying a request 
217.9   for abatement of penalty, the taxpayer may file an 
217.10  administrative appeal as provided in section 296A.25 or appeal 
217.11  to tax court as provided in section 271.06.  If the commissioner 
217.12  does not issue an order on the abatement request within 60 days 
217.13  from the date the request is received, the taxpayer may appeal 
217.14  to tax court as provided in section 271.06. 
217.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for penalties 
217.16  imposed on or after the day following final enactment. 
217.17     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.01, 
217.18  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
217.19     Subd. 5.  [DISTRIBUTOR.] "Distributor" means a distributor 
217.20  as defined in section 349.12, subdivision 11, or a person or 
217.21  linked bingo game provider who markets, sells, or provides 
217.22  gambling product to a person or entity for resale or use at the 
217.23  retail level.  
217.24     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
217.25  following final enactment. 
217.26     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.01, 
217.27  subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
217.28     Subd. 7.  [GAMBLING PRODUCT.] "Gambling product" means 
217.29  bingo hard cards, bingo paper, or sheets, or linked bingo paper 
217.30  sheets; pull-tabs; tipboards; paddletickets and paddleticket 
217.31  cards; raffle tickets; or any other ticket, card, board, 
217.32  placard, device, or token that represents a chance, for which 
217.33  consideration is paid, to win a prize.  
217.34     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
217.35  following final enactment. 
217.36     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.01, is 
218.1   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
218.2      Subd. 9a.  [LINKED BINGO GAME.] "Linked bingo game" means a 
218.3   bingo game played at two or more locations where licensed 
218.4   organizations are authorized to conduct bingo, when there is a 
218.5   common prize pool and a common selection of numbers or symbols 
218.6   conducted at one location, and when the results of the selection 
218.7   are transmitted to all participating locations by satellite, 
218.8   telephone, or other means by a linked bingo game provider. 
218.9      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
218.10  following final enactment. 
218.11     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.01, is 
218.12  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
218.13     Subd. 9b.  [LINKED BINGO GAME PROVIDER.] "Linked bingo game 
218.14  provider" means any person who provides the means to link bingo 
218.15  prizes in a linked bingo game, who provides linked bingo paper 
218.16  sheets to the participating organizations, who provides linked 
218.17  bingo prize management, and who provides the linked bingo game 
218.18  system. 
218.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
218.20  following final enactment. 
218.21     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.07, is 
218.22  amended to read: 
218.23     297E.07 [INSPECTION RIGHTS.] 
218.24     At any reasonable time, without notice and without a search 
218.25  warrant, the commissioner may enter a place of business of a 
218.26  manufacturer, distributor, or organization, or linked bingo game 
218.27  provider; any site from which pull-tabs or tipboards or other 
218.28  gambling equipment or gambling product are being manufactured, 
218.29  stored, or sold; or any site at which lawful gambling is being 
218.30  conducted, and inspect the premises, books, records, and other 
218.31  documents required to be kept under this chapter to determine 
218.32  whether or not this chapter is being fully complied with.  If 
218.33  the commissioner is denied free access to or is hindered or 
218.34  interfered with in making an inspection of the place of 
218.35  business, books, or records, the permit of the distributor may 
218.36  be revoked by the commissioner, and the license of the 
219.1   manufacturer, the distributor, or the organization, or linked 
219.2   bingo game provider may be revoked by the board. 
219.3      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
219.4   following final enactment. 
219.5      Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
219.6   297F.08, subdivision 12, is amended to read: 
219.7      Subd. 12.  [CIGARETTES IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE.] (a) A 
219.8   person may not transport or cause to be transported from this 
219.9   state cigarettes for sale in another state without first 
219.10  affixing to the cigarettes the stamp required by the state in 
219.11  which the cigarettes are to be sold or paying any other excise 
219.12  tax on the cigarettes imposed by the state in which the 
219.13  cigarettes are to be sold. 
219.14     (b) A person may not affix to cigarettes the stamp required 
219.15  by another state or pay any other excise tax on the cigarettes 
219.16  imposed by another state if the other state prohibits stamps 
219.17  from being affixed to the cigarettes, prohibits the payment of 
219.18  any other excise tax on the cigarettes, or prohibits the sale of 
219.19  the cigarettes. 
219.20     (c) Not later than 15 days after the end of each calendar 
219.21  quarter, a person who transports or causes to be transported 
219.22  from this state cigarettes for sale in another state shall 
219.23  submit to the commissioner a report identifying the quantity and 
219.24  style of each brand of the cigarettes transported or caused to 
219.25  be transported in the preceding calendar quarter, and the name 
219.26  and address of each recipient of the cigarettes.  This reporting 
219.27  requirement only relates to cigarettes manufactured by companies 
219.28  that are not original or subsequent participating manufacturers 
219.29  in the Master Settlement Agreement with other states. 
219.30     (d) For purposes of this section, "person" has the meaning 
219.31  given in section 297F.01, subdivision 12.  Person does not 
219.32  include any common or contract carrier, or public warehouse that 
219.33  is not owned, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly by 
219.34  such person, and does not include a manufacturer that has 
219.35  entered into is an original or subsequent participating 
219.36  manufacturer in the Master Settlement Agreement with other 
220.1   states. 
220.2      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
220.3   following final enactment. 
220.4      Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
220.5   297F.09, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
220.6      Subdivision 1.  [MONTHLY RETURN; CIGARETTE DISTRIBUTOR.] On 
220.7   or before the 18th day of each calendar month, a distributor 
220.8   with a place of business in this state shall file a return with 
220.9   the commissioner showing the quantity of cigarettes manufactured 
220.10  or brought in from outside the state or purchased during the 
220.11  preceding calendar month and the quantity of cigarettes sold or 
220.12  otherwise disposed of in this state and outside this state 
220.13  during that month.  A licensed distributor outside this state 
220.14  shall in like manner file a return showing the quantity of 
220.15  cigarettes shipped or transported into this state during the 
220.16  preceding calendar month.  Returns must be made in the form and 
220.17  manner prescribed by the commissioner and must contain any other 
220.18  information required by the commissioner.  The return must be 
220.19  accompanied by a remittance for the full unpaid tax liability 
220.20  shown by it.  The return for the May liability and 85 percent of 
220.21  the estimated June liability is due on the date payment of the 
220.22  tax is due.  For distributors subject to the accelerated tax 
220.23  payment requirements in subdivision 10, the return for the May 
220.24  liability is due two business days before June 30th of the year 
220.25  and the return for the June liability is due on or before August 
220.26  18th of the year. 
220.27     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
220.28  following final enactment. 
220.29     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
220.30  297F.09, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
220.31     Subd. 2.  [MONTHLY RETURN; TOBACCO PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTOR.] 
220.32  On or before the 18th day of each calendar month, a distributor 
220.33  with a place of business in this state shall file a return with 
220.34  the commissioner showing the quantity and wholesale sales price 
220.35  of each tobacco product: 
220.36     (1) brought, or caused to be brought, into this state for 
221.1   sale; and 
221.2      (2) made, manufactured, or fabricated in this state for 
221.3   sale in this state, during the preceding calendar month.  
221.4   Every licensed distributor outside this state shall in like 
221.5   manner file a return showing the quantity and wholesale sales 
221.6   price of each tobacco product shipped or transported to 
221.7   retailers in this state to be sold by those retailers, during 
221.8   the preceding calendar month.  Returns must be made in the form 
221.9   and manner prescribed by the commissioner and must contain any 
221.10  other information required by the commissioner.  The return must 
221.11  be accompanied by a remittance for the full tax liability 
221.12  shown.  The return for the May liability and 85 percent of the 
221.13  estimated June liability is due on the date payment of the tax 
221.14  is due.  For distributors subject to the accelerated tax payment 
221.15  requirements in subdivision 10, the return for the May liability 
221.16  is due two business days before June 30th of the year and the 
221.17  return for the June liability is due on or before August 18th of 
221.18  the year. 
221.19     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
221.20  following final enactment. 
221.21     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.01, is 
221.22  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
221.23     Subd. 13a.  [REINSURANCE.] "Reinsurance" is insurance 
221.24  whereby an insurance company, for a consideration, agrees to 
221.25  indemnify another insurance company against all or part of the 
221.26  loss which the latter may sustain under the policy or policies 
221.27  which it has issued. 
221.28     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
221.29  following final enactment. 
221.30     Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.05, 
221.31  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
221.32     Subd. 4.  [MUTUAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANIES WITH 
221.33  TOTAL ASSETS LESS THAN $1,600,000,000 ON DECEMBER 31, 1989.] A 
221.34  tax is imposed on mutual property and casualty companies that 
221.35  had total assets greater than $5,000,000 at the end of the 
221.36  calendar year but that had total assets less than $1,600,000,000 
222.1   on December 31, 1989.  The rate of tax is equal to: 
222.2      (1) two percent of gross premiums less return premiums on 
222.3   all direct business received by the insurer or agents of the 
222.4   insurer in Minnesota for life insurance, in cash or otherwise, 
222.5   during the year; and 
222.6      (2) 1.26 percent of gross premiums less return premiums on 
222.7   all other direct business received by the insurer or agents of 
222.8   the insurer in Minnesota, in cash or otherwise, during the year. 
222.9      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for returns, 
222.10  taxes, surcharges, and estimated payments required to be filed 
222.11  or paid for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2004. 
222.12     Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297I.05, 
222.13  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
222.14     Subd. 5.  [HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT 
222.15  HEALTH SERVICE PLAN CORPORATIONS, AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATED 
222.16  SERVICE NETWORKS.] (a) Health maintenance organizations, 
222.17  community integrated service networks, and nonprofit health care 
222.18  service plan corporations are exempt from the tax imposed under 
222.19  this section for premiums received in calendar years 2001 to 
222.20  2003. 
222.21     (b) For calendar years after 2003, A tax is imposed on 
222.22  health maintenance organizations, community integrated service 
222.23  networks, and nonprofit health care service plan corporations.  
222.24  The rate of tax is equal to one percent of gross premiums less 
222.25  return premiums on all direct business received by the 
222.26  organization, network, or corporation or its agents in 
222.27  Minnesota, in cash or otherwise, in the calendar year. 
222.28     (c) In approving the premium rates as required in sections 
222.29  62L.08, subdivision 8, and 62A.65, subdivision 3, the 
222.30  commissioners of health and commerce shall ensure that any 
222.31  exemption from tax as described in paragraph (a) is reflected in 
222.32  the premium rate. 
222.33     (d) (b) The commissioner shall deposit all revenues, 
222.34  including penalties and interest, collected under this chapter 
222.35  from health maintenance organizations, community integrated 
222.36  service networks, and nonprofit health service plan corporations 
223.1   in the health care access fund.  Refunds of overpayments of tax 
223.2   imposed by this subdivision must be paid from the health care 
223.3   access fund.  There is annually appropriated from the health 
223.4   care access fund to the commissioner the amount necessary to 
223.5   make any refunds of the tax imposed under this subdivision. 
223.6      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective January 1, 2004.
223.7      Sec. 15.  [REPEALER.] 
223.8      Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.12, subdivision 10, 
223.9   is repealed effective the day following final enactment. 
223.10                             ARTICLE 13 
223.11                      MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL 
223.12     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 270.65, is 
223.13  amended to read: 
223.14     270.65 [DATE OF ASSESSMENT; DEFINITION.] 
223.15     For purposes of taxes administered by the commissioner, the 
223.16  term "date of assessment" means the date a liability reported on 
223.17  a return was entered into the records of the commissioner or the 
223.18  date a return should have been filed, whichever is later; or, in 
223.19  the case of taxes determined by the commissioner, "date of 
223.20  assessment" means the date of the order assessing taxes or date 
223.21  of the return made by the commissioner; or, in the case of an 
223.22  amended return filed by the taxpayer, the assessment date is the 
223.23  date additional liability reported on the return, if any, was 
223.24  entered into the records of the commissioner; or, in the case of 
223.25  a consent agreement signed by the taxpayer under section 270.67, 
223.26  subdivision 3, the assessment date is the notice date shown on 
223.27  the agreement; or, in the case of a check from a taxpayer that 
223.28  is dishonored and results in an erroneous refund being given to 
223.29  the taxpayer, remittance of the check is deemed to be an 
223.30  assessment and the "date of assessment" is the date the check 
223.31  was received by the commissioner. 
223.32     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
223.33  following final enactment. 
223.34     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
223.35  289A.19, subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
223.36     Subd. 4.  [ESTATE TAX RETURNS.] When in the commissioner's 
224.1   judgment good cause exists, the commissioner may extend the time 
224.2   for filing an estate tax return for not more than six months.  
224.3   When an extension to file the federal estate tax return has been 
224.4   granted under section 6081 of the Internal Revenue Code, the 
224.5   time for filing the estate tax return is extended for that 
224.6   period.  If the estate requests an extension to file an estate 
224.7   tax return within the time provided in section 289A.18, 
224.8   subdivision 3, the commissioner shall extend the time for filing 
224.9   the estate tax return for six months. 
224.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for estates of 
224.11  decedents dying after December 31, 2003. 
224.12     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.37, 
224.13  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
224.14     Subd. 5.  [SUFFICIENCY OF NOTICE.] An order of assessment, 
224.15  sent postage prepaid by United States mail to the taxpayer at 
224.16  the taxpayer's last known address, or sent by electronic mail to 
224.17  the taxpayer's last known electronic mailing address as provided 
224.18  for in section 325L.08, is sufficient even if the taxpayer is 
224.19  deceased or is under a legal disability, or, in the case of a 
224.20  corporation, has terminated its existence, unless the department 
224.21  has been provided with a new address by a party authorized to 
224.22  receive notices of assessment. 
224.23     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
224.24  following final enactment. 
224.25     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 289A.60, 
224.26  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
224.27     Subd. 6.  [PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FILE, FALSE OR FRAUDULENT 
224.28  RETURN, EVASION.] If a person, with intent to evade or defeat a 
224.29  tax or payment of tax, fails to file a return, files a false or 
224.30  fraudulent return, or attempts in any other manner to evade or 
224.31  defeat a tax or payment of tax, there is imposed on the person a 
224.32  penalty equal to 50 percent of the tax, less amounts paid by the 
224.33  person on the basis of the false or fraudulent return, if any, 
224.34  due for the period to which the return related.  
224.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
224.36  following final enactment. 
225.1      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
225.2   290.01, subdivision 19a, is amended to read: 
225.3      Subd. 19a.  [ADDITIONS TO FEDERAL TAXABLE INCOME.] For 
225.4   individuals, estates, and trusts, there shall be added to 
225.5   federal taxable income: 
225.6      (1)(i) interest income on obligations of any state other 
225.7   than Minnesota or a political or governmental subdivision, 
225.8   municipality, or governmental agency or instrumentality of any 
225.9   state other than Minnesota exempt from federal income taxes 
225.10  under the Internal Revenue Code or any other federal statute; 
225.11  and 
225.12     (ii) exempt-interest dividends as defined in section 
225.13  852(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code, except the portion of 
225.14  the exempt-interest dividends derived from interest income on 
225.15  obligations of the state of Minnesota or its political or 
225.16  governmental subdivisions, municipalities, governmental agencies 
225.17  or instrumentalities, but only if the portion of the 
225.18  exempt-interest dividends from such Minnesota sources paid to 
225.19  all shareholders represents 95 percent or more of the 
225.20  exempt-interest dividends that are paid by the regulated 
225.21  investment company as defined in section 851(a) of the Internal 
225.22  Revenue Code, or the fund of the regulated investment company as 
225.23  defined in section 851(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, making 
225.24  the payment; and 
225.25     (iii) for the purposes of items (i) and (ii), interest on 
225.26  obligations of an Indian tribal government described in section 
225.27  7871(c) of the Internal Revenue Code shall be treated as 
225.28  interest income on obligations of the state in which the tribe 
225.29  is located; 
225.30     (2) the amount of income taxes paid or accrued within the 
225.31  taxable year under this chapter and income the amount of taxes 
225.32  based on net income paid to any other state or to any province 
225.33  or territory of Canada, to the extent allowed as a deduction 
225.34  under section 63(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, but the 
225.35  addition may not be more than the amount by which the itemized 
225.36  deductions as allowed under section 63(d) of the Internal 
226.1   Revenue Code exceeds the amount of the standard deduction as 
226.2   defined in section 63(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For the 
226.3   purpose of this paragraph, the disallowance of itemized 
226.4   deductions under section 68 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
226.5   1986, income tax is the last itemized deduction disallowed; 
226.6      (3) the capital gain amount of a lump sum distribution to 
226.7   which the special tax under section 1122(h)(3)(B)(ii) of the Tax 
226.8   Reform Act of 1986, Public Law 99-514, applies; 
226.9      (4) the amount of income taxes paid or accrued within the 
226.10  taxable year under this chapter and income taxes based on net 
226.11  income paid to any other state or any province or territory of 
226.12  Canada, to the extent allowed as a deduction in determining 
226.13  federal adjusted gross income.  For the purpose of this 
226.14  paragraph, income taxes do not include the taxes imposed by 
226.15  sections 290.0922, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), 290.9727, 
226.16  290.9728, and 290.9729; 
226.17     (5) the amount of expense, interest, or taxes disallowed 
226.18  pursuant to section 290.10; 
226.19     (6) the amount of a partner's pro rata share of net income 
226.20  which does not flow through to the partner because the 
226.21  partnership elected to pay the tax on the income under section 
226.22  6242(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; and 
226.23     (7) 80 percent of the depreciation deduction allowed under 
226.24  section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For purposes of 
226.25  this clause, if the taxpayer has an activity that in the taxable 
226.26  year generates a deduction for depreciation under section 168(k) 
226.27  and the activity generates a loss for the taxable year that the 
226.28  taxpayer is not allowed to claim for the taxable year, "the 
226.29  depreciation allowed under section 168(k)" for the taxable year 
226.30  is limited to excess of the depreciation claimed by the activity 
226.31  under section 168(k) over the amount of the loss from the 
226.32  activity that is not allowed in the taxable year.  In succeeding 
226.33  taxable years when the losses not allowed in the taxable year 
226.34  are allowed, the depreciation under section 168(k) is allowed. 
226.35     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
226.36  beginning after December 31, 2003. 
227.1      Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.06, 
227.2   subdivision 22, is amended to read: 
227.3      Subd. 22.  [CREDIT FOR TAXES PAID TO ANOTHER STATE.] (a) A 
227.4   taxpayer who is liable for taxes based on or measured by net 
227.5   income to another state, as provided in paragraphs (b) through 
227.6   (f), upon income allocated or apportioned to Minnesota, is 
227.7   entitled to a credit for the tax paid to another state if the 
227.8   tax is actually paid in the taxable year or a subsequent taxable 
227.9   year.  A taxpayer who is a resident of this state pursuant to 
227.10  section 290.01, subdivision 7, clause (2) paragraph (b), and who 
227.11  is subject to income tax as a resident in the state of the 
227.12  individual's domicile is not allowed this credit unless the 
227.13  state of domicile does not allow a similar credit. 
227.14     (b) For an individual, estate, or trust, the credit is 
227.15  determined by multiplying the tax payable under this chapter by 
227.16  the ratio derived by dividing the income subject to tax in the 
227.17  other state that is also subject to tax in Minnesota while a 
227.18  resident of Minnesota by the taxpayer's federal adjusted gross 
227.19  income, as defined in section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code, 
227.20  modified by the addition required by section 290.01, subdivision 
227.21  19a, clause (1), and the subtraction allowed by section 290.01, 
227.22  subdivision 19b, clause (1), to the extent the income is 
227.23  allocated or assigned to Minnesota under sections 290.081 and 
227.24  290.17.  
227.25     (c) If the taxpayer is an athletic team that apportions all 
227.26  of its income under section 290.17, subdivision 5, the credit is 
227.27  determined by multiplying the tax payable under this chapter by 
227.28  the ratio derived from dividing the total net income subject to 
227.29  tax in the other state by the taxpayer's Minnesota taxable 
227.30  income. 
227.31     (d) The credit determined under paragraph (b) or (c) shall 
227.32  not exceed the amount of tax so paid to the other state on the 
227.33  gross income earned within the other state subject to tax under 
227.34  this chapter, nor shall the allowance of the credit reduce the 
227.35  taxes paid under this chapter to an amount less than what would 
227.36  be assessed if such income amount was excluded from taxable net 
228.1   income. 
228.2      (e) In the case of the tax assessed on a lump sum 
228.3   distribution under section 290.032, the credit allowed under 
228.4   paragraph (a) is the tax assessed by the other state on the lump 
228.5   sum distribution that is also subject to tax under section 
228.6   290.032, and shall not exceed the tax assessed under section 
228.7   290.032.  To the extent the total lump sum distribution defined 
228.8   in section 290.032, subdivision 1, includes lump sum 
228.9   distributions received in prior years or is all or in part an 
228.10  annuity contract, the reduction to the tax on the lump sum 
228.11  distribution allowed under section 290.032, subdivision 2, 
228.12  includes tax paid to another state that is properly apportioned 
228.13  to that distribution. 
228.14     (f) If a Minnesota resident reported an item of income to 
228.15  Minnesota and is assessed tax in such other state on that same 
228.16  income after the Minnesota statute of limitations has expired, 
228.17  the taxpayer shall receive a credit for that year under 
228.18  paragraph (a), notwithstanding any statute of limitations to the 
228.19  contrary.  The claim for the credit must be submitted within one 
228.20  year from the date the taxes were paid to the other state.  The 
228.21  taxpayer must submit sufficient proof to show entitlement to a 
228.22  credit. 
228.23     (g) For the purposes of this subdivision, a resident 
228.24  shareholder of a corporation treated as an "S" corporation under 
228.25  section 290.9725, must be considered to have paid a tax imposed 
228.26  on the shareholder in an amount equal to the shareholder's pro 
228.27  rata share of any net income tax paid by the S corporation to 
228.28  another state.  For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the 
228.29  term "net income tax" means any tax imposed on or measured by a 
228.30  corporation's net income. 
228.31     (h) For the purposes of this subdivision, a resident 
228.32  partner of an entity taxed as a partnership under the Internal 
228.33  Revenue Code must be considered to have paid a tax imposed on 
228.34  the partner in an amount equal to the partner's pro rata share 
228.35  of any net income tax paid by the partnership to another state.  
228.36  For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term "net income" 
229.1   tax means any tax imposed on or measured by a partnership's net 
229.2   income. 
229.3      (i) For the purposes of this subdivision, "another state": 
229.4      (1) includes: 
229.5      (i) the District of Columbia; and 
229.6      (ii) a province or territory of Canada; but 
229.7      (2) excludes Puerto Rico and the several territories 
229.8   organized by Congress. 
229.9      (j) The limitations on the credit in paragraphs (b), (c), 
229.10  and (d), are imposed on a state by state basis. 
229.11     (k) For a tax imposed by a province or territory of Canada, 
229.12  the tax for purposes of this subdivision is the excess of the 
229.13  tax over the amount of the foreign tax credit allowed under 
229.14  section 27 of the Internal Revenue Code.  In determining the 
229.15  amount of the foreign tax credit allowed, the net income taxes 
229.16  imposed by Canada on the income are deducted first.  Any 
229.17  remaining amount of the allowable foreign tax credit reduces the 
229.18  provincial or territorial tax that qualifies for the credit 
229.19  under this subdivision. 
229.20     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
229.21  beginning after December 31, 2003. 
229.22     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
229.23  290.0674, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
229.24     Subdivision 1.  [CREDIT ALLOWED.] An individual is allowed 
229.25  a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter in an amount 
229.26  equal to 75 percent of the amount paid for education-related 
229.27  expenses for a qualifying child in kindergarten through grade 
229.28  12.  For purposes of this section, "education-related expenses" 
229.29  means: 
229.30     (1) fees or tuition for instruction by an instructor under 
229.31  section 120A.22, subdivision 10, clause (1), (2), (3), (4), or 
229.32  (5), or a member of the Minnesota Music Teachers Association, 
229.33  and who is not a lineal ancestor or sibling of the dependent for 
229.34  instruction outside the regular school day or school year, 
229.35  including tutoring, driver's education offered as part of school 
229.36  curriculum, regardless of whether it is taken from a public or 
230.1   private entity or summer camps, in grade or age appropriate 
230.2   curricula that supplement curricula and instruction available 
230.3   during the regular school year, that assists a dependent to 
230.4   improve knowledge of core curriculum areas or to expand 
230.5   knowledge and skills under the graduation rule under section 
230.6   120B.02, paragraph (e), clauses (1) to (7), (9), and (10) 
230.7   required academic standards under section 120B.021, subdivision 
230.8   1, and the elective standard under section 120B.022, subdivision 
230.9   1, clause (3), and that do not include the teaching of religious 
230.10  tenets, doctrines, or worship, the purpose of which is to 
230.11  instill such tenets, doctrines, or worship; 
230.12     (2) expenses for textbooks, including books and other 
230.13  instructional materials and equipment purchased or leased for 
230.14  use in elementary and secondary schools in teaching only those 
230.15  subjects legally and commonly taught in public elementary and 
230.16  secondary schools in this state.  "Textbooks" does not include 
230.17  instructional books and materials used in the teaching of 
230.18  religious tenets, doctrines, or worship, the purpose of which is 
230.19  to instill such tenets, doctrines, or worship, nor does it 
230.20  include books or materials for extracurricular activities 
230.21  including sporting events, musical or dramatic events, speech 
230.22  activities, driver's education, or similar programs; 
230.23     (3) a maximum expense of $200 per family for personal 
230.24  computer hardware, excluding single purpose processors, and 
230.25  educational software that assists a dependent to improve 
230.26  knowledge of core curriculum areas or to expand knowledge and 
230.27  skills under the graduation rule under section 120B.02 required 
230.28  academic standards under section 120B.021, subdivision 1, and 
230.29  the elective standard under section 120B.022, subdivision 1, 
230.30  clause (3), purchased for use in the taxpayer's home and not 
230.31  used in a trade or business regardless of whether the computer 
230.32  is required by the dependent's school; and 
230.33     (4) the amount paid to others for transportation of a 
230.34  qualifying child attending an elementary or secondary school 
230.35  situated in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, or 
230.36  Wisconsin, wherein a resident of this state may legally fulfill 
231.1   the state's compulsory attendance laws, which is not operated 
231.2   for profit, and which adheres to the provisions of the Civil 
231.3   Rights Act of 1964 and chapter 363A. 
231.4      For purposes of this section, "qualifying child" has the 
231.5   meaning given in section 32(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
231.6      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for tax years 
231.7   beginning after December 31, 2003. 
231.8      Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290.92, 
231.9   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
231.10     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] (1)  [WAGES.] For purposes 
231.11  of this section, the term "wages" means the same as that term is 
231.12  defined in section 3401(a) and (f) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
231.13     (2)  [PAYROLL PERIOD.] For purposes of this section the 
231.14  term "payroll period" means a period for which a payment of 
231.15  wages is ordinarily made to the employee by the employee's 
231.16  employer, and the term "miscellaneous payroll period" means a 
231.17  payroll period other than a daily, weekly, biweekly, 
231.18  semimonthly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, or annual payroll 
231.19  period. 
231.20     (3)  [EMPLOYEE.] For purposes of this section the term 
231.21  "employee" means any resident individual performing services for 
231.22  an employer, either within or without, or both within and 
231.23  without the state of Minnesota, and every nonresident individual 
231.24  performing services within the state of Minnesota, the 
231.25  performance of which services constitute, establish, and 
231.26  determine the relationship between the parties as that of 
231.27  employer and employee.  As used in the preceding sentence, the 
231.28  term "employee" includes an officer of a corporation, and an 
231.29  officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a 
231.30  state, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of 
231.31  Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of 
231.32  the foregoing. 
231.33     (4)  [EMPLOYER.] For purposes of this section the term 
231.34  "employer" means any person, including individuals, fiduciaries, 
231.35  estates, trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, and 
231.36  corporations transacting business in or deriving any income from 
232.1   sources within the state of Minnesota for whom an individual 
232.2   performs or performed any service, of whatever nature, as the 
232.3   employee of such person, except that if the person for whom the 
232.4   individual performs or performed the services does not have 
232.5   legal control of the payment of the wages for such services, the 
232.6   term "employer," except for purposes of paragraph (1), means the 
232.7   person having legal control of the payment of such wages.  As 
232.8   used in the preceding sentence, the term "employer" includes any 
232.9   corporation, individual, estate, trust, or organization which is 
232.10  exempt from taxation under section 290.05 and further includes, 
232.11  but is not limited to, officers of corporations who have legal 
232.12  control, either individually or jointly with another or others, 
232.13  of the payment of the wages. 
232.14     (5)  [NUMBER OF WITHHOLDING EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED.] For 
232.15  purposes of this section, the term "number of withholding 
232.16  exemptions claimed" means the number of withholding exemptions 
232.17  claimed in a withholding exemption certificate in effect under 
232.18  subdivision 5, except that if no such certificate is in effect, 
232.19  the number of withholding exemptions claimed shall be considered 
232.20  to be zero. 
232.21     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
232.22  following final enactment. 
232.23     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 290C.05, is 
232.24  amended to read: 
232.25     290C.05 [ANNUAL CERTIFICATION.] 
232.26     On or before July 1 of each year, beginning with the year 
232.27  after the claimant has received an approved application, the 
232.28  commissioner shall send each claimant enrolled under the 
232.29  sustainable forest incentive program a certification form.  The 
232.30  claimant must sign the certification, attesting that the 
232.31  requirements and conditions for continued enrollment in the 
232.32  program are currently being met, and must return the signed 
232.33  certification form to the commissioner by August 15 of that same 
232.34  year.  Failure to If the claimant does not return an annual 
232.35  certification form by the due date shall result in removal of 
232.36  the lands from the provisions of the sustainable forest 
233.1   incentive program, and the imposition of any applicable removal 
233.2   penalty, the provisions in section 290C.11 apply.  The claimant 
233.3   may appeal the removal and any associated penalty according to 
233.4   the procedures and within the time allowed under this chapter. 
233.5      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
233.6   following final enactment. 
233.7      Sec. 10.  [290C.055] [LENGTH OF COVENANT.] 
233.8      The covenant remains in effect for a minimum of eight 
233.9   years.  If land is removed from the program after it has been 
233.10  enrolled for less than four years, the covenant remains in 
233.11  effect for eight years from the date recorded. 
233.12     In the case of land that has been enrolled for more than 
233.13  four years and is removed from the program for any reason, there 
233.14  is a four-year waiting period to end the covenant.  The covenant 
233.15  remains in effect until January 1 of the fifth calendar year 
233.16  that begins after the date that: 
233.17     (1) the commissioner receives notification from the 
233.18  claimant that the claimant wishes to be removed from the program 
233.19  under section 290C.10, or 
233.20     (2) the date that land is removed from the program under 
233.21  section 290C.11. 
233.22     Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, the 
233.23  covenant is terminated at the same time that land is removed 
233.24  from the program due to acquisition of title or possession for a 
233.25  public purpose under section 290C.10. 
233.26     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
233.27  following final enactment. 
233.28     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 325D.33, 
233.29  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
233.30     Subd. 6.  [VIOLATIONS.] If the commissioner determines that 
233.31  a distributor is violating any provision of this chapter, the 
233.32  commissioner must give the distributor a written warning 
233.33  explaining the violation and an explanation of what must be done 
233.34  to comply with this chapter.  Within ten days of issuance of the 
233.35  warning, the distributor must notify the commissioner that the 
233.36  distributor has complied with the commissioner's recommendation 
234.1   or request that the commissioner set the issue for a hearing 
234.2   pursuant to chapter 14.  If a hearing is requested, the hearing 
234.3   shall be scheduled within 20 days of the request and the 
234.4   recommendation of the administrative law judge shall be issued 
234.5   within five working days of the close of the hearing.  The 
234.6   commissioner's final determination shall be issued within five 
234.7   working days of the receipt of the administrative law judge's 
234.8   recommendation.  If the commissioner's final determination is 
234.9   adverse to the distributor and the distributor does not comply 
234.10  within ten days of receipt of the commissioner's final 
234.11  determination, the commissioner may order the distributor to 
234.12  immediately cease the stamping of cigarettes.  As soon as 
234.13  practicable after the order, the commissioner must remove the 
234.14  meter and any unapplied cigarette stamps from the premises of 
234.15  the distributor. 
234.16     If within ten days of issuance of the written warning the 
234.17  distributor has not complied with the commissioner's 
234.18  recommendation or requested a hearing, the commissioner may 
234.19  order the distributor to immediately cease the stamping of 
234.20  cigarettes and remove the meter and unapplied stamps from the 
234.21  distributor's premises. 
234.22     If, within any 12-month period, the commissioner has issued 
234.23  three written warnings to any distributor, even if the 
234.24  distributor has complied within ten days, the commissioner shall 
234.25  notify the distributor of the commissioner's intent to revoke 
234.26  the distributor's license for a continuing course of conduct 
234.27  contrary to this chapter.  For purposes of this paragraph, a 
234.28  written warning that was ultimately resolved by removal of the 
234.29  warning by the commissioner is not deemed to be a warning.  The 
234.30  commissioner must notify the distributor of the date and time of 
234.31  a hearing pursuant to chapter 14 at least 20 days before the 
234.32  hearing is held.  The hearing must provide an opportunity for 
234.33  the distributor to show cause why the license should not be 
234.34  revoked.  If the commissioner revokes a distributor's license, 
234.35  the commissioner shall not issue a new license to that 
234.36  distributor for 180 days. 
235.1      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
235.2   following final enactment. 
235.3      Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 473.843, 
235.4   subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
235.5      Subd. 5.  [PENALTIES; ENFORCEMENT.] The audit, penalty, and 
235.6   enforcement provisions applicable to corporate franchise taxes 
235.7   imposed under chapter 290 apply to the fees imposed under this 
235.8   section.  The commissioner of revenue shall administer the 
235.9   provisions.  
235.10     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
235.11  following final enactment. 
235.12     Sec. 13.  [REPEALER.] 
235.13     Minnesota Rules, parts 8093.2000 and 8093.3000, are 
235.14  repealed. 
235.15     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective the day 
235.16  following final enactment. 
235.17                             ARTICLE 14 
235.18                            BLUE WATERS
235.19     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
235.20  273.13, subdivision 23, is amended to read: 
235.21     Subd. 23.  [CLASS 2.] (a) Class 2a property is agricultural 
235.22  land including any improvements that is homesteaded.  The market 
235.23  value of the house and garage and immediately surrounding one 
235.24  acre of land has the same class rates as class 1a property under 
235.25  subdivision 22.  The value of the remaining land including 
235.26  improvements up to and including $600,000 market value has a net 
235.27  class rate of 0.55 percent of market value.  The remaining 
235.28  property over $600,000 market value has a class rate of one 
235.29  percent of market value. 
235.30     (b) Class 2b property is (1) real estate, rural in 
235.31  character and used exclusively for growing trees for timber, 
235.32  lumber, and wood and wood products; (2) real estate that is not 
235.33  improved with a structure and is used exclusively for growing 
235.34  trees for timber, lumber, and wood and wood products, if the 
235.35  owner has participated or is participating in a cost-sharing 
235.36  program for afforestation, reforestation, or timber stand 
236.1   improvement on that particular property, administered or 
236.2   coordinated by the commissioner of natural resources; (3) real 
236.3   estate that is nonhomestead agricultural land; or (4) a landing 
236.4   area or public access area of a privately owned public use 
236.5   airport.  Class 2b property has a net class rate of one percent 
236.6   of market value. 
236.7      (c) Agricultural land as used in this section means 
236.8   contiguous acreage of ten acres or more, used during the 
236.9   preceding year for agricultural purposes.  "Agricultural 
236.10  purposes" as used in this section means the raising or 
236.11  cultivation of agricultural products.  "Agricultural purposes" 
236.12  also includes enrollment in the Reinvest in Minnesota program 
236.13  under sections 103F.501 to 103F.535 or the federal Conservation 
236.14  Reserve Program as contained in Public Law 99-198 if the 
236.15  property was classified as agricultural (i) under this 
236.16  subdivision for the assessment year 2002 or (ii) in the year 
236.17  prior to its enrollment.  Contiguous acreage on the same parcel, 
236.18  or contiguous acreage on an immediately adjacent parcel under 
236.19  the same ownership, may also qualify as agricultural land, but 
236.20  only if it is pasture, timber, waste, unusable wild land, or 
236.21  land included in state or federal farm programs.  Agricultural 
236.22  classification for property shall be determined excluding the 
236.23  house, garage, and immediately surrounding one acre of land, and 
236.24  shall not be based upon the market value of any residential 
236.25  structures on the parcel or contiguous parcels under the same 
236.26  ownership. 
236.27     (d) Real estate, excluding the house, garage, and 
236.28  immediately surrounding one acre of land, of less than ten acres 
236.29  which is exclusively and intensively used for raising or 
236.30  cultivating agricultural products, shall be considered as 
236.31  agricultural land.  
236.32     Land shall be classified as agricultural even if all or a 
236.33  portion of the agricultural use of that property is the leasing 
236.34  to, or use by another person for agricultural purposes. 
236.35     Classification under this subdivision is not determinative 
236.36  for qualifying under section 273.111. 
237.1      The property classification under this section supersedes, 
237.2   for property tax purposes only, any locally administered 
237.3   agricultural policies or land use restrictions that define 
237.4   minimum or maximum farm acreage. 
237.5      (e) The term "agricultural products" as used in this 
237.6   subdivision includes production for sale of:  
237.7      (1) livestock, dairy animals, dairy products, poultry and 
237.8   poultry products, fur-bearing animals, horticultural and nursery 
237.9   stock, fruit of all kinds, vegetables, forage, grains, bees, and 
237.10  apiary products by the owner; 
237.11     (2) fish bred for sale and consumption if the fish breeding 
237.12  occurs on land zoned for agricultural use; 
237.13     (3) the commercial boarding of horses if the boarding is 
237.14  done in conjunction with raising or cultivating agricultural 
237.15  products as defined in clause (1); 
237.16     (4) property which is owned and operated by nonprofit 
237.17  organizations used for equestrian activities, excluding racing; 
237.18     (5) game birds and waterfowl bred and raised for use on a 
237.19  shooting preserve licensed under section 97A.115; 
237.20     (6) insects primarily bred to be used as food for animals; 
237.21     (7) trees, grown for sale as a crop, and not sold for 
237.22  timber, lumber, wood, or wood products; and 
237.23     (8) maple syrup taken from trees grown by a person licensed 
237.24  by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture under chapter 28A as 
237.25  a food processor. 
237.26     (f) If a parcel used for agricultural purposes is also used 
237.27  for commercial or industrial purposes, including but not limited 
237.28  to:  
237.29     (1) wholesale and retail sales; 
237.30     (2) processing of raw agricultural products or other goods; 
237.31     (3) warehousing or storage of processed goods; and 
237.32     (4) office facilities for the support of the activities 
237.33  enumerated in clauses (1), (2), and (3), 
237.34  the assessor shall classify the part of the parcel used for 
237.35  agricultural purposes as class 1b, 2a, or 2b, whichever is 
237.36  appropriate, and the remainder in the class appropriate to its 
238.1   use.  The grading, sorting, and packaging of raw agricultural 
238.2   products for first sale is considered an agricultural purpose.  
238.3   A greenhouse or other building where horticultural or nursery 
238.4   products are grown that is also used for the conduct of retail 
238.5   sales must be classified as agricultural if it is primarily used 
238.6   for the growing of horticultural or nursery products from seed, 
238.7   cuttings, or roots and occasionally as a showroom for the retail 
238.8   sale of those products.  Use of a greenhouse or building only 
238.9   for the display of already grown horticultural or nursery 
238.10  products does not qualify as an agricultural purpose.  
238.11     The assessor shall determine and list separately on the 
238.12  records the market value of the homestead dwelling and the one 
238.13  acre of land on which that dwelling is located.  If any farm 
238.14  buildings or structures are located on this homesteaded acre of 
238.15  land, their market value shall not be included in this separate 
238.16  determination.  
238.17     (g) To qualify for classification under paragraph (b), 
238.18  clause (4), a privately owned public use airport must be 
238.19  licensed as a public airport under section 360.018.  For 
238.20  purposes of paragraph (b), clause (4), "landing area" means that 
238.21  part of a privately owned public use airport properly cleared, 
238.22  regularly maintained, and made available to the public for use 
238.23  by aircraft and includes runways, taxiways, aprons, and sites 
238.24  upon which are situated landing or navigational aids.  A landing 
238.25  area also includes land underlying both the primary surface and 
238.26  the approach surfaces that comply with all of the following:  
238.27     (i) the land is properly cleared and regularly maintained 
238.28  for the primary purposes of the landing, taking off, and taxiing 
238.29  of aircraft; but that portion of the land that contains 
238.30  facilities for servicing, repair, or maintenance of aircraft is 
238.31  not included as a landing area; 
238.32     (ii) the land is part of the airport property; and 
238.33     (iii) the land is not used for commercial or residential 
238.34  purposes. 
238.35  The land contained in a landing area under paragraph (b), clause 
238.36  (4), must be described and certified by the commissioner of 
239.1   transportation.  The certification is effective until it is 
239.2   modified, or until the airport or landing area no longer meets 
239.3   the requirements of paragraph (b), clause (4).  For purposes of 
239.4   paragraph (b), clause (4), "public access area" means property 
239.5   used as an aircraft parking ramp, apron, or storage hangar, or 
239.6   an arrival and departure building in connection with the airport.
239.7      (h) Class 2c property consists of any parcel or contiguous 
239.8   parcels of unimproved real estate, excluding agricultural land 
239.9   classified under this subdivision, that meets all the criteria 
239.10  in clauses (1) to (5): 
239.11     (1) the property consists of at least 200 contiguous feet 
239.12  of unimproved real estate that borders a meandered lake as 
239.13  defined in section 103G.005, subdivision 15, paragraph (a), 
239.14  clause (3); 
239.15     (2) the unimproved real estate is located within 400 feet 
239.16  from the ordinary high water elevation of the public waters.  
239.17  For purposes of this clause, "unimproved" means that the 
239.18  property, or that portion of the property qualifying under this 
239.19  paragraph, contains no structures, that there are no docks or 
239.20  landings on its shoreline, and that the natural terrain and 
239.21  vegetation has not been disturbed, or has been restored to 
239.22  native vegetation; 
239.23     (3) the property is either (i) the homestead of the owner, 
239.24  the owner's spouse, or the owner or spouse's son or daughter, or 
239.25  (ii) has been in possession of the owner, the owner's spouse, or 
239.26  the owner's or spouse's son or daughter for a period of at least 
239.27  seven years prior to application for benefits under this 
239.28  section; 
239.29     (4) the owner files an application with the county assessor 
239.30  by July 1 for classification under this paragraph for the 
239.31  subsequent assessment year; and 
239.32     (5) the owner of the property signs a covenant agreement 
239.33  and files the covenant with the county assessor in the county 
239.34  where the property is located.  The covenant agreement must 
239.35  include all of the following: 
239.36     (i) legal description of the area to which the covenant 
240.1   applies; 
240.2      (ii) name and address of the owner; 
240.3      (iii) a statement that the land described in the covenant 
240.4   must be kept as undeveloped land for the duration of the 
240.5   covenant; 
240.6      (iv) a statement that the landowner may initiate expiration 
240.7   of the covenant agreement by notifying the county assessor, in 
240.8   writing, with the date of expiration which must be at least 
240.9   eight years from the date of the expiration notice; 
240.10     (v) a statement that the covenant is binding on the owner 
240.11  or owner's successor or assignee and runs with the land; and 
240.12     (vi) a witnessed signature of the owner covenanting to keep 
240.13  the land in its undeveloped state as it existed on the date the 
240.14  covenant was signed. 
240.15     Upon expiration of a covenant agreement in clause (5), the 
240.16  property is subject to additional taxes.  The amount of 
240.17  additional taxes due on the property equals the difference 
240.18  between the taxes actually levied and the taxes that would have 
240.19  been imposed if the property had been valued and classified as 
240.20  if class 2c did not apply.  The additional taxes must be 
240.21  extended against the property on the tax list for the current 
240.22  year.  No interest or penalties may be levied on the additional 
240.23  taxes if timely paid, and the additional taxes must be levied 
240.24  only with respect to the last seven years that the property was 
240.25  valued and assessed under this paragraph.  For purposes of this 
240.26  paragraph, "timely paid" means paid (A) within 60 days after 
240.27  notification from the county that the property no longer 
240.28  qualifies, or (B) prior to the recording of the conveyance of 
240.29  the property, whichever is earlier. 
240.30     The tax imposed under this paragraph is a lien on the 
240.31  property assessed to the same extent and for the same duration 
240.32  as other real property taxes.  The tax must be extended by the 
240.33  county auditor and, when payable, be collected and distributed 
240.34  in the same manner provided by law for the collection and 
240.35  distribution of other property taxes. 
240.36     Class 2c has a class rate of 0.8 percent of market value. 
241.1      <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective for the 2005 
241.2   assessment and thereafter, for taxes payable in 2006 and 
241.3   thereafter.