1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to taxation; revenue recapture; authorizing licensed ambulance services 
1.3 	to submit claims directly to the state;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 
1.4 	270A.03, subdivision 2.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 270A.03, subdivision 2, is amended to 
1.7 	read:
1.8 		Subd. 2.Claimant agency. "Claimant agency" means any state agency, as defined 
1.9 	by section 14.02, subdivision 2, the regents of the University of Minnesota, any district 
1.10 	court of the state, any county, any statutory or home rule charter city, including a city 
1.11 	that is presenting a claim for a municipal hospital or a public library or a municipal 
1.12 	ambulance service, a hospital district, a private nonprofit hospital that leases its building 
1.13 	from the county or city in which it is located, any ambulance service licensed under 
1.14 	chapter 144E, any public agency responsible for child support enforcement, any public 
1.15 	agency responsible for the collection of court-ordered restitution, and any public agency 
1.16 	established by general or special law that is responsible for the administration of a 
1.17 	low-income housing program, and the Minnesota collection enterprise as defined in 
1.18 	section 16D.02, subdivision 8, for the purpose of collecting the costs imposed under 
1.19 	section 16D.11. A county may act as a claimant agency on behalf of an ambulance service 
1.20 	licensed under chapter 144E if the ambulance service's primary service area is located at 
1.21 	least in part within the county, but more than one county may not act as a claimant agency 
1.22 	for a licensed ambulance service with respect to the same debt.

1.23 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.