1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to economic development; requiring state agencies to establish youth 
1.3 	internships or apprenticeships; encouraging utilization of small businesses in 
1.4 	state procurement; promoting ethnic and cultural heritage tourism;amending 
1.5 	Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 16C.18, by adding a subdivision; 16C.20; 
1.6 	124D.47, subdivision 2; 129D.17, subdivision 2.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 16C.18, is amended by adding a 
1.9 	subdivision to read:
1.10 		Subd. 4.Small business utilization in state procurement. All state agencies 
1.11 	including MnSCU shall, and the University of Minnesota is requested to, submit an annual 
1.12 	performance report to the commissioner of administration regarding small and targeted 
1.13 	business utilization and measures taken to improve utilization of these businesses in state 
1.14 	procurement. The commissioner of administration shall submit a summary of the reports 
1.15 	to the legislature annually on January 15.

1.16 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 16C.20, is amended to read:
1.17 	16C.20 CERTIFICATION.
1.18 	(a) A business that is certified by the commissioner of administration as a small 
1.19 	business, small targeted group business, a small business located in an economically 
1.20 	disadvantaged area, or a veteran-owned small business is eligible to participate under the 
1.21 	requirements of sections 137.31 and 161.321 and, if certified as a small business, small 
1.22 	targeted group business, or veteran-owned small business, under section 473.142 without 
1.23 	further certification by the contracting agency.
2.1 	(b) A business that meets the requirements of paragraph (a) is not required to undergo 
2.2 	further certification for the same status by any state or local government entity in Minnesota.

2.3 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 124D.47, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.4 		Subd. 2.Youth apprenticeship programs. (a) A comprehensive youth 
2.5 	apprenticeship program must require representatives of secondary and postsecondary 
2.6 	school systems, affected local businesses, industries, occupations and labor, as well as the 
2.7 	local community, to be actively and collaboratively involved in advising and managing the 
2.8 	program and ensuring, in consultation with local private industry councils, that the youth 
2.9 	apprenticeship program meets local labor market demands, provides student apprentices 
2.10 	with the high skill training necessary for career advancement, meets applicable state 
2.11 	graduation requirements and labor standards, pays apprentices for their work and provides 
2.12 	support services to program participants.
2.13 	(b) Local employers, collaborating with labor organizations where appropriate, 
2.14 	must assist the program by analyzing workplace needs, creating work-related curriculum, 
2.15 	employing and adequately paying youth apprentices engaged in work-related learning in 
2.16 	the workplace, training youth apprentices to become skilled in an occupation, providing 
2.17 	student apprentices with a workplace mentor, periodically informing the school of an 
2.18 	apprentice's progress, and making a reasonable effort to employ youth apprentices who 
2.19 	successfully complete the program.
2.20 	(c) A student participating in a comprehensive youth apprenticeship program 
2.21 	must sign a youth apprenticeship agreement with participating entities that obligates 
2.22 	youth apprentices, their parents or guardians, employers, and schools to meet program 
2.23 	requirements; indicates how academic instruction, work-based learning, and worksite 
2.24 	learning and experience will be integrated; ensures that successful youth apprentices will 
2.25 	receive a recognized credential of academic and occupational proficiency; and establishes 
2.26 	the wage rate and other benefits for which youth apprentices are eligible while employed 
2.27 	during the program.
2.28 	(d) Secondary school principals, counselors, or business mentors familiar with 
2.29 	the education to employment transitions system must inform entering secondary school 
2.30 	students about available occupational and career opportunities and the option of entering 
2.31 	a youth apprenticeship or other work-based learning program to obtain postsecondary 
2.32 	academic and occupational credentials.
2.33 	(e) All state agencies shall be required to establish youth internship or apprenticeship 
2.34 	programs, with an emphasis on youth with disabilities or targeted youth who are at risk 
2.35 	or economically disadvantaged.
3.1 	(f) All public contracts over $100,000,000 shall include a youth internship or 
3.2 	apprenticeship component for youth, with an emphasis on youth with disabilities or 
3.3 	targeted youth who are at risk or economically disadvantaged.

3.4 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 129D.17, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.5 		Subd. 2.Expenditures; accountability. (a) Funding from the arts and cultural 
3.6 	heritage fund may be spent only for arts, arts education, and arts access, and to preserve 
3.7 	Minnesota's history and cultural heritage, and promote and develop ethnic and cultural 
3.8 	heritage tourism. A project or program receiving funding from the arts and cultural heritage 
3.9 	fund must include measurable outcomes, and a plan for measuring and evaluating the 
3.10 	results. A project or program must be consistent with current scholarship, or best practices, 
3.11 	when appropriate and must incorporate state-of-the-art technology when appropriate.
3.12 	(b) Funding from the arts and cultural heritage fund may be granted for an entire 
3.13 	project or for part of a project so long as the recipient provides a description and cost for 
3.14 	the entire project and can demonstrate that it has adequate resources to ensure that the 
3.15 	entire project will be completed.
3.16 	(c) Money from the arts and cultural heritage fund shall be expended for benefits 
3.17 	across all regions and residents of the state.
3.18 	(d) A state agency or other recipient of a direct appropriation from the arts and 
3.19 	cultural heritage fund must compile and submit all information for funded projects or 
3.20 	programs, including the proposed measurable outcomes and all other items required 
3.21 	under section 3.303, subdivision 10, to the Legislative Coordinating Commission as soon 
3.22 	as practicable or by January 15 of the applicable fiscal year, whichever comes first. The 
3.23 	Legislative Coordinating Commission must post submitted information on the Web site 
3.24 	required under section 3.303, subdivision 10, as soon as it becomes available.
3.25 	(e) Grants funded by the arts and cultural heritage fund must be implemented 
3.26 	according to section 16B.98 and must account for all expenditures of funds. Priority for 
3.27 	grant proposals must be given to proposals involving grants that will be competitively 
3.28 	awarded.
3.29 	(f) All money from the arts and cultural heritage fund must be for projects located 
3.30 	in Minnesota.
3.31 	(g) When practicable, a direct recipient of an appropriation from the arts and cultural 
3.32 	heritage fund shall prominently display on the recipient's Web site home page the legacy 
3.33 	logo required under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 5, section 10, as amended by Laws 
3.34 	2010, chapter 361, article 3, section 5, accompanied by the phrase "Click here for more 
3.35 	information." When a person clicks on the legacy logo image, the Web site must direct 
4.1 	the person to a Web page that includes both the contact information that a person may 
4.2 	use to obtain additional information, as well as a link to the Legislative Coordinating 
4.3 	Commission Web site required under section 3.303, subdivision 10.
4.4 	(h) Future eligibility for money from the arts and cultural heritage fund is contingent 
4.5 	upon a state agency or other recipient satisfying all applicable requirements in this section, 
4.6 	as well as any additional requirements contained in applicable session law.