Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Legislature' in Minnesota

Relating to state government; reducing certain state government appropriations to the legislature, legislative coordinating commission (LCC), governor, state auditor, attorney general, secretary of state, office of enterprise technology, commissioner of administration for state facilities services, state and community services and administrative management services, the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, commissioner of employee relations (DOER), commissioner of revenue for the tax system management program and amateur sports commission; requiring the commissioner of finance to reduce the budget reserve account by a certain amount; requiring the legislature to cancel certain balances carried forward; appropriating money from the budget reserve to the commissioner of finance for the budget reserve escrow account as a guarantee by the state for private money [...]

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Relating to education; expanding the required academic standards to include a world language; requiring school districts to implement world language graduation requirements for students graduating in the 2014-2015 school year or later; modifying elective standards; modifying benchmarks and graduation requirements; requiring the board of teaching to review and approve qualified alternative preparation programs leading to licensure as a world language teacher; establishing an advisory task force on developing students world language proficiency to consider and recommend to the legislature a process for designing and implementing a comprehensive statewide program to ensure a high level of world language proficiency, sunset; establishing a pilot program to develop and implement Mandarin Chinese programs and to enhance existing successful Mandarin Chinese programs for school districts, specifying certain application requirements,[...]

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TICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the office of higher education services office for ACHIEVE, the Minnesota GI bill, state grants, safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state work study, child care grants, Minitex and MnLINK gateway, the learning network, the college savings plan, the Midwest higher education compact, certain small programs, united family medicine registry program and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for developing and strengthening projects to improve campus recruitment and retention of underserved students, for instruction in electronic medical record technology, for excellence in the biosciences, for STEM, for performance bonuses and expanding the online program, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota [...]

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Relating to retirement; postretirement earnings offsets to pensions for teacher retirement fund associations (TRA) in cities of the first class; modifying certain provisions on the procurement of actuarial services for state and local public retirement programs; authorizing the legislative commission on pensions and retirement to contract with an actuarial consulting firm for certain audit and review purposes; modifying the definition of current assets; establishing a new amortization (full funding) date for the St. Paul teachers retirement fund association; appropriating money to the legislative commission on pensions and retirement for actuarial consulting firm contracting costs; repealing certain provisions relating to coordinated program retirement benefits resumption of teaching after commencement of a retirement annuity and annuity reductions, to actuarial valuation preparation allocation of actuarial costs, and to [...]

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TICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Making miscellaneous technical corrections and removing obsolete and redundant references to statutes and other laws relating to legislative audits, government data practices, criminal justice data, state fair liquor sales, a road name, sewage treatment replacement systems, the legislative commission on waste management, battery management pilot projects, mixed municipal solid waste incinerators, the workforce development council, the national board of medical examiners, limited market value, office of enterprise technology and enterprise technology revolving fund, constables, fiduciaries, the crime victim and witness advisory council, unlicensed mental health practitioners and the office of unlicensed mental health practice, city of Worthington general election date, cigarette and tobacco products tax and liquor excise tax effective dates; providing a revisor instruction to update [...]

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Relating to public safety; requiring the collection and analysis of data and the adoption of policies on racial profiling; defining certain terms; requiring the attorney general to procure the services of an outside expert to assist with certain data collection and statistical analysis duties; requiring law enforcement officers conducting traffic stops to record and forward certain data to the chief law enforcement officer and to provide certain information to the drivers of the vehicles stopped; requiring submission of certain reports to the attorney general monthly; requiring the attorney general to implement an auditing system of unannounced spot checks to ensure data collection accuracy; requiring and providing for analysis of the data by the outside expert; requiring periodic submission of the results to the attorney general and attorney general periodic summary reports to the governor and legislature; requiring [...]

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1E Relating to teachers; clarifying the definition of comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction; defining certain terms; modifying board of teaching licensure requirements to include the Minnesota reading instruction competence assessment and specifying certain assessment components; requiring the commissioner of education to adopt a reading instruction competence assessment for prekindergarten and elementary instructors; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to adopting a reading instruction competence assessment; specifying certain pretesting requirements for candidates in an approved teacher preparation program and schools for grant eligibility purposes; providing for a prior appropriation funding allowance to be allocated for foundations of reading grant for prekindergarten through grade 2 teachers and teacher candidates, match

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TICLE 1 - FINDINGS AND PURPOSE Specifying certain legislative findings and purpose to create the most possible opportunities for citizens to exercise the right to hunt, fish and take game ARTICLE 2 - HERITAGE ENHANCEMENT FUIND Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XI, to provide funding to enhance the population and quality of game and fish in Minnesota and provide hunting and angler access by dedicating the sale and use tax receipts equal to the state sales and use tax of a certain percentage on taxable sales of supplies and equipment used to take game and fish; creating the heritage enhancement council to develop a biennial budget plan for expenditures; specifying certain membership requirements and duties; creating a heritage enhancement fund to be spent on game and fish projects on public and private lands; providing for deposit of revenues ARTICLE 3 - RIGHT [...]

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TICLE 1 - HEALTH INSURANCE Allowing public assistance data to be shared for MinnesotaCare enrollment and premium collection purposes; authorizing the commissioner of human services to receive federal matching money made available through the medical assistance (MA) program for managed care oversight contracted through vendors; modifying certain medical assistance (MA) eligibility requirements for children under a certain age; requiring commissioner to develop and implement a physician directed care coordination program for certain medical assistance recipients; requiring commissioner to refer MinnesotaCare applicants and enrollees to the Minnesota health insurance exchange, specifying certain exchange of private data requirements; modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements for families with children; modifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to availability of private insurance information;[...]

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2E Relating to human services; providing long term care rate adjustments for nursing facility operating costs under the alternative payment demonstration system; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide certain nursing facilities and ICF/MR facilities a health insurance per diem to the total operating payment rate for employee purchases of private sector health insurance coverage, limitation, specifying certain reporting requirements; prohibiting the commissioner from rebasing nursing facility payment rates without specific authority; increasing the total operating payment rate for ICF/MR facilities; modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements relating to employer subsidized insurance; modifying certain prior provider rate increases and use requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide a rate adjustment for employee health insurance costs for the providers of the services, specifying [...]

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TICLE 1 - MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES ADJUSTMENTS Imposing powers and duties of the chief administrative law judge and eliminating certain duties of the director of the office of strategic and long range planning for municipal boundary enabling purposes; defining chief administrative law judge; modifying municipal incorporation and annexation of unincorporated property notice of intent requirements; specifying certain proposed annexation area tour requirements; modifying certain proceedings requirements for designation of unincorporated areas; modifying joint information meeting requirements; expanding certain differential taxation requirements; modifying certain powers and duties relating to dividing an existing governmental unit and alternative dispute resolutions; providing for effectuation of certain agreements; modifying municipal boundary adjustment advisory task force reporting requirements to the legislature;[...]

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Relating to retirement; modifying legislator retirement allowance accrual start date; clarifying the definitions of state employee and removing obsolete references under Minnesota state retirement system coverage (MSRS) definitions; modifying the definition of allowable service; providing an authorized leave of absence service credit purchase procedure under MSRS; removing certain restrictions on surviving spouse coverage; including state fire marshal employees under MSRS provisions; providing an exemption from process for MSRS health care savings plan account assets, exception for marriage dissolution and child support; including agricultural utilization research institute, Minnesota technology incorporated and certain Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) faculty and employees in the MSRS unclassified program; making transfer from the unclassified program to the general plan irrevocable; modifying the [...]

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Relating to retirement; modifying the postretirement adjustment calculation by the state board of investment to determine payment availability and amount for the Minnesota post retirement investment fund; modifying persons responsible for public pension fund annual financial reporting; removing certain financial annual report content requirements; removing the definition of current assets and providing a definition of actuarial value of assets for actuarial valuation purposes; modifying the general and correctional state employees, state patrol, legislators, elective state officers, judges, general public employees, public employees police and fire, local government correctional service and teachers postretirement interest rate assumptions; requiring use of certain salary assumptions and actuarial valuations prior to a certain date; modifying the correctional state employees retirement plan future salary increase assumption;[...]

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2E Providing for the release of school employee insurance board claims data; creating a Minnesota school employee insurance pool for purpose of providing school employee insurance plans; requiring audit by the legislative auditor and commissioner of commerce plan approval; creating the Minnesota school employee insurance board as a nonprofit public corporation to govern the pool, specifying certain membership requirements and certain duties of the board relating to the design and nature of the plans; requiring and providing for board membership in and assessments to the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA); requiring the board to report to the legislature and to commissioner of commerce by a certain date on pool final design, governance and to periodically report performance; requiring a pool actuarial study; clarifying that the board is a government entity and is subject to data practices laws; providing statutory

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TICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT OPTION REVISION Restricting the state employee postretirement program to conform with federal in-service distribution restrictions ARTICLE 2 - REVISED REEMPLOYMENT ANNUITANT TREATMENT Increasing teachers retirement association (TRA) reemployed annuitant exempt income limit; revising reemployed annuitant account holding period ARTICLE 3 - TEACHER RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION CLARIFICATION OF STRIKE PERIOD PROCEDURE Revising TRA strike period and leave of absence service credit purchase procedures ARTICLE 4 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION REVISED PRIVATIZATION PROCEDURES Providing for certification and decertification of medical facilities and other public employing units; specifying certain eligibility determination requirements; requiring recommendation report to the legislature under certain conditions ARTICLE [...]

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