Appropriations-Omnibus Bills Legislation - Minnesota

2E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement [...]

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Relating to transportation finance ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including transit and rail, port development assistance, for state roads including infrastructure operations and maintenance, infrastructure investment support and highway debt service, for local roads including county and municipal state aids and for state aid appropriation adjustments and transfers, to the commissioner of public safety for the state patrol for additional troopers, to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for transportation emergency relief for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the center for transportation studies to assess the public policy implications of financing new and improved transportation infrastructure, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain [...]

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Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, kindergarten pupil weight, basic revenue, gifted and talented revenue, equity revenue, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, general education aid; authorizing certain general education revenue for early education programs; adding proceeds from wind energy payments to the definition of county apportionment revenue; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; authorizing safe schools levy for intermediate school district member districts; establishing certain abatement and aid adjustments; requiring certain county auditor reports to the commissioner of education; limiting new alternative compensation school districts [...]

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Relating to the state government, appropriating money for agricultural and veterans affairs and military affairs ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE Appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for certain protection services, research for impaired waters, clean water legacy technical assistance, invasive species control, meat, dairy and food inspections, animal health emergencies, livestock premise identification and for a port of Duluth task force, for agricultural marketing and development including grants for the Minnesota grown promotion, sustainable agriculture demonstration projects, livestock siting and local zoning issues, integrated pest management, agricultural best management practices loan program and residential farmers cost share payments for organic certification, for bioenergy and value added agricultural products including ethanol producer payments, for grants to bioenergy projects,[...]

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1E Relating to the financing of state government; making onetime appropriations ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY Providing a summary of appropriations ARTICLE 2 - HUMAN SERVICES Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for children and economic assistance grants, for grants to counties for child support enforcement programs, for children and community services grants, for grants to counties and tribes affected by reductions in targeted case management federal Medicaid revenue, for other children and economic assistance grants, for children and economic assistance management, administration and operations, for continuing care grants to reimburse the costs of nursing facility sprinkler systems and for state operated services for a grant to Advocating Change Together (ACT) for the remembering with dignity project, to the commissioner of health for the window replacement program and [...]

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3E Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - CHILD WELFARE POLICY Modifying child welfare provisions; expanding certain duties of the commissioner of human services (DHS) to include children under the guardianship of a tribe in the state recognized by the secretary of interior; modifying certain adoption requirements for older children under the guardianship of the commissioner, prohibiting refusal by a child to refuse or waive the efforts of an agent to recruit, identify and place the child in an adoptive home or sign a document relieving county social services agencies of all recruitment efforts on behalf of the child; modifying certain provisions relating to referrals for postplacement assessment; modifying certain court findings provisions; modifying certain adoption assistance eligibility criteria; eliminating certain reasons for deferral of the listing of a child with the state adoption exchange;

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2E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions ARTICLE 1 - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA) and to renovate the 717 Delaware building for use as a biomedical science research facility, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), Bemidji state university, Fond du Lac tribal and community college and for debt service, to the commissioner of education for independent school district #38, Red Lake for new facilities, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for Stillwater flood control phase III, Lake Zumbro restoration, Red River digital [...]

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3E Relating to education; ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Appropriating money for jobs and economic development purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for grants for rural policy and development center at St. Peter, for women's business development programs, university enterprise laboratories (UEL) bioscience development activities, the redevelopment grant program, for DEED small businesses department services and a technology and commercialization unit, for the small community wastewater treatment program, small business growth program, bioscience business development programs, the urban challenge grant program, the bioscience business marketing program, and the nanotechnology development fund program [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses of state government ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the legislature for the senate, house of representatives and the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for the office of the revisor of statutes, the legislative reference library, the office of legislative auditor and a capitol building and capitol campus facilitated planning process, to the governor and lieutenant governor, state auditor, attorney general and secretary of state, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology for an electronic licensing system, small agency technology infrastructure projects, an electronic documents study and report and [...]

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2E Providing for the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 and early childhood and family education programs and services ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying annual reporting requirements of district anticipated expenditures and passage rates for GRAD purposes by school superintendents; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into interstate agreements with adjoining states to establish an enrollment options program, specifying agreement specifications, conditions, and pupil accounting (pupil unit); requiring the commissioner of education to establish procedures relating to the application process, funds payment or collection and data collection; providing for an exclusion from procedure requirements for certain smaller enrollment transfers; providing a tuition exemption for enrollment transfers under terms of agreement; modifying general education revenue calculation for 2010 and [...]

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Relating to taxation; establishing a data match system for comparison of account information data held by financial institutions with the department of revenue database of debtors (tax debtor matching system), permitting fee charging, providing for noncompliance to information requests, confidentiality, immunity and civil action for unauthorized disclosures by financial institutions, appropriating annually for administrative costs, making conforming amendments; creating the surplus lines association of Minnesota as a nonprofit association, classifying data as public, requiring licensees to submit documents to the surplus lines association; defining targeted rural opportunity community, establishing a regional emerging business investment tax credit for qualifying businesses; abolishing the political contribution refund; making federal tax conforming changes; defining levy year as the year in which levies are certified

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1E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement [...]

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1E Relating to the state government, appropriating money for agricultural, veterans and military affairs ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for certain protection services, invasive species control, meat, dairy and food inspections, emergency planning activities and livestock premise identification, for agricultural marketing and development including grants for the Minnesota promotion, sustainable agriculture demonstration projects, livestock siting and local zoning issues, integrated pest management, agricultural best management practices loan program and residential farmers cost share payments for organic certification, for value added agricultural products including ethanol production, Minnesota institute for sustainable agriculture, cellulosic biofuel facilities community ownership, Bois Forte band of Chippewa for renewable energy biofuels [...]

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1E Relating to the financing of state government; making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations for various state agencies ARTICLE 1- GENERAL FUND SUMMARY Summarizing certain general fund direct appropriations, appropriation reductions and transfers ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates, modifying the annual report submittal date; modifying and clarifying certain school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish enrollment options programs with an adjoining state, specifying certain agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting, requiring the commissioner [...]

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2E Relating to transportation finance ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including transit and rail, port development assistance, for state roads including infrastructure operations and maintenance, infrastructure investment support and highway debt service, for local roads including county and municipal state aids and for state aid appropriation adjustments and transfers, to the commissioner of public safety for the state patrol for additional troopers, to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for transportation emergency relief for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the center for transportation studies to assess the public policy implications of financing new and improved transportation infrastructure, requiring a report to the legislature by [...]

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2E Relating to financing and operation of state and local government ARTICLE 1 - INCOME TAX Adding certain fines to federal taxable income; providing an income tax subtraction for the amount of national service education awards received from the national service trust for service in an approved AmeriCorps national service program; providing an income tax credit for investments in qualified new business ventures; prohibiting businesses from deducting criminal or civil fines, penalties or damages; modifying and increasing the income tax credit for military service; establishing the Minnesota home care income tax credit, determining the amount of credit allowed and credit limitations, providing credit to be refundable, requiring certain caregiver training; providing an refundable income tax credit for qualified citizenship expenses; prohibiting businesses from deducting criminal or civil fines, penalties [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for environment, natural resources, energy and commerce purposes ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water partnership program, for community technical assistance and education for local and basinwide water quality protection, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, for technology and technical assistance to local governments, for individual septic tank fees administration, for county feedlot program grants, for providing regulatory services to the ethanol, mining and other developing economic sectors, for bioenergy crop utilization technologies, for the completion of an endocrine disruptors report, for an evaluation of point of use water treatment [...]

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4E Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURAL POLICY Establishing a livestock investment grant program, specifying eligibility and process; requiring the commissioner of agriculture pesticide disposal; prohibiting pesticide collection limitations; requiring annual disposal site designation and advertising and periodic residential disposal opportunities with recordkeeping, requiring universal county execution; modifying pesticide application violations to include applications at sites not requested, ordered, permitted or contracted; requiring commissioner allocation from the pesticide regulatory account for collection and disposal; modifying the authority of the commissioner of agriculture for revocation and suspension actions of previously issued registration, permit, license or certifications under certain conditions for pesticide and fertilizer use; modifying agricultural chemical incident

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3E Relating to education; ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing [...]

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