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Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Bill was repassed as amended by Conference Bill TextTICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT PROVISIONS Requiring the state board of investment to annually determine a composite funded ratio for state pension assets, modifying the postretirement adjustment calculation, requiring the board to determine fund total fair market value, limiting the postretirement adjustment percentage, providing a lost purchasing power increase for the Minnesota postretirement investment fund and specifying conditions, requiring a legislative report under condition of excess assets; instructing the legislative commission on pensions and retirement to review teacher retirement benefits, requiring the commission to report to the commissioner ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA POSTRETIREMENT INVESTMENT FUND DISSOLUTION Modifying the procedures used by the state board of investment to determine postretirement adjustments for the Minneapolis employees retirement fund; providing for Minnesota postretirement [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report# Bill TextTICLE 1 - STATE LANDS Requiring the commissioner of administration to send state agency land surplus notices, raising the land value for appraisal and requiring commissioner land survey, requiring licensed appraiser appraisal and conformity with certain uniform standards, requiring surplus state-owned lands to be sold minimally for appraised value, requiring purchaser minimum payment percentage at time of sale and remainder within a certain amount of time, requiring commissioner of administration quitclaim signature and eliminating contract for deed; creating the Minnesota forests for the future program to identify and protect private working forest lands, providing for land eligibility, easements correction and termination under certain conditions, landowner payments and a rulemaking exemption for certain easements; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to acquire permanent interests in lands [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed Bill TextFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus prekindergarten through grade 12 education finance bill. ARTICLE 1 -- E-12 EDUCATION Section 1: Developmental screening aid language modified. Section 2: Teachers' and Administrators' licenses; fees language modified. Section 3: Basic alternative teacher compensation aid language provided. Section 4: Alternative teacher compensation levy language provided. Section 5: Alternative teacher compensation aid language provided. Section 6: Debt service appropriation language modified. Section 7: To qualify language modified. Section 8: Bonds for certain capital facilities language modified. Section 9: Pupils in adjoining states language modified. Section 10: Tuition payments language modified. Section 11: Effective if reciprocal language modified. Section 12: Appeal to the commissioner language [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report# Bill Text3E Relating to state government; legislative citizen commission on Minnesota resources (LCCMR) funding recommendations; appropriating money to the Minnesota environment and natural resources trust and great lakes protection account for metro conservation corridors (MeCC) phase IV, Vermillion River corridor acquisition and restoration in Dakota county, Minnesota habitat conservation partnership phase V, Avon hills landscape preservation in Stearns county, Minnesota River valley green corridor land protection, scientific and natural area acquisition, state land acquisition consolidation, state park and trail and metropolitan regional park system lands acquisition, local initiative grants, regional parks and natural areas, conservation partners, environmental partnerships matching grant program, county trail system design, prairie ecosystem restoration, best practices for native prairie management, impacts of climate change [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill Text
COND ENGROSSMENT
Statewide health insurance purchasing pool created for school district
employees, and money appropriated.
Section 1: Service cooperative and school employee insurance board claims data
language modified.
Section 2: School employee insurance plan language provided.
Section 3: Initial meeting; Minnesota school employee insurance pool language
provided.
Section 4: Appropriation language provided.
Section 5: Effective date is July 1, 2008.
SNA 5/17/08
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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill TextCOND ENGROSSMENT Supplemental bonding bill, and money appropriated. Section 1: Capitol improvement appropriations language provided. Section 2: Natural resources - Lake Vermilion State Park language provided. Section 3: Administration - Capital Asset Preservation and Replacement language provided. Section 4: Metropolitan council language provided. Subdivision 1. Total Appropriation. Subdivision 2. Central Corridor Transit Way. Subdivision 3. Old Cedar Avenue Bridge. Section 5: Veterans affairs language provided. Subdivision 1. Total Appropriation Subdivision 2. Minneapolis Veterans Home Campus Section 6: Bond sale authorization language provided. Section 7: Bond sale authorization reduction language provided. Section 8: Revenues language modified. Section 9: Sustainable building guidelines language modified. Subdivision [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill TextFTH ENGROSSMENT Naturopathic doctor registration provided, advisory council established, and money appropriated. Section 1: Definitions are provided. Section 2: Scope of practice language is provided. Section 3: Professional conduct language is provided. Section 4: Protected titles language is provided. Section 5: Registration requirements language is provided. Section 6: Board action on applications for registration language is provided. Section 7: Continuing education requirement language is provided. Section 8: Discipline; reporting language is provided. Section 9: Registered naturopathic doctor advisory council language is provided. Section 10: Fees language is provided. Section 11: Appointment of naturopathic doctor advisory council language provided. Section 12: Naturopathy work croup language provided.[...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report# Bill Text
School boards required to seek information from prospective teachers and the
Board of Teaching about disciplinary actions against teachers.
Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Governor's action Approval 05/15/08 Bill Text
Minneapolis; Nonprofit riverfront revitalization corporation authorized and
report required.
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Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - HF substituted by motion [HF3082] Bill TextTICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT PROVISIONS Requiring the state board of investment to annually determine a composite funded ratio for state pension assets, modifying the postretirement adjustment calculation, requiring the board to determine fund total fair market value, limiting the postretirement adjustment percentage, providing a lost purchasing power increase for the Minnesota postretirement investment fund and specifying conditions, requiring a legislative report under condition of excess assets ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA POSTRETIREMENT INVESTMENT FUND DISSOLUTION Modifying the procedures used by the state board of investment to determine postretirement adjustments for the Minneapolis employees retirement fund; providing for Minnesota postretirement investment fund dissolution according to a transition schedule, providing for postretirement adjustments, requiring a legislative report on statutory drafting [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text
Extending rulemaking authority of the board of school administrators to reflect
changes in duties, responsibilities and roles of school administrators
(me)
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing school district boards and charter schools to designate a school or
program within middle or secondary (high school) schools as interdisciplinary
for academic preparation, defining interdisciplinary program components,
requring interdisciplinary teacher licensure and specifying licensure
requirements, specifying interdisciplinary institutional requirements, requiring
board of teaching rule adoption
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU)
board of trustees and authorizing the issuance of state bonds to renovate,
furnish and equip a radiology lab at Century college
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Requiring the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) to amend certain rules
to allow a local government unit employee to prepare restoration plans and
restoration or replacement orders; authorizing the board to use the good cause
exemption
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing local government units with jurisdiction over a wetland to inspect
the site and draft a restoration or replacement order for review by the local
soil and water conservation district; requiring the board of water and soil
resources (BOWSR) to amend certain rules to conform to the change
(me)
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Requiring county commissioner boards and municipalities to hold public hearings
prior to interim regulation adoption under planning and zoning requirements,
requiring newspaper notice publication, interim ordinance to not extend time
deadlines for agency actions
(rt)
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the board of animal health for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy mitigation and outreach efforts
(je)
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to
study the economic implications of converting farmland from row crops to native
perennial grasses harvested for bioenergy development
(je)
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) and
authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to Minnesota River Basin
Projects, Inc. for capital improvements to provide floodplain management in area
II of the Minnesota river basin
(je)
Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text
2E Modifying certain membership requirements for the NextGen energy board;
modifying the expiration date (sunset provision) of the board; prohibiting the
cancellation of the unencumbered balance of a certain prior appropriation for
bioenergy and value added agricultural products
(je)
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