Commissions Legislation - Minnesota

Relating to data practices ARTICLE 1 - TEMPORARY CLASSIFICATIONS Modifying applications for temporary classification of government data to include data on individuals; requiring data application website publication and permitting application withdrawal prior to data disposition; allowing responsible authorities to request commissioner of administration approval for new or different data use or dissemination for data temporarily classified; repealing temporary classification contents of application for private or confidential data ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS Classifying data on election candidates and applicants to boards, task forces, commissions, committees, advisory groups and other public bodies as private; adding addresses as public data; classifying building plans, blueprints and drawings of state owned facilities and state leased nonstate owned facilities as nonpublic data [...]

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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; 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 judicial vacancies ARTICLE 1 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article VI, sections 7 and 8, requiring a commission on judicial selection to nominate candidates for appointment to judgeships and a commission of judicial evaluation to evaluate judges for reappointment ARTICLE 2 - JUDICIAL SELECTION Establishing and modifying procedures for filling judicial vacancies; defining judge and judgeship; specifying certain duties of the commission on judicial selection to nominate candidates for appointment to judgeships; establishing the commission on judicial evaluation to evaluate judges for reappointment according to certain established criteria developed and published by the commission, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; subjecting the committee to the open meeting law; requiring commission implementation of [...]

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Relating to retirement ARTICLE 1 - ACTUARY RETAINED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONS ON PENSION AND RETIREMENT Providing for actuarial services to the legislature and the state; mandating the retention of the consulting actuary for various retirement related reports by the legislative commission on pensions and retirement (LCPR); eliminating certain joint contractual duties of the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), the public employees retirement association (PERA), the teachers retirement association (TRA), the Duluth teachers retirement fund association, the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF) and the St. Paul teachers retirement fund; allocating the costs of actuarial services among retirement plans; creating a legislative commission on pensions and retirement revolving fund for actuarial services, requiring actuarial costs assessments to be credited to the account; modifying certain [...]

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Relating to judicial vacancies ARTICLE 1 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article VI, section 7 and 8 requiring the appointment of judges by the governor from a list of names submitted by a selection commission, evaluated based on performance after an initial term in office by a judicial performance commission and retained or removed regularly based on a decision by the voters ARTICLE 2 - STATUTORY PROVISIONS Establishing and modifying procedures for filling judicial vacancies; modifying certain definitions; providing for judicial retention elections; requiring the filing of an affidavit of candidacy with the secretary of state for judges seeking to retain judicial office; modifying judicial vacancy determination provisions; creating a commission on appellate judicial selection, specifying membership requirements, nomination duties and [...]

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1E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the legislature for general operations and for health care access, to the constitutional officers, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities, state and community and administrative management services, for matching grants for public television, to the capitol area architectural and planning (CAAP) board, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts receivable [...]

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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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