Compensation and Salaries Legislation - Minnesota

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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1E Relating to judiciary finance; appropriating money to the supreme court for operations, contingent accounts and core justice operations maintenance, civil legal services for low income clients in family law matters, court of appeals for caseload increases, trial courts for guardian ad litem, interpreters, psychological and in forma pauperis services, for new judge units, existing problem solving courts maintenance and expansion and pro se litigants resources expansion and to maintain core justice operations, to the tax court, the uniform laws commission, the board on judicial standards for investigative and hearing costs and the board of public defense for appellate office caseload increase, shortfall, public defense caseload increase, part time public defenders data entry and public defense corporations; adding judgeships; providing for use of nonfelony abandoned bail in the fourth judicial district, requiring funds

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Relating to state employment; requiring the legislative auditor to establish a compensation plan for employees of the auditor, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) and the legislature; modifying certain salary requirements of the administrator of the Minnesota zoological board; ratifying certain labor agreements and compensation plans between the state and the American federation of state, county and municipal employees (AFSCME) council 5 and units 8 and 225, the Minnesota association of professional employees (MAPE), the state residential schools education association, the Minnesota government engineers council, the middle management association, the state board of investment, the commissioner of employee relations plan for unrepresented employees, the managerial plan, the Minnesota law enforcement association, the inter faculty organization, MnSCU administrators, the office of higher [...]

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Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT Incorporating Minnesota Milestones goals and indicators in budget preparation; modifying certain budget preparation requirements; modifying certain provisions regulating the sale and disposition of surplus state owned lands; modifying certain duties of the commissioner of administration relating to notice requirements to agencies describing lands and tracts declared surplus and certain survey, appraisal and public sale requirements; modifying certain terms of payment requirements; eliminating contract for deed requirements with purchasers; requiring state agencies with certain information and telecommunications technology projects to register with the office of enterprise technology and requiring the office to monitor progress on the projects; requiring the office of enterprise technology to report to the legislature regarding the approval [...]

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