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Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing the metropolitan council to issue certificates of indebtedness,
bonds or other obligations for additional financing of metropolitan area transit
and paratransit capital expenditures
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Also tagged in: Cities and Towns, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Insurance, Insurance-Automobile, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles-Carriers, Motor Vehicles-Registration, Licensing, Taxation, Public Safety Department, Transportation and Transportation Department Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Taxes Bill Text1E Relating to transportation; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to consider certain insurance standards when reviewing data and information for the development of safety improvements for trunk highways and state aid projects; modifying the definitions of passenger automobile, special mobile equipment and commercial motor vehicle; reclassifying certain trucks and vans for motor vehicle registration purposes; defining spotter trucks, regulating use and prescribing method of registration; modifying provisions relating to registration and use of special mobile equipment; requiring the commissioner of public safety to impose a motor vehicle registration tax on mobile equipment permanently or temporarily mounted to a commercial motor vehicle chassis under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of transportation in cooperation with the metropolitan council to study possible adoption of a complete [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - HF substituted by motion [HF380] Bill Text2E 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 [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Arts, Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Fish and Fishing, Gambling, Historic Sites and Historical Societies, Lakes and Ponds, Parks and Parklands, Rivers and Streams, State Government-Finance, Television and Radio, Trails, Water, Water Resources, and Waterways, Zoos
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to finance; proposing an amendment to the Minnesota
constitution, article XI to dedicate a certain percentage of state lottery
receipts to the heritage enhancement fund, the parks and trails fund, the clean
water fund and the arts, humanities, museum and public broadcasting fund;
creating the arts, humanities, museum and public broadcasting fund, heritage
enhancement fund, parks and trails fund and clean water fund in the state
treasury; requiring appropriation by law and dedicated use; requiring proposed
amendment voter submission at general election; establishing the heritage
enhancement fund in the Minnesota constitution, article XI and creating the
heritage enhancement council, prescribing duties, membership and administration
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Also tagged in: Administration Department, Appropriations, Appropriations-Omnibus Bills, Bonds, Bonds, Public, Cities and Towns, Cities and Towns-Specific, Counties, Counties-Specific, Federal Government, Fuels, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles-Registration, Licensing, Taxation, Omnibus, Public Safety Department, Revisor of Statutes, State Government-Finance, Taxation, Taxation-Gasoline and Special Fuels, Transportation and Transportation Department
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Secretary of State Ch. 152 02/25/08 Bill TextHF 2800 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Transportation finance bill appropriating money for highway maintenance, local roads, emergency relief related to the I-35W bridge collapse, establishing a bridge improvement program; issuing bonds; and modifying motor fuel taxes. ARTICLE 1-- TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Transportation appropriations are from the trunk highway fund and available for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Section 3: Appropriations by Fund for FY2009 - General Fund: $2,450,000; Trunk Highway: $85,965,000; C.S.A.H: $52,133,000; M.S.A.S: $13,694,000. Appropriation amounts are specified for the following subdivisions: Transit, Rail, Port Development Assistance, State Roads, Highway Debt Service, Local Roads, County State Aids, and Municipal State Aids. Section 4: Public Safety - $3,653, 000 is appropriated [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the metropolitan council and authorizing the issuance of
state bonds for a grant to the city of South St. Paul to design and construct a
span arch bridge under 19th avenue for connection with the Dakota county north
urban regional trail
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Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the metropolitan council and authorizing the issuance of
state bonds for grant to the city of Inver Grove Heights to acquire land for
right of way, for remediation and to design, construct, furnish and equip
capital improvements to develop the Heritage Village park on the Mississippi
River
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Also tagged in: Arts, Constitutional Amendments, Fish and Fishing, Legislature, Natural Resources Department, Parks and Parklands-State, Popular Names, Taxation-Sales and Use, Trails, Water, Water Resources, and Waterways, Wildlife Management and Habitat
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Secretary of State Ch. 151 02/19/08 Bill Text
HF 2285
FOURTH ENGROSSMENT
Natural resource and cultural heritage dedicated funding provided through
increased sales tax revenue, funds established, and constitutional amendment
proposed.
Section 1: Constitutional amendment language provided.
Section 2: Submission to voters language provided.
JAJ 2/20/08
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Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Motion to concur with Senate amendments Bill TextHF 2268 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus tax bill. ARTICLE 1: AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND PROPERTY TAX REFUND Sections 1-2: Homeowners language modified. Section 3: Inflation adjustment language modified. Section 4: City aid base language modified. Section 5: County transition aid language modified. Section 6: Towns language modified. Section 7: City formula aid language modified. Section 8: City aid distribution language modified. Section 9: Appropriation language modified. Section 10: Types of land; payments language modified. Section 11: General distribution language modified. Section 12: Mahnomen county; county, city, school district property tax reimbursement language modified. Section 13: Utility property; tax base adjustments for calculation of school district aids and levies language [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agriculture and Agriculture Department, Animals and Pets, Appropriations, Appropriations-Omnibus Bills, Associations and Societies, Banks and Financial Institutions, Boards, Bonds, Public, Cities and Towns-Specific, Colleges and Universities, Counties, Credit and Credit Services, Energy, Fertilizers and Pesticides, Fuels, Military and Military Affairs Department, Native Americans, State Government-Finance, University of Minnesota, Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Secretary of State Ch. 45 05/04/07 Bill TextHF 2227 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus agricultural and veterans affairs bill appropriating money; modifying revenue and fund disposition; modifying and creating funds, fees, and accounts; providing for NextGen energy; and changing veterans provisions. ARTICLE 1: AGRICULTURE Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Agriculture appropriations language provided. Section 3: Department of Agriculture appropriation language provided. Section 4: Board of Animal Health appropriation language provided. Section 5: Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation language provided. Section 6: Compensation required language added. Section 7: Compensation language modified. Section 8: Cooperation with federal agencies language added. Section 9: Agricultural development grants and contracts language modified. show full description
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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to transportation; permitting the statewide use of freeway shoulders by
transit and metro mobility buses; specifying certain duties of the metropolitan
council for permitting eligible providers of transit to use bus stops and bus
shelters, allowing limited use
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Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to transportation; increasing transit ridership; requiring the
metropolitan council to establish a lower fare for regular route transit in the
metropolitan area and requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to
require each greater Minnesota urbanized area service system receiving financial
assistance to enforce a lower fare; appropriating money to the commissioner
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Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to state government
ARTICLE 1 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article III, by adding a
section establishing a council to prescribe salaries for legislators and
constitutional officers, specifying membership; modifying article IV, section 9
and article V, section 4
ARTICLE 2 - STATUTORY CHANGES
Making certain statutory changes; eliminating the reference to the compensation
council; instructing the revisor of statutes to replace certain statutory
references to compensation to council with the term by the council; repealing
the compensation council
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Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Creating an advisory council on the development and regulation of consumer
products; establishing a comprehensive framework for consumer products to
protect, support and enhance human health, the environment and economic
development; specifying composition and duties of the council; requiring the
advisory council to develop a comprehensive and integrated framework for
promotion of chemistry and chemical engineering involved in the design of
products to reduce or elimination risks to health or the environment through the
reduction in use or generation of hazardous substances; requiring the advisory
council to report to the legislature by a certain date; sunset provision
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Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text
1E Relating to charter schools; prohibiting a church or house of worship from
sponsoring schools, specifying a maximum number of schools operated by nonprofit
corporations or cooperatives, eliminating certain school board charter school
application voting requirements, making charter school boards permanent and
regulating membership, requiring charter school board election procedures
publication, specifying nonvoting membership, modifying commissioner of
education duties with regard to charter school training, financial management
and recordkeeping, prohibiting certain management and financial services sales,
modifying contract requirements, requiring charter schools to develop and
publish a lottery process, modifying annual public reporting requirements,
clarifying teacher leave to teach in a charter school
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Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Repealing the university of Minnesota regent candidate advisory council and the
regent nomination and election procedures
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Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for annual grants to the
Minnesota turf seed council for native plants research
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Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Bills not identical, R/S, SF substituted on General Register Bill Text
Prekindergarten through grade 12 education policy provided including general
education, education excellence, special programs, libraries, state agencies,
and sefl-sufficiency and lifelong learning.
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the Indian affairs council for the acquisition of an
Indian (native american) burial site in Becker county
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Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing grants to school districts for participation in the organizational
assessment and performance improvement process of the Minnesota council for
quality; authorizing school districts to apply to the commissioner of education
for diligence grants, specifying a limit; authorizing role model grants for
districts in receipt of achievement or excellence level recognition by the
council; specifying grant use, amount limit and various grant use
recommendations; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for grant
making, specifying a budget base
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