Courts-Specific Legislation - Minnesota

2E Relating to transportation ARTICLE 1 - STATE TORT CLAIMS Modifying the effective date for an increase in individual damage caps for state tort claims ARTICLE 2 - I-35W BRIDGE COLLAPSE Providing for an alternative compensation process for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse; defining certain terms; requiring the chief justice of the supreme court to establish a special master panel to consider claims, make settlement offers and enter into settlement agreements with victims; specifying panel membership; authorizing the hiring of staff; establishing a process for considering claims; authorizing the department of finance to pay for panel costs; ensuring panel immunity from civil liability; specifying certain settlement requirements; requiring the commissioner of finance to pay agreed amount in settlement within a certain period of time; defining an offer of settlement as a legal [...]

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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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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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Providing for an aggressive initiative against impaired driving and chemical dependency; expanding the authority of the court to order persons convicted of driving while impaired (under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance) or arrested for another DWI related offense to submit to the level of care recommended in chemical use assessments; expanding chemical use assessment and report requirements to defendants convicted of certain violent crimes and modifying report content requirements; requiring chemical use assessments used by the commissioner of public safety in decisions relating to reinstatement of drivers licenses to meet certain standards; providing for the timing of the assessments; authorizing the court to order an assessment based on the belief of the existence of a chemical dependency problem; clarifying the definition of American Indian under chemical dependency treatment provisions; reducing county

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"Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act"; defining terms; specifying application to disclaimers of any interest in or power over property and supplementation by other law; providing for power to disclaim general requirements and conditions of irrevocability, disclaimer of interest in property, disclaimer of rights of survivorship in jointly held property, disclaimer of interest by trustee, disclaimer of power of appointment or other power not held in fiduciary capacity, disclaimer by appointee, object or taker in default of exercise of power of appointment, disclaimer of power held in fiduciary capacity, delivery or filing, conditions for disclaimer barred or limited, tax qualified disclaimer, recording of disclaimer, application to existing relationships, relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act, uniformity of application and construction and severability clause; repealing the disclaimer [...]

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Authorizing persons scheduled to appear for jury service to request a postponement of the date of initial appearance for jury service under certain conditions; providing for subsequent postponements; providing for small business protection; specifying grounds for excuses from jury service; defining undue or extreme physical or financial hardship, requiring documentation and providing for excused persons return to the jury pool after a certain period of time; prescribing maximum terms of service; authorizing the supreme court to grant an exemption from maximum terms of service under certain conditions; requiring an alternative plan upon requesting an exemption; limiting the supreme court exemptions; prescribing penalties for failure to appear for jury service without a showing of good cause, providing for being held in contempt; modifying juror compensation, requiring the supreme court to establish a lengthy trial fund for

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Hunters, Anglers and Trappers Bill of Rights" ARTICLE 1 - FINDINGS AND PURPOSE Specifying certain legislative findings and purpose to create the most possible opportunities for citizens to exercise the right to hunt, fish and take game ARTICLE 2 - HERITAGE ENHANCEMENT FUIND Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XI, to provide funding to enhance the population and quality of game and fish in Minnesota and provide hunting and angler access by dedicating the sale and use tax receipts equal to the state sales and use tax of a certain percentage on taxable sales of supplies and equipment used to take game and fish; creating the heritage enhancement council to develop a biennial budget plan for expenditures; specifying certain membership requirements and duties; creating a heritage enhancement fund to be spent on game and fish projects on public and private lands; [...]

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