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Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Extending the duration of a tax increment financing (TIF) district in the city
of St. Paul
(je)
Also tagged in: Business, Environment, Labor, Employment, and Labor and Industry Department, Local Governments, Real Estate, Taxation, Taxation-Franchise, Taxation-Income, Taxation-Property, Taxation-Sales and Use, Taxation-Sales, Motor Vehicles
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill TextRelating to taxation; providing tax incentives for green economy businesses including individual income and corporate franchise taxes, state and local sales and use taxes on qualifying purchases, state and local sales tax on motor vehicles, and certain property tax and job credit allowances; providing for certification of qualified businesses; exempting certain real and personal property in class 3 used primarily in the operation of a certified green business from ad valorem taxes, specifying municipal approval requirements; providing an income tax subtraction for certified green business income; modifying the definition of taxable income; providing for a certified green business job credit; making certain conforming amendments; excluding certified green business income from alternative minimum taxable income; excluding income from a certified green business from alternative minimum taxable income provisions; modifying [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Withdrawn and returned to author Bill Text
Permitting a town board to vote to refund any surplus or service charge upon the
removal of a subordinate service district
(me)
Also tagged in: Airports and Aircraft, Appropriations, Cities and Towns, Cities and Towns-Specific, Counties, Counties-Specific, Federal Government, Liens, Mines and Mining, Omnibus, Revenue Department, State Government-Finance, State Government-Officers, Taxation, Taxation-Estate, Taxation-Franchise, Taxation-Income, Taxation-Mortgage Registry and Deed, Taxation-Property, Taxation-Sales and Use
Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Joint rule 3.02(a), conference committee discharged, bill laid on table Bill TextTICLE 1 - HOMESTEAD CREDIT STATE REFUND Modifying residential homestead market value credit provisions; modifying proposed property tax notice content requirements; modifying the definition of property taxes payable; increasing property tax refunds for renters and homesteads ARTICLE 2 - AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Modifying city revenue need, city aid base, county transition aid, city formula aid and providing for town aid; providing an inflation adjustment for municipal (city) aid and county need aid distributions; providing for the increase payments to counties by the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) on land utilization project land; requiring the commissioner of revenue to compute the adjusted net tax capacity and referendum market value on utility property for school district aids and levies purposes and county and city aids purposes; providing for county property tax reimbursement,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/16/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Providing public accountability for taxpayer subsidies of private business;
prohibiting new tax increment financing (TIF) district certifications and TIF
district duration extensions after a certain date; defining business subsidies,
prohibiting local government units (political subdivisions) from providing
business subsidies, exception for certain authorized TIF districts; requiring
public hearings for business subsidies and public notice; defining local
government units providing subsidies as host municipalities and authorizing
certain sharing; repealing certain economic development definitions, abatement
and bonding authority and administrative powers
(rt)
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Latest Action: 04/02/2007 - Received from Senate Bill TextTICLE 1 - SUMMARY Providing a summary of appropriations ARTICLE 2 - HUMAN SERVICES Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for children and economic assistance grants, for grants to counties for child support enforcement programs, for children and community services grants, for grants to counties and tribes affected by reductions in targeted case management federal Medicaid revenue, for other children and economic assistance grants, for children and economic assistance management, administration and operations, for continuing care grants to reimburse the costs of nursing facility sprinkler systems and for state operated services for a grant to Advocating Change Together (ACT) for the remembering with dignity project, to the commissioner of health for the window replacement program and pandemic influenza preparedness, to the veterans nursing homes board for repair, maintenance,[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Governor's action Veto Ch. 55 05/07/07 Bill TextTICLE 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 (NDF), for a higher education renewable energy economic training needs study, and [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing the disclosure of certain data by the commissioner of revenue to the
state auditor for the purpose of conducting audits of job opportunity building
zones; requiring qualified businesses to file annual reports by a certain date
of job opportunity building zone tax benefits with the commissioner of revenue,
specifying certain notice requirements, imposing penalties for failure to file
reports
(je)
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing and providing for the city of Columbia Heights to create a tax
increment financing (TIF) district subject to certain special rules; authorizing
the establishment of a housing revitalization district; sunset provision;
providing for the applicability of other laws
(je)
Latest Action: 02/28/2007 - Referred to Finance Bill Text
Appropriating money to the state auditor for job opportunity building zones
(JOBZ) program staff retention and audit
(rt)
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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
(ra)
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing the city of North St. Paul to expend available increments from
certain tax increment financing (TIF) districts for certain eligible activities
among the districts and for outside districts within the defined redevelopment
project area
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing the housing and redevelopment authority for the city of Oakdale to
create a redevelopment tax increment (TIF) district with extended duration
limits
(me)
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) in
consultation with the commissioner of revenue to designate family agricultural
revitalization zones (FARMZ) for on farm agricultural processing facility
projects under the job opportunity building zones (JOBZ) program, requiring the
commissioner to consider tax incentives, limiting qualifying projects to
agricultural processing facilities; providing for application of JOBZ rules
(rt)
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: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to local governments; limiting local government requirements for use of
certain nonconforming lots
(me)
Latest Action: 04/16/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the board of invention for a grant to the institute of
invention and innovation
(me)
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(Deed) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of
Floodwood for the development of a business park
(me)
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of
Virginia to predesign, design, construct and install public infrastructure and
other site improvements for the mining haul road economic development project
(me)
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of
Chisholm to predesign, design, construct and install a street improvement
project
(me)
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