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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)
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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Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Withdrawn and returned to author Bill Text Permitting a town board to vote to refund any surplus or service charge upon the removal of a subordinate service district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)
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Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Joint rule 3.02(a), conference committee discharged, bill laid on table Bill TextHF 2362 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus tax bill modifying income, property, franchise, sales and use, motor vehicle sales, health care provider, tobacco, insurance, mortgage, gambling, and other tax provisions; and appropriating money. ARTICLE 1: HOMESTEAD CREDIT STATE REFUND HOMEOWNERS AND RENTERS Section 1: Residential homestead market value credit language modified. Section 2: Contents of tax statements language modified. Section 3: Property taxes payable language modified. Section 4: Renters language modified. Section 5: Additional refund language added. Section 6: Homestead credit state refund language provided. Section 7: Table language modified. Section 8: Inflation adjustment language modified. Section 9: Repealer language provided. ARTICLE 2: AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Section 1: City revenue [...] 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 Text1E Relating to the financing of state government; making onetime appropriations ARTICLE 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 [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Governor's action Veto Ch. 55 05/07/07 Bill Text3E 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 [...] 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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