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Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Received from House

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Relating to veterinary medicine; recognizing the program for the assessment of
veterinary education equivalence (PAVE) certification; requiring applicants for
a license to practice veterinary medicine to be a United States citizen or legal
resident alien, requiring proof of residency and providing for license to
practice to expire on the same date the legal resident status expires; allowing
faculty licensure for university of Minnesota college of veterinary medicine
specialty practitioners board certified by the European board of veterinary
specialization; modifying the temporary faculty veterinary medical center
clinician license and cease and desist orders service; permitting dispensing of
human drugs and over the counter drugs for extra label use, specifying
conditions
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Clarifying the crime of aggravated forgery to cover the United States
citizenship and immigration services I-9 (I 9) employment eligibilty
verification form (document)
(rt)

Latest Action: 05/18/2007 - Comm rpt: No recommendation, re-ref to Agriculture and Veterans

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Exempting the Mower county wind energy conversion systems from certain
regulations involving real property acquisition of title relating to aliens or
nonAmerican corporations; requiring the payment of a wind energy production tax
(me)

Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Received from Senate

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Social work licensing provisions modified.

Latest Action: 04/19/2007 - HF substituted by motion [HF6]

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TICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education [...]

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Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of health to award AIDS (acquired immune deficiency
syndrome - HIV) prevention grants for a public education and awareness campaign
targeting communities of African born residents, specifying certain grant
requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of health
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring health plan companies to provide or cover language interpreter
services to deaf and hard of hearing enrollees and for enrollees with limited
English proficiency (LEP); requiring the commissioner of human
services to establish a registry of spoken language interpreters and to adopt
certain standards; modifying a certain medical assistance (MA) coverage
provision for LEP services
(je)

Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Returned from Senate with amendment

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IRD ENGROSSMENT Omnibus health and human services finance bill. ARTICLE 1: CHILD WELFARE POLICY Section 1: Specific powers language modified. Section 2: Child language modified. Section 3: Notice to commissioner; referral for postplacement assessment language modified. Section 4: findings; orders language modified. Section 5: Reimbursement of costs language modified. Section 6: Reasons for deferral language modified. Section 7: Duty to ensure placement prevention and family reunification; reasonable efforts language modified. Section 8: Indian tribe language modified. Section 9: Tribal court language modified. Section 10: identification of extended family members language modified. Section 11: Identification of extended family members language modified. Section 12: Indian tribe jurisdiction language [...]

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Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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A resolution urging Congress to create a path toward legal permanent resident
status for Liberians with temporary protected status and to extend temporary
protected status until a permanent solution is enacted
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to Lifetrack Resources for a onetime pilot project in
Rochester focusing on immigrant and refugee collaborative programs
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article VII, section 1 to
allow local units of government to authorize permanent resident noncitizens to
vote in local elections
(je)

Latest Action: 02/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing nonpublic schools to participate in the limited English proficiency
(LEP) program; requiring the commissioner of education to count LEP participant
nonpublic students
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Correcting the name of the federal immigration agency to the United States
immigration and customs enforcement
(me)

Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance

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Requiring voter instruction posters, registration and absentee ballot
applications and absentee ballot instructions to be written in languages other
than English, requiring instructions to include illustrations, requiring the
secretary of state to publish voting materials in languages other than English
recommended by the state demographer, requiring county auditor precinct
determination for need of materials, languages needed and number of materials,
requiring the secretary of state to supply counties with necessary materials
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing an income tax credit for qualified citizenship expenses, specifying
limitations, qualified individuals and citizenship expenses; providing for
credit to be refundable under certain conditions; appropriating money to the
commissioner of revenue
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for a grant to a
nonprofit organization to provide victim services for the safety of human
trafficking victims
(me)