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Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text
1E Requiring the board of regents of the university of Minnesota Duluth campus
to coordinate a study of student demand and employer needs for higher education
in the Mesabi range region of northeastern Minnesota, including the cities of
Grand Rapids, Eveleth and Ely, authorizing board contracts, requiring the board
of trustees of Minnesota state colleges and university (MnSCU) to participate
and advise
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Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Taxes Bill Text
Relating to taxation; establishing rules for regional investment funds to
satisfy to qualify for the regional emerging business investment credit and for
businesses to satisfy to qualify for the seed capital investment credit and the
responsibility of the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED)
to certify the funds and qualifying businesses; providing for regional emerging
business investment and seed capital investment income tax credits
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Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to the Hennepin Carver workforce investment board (WIB) to
coordinate with the partners for progress regional skills consortium for health
care employment and training
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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Taxes Bill TextTICLE 1 - JOBZ REQUIREMENTS Defining targeted rural opportunity community to include cities or towns with population loss or a higher than average unemployment rate; specifying state review criteria for commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) approval of business subsidy agreements; requiring job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) business subsidy agreements to comply with certain agreement requirements; requiring written commissioner approval and specifying conditions required for commissioner approval; requiring standard agreement development by the commissioner, local government unit business subsidy reports on progress and public notice and hearing; allowing JOBZ qualified businesses and targeted rural opportunity communities tax benefits treatment the same year of agreement signature and into the future for a certain time period, specifying exclusions; repealing the JOBZ applicant definition show full description
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text1E Establishing the rural enterprise microloan program under the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to provide rural enterprise grants to nonprofit corporations to encourage private investment, create jobs for persons in rural areas and promote economic development, specifying eligibility, providing for revolving loan funds, specifying loan criteria, requiring annual reports to the commissioner and the legislature; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish and implement an office of technology and commercialization, an office of entrepreneurship and small business development, an office of business information and professional services and a small business product development program; creating the main street revitalization grant program, specifying eligibility and providing for an application process; establishing the community leadership and planning program; requiring the job show full description
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - 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 the greater Minnesota
redevelopment accounts
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Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for grants to community organizations in the six Minnesota initiative
foundation regions to support increasing the number of microloans made annually
in rural Minnesota and for grants to the six Minnesota initiative foundations to
expand existing small business revolving loans with focus on lending to
entrepreneurs and new businesses; specifying certain grant use requirements
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Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Commerce and Consumer Protection Bill TextTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting provider patient care refusal [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text
1E Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic
development (DEED) for bioscience business development and commercialization
grants, requiring the commissioner to designate an evaluation team to accept
grant applications and review and evaluate proposals, specifying team membership
and criteria
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Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text
Requiring the commissiner of employment and economic development (DEED) to
contract with a public higher education institution jointly with the center for
rural development to study the needs of the renewable energy economy for trained
employees and needed training; requiring consultation with the university of
Minnesota and the Minnesota state colleges and university (MnSCU) and industry,
environmental and labor representatives; appropriating money to the
commissioner for the study
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Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to the Worthington regional economic development corporation
for an agricultural based bioscience training and testing center
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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
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Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Chief author stricken Murphy Bill Text
Authorizing the governing bodies of southeastern Minnesota multicounty housing
and redevelopment authority and northwest Minnesota multicounty housing and
redevelopment authority to levy taxes up to a certain percentage without
approval
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Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to the rural policy and development center
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Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to the board of directors of the rural policy and development
center
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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Taxes Bill TextTICLE 1 - JOBZ REQUIREMENTS Defining targeted rural opportunity community to include cities or towns with population loss or a higher than average unemployment rate; specifying state review criteria for commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) approval of business subsidy agreements; requiring job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) business subsidy agreements to comply with certain agreement requirements; requiring written commissioner approval and specifying conditions required for commissioner approval; requiring standard agreement development by the commissioner, local government unit business subsidy reports on progress and public notice and hearing; allowing JOBZ qualified businesses and targeted rural opportunity communities tax benefits treatment the same year of agreement signature and into the future for a certain time period, specifying exclusions; repealing the JOBZ applicant definition show full description
Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
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Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
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Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to regional development; providing for additional border city
enterprise and development zone allocations by the commissioner of employment
and economic development (DEED) to western border cities for certain tax
reductions
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Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Taxes Bill Text
Relating to taxation; establishing rules for regional investment funds to
satisfy to qualify for the regional emerging business investment credit and for
businesses to satisfy to qualify for the seed capital investment credit and the
responsibility of the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED)
to certify the funds and qualifying businesses; providing for regional emerging
business investment and seed capital investment income tax credits
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