Revisor of Statutes Legislation - Minnesota

Relating to judicial vacancies ARTICLE 1 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article VI, sections 7 and 8, requiring a commission on judicial selection to nominate candidates for appointment to judgeships and a commission of judicial evaluation to evaluate judges for reappointment ARTICLE 2 - JUDICIAL SELECTION Establishing and modifying procedures for filling judicial vacancies; defining judge and judgeship; specifying certain duties of the commission on judicial selection to nominate candidates for appointment to judgeships; establishing the commission on judicial evaluation to evaluate judges for reappointment according to certain established criteria developed and published by the commission, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; subjecting the committee to the open meeting law; requiring commission implementation of [...]

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HF 2800 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Transportation finance bill appropriating money for highway maintenance, local roads, emergency relief related to the I-35W bridge collapse, establishing a bridge improvement program; issuing bonds; and modifying motor fuel taxes. ARTICLE 1-- TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Transportation appropriations are from the trunk highway fund and available for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Section 3: Appropriations by Fund for FY2009 - General Fund: $2,450,000; Trunk Highway: $85,965,000; C.S.A.H: $52,133,000; M.S.A.S: $13,694,000. Appropriation amounts are specified for the following subdivisions: Transit, Rail, Port Development Assistance, State Roads, Highway Debt Service, Local Roads, County State Aids, and Municipal State Aids. Section 4: Public Safety - $3,653, 000 is appropriated [...]

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HF 1208 SIXTH ENGROSSMENT Construction code and licensing provisions modified, penalties and enforcement provided, statutes recodified, and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1: REVISOR'S INSTRUCTION Section 1: Revisor's instruction language provided. ARTICLE 2: CONSTRUCTION CODES AND LICENSING Section 1: State fire code rulemaking authority language modified. Section 2: Definitions provided. Section 3: Powers language provided. Section 4: Deposit of money language provided. Section 5: Bonds language provided. Section 6: Commissioner not subject to subpoena language provided. Section 7: Appointment and first meeting of boards language provided. ARTICLE 3: ENFORCEMENT Section 1: Definitions provided. Section 2: Enforcement language provided. Section 3: Amount of penalty; contents of administrative [...]

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HF 1200 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Revisor's bill correcting erroneous, ambiguous, and omitted text and obsolete references; and making technical corrections. ARTICLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 1: Membership; terms; meetings; compensation; powers language modified. Section 2: Beneficiary and survivor data language modified. Section 3: Discharge and dismissal records language provided. Section 4: Liquor prohibited language added. Section 5: Gooseberry Falls State Park language modified. Section 6: Local standards language modified. Section 7: Report on facility development language modified. Section 8: Collection and management programs language added. Section 9: Permits; agency report language modified. Section 10: Members language modified. Section 11: United States or Canadian medical school graduates language

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HF 1175 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Aircraft facilities state financing modified to allow flexibility in obtaining a new lessee for a facility, and other statutory provisions modified. Section 1: "Project" defined. Section 2: Sale authorization language modified. Section 3: Loan, lease, and revenue agreements language modified. Section 4: Security language modified. Section 5: Use of proceeds; aircraft maintenance facility language modified. Section 6: General powers language modified. Section 7: Sources of payment language modified. Section 8: Funds language modified. Section 9: Approval language provided. Section 10: Exempt property used by private entity for profit language modified. Section 11: Credit for job creation language modified. Section 12: Aircraft heavy maintenance facility language modified. [...]

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HF 946 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation finance bill appropriating money for transportation, Metropolitan Council, and public safety activities; issuing bonds; modifying taxes; authorizing local transportation sales taxes; and modifying various fees. ARTICLE 1: TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations provided. Section 2: Transportation appropriations language provided. Section 3: Transportation; total appropriation detailed. Section 4: Metropolitan council, total appropriation detailed. Section 5: Public safety, total appropriation detailed. Section 6: General contingent accounts detailed. Section 7: Tort claims detailed. Section 8: Driver and vehicle services language modified. Section 9: Federal funds spending authority language modified. Section 10: Airport funding advisory [...]

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Revisor's bill ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Making miscellaneous technical corrections and removing obsolete and redundant references to statutes and other laws relating to legislative audits, government data practices, criminal justice data, state fair liquor sales, a road name, sewage treatment replacement systems, the legislative commission on waste management, battery management pilot projects, mixed municipal solid waste incinerators, the workforce development council, the national board of medical examiners, limited market value, office of enterprise technology and enterprise technology revolving fund, constables, fiduciaries, the crime victim and witness advisory council, unlicensed mental health practitioners and the office of unlicensed mental health practice, city of Worthington general election date, cigarette and tobacco products tax and liquor excise tax effective dates; providing [...]

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1E Revisor's bill; correcting miscellaneous oversights, inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results and technical errors relating to fiduciary transactions power of attorney forms; correcting section number references to a law relating to an appropriation from the forest management investment account, making a technical correction to a certain prior appropriation to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR); making certain technical corrections to the omnibus energy, natural resources, energy and commerce appropriations bill; modifying a certain provision relating to the review of heating and cooling systems in state funded buildings; modifying a certain provision permitting the return of certain unused drugs and medical devices from county jails; clarify the availability of an appropriation for the agricultural best management practices loan program; changing the date for the commissioner of agriculture to [...]

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Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for remediation, business and community and workforce development, unemployment insurance and state funded administration, to the commissioner of commerce for workers compensation, financial examinations, the petroleum tank release cleanup board, administrative services, market assurance, energy and telecommunications, renewable development grants and renewable energy research, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and housing challenge, housing trust fund, rental assistance for the mentally ill, family homeless prevention, home ownership assistance and affordable rental investment funds, housing rehabilitation and accessibility, home ownership education, counseling and training and capacity building grants,[...]

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Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations and appropriation reductions by fund; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of commerce for administration and office of energy security programs, to the commissioner of employment and economic security (DEED) for the employment grants program, to the commissioner of labor and industry for the municipal building permit reporting unit in the labor standards program and to the bureau of mediation services; appropriating money to the commissioner of commerce for energy and telecommunications, to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development and workforce development, to Explore Minnesota tourism for the Minnesota film and TV board, to the Minnesota historical society for the sesquicentennial commission [...]

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