State Government-Finance Legislation - Minnesota

Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - CONTINUING CARE Modifying certain targeted case management provisions; authorizing the commissioner of human services to award through a competitive process contracts for grants to public and private agencies to support and assist individuals eligible for publicly funded home and community-based services to access housing; providing for nursing facility rate increases beginning October 1, 2009; providing for calculation of quality add-on for the rate year beginning October 1, 2009; requiring demonstration providers providing nursing home and community-based services to provide relocation service coordination to enrolled persons age 65 and over; expanding general assistance (GA) shelter needy eligibility to self-directed supports option participants and home and community-based waiver recipients living independently, extending the state-funded transitional [...]

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2E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement [...]

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HF 3201 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus technical tax bill; Tax policy and administration provisions modified relating to income, franchise, property, sales, and other taxes. ARTICLE 1 -- AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT Section 1: City aid base language is modified. Section 2: City formula aid language is modified. Section 3: City aid distribution language is modified. Section 4: Mahnomen County; County, City, School District, Property Tax Reimbursement, Aid Appropriation language is modified. Section 5: Mahnomen County; City, County and School District Tax Base Adjustments language is modified. Section 6: Utility property; tax base adjustments for calculation of school districts and levies language is modified. Section 7: Utility property; tax base adjustments for calculation of county, city, and town aids language is modified. [...]

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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 2553 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Alternative compensation and settlement process provided for survivors of the I-35W catastrophe, and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1 -- CATASTROPHE SURVIVOR COMPENSATION Section 1: Limits language is modified. Section 2: Purpose language is provided. Subdivision 1. Findings; I-35W bridge. Subdivision 2. Compensation process. Subdivision 3. Not an admission of liability. Section 3: Definitions are provided. Subdivision 1. Application. Subdivision 2. Catastrophe. Subdivision 3. Damages. Subdivision 4. Emergency relief fund. Subdivision 5. Municipality. Subdivision 6. Panel. Subdivision 7. State. Subdivision 8. Survivor. Section 4: Consideration and payment of claims language is provided. Subdivision 1. Special master panel. Subdivision 2. Staff. Subdivision 3. Records. Subdivision [...]

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HF 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 [...]

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HF 2227 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus agricultural and veterans affairs bill appropriating money; modifying revenue and fund disposition; modifying and creating funds, fees, and accounts; providing for NextGen energy; and changing veterans provisions. ARTICLE 1: AGRICULTURE Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Agriculture appropriations language provided. Section 3: Department of Agriculture appropriation language provided. Section 4: Board of Animal Health appropriation language provided. Section 5: Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation language provided. Section 6: Compensation required language added. Section 7: Compensation language modified. Section 8: Cooperation with federal agencies language added. Section 9: Agricultural development grants and contracts language modified.

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1E Providing for the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs and services ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition; modifying general education levy aid; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; allowing referendum market value to determine district state aid adjustment abatement; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the specific enrollment options in nonresident districts ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE Requiring charter and nonpublic schools to transfer student records to student school of residence, requiring inclusion of form disciplinary actions in records transfer; requiring school district to adopt gifted and talented students acceleration policies and procedures; modifying secondary students state

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1E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the legislature for general operations and for health care access, to the constitutional officers, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities, state and community and administrative management services, for matching grants for public television, to the capitol area architectural and planning (CAAP) board, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts receivable [...]

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Relating to state government; reducing certain state government appropriations to the legislature, legislative coordinating commission (LCC), governor, state auditor, attorney general, secretary of state, office of enterprise technology, commissioner of administration for state facilities services, state and community services and administrative management services, the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, commissioner of employee relations (DOER), commissioner of revenue for the tax system management program and amateur sports commission; requiring the commissioner of finance to reduce the budget reserve account by a certain amount; requiring the legislature to cancel certain balances carried forward; appropriating money from the budget reserve to the commissioner of finance for the budget reserve escrow account as a guarantee by the state for private money [...]

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Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the office of higher education services office for ACHIEVE, the Minnesota GI bill, state grants, safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state work study, child care grants, Minitex and MnLINK gateway, the learning network, the college savings plan, the Midwest higher education compact, certain small programs, united family medicine registry program and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for developing and strengthening projects to improve campus recruitment and retention of underserved students, for instruction in electronic medical record technology, for excellence in the biosciences, for STEM, for performance bonuses and expanding the online program, to the board of regents [...]

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Relating to taxation; establishing a data match system for comparison of account information data held by financial institutions with the department of revenue database of debtors (tax debtor matching system), permitting fee charging, providing for noncompliance to information requests, confidentiality, immunity and civil action for unauthorized disclosures by financial institutions, appropriating annually for administrative costs, making conforming amendments; creating the surplus lines association of Minnesota as a nonprofit association, classifying data as public, requiring licensees to submit documents to the surplus lines association; defining targeted rural opportunity community, establishing a regional emerging business investment tax credit for qualifying businesses; abolishing the political contribution refund; making federal tax conforming changes; defining levy year as the year in which levies are certified

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