Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Taxes

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Agricultural product definition expanded for purposes of property taxation.

Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Increasing education levy authority for ice arenas
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to taxation; exempting the portion of a city levy required to be shared
with a township under an orderly annexation agreement from levy limits
(je)

Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the minimum acreage requirement for property to qualify as an
agricultural homestead
(me)

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

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Relating to property tax; expanding the definition of real estate considered
agricultural land for property tax classification purposes to include the
raising of Christmas trees grown for resale
(je)

Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Expanding proposed property tax notice content requirements relating to taxpayer
eligibility for special property tax refund from the state
(je)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Taxes

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1E Authorizing establishment of the White community hospital district in St.
Louis county by resolution of the prospective governing bodies of the cities of
Aurora, Biwabik and Hoyt Lakes and the towns of Biwabik, White and Colvin;
specifying certain district powers and duties and providing for for annexation
and detachment, unorganized areas membership authority and hospital district
board membership; authorizing the hospital district to levy property taxes
(me)

Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Chief author stricken Murphy

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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
(me)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing the Northwest multicounty housing and redevelopment authority to
levy certain taxes
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Extending special agricultural homestead property tax treatment to property
actively farmed by the brother or sister of the owner or of the spouse of the
owner
(je)

Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Exempting certain property of nonprofit outdoor recreation organizations from
the property tax
(me)

Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to taxation; exempting real property located in the Fergus Falls
historical zone from ad valorem property taxes, limits
(je)

Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to taxation; making permanent certain temporary aid payments to certain
taxing jurisdictions in Mahnomen county including the city of Mahnomen and
independent school district #432, Mahnomen
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying applicable land use requirements for the green acres agricultural
property tax program; modifying certain application procedures
(me)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring county auditors to use the previous year final levy upon taxing
authority proposed certification failure by due date
(rt)

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

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Relating to taxation; conforming to various federal tax changes for individual
income, corporate franchise, estate tax and property tax refunds
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property taxes; requiring certain low income rental housing to
participate in the crime free multihousing program offered through the city
police or county sheriff in order to receive a reduced property tax class 4d
rate; specifying certain certification, compliance and notification requirements
(je)

Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Taxes

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Relating to education; modifying the tax base used to calculate school district
debt service levies; defining debt service net tax capacity, requiring use to
compute debt service levy limits and aid; requiring the commissioner of revenue
to recompute debt service net tax capacity amounts using an alterative sales
ratio comparing the sale price to the estimated market value of the property
(rt)


Latest Action: 01/18/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing the cities of Coleraine, Bovey, Taconite, Marble and Calumet and the
towns of Iron Range, Lawrence, Greenway and Trout Lake to establish the Lakeview
cemetery association; authorizing the cities and towns to enter into a joint
powers agreement to exercise certain powers, providing for optional
participation; specifying certain property tax levy authority
(me)

Latest Action: 04/10/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Environment and Natural Resources

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Providing for the increase payments to counties by the commissioner of natural
resources (DNR) on land utilization project land
(me)

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

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Relating to education finance; providing for school districts to levy for
retired employee health benefits
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the property tax classification of class 2b property to include a
certain amount of forest land; permitting certain nonresidential structures;
specifying requirements for receiving the reduced class rate
(me)

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

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Increasing education levy authority for ice arenas
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Author added Rummel

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Relating to state lands; limiting certain acquisitions of state owned land,
requiring a no net gain of state land; requiring the payment of real estate
taxes on purchased state land or in lieu of taxes agreements under certain
conditions
(me)


Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property tax; removing the maximum from homeowner property tax
refunds; implementing an income phaseout for the special property tax refund;
modifying the determination of the inflation adjustment for property tax refunds
(je)

Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to economic development; requiring annual registration of certain
relative homesteads; appropriating money to the board of regents of the
university of Minnesota to assist in the formation of the university of
Minnesota Minneapolis area neighborhood alliance, providing for alliance
functions and projects, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date
(ra)

Latest Action: 01/18/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing a 2007 property tax rebate for owners of properties located in
qualifying taxing jurisdictions, providing for supplemental tax statements;
requiring the commissioner of revenue to issue reimbursement payments to
qualifying counties equal to the amount of rebates issued by the county and to
determine maximum levies for counties, cities and towns; requiring certification
of proposed levies; appropriating money to the commissioner of revenue
(je)

Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property tax; modifying the homestead local option disaster
abatement provision to include homestead property destroyed by arson or
vandalism by other than the owner
(me)

Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Increasing the local government aid (LGA) city aid base for a certain city
with a state park
(je)

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

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Excluding agricultural land values from the tax base calculation for school
bonded debt levies; creating the state board of agricultural land valuation,
specifying membership; requiring the board to develop a system for valuing
agricultural based on the productive capacity of the land, appropriating money
to the board; providing for the determination of production value, acquisition
value and tax value; providing for computation of tax rates
(me)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property tax; expanding residential real estatet property
classification to certain nonprofit community service oriented organizations
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property tax; expanding residential real esate property
classification to certain nonprofit community service oriented organizations
(me)


Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Author added Rummel

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Relating to education; providing property tax relief; increasing and indexing
debt service equalization revenue; defining state debt service equalizing
factor; increasing and indexing equalization of the health and safety, deferred
maintenance and operating capital levies
(je)

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

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Relating to education; providing property tax relief; increasing and indexing
equalization of the equity, transition and referendum equalization levies;
defining state first and second tier referendum equalizating factors
(je)

Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Author added Marty

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Relating to taxation; reattaching land constituting an intermediate airport to
the city and school district where the property is located for property tax
purposes; modifying the definition of area
(je)

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

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Authorizing school districts with home county auditor agreements to mutually
extend the date of certification of the proposed property tax levy, specifying
date of notice to commissioner of revenue and certification date
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Excluding agricultural land values from the tax base calculation for school
bonded debt levies
(rt)

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

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Extending the application of 4d property classification for low income rental
property
(ra)


Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of revenue to study the costs of the truth in
taxation property tax program and the level of taxpayer participation; requiring
a report to the legislature by a certain date
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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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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Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property taxation; replacing certain school district levies with a
state formula, defining terms; modifying credit computations; modifying the safe
schools levy; providing residential and agricultural homestead market value
credit valuation limits; increasing property tax refunds for homeowners and
renters; expanding senior citizen property tax deferral eligibility; increasing
local government aid (LGA) distributions to cities and counties and providing
for an inflation adjustment after a certain year
(rt)

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

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Authorizing sanctions for property tax petitioners contesting the valuation of
income producing property; specifying submittal of certain required information
to the county assessor
(je)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying property tax economic development abatement maximum limitations by a
political subdivision
(je)

Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Reducing the school district debt service equalization revenue levy formula
percentage and modifying the equalized debt service levy
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Eliminating the distance limitation requirement for agricultural homesteads;
increasing the agricultural homestead market value credit; reducing the
agricultural homestead class rate
(me)

Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Establishing an aggregate resource preservation property tax program for the valuation and classification of property containing certain unmined commercial aggregate deposit; specifying qualifying property and certain affidavit and valuation deferment application requirements, requiring a covenant restricting use; providing for county assessor determination of value as agricultural property; authorizing cancellation of the covenant under certain conditions; permitting county termination and reauthorization upon county board resolution adoption, prospective application; subjecting property no longer qualifying to certain additional taxes, additional taxes to be a lien on the property; requiring property owner filing of supplemental affidavits upon the start of mining activity, requiring removal of the property from the program, requiring documentation filing with county assessors, local zoning administrators and the [...]

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Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing the Big Stone county board by resolution to assign delinquent
property tax duties to the county treasurer
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; increasing state aid for the debt service equalization
aid program
(rt)

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

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Extending the duration limit for certain job opportunity building zones (JOBZ)
under certain conditions
(me)

Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing and providing for the designation of the campus of the former state
regional treatment center in the city of Fergus Falls as a tax free renaissance
zone, specifying the duration limit for the zone; exempting individuals residing
in the zone and qualified businesses operating in the zone from income and
property taxes, providing for an historic preservation tax credit
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the school district referendum market value tax base; modifying the
taxation of seasonal residential recreational property
(rt)


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

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Modifying homeowner requirements to qualify for the senior citizen property tax
deferral program; requiring the commissioner of revenue to notify qualifying
homeowners of the maximum household income for the calendar year preceding the
year of initial application by the homeowner
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the definition of school district referendum market value; eliminating
seasonal residential recreational property from the state general tax levy
(me)

Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Increasing the operating payment rates under medical assistance (MA) for certain
nursing homes to offset property tax payments
(me)


Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Prohibiting an increase in the taxable market value for homesteads owned by
persons at least 65 years of age (property tax freeze)
(rt)


Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Increasing the property tax class rates on certain utility property
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Taxes

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Exempting from the property tax personal property of a certain simple cycle
combustion turbine electric generation facilities, specifying certain proposed
electric generation peaking plant qualification requirements and certain
exclusions
(je)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Taxes

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Exempting from the property tax personal property of a certain simple cycle
combustion turbine electric generation facilities, specifying certain proposed
electric generation peaking plant qualification requirements and certain
exclusions
(me)

Latest Action: 04/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to the city of Centerville; excluding property located within certain
redevelopment tax increment financing (TIF) districts from the commercial
industrial property classification for metropolitan revenue distribution
purposes
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Increasing the market value included in tier I homestead resorts
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to property taxation; establishing a maximum homestead property tax
(cap) program, defining terms, specifying participation qualifications,
including age, income and length of residence qualifiers, providing an
application procedure, providing for excess income certification procedures by
commissioner of revenue; providing for tax calculation, tax rate and levy by
county auditor; providing for termination of program participation
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/28/2007 - Chief author stricken Ingebrigtsen

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Relating to taxation; extending abatement authority to delinquent taxes,
interest and penalties
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing a reduced property tax classification rate for certain seasonal
restaurant property
(je)

Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education finance; increasing the equalizing factor for equity and
transition levies and referendum revenue
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Prohibiting an increase in the taxable market value for homesteads owned by
persons at least 65 years of age (property tax freeze)
(je)

Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to taxation; extending homestead classification to certain property
used for nonhomestead purposes
(ra)

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

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Relating to property tax; replacing certain school district levies with a state
formula, defining terms; modifying credit computations; modifying the referendum
equalization levy formula; modifying certain local government aid (LGA) programs
and program appropriations; modifying city revenue need provisions; modifying
city aid base, city formula aid and city aid distribution provisions; creating a
city supplemental aid formula; modifying the appropriation to cities and
counties; providing for an annual inflation adjustment
(je)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Author added Erickson Ropes

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Prohibiting an increase in the taxable market value for homesteads owned by
persons at least 65 years of age and within certain income limits (property tax
freeze)
(me)

Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing for a valuation exclusion for homesteads of certain disabled military
veterans
(me)

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

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Relating to taxation; modifying requirements for classification as class 4c
property
(ra)

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

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Eliminating the obligation of the city of Bloomington to contribute to the
metropolitan area fiscal disparities pool
(me)

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

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Modifying the property tax valuation on certain rural land abutting
public waters
(rt)


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

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Exempting military pay received by a disabled veteran from the definition of
household income for property tax refund purposes
(me)

Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Extending the date for independent school district #535, Rochester to
certify the proposed property tax levy to the county auditor
(me)

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

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Modifying the requirements for open space property tax treatment; adding soccer
as an acceptable use and eliminating exclusive use as a requirement; defining
other recreational uses carried on at the establishment and facilities
supporting such recreational uses
(ra)