All Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department Legislation - Minnesota

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 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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1E 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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Relating to the financing of state government; appropriating money to the adjutant general of the department of military affairs for maintenance training facilities to pay the special assessments levied against state property, for certain general support services including the Minnesota national guard reintegration program, additional staffing and for Minnesota support our troops grants and for enlistment incentives, to the commissioner of veterans affairs for outreach to veterans, state soldiers assistance, higher education veterans assistance program, administration of veterans programming, information technology, operations at the Minnesota state veterans cemetery in Little Falls, grants to counties to enhance the benefits, programs and services provided to veterans and for additional funding for grants to disabled American veterans, military order of the purple heart, veterans of foreign wars, Vietnam veterans of [...]

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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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Relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; establishing new programs and modifying existing programs; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), to construct a science teaching student services building on the Twin Cities campus and a civil engineering addition to Voss-Kovach Hall on the Duluth campus, for renovation of the community services building on the Morris campus and renovation of the Folwell hall on the Twin Cities campus and specifying certain university share requirements, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), for renovation of Trafton science [...]

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1E Relating to the state government, appropriating money for agricultural, veterans and military affairs ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for certain protection services, invasive species control, meat, dairy and food inspections, emergency planning activities and livestock premise identification, for agricultural marketing and development including grants for the Minnesota promotion, sustainable agriculture demonstration projects, livestock siting and local zoning issues, integrated pest management, agricultural best management practices loan program and residential farmers cost share payments for organic certification, for value added agricultural products including ethanol production, Minnesota institute for sustainable agriculture, cellulosic biofuel facilities community ownership, Bois Forte band of Chippewa for renewable energy biofuels [...]

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