All Appropriations-Omnibus Bills Legislation - Minnesota

2E Providing for the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 and early childhood and family education programs and services ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying annual reporting requirements of district anticipated expenditures and passage rates for GRAD purposes by school superintendents; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into interstate agreements with adjoining states to establish an enrollment options program, specifying agreement specifications, conditions, and pupil accounting (pupil unit); requiring the commissioner of education to establish procedures relating to the application process, funds payment or collection and data collection; providing for an exclusion from procedure requirements for certain smaller enrollment transfers; providing a tuition exemption for enrollment transfers under terms of agreement; modifying general education revenue calculation for 2010 and [...]

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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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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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1E Relating to the financing of state government; making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations for various state agencies ARTICLE 1- GENERAL FUND SUMMARY Summarizing certain general fund direct appropriations, appropriation reductions and transfers ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates, modifying the annual report submittal date; modifying and clarifying certain school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish enrollment options programs with an adjoining state, specifying certain agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting, requiring the commissioner [...]

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2E Relating to transportation finance ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including transit and rail, port development assistance, for state roads including infrastructure operations and maintenance, infrastructure investment support and highway debt service, for local roads including county and municipal state aids and for state aid appropriation adjustments and transfers, to the commissioner of public safety for the state patrol for additional troopers, to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for transportation emergency relief for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the center for transportation studies to assess the public policy implications of financing new and improved transportation infrastructure, requiring a report to the legislature by [...]

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2E Relating to financing and operation of state and local government ARTICLE 1 - INCOME TAX Adding certain fines to federal taxable income; providing an income tax subtraction for the amount of national service education awards received from the national service trust for service in an approved AmeriCorps national service program; providing an income tax credit for investments in qualified new business ventures; prohibiting businesses from deducting criminal or civil fines, penalties or damages; modifying and increasing the income tax credit for military service; establishing the Minnesota home care income tax credit, determining the amount of credit allowed and credit limitations, providing credit to be refundable, requiring certain caregiver training; providing an refundable income tax credit for qualified citizenship expenses; prohibiting businesses from deducting criminal or civil fines, penalties [...]

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3E Relating to education; ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Appropriating money for jobs and economic development purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for grants for rural policy and development center at St. Peter, for women's business development programs, university enterprise laboratories (UEL) bioscience development activities, the redevelopment grant program, for DEED small businesses department services and a technology and commercialization unit, for the small community wastewater treatment program, small business growth program, bioscience business development programs, the urban challenge grant program, the bioscience business marketing program, and the nanotechnology development fund program [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for transportation, metropolitan council and public safety activities ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation support and services, transit, freight, rail, state roads, infrastructure investment and planning and support, state road construction, highway debt service, infrastructure operations and maintenance, electronic communications, local roads, county and municipal state aids, department support and buildings; authorizing certain fund transfers and state road construction appropriations use and providing for contingent appropriations, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations, to the commissioner of public [...]

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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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2E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for public safety and corrections initiatives ARTICLE 1 - PUBLIC SAFETY APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for emergency management, criminal apprehension, cooperative investigation of cross jurisdictional criminal activity, laboratory activities, DWI lab analysis, forensic scientists, fire marshal, alcohol and gambling enforcement, office of justice programs, gang and drug task force, victim notification system, squad car cameras, peace officer overtime, youth intervention programs, crime victim support grant, sexual violence, domestic violence, administration costs, 911 emergency services/ARMER, public safety answering points, medical resource communication centers, ARMER debt service, improvements, interoperability planning, state backbone operating costs and public [...]

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1E Relating to judiciary finance; appropriating money to the supreme court for operations, contingent accounts and core justice operations maintenance, civil legal services for low income clients in family law matters, court of appeals for caseload increases, trial courts for guardian ad litem, interpreters, psychological and in forma pauperis services, for new judge units, existing problem solving courts maintenance and expansion and pro se litigants resources expansion and to maintain core justice operations, to the tax court, the uniform laws commission, the board on judicial standards for investigative and hearing costs and the board of public defense for appellate office caseload increase, shortfall, public defense caseload increase, part time public defenders data entry and public defense corporations; adding judgeships; providing for use of nonfelony abandoned bail in the fourth judicial district, requiring funds

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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 ARTICLE 1 - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA) and to renovate the 717 Delaware building for use as a biomedical science research facility, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), Bemidji state university, Fond du Lac tribal and community college and for debt service, to the commissioner of education for independent school district #38, Red Lake for new facilities, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for Stillwater flood control phase III, Lake Zumbro restoration, Red River digital [...]

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1E Relating to the financing of state government; making onetime appropriations ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY Providing a summary of appropriations ARTICLE 2 - HUMAN SERVICES Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for children and economic assistance grants, for grants to counties for child support enforcement programs, for children and community services grants, for grants to counties and tribes affected by reductions in targeted case management federal Medicaid revenue, for other children and economic assistance grants, for children and economic assistance management, administration and operations, for continuing care grants to reimburse the costs of nursing facility sprinkler systems and for state operated services for a grant to Advocating Change Together (ACT) for the remembering with dignity project, to the commissioner of health for the window replacement program and [...]

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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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HF 562 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Transportation, Metropolitan Council, and public safety funding provided, motor vehicle sales tax provisions modified, Public Safety Department fees increased, and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1: TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Transportation appropriations language provided. Section 3: Transportation language provided. Section 4: Metropolitan council language provided. Section 5: Public safety language provided. Section 6: General contingent accounts language provided. Section 7: Tort claims language provided. Section 8: Driver and vehicle services language provided. Section 9: Federal funds spending authority language provided. Section 10: Northstar commuter rail language provided. ARTICLE 2: MOTOR VEHICLE SALES TAX

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HF 1063 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus higher education finance bill establishing and amending higher education programs, and appropriating money. ARTICLE 1: HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations language provided. Section 2: Higher education appropriations language provided. Section 3: Minnesota office of higher education language provided. Section 4: Board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities language provided. Section 5: Board of regents of the University of Minnesota language provided. Section 6: Mayo clinic language provided. Section 7: Department of veterans affairs language provided. Section 8: Center for rural policy and development language provided. Section 9: Financial aid program studies language provided. Section 10: Postsecondary education participation [...]

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HF 2245 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus E-12 education finance bill. ARTICLE 1: GENERAL EDUCATION Section 1: Additional revenues; priority language modified. Section 2: Program established language modified. Section 3: Commissioner designation language modified. Section 4: Student planning language modified. Section 5: Pupil unit language modified. Section 6: Basic revenue language modified. Section 7: Gifted and talented revenue language modified. Section 8: Equity revenue language modified. Section 9: Basic alternative teacher compensation aid language modified. Section 10: Reallocating general education revenue for all-day kindergarten and prekindergarten language modified. Section 11: General education aid language modified. Section 12: County apportionment deduction language 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 829 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus public safety finance bill appropriating money for the courts, public safety, corrections, and other agencies; imposing criminal and civil penalties; and regulating DWI and driving provisions. ARTICLE 1: APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations provided. Section 2: Public safety appropriations language provided. Section 3: Supreme Court appropriations language provided. Section 4: Court of Appeals appropriations language provided. Section 5: Trial Courts appropriations language provided. Section 6: Tax Court appropriation language provided. Section 7: Uniform Laws Commission appropriation language provided. Section 8: Board on Judicial Standards appropriation language provided. Section 9: Board of Public Defense appropriation language provided. Section 10: Public Safety [...]

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HF 886 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus bonding bill providing capital improvements funding, issuing bonds, canceling and modifying previous appropriations, and appropriating money. Section 1: Capital improvement appropriations provided. Section 2: University of Minnesota appropriations provided. Section 3: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities appropriations provided. Section 4: Minnesota Department of Education appropriations provided. Section 5: Natural resources appropriations provided. Section 6: Pollution Control Agency appropriations provided. Section 7: Board of Water and Soil Resources appropriations provided. Section 8: Minnesota Zoological Garden appropriations provided. Section 9: Administration appropriations provided. Section 10: Public Safety appropriations provided. Section 11: Transportation appropriations [...]

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HF 1812 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT State government operations funding provided and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1 -- SUMMARY (General Fund Only, After Forecast Adjustments) Section 1: General fund summary language provided. ARTICLE 2 -- EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION Section 1: Developmental screening aid language modified. Section 2: Teachers' and administrators' licenses; fees language modified. Section 3: Debt service appropriation language modified. Section 4: To qualify language modified. Section 5: Bonds for certain capital facilities language modified. Section 6: Pupils in adjoining states language modified. Section 7: Tuition payments language modified. Section 8: Effective if reciprocal language modified. Section 9: Appeal to the commissioner language modified. Section 10: Reciprocity [...]

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HF 6 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus prekindergarten through grade 12 education finance bill. ARTICLE 1 -- E-12 EDUCATION Section 1: Developmental screening aid language modified. Section 2: Teachers' and Administrators' licenses; fees language modified. Section 3: Basic alternative teacher compensation aid language provided. Section 4: Alternative teacher compensation levy language provided. Section 5: Alternative teacher compensation aid language provided. Section 6: Debt service appropriation language modified. Section 7: To qualify language modified. Section 8: Bonds for certain capital facilities language modified. Section 9: Pupils in adjoining states language modified. Section 10: Tuition payments language modified. Section 11: Effective if reciprocal language modified. Section 12: Appeal to the [...]

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HF 122 SECOND ENGROSSMENT American flags for sale required to be manufactured in the United States. ARTICLE 1: JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Section 1: Summary of appropriations language provided. Section 2: Jobs and economic development appropriations language provided. Section 3: Employment and economic development language provided. Section 4: Explore Minnesota tourism language provided. Section 5: Housing finance agency language provided. Section 6: Labor and industry language provided. Section 7: Bureau of mediation services language provided. Section 8: Workers' compensation court of appeals language provided. Section 9: Minnesota Historical Society language provided. Section 10: Board of the arts language provided. Section 11: Board of accountancy [...]

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