All State Government-Departments and Agencies Legislation - Minnesota
SF3895 - Global climate change study
Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) in cooperation with state and local government agencies to study the effect of global climate change for determining state impact and response strategies; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date (je) Comment on Bill SF1665 - Hearing loss early education intervention coordinator position establishment and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Establishing the position of statewide hearing loss early education intervention coordinator in the department of education, prescribing duties, requiring collaboration with various state offices and agencies; appropriating money to the commissioner of education (rt) SF3527 - Education department and office of higher education educational data sharing authority
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction (je) SF3597 - Education department and office of higher education data sharing permission
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations (rt) SF3589 - Teachers of color pilot financial aid program and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing a teachers of color financial aid pilot program under the supervision of the office of higher education, specifying eligibility; allowing partnerships between public institutions and school districts and requiring partnerships between Winona state university and independent school district #535, Rochester and St. Cloud state university and independent school district #281, Robbinsdale; allowing expenditures for program promotion, appropriating money for the teachers of color financial aid pilot program (rt) SF3668 - Homeless program providers consistency standards and guidelines requirements
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to the housing finance agency (HFA); requiring providers or organizations receiving homeless program state funding to impose certain consistent homeless programs standards on clients and requiring consistency in program guidelines; requiring the interagency task force on homelessness in consultation with the Minnesota coalition for the homeless, homeless advocates, certain homeless or formerly homeless people, representatives of public or private providers of emergency shelter, transitional, supportive and permanent affordable housing, representatives of homeless youth serving agencies and youth outreach programs and interested members of the public to establish certain standards; requiring agency and departments to implement the standards by a certain date (je) SF2013 - Higher education office and department of education merger joint legislative committee study
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Creating a joint legislative committee to assess an office of higher education merger into the department of education, specifying committee membership requirements (rt) SF2733 - State owned land acquisition limitation and real estate tax payment requirement
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Author added Rummel Bill Text 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) SF1792 - Teachers professional development Minnesota historical society grant
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the department of education for the purpose of providing grants to the Minnesota historical society for teacher professional development to improve implementation of academic standards in state history and social studies (me) Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF3650 - State government appropriations reductions; republican national convention budget reserve escrow account establishment
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF3398 - Office of enterprise technology state agencies registration requirements and legislative report requirements
Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Gen Ord: Stricken and re-referred to Finance Bill Text 1E Requiring state agencies with certain information and telecommunications technology projects to register with the office of enterprise technology and requiring the office to monitor progress on the projects; requiring the office of enterprise technology to report to the legislature regarding the approval process for state agency technology requests and assistance provided to state agencies in developing agency and intergovernmental information and technology systems plans; specifying certain report requirements (ra) SF0983 - Revisor's bill
Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF2829 - Housing finance agency (HFA) neighborhood land trusts capital costs bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for capital costs associated with publicly owned neighborhood land trusts (je) SF1687 - State contracts with companies with criminal or civil judgments prohibition
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to state government; prohibiting state contacts with companies convicted of or having a civil judgment rendered against the company; requiring applicants to do business with the state to certify no civil or criminal judgments have been made within a certain period of time; requiring commissioners and governmental agencies to terminate contracts with companies with criminal or civil judgments within a certain period of time (me) Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring a school media center, public library, state government agency library and public or private college or university library to be given access to the electronic library for Minnesota databases regardless of memberships in a regional library system (ra) SF2736 - State employees equitable compensation limits and procedures modifications; state commissioner salaries cap modifications
Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Relating to state employees; modifying equitable compensation limits; modifying the caps on state commissioner salaries (me) SF1106 - Open enrollment students athletic and extracurricular activities participation
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Author added Vandeveer Bill Text Allowing immediate eligibiltiy for students enrolling in nonresident districts to participate in academic courses and athletic, extracurricular and cocurricular activities on the same basis as resident students; repealing high school league rule making authority governing student athletic participation (rt) Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing a loan forgiveness program for speech language pathologists to promote licensed speech language pathologist recruitment and retention, specifying eligibility and loan forgiveness amounts; appropriating money to the office of higher education (rt) Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing incentives for state employee energy savings suggestions; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of administration relating to establishing procedures for documenting suggestion submissions; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; sunset provision (je) Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the issuance of state bonds to match federal grants for the clean water revolving fund and the drinking water revolving fund, for grants and loans to eligible municipalities under the wastewater infrastructure funding program, for total maximum daily load (TMDL) grants, for phosphorus reduction grants and for small community wastewater grants (ra) Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Committee report: To pass as amended Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF2256 - State employee group insurance plan (SEGIP) provider classifications condition and data release requirements
Latest Action: 04/23/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Prohibiting the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) and insurance carriers under contract with the state employees group insurance plan (SEGIP) from considering costs of medical services not under provider control for classification of primary medical care providers for purposes of establishing copayment amounts; requiring data used by the commissioner and carriers to be public and available to SEGIP providers (rt) SF2113 - Petition for rule adoption state agency requirements modification
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Author added Wergin Bill Text Relating to state government; modifying the requirements of state agencies relating to rule adoption petitions; specifying certain agency requirements upon failure to respond to a petition for adoption of a rule within a certain period of time (me) SF2138 - Garrison wastewater treatment facility bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/24/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of Garrison to design, construct, furnish and equip a wastewater treatment facility (rt) SF3544 - State employee cost savings initiative program and transportation endowment fund
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to establish procedures for state employees to propose cost savings initiatives, providing for implementation of the program; requiring savings be transferred to a cost savings proposal recognition account; creating a transportation endowment fund; requiring the state board of investment to invest the fund; requiring the transfer of a certain percentage from the endowment fund to the commissioner of finance for fund transfer; requiring the commissioner of finance to apportion and distribute available money for highway purposes (me) Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to insurance; requiring the commissioner of public safety and the office of enterprise technology to develop in consultation with the advisory committee an electronic recording of vehicle insurance and present to the legislature by a certain date a written proposal to create, implement and administer an electronic database system to provide monitoring of the insurance status of each motor vehicle required by law to be insured; specifying goals and features of the database system; creating the advisory committee on electronic recoding of vehicle insurance (ra) SF2656 - Executive branch employees emergency management training requirement
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3099 Bill Text 2E Requiring the division of emergency management to maintain and administer an emergency management training curriculum and requiring the division to make courses available to state employees with essential job duties involving emergency management, requiring state agencies with assigned emergency response roles to staff an employee with an entire completed emergency management training curriculum, providing for noncompliance and staff absence, requiring the commissioner of public safety to annually report to the legislature (me) SF1817 - Schools timely employment contracts financial incentives
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing a financial incentive for public employers to sign teacher collective bargaining agreements with teacher exclusive representative prior to the first student contact day, specifying amount and a formula; providing another financial incentive for public employers through written certification of teacher tentative agreement by exclusive teacher representative to the commissioner of bureau of mediation services prior to the first student contact day (rt) SF3059 - State land sales funding dedication for transportation projects and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to state lands; requiring the sale of state land by the commissioner of administration as directed by the land sale board before a certain date; prohibiting sales to other state agencies; specifying proceeds depositing requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for actual expenses of land sales; requiring commissioner of finance to determine savings to state agencies, requiring the commissioner to reduce appropriations accordingly and requiring a trunk highway fund transfer, requiring base budget reductions (rt) Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Classifying bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) background check data on individuals as private, permitting release upon consent of subject (rt) SF3587 - Firearm discharge reporting requirement modification
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of public safety to include a summary report of shots fired in the annual legislative crime report submitted by the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) (rt) Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring and providing for the commissioner of administration to coordinate state executive agency grants management, requiring financial oversight, training, agency coordination, a standardized grant contract, a statewide electronic grants managment system and financial reconciliation of grant expenditures; appropriating money to the commissioner of administration (rt) Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring and providing for the commissioner of finance to coordinate state executive agency grants management, requiring financial oversight, training, agency coordination, a standardized grant contract, a statewide electronic grants managment system and financial reconciliation of grant expenditures; appropriating money to the commissioner of finance (rt) SF3802 - Employer violation of federal immigration law penalties; crime of aggravated forgery documents inclusion; crime of sex trafficking as separate offense
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to public safety; establishing certain penalties for employers hiring illegal immigrants in violation of federal immigration law, defining certain terms, providing for an exception; establishing sex trafficking as a separate crime from the promotion of prostitution, modifying certain definitions; increasing penalties for aggravated forgery and expanding the documents included in the crime of aggravated forgery; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes (me) SF0193 - State agency fees moratorium
Latest Action: 01/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Prohibiting state agencies from imposing new fees or increasing existing fees (rt) SF2090 - Document imaging work by persons with developmental disabilities appropriation
Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for the purposes of promoting document imaging work in government agencies to be done by persons with developmental disabilities (je) SF0335 - Lobbying restriction
Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Prohibiting former legislators, constitutional officers, commissioners, agency heads and certain legislative employees from lobbying for legislative or administrative action for a certain period of time after leaving office (ra) SF2324 - Minnesota Health Act
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Commerce and Consumer Protection Bill Text 1E Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting [...] show full description Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the rural finance authority (RFA) to establish and implement a dairy animal revolving loan program to help dairy producers purchase additional dairy animals, specifying eligibility; authorizing the authority to make direct loans or participate in loans with eligible lenders, specifying terms and conditions; appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for deposit in the RFA revolving loan account (me) SF1486 - Ecological services for native habitats appropriation
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for collecting and delivering ecological information on native habitats and associated species to state agencies, individual citizens and local units of government and to assist with local community and state efforts to manage and restore natural habitat (me) Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to energy; promoting the use of hydrogen as energy resource using an innovative commercial demonstration of integrated biorefinery system for production of liquid transportation biofuels, biobased chemicals and substitutes for petroleum based feedstock and products causing a reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases; specifying certain project goals for fostering transition away from fossil fuels; specifying certain project eligibility requirements for selection purposes by the commissioner of commerce; requiring the rural finance authority (RFA) to partner with lenders to provide a certain percentage local guarantee for renewable energy project loans using biomass or wind, or both, as feedstock to produce biofuels, heating fuels and chemicals, limit; appropriating money for capitalization to eligible biofuel producers (je) SF0505 - Family homeless prevention and assistance program appropriation
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the family homeless prevention and assistance program (rt) Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring school media centers, public libraries, state government agency libraries and public or private college or university libraries to have access to selected databases of the electronic library for Minnesota (me) SF0748 - Medford wastewater treatment facility grant bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of Medford to design, construct, furnish and equip a new wastewater treatment facility (rt) SF3641 - State executive branch employees whistleblower protection, duties and rights
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring state employees to be nonpartisan resources to the executive and legislative branches of government; providing additional whistleblower protection to state executive branch employees trying to improve services provided by the executive branch to the legislature or to executive branch elected officials (rt) Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Chief auth stricken, shown as co-auth Rest Bill Text 1E Abolishing the department of employee relations and transferring duties to the commissioner of finance and certain other duties to the commissioners of administration and health, authorizing the governor to transfer duties; providing for worker protection from job loss as a result of the reorganization; specifying certain reference replacement instructions to revisor of statutes (ra) SF1529 - Upper Sioux community water system improvement appropriation
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the public facilities authority for a grant to the Upper Sioux community to improve the current water system in order to ensure the continuity of service to the entire population of the community and to meet the planned community expansion demands (me) SF2344 - Housing finance agency (HFA) public housing rehabilitation bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 05/20/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds to finance public housing rehabilitation costs for the preservation of public housing (rt) SF2607 - Natural disaster recovery state assistance framework and procedures
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF2904 Bill Text 2E Providing a framework for state agencies to assist in community natural disaster recovery for areas in a presidential major disaster declaration; requiring appropriations by law, specifying federal emergency management agency (FEMA) ineligibility for state assistance for disaster costs and nonduplication of FEMA public assistance, requiring agency legislative reporting of local government assistance, permitting unused general fund money transfers, specifying departments of agriculture, education, employment and economic development (DEED), health, human services, natural resources (DNR), pollution control agency (PCA), public safety and transportation (DOT) and board of water and soil resources (BOWSR), economic development and housing challenge program, Minnesota historical society and public facilities authority appropriations uses, authorizing certain waivers (rt) SF3186 - Public facilities authority wastewater infrastructure funding and credit enhanced bond program and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the public facilities authority to make funds available for wastewater infrastructures based on pollution control agency (PCA) priority list ranking and requiring funds reservation upon applicant federal commitment receipt or PCA plan submission; increasing public facilities authority grant funding; establishing and providing for a credit enhanced bond program to provide governmental unit loans through governmental units general obligation bonds purchased for purpose of project financing; requiring the authority to obtain funds to make loans through revenue bonds issuance payable from loan repayments pledged to the bonds; establishing a fund and accounts; permitting revenue bond issuance by the authority; specifying a bonding limit (rt) Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3055 Bill Text 1E Providing for deficiency funding for the Minnesota historical society for the administration of the Minnesota sesquicentennial commission, the board of chiropractic examiners, the board of dentistry and the board of veterinary medicine (je) Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Relating to state finance; improving access to state budget information by members of the legislature; clarifying the format of responses by agencies at the request of the legislative commission on planning and fiscal policy; modifying certain duties of the commission; amending legislative and budget proposal data classification requirements; modifying budget format details; specifying certain documentation requirements of agency budget information by the commissioner of finance; requiring a forecast of cash flow for the general fund; providing a deadline for modifying the budget after the February forecast; specifying a format for detailed budget estimates of expenditures; imposing a deadline for notice of deficiency requests; providing for an increase in the budget reserve; repealing certain obsolete provisions relating to a budget reserve increase and transfers to the tax relief account (me) SF3813 - Omnibus supplemental appropriations and appropriation reductions
Latest Action: 04/07/2008 - HF substituted by motion [HF1812] Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF3387 - Higher education student financial aid, GI and private institutions provisions modifications
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - STUDENT FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS Modifying Indian scholarship provisions relating to student eligibility, scholarship use, costs of attendance and award amounts; allowing the ACHIEVE scholarship program to request additional student documentation, modifying student eligibility requirements, application deadline and scholarship disbursement ARTICLE 2 - PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS Specifying nondegree program requirements; limiting use of the terms academy and institute to degree granting schools; permitting conditional approval for degrees or names for new schools; prohibiting certain school advertising or representation; clarifying school fees for programs degree and nondegree programs; requiring surety bonds from certain schools with a private career school license ARTICLE 3 - MINNESOTA GI BILL Modifying the cost of attendance for [...] show full description SF0050 - Lobbying restriction
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