All Task Forces 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 education; expanding the required academic standards to include a world language; requiring school districts to implement world language graduation requirements for students graduating in the 2014-2015 school year or later; modifying elective standards; modifying benchmarks and graduation requirements; requiring the board of teaching to review and approve qualified alternative preparation programs leading to licensure as a world language teacher; establishing an advisory task force on developing students world language proficiency to consider and recommend to the legislature a process for designing and implementing a comprehensive statewide program to ensure a high level of world language proficiency, sunset; establishing a pilot program to develop and implement Mandarin Chinese programs and to enhance existing successful Mandarin Chinese programs for school districts, specifying certain application requirements,[...]

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4E Relating to transportation; classifying certain department of transportation (DOT) data relating to market research, overhead rates and bid escrow; authorizing a state agency or a political subdivision to enter property for purposes of investigation, monitoring, testing, surveying or boring to perform geotechnical investigations before eminent domain proceedings, requiring notification, prohibiting unnecessary property damage; providing a limit on business reestablishment costs; defining expressway; modifying the definition of freeway; requiring the commissioner allow commercial motor vehicle operators subject to hours of service regulations under certain federal regulations to stop and park continuously for up to a certain period of time as necessary at safety rest areas and travel information centers; modifying voyageur highway description; designating I-94 as the Purple Heart trail; designating a certain portion [...]

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2E Relating to human services; providing long term care rate adjustments for nursing facility operating costs under the alternative payment demonstration system; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide certain nursing facilities and ICF/MR facilities a health insurance per diem to the total operating payment rate for employee purchases of private sector health insurance coverage, limitation, specifying certain reporting requirements; prohibiting the commissioner from rebasing nursing facility payment rates without specific authority; increasing the total operating payment rate for ICF/MR facilities; modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements relating to employer subsidized insurance; modifying certain prior provider rate increases and use requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide a rate adjustment for employee health insurance costs for the providers of the services, specifying [...]

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1E Requiring the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to conduct a study assessing potential capacity for carbon sequestration in state terrestrial systems, specifying study requirements, requiring the study be coordinated by the Minnesota terrestrial carbon sequestration initiative, specifying task force membership, authorizing the university to contract with another party; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the Minnesota geological survey to conduct a study assessing the potential capacity for geologic carbon sequestration in the state midcontinent rift system, specifying study requirements, instructing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) in consultation with the Minnesota geological survey, to contract for a study to estimate the properties of the midcontinent rift system; requiring consultation with the Minnesota mineral coordinating committee; requiring the commissioner [...]

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Reorganizing the Minnesota financial crimes oversight council and task force; creating the financial crimes account; transferring responsibility over the oversight council and task force from the commissioner of public safety to attorney general; modifying certain funding and budget requirements for task force operations; modifying victims assistance program and reward requirements; modifying certain duties of the oversight council; expanding the jurisdiction of the oversight council and task force to include organized retail crime; defining organized retail crime; expanding the authority to the oversight council over the task force commander; modifying oversight council membership requirements; requiring a surcharge on instructional permits, provisions licenses, drivers licenses and Minnesota identification cards issued and regulating use of funds; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; eliminating a certain

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2E Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE Requiring the commissioner of public safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention team training for local police and sheriff departments; specifying consultation and training requirements; requiring sheriffs and local corrections to use a mental health screening tool approved by the commissioner of corrections in consultation with the commissioner of human services and local correction staff to identify persons with mental illness; providing for a county jail reentry project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and promote successful reintegration of individuals identified as having mental illness into the community, specifying grant application and program components; requiring the commissioner of corrections to develop a fair, firm and consistent protocol for inmates to have an opportunity to be released from disciplinary [...]

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Relating to health; requiring the commissioner of health to submit annual reports on health care cost containment goals to the legislature; establishing a medical expenditure review advisory committee to act as a consumer voice in the review of major spending commitments, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; establishing a health care transformation task force, specifying certain duties and membership requirements, requiring the development of a statewide action plan for transforming the health care system to improve affordability, quality and access and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying a date for the goal of universal health care coverage; requiring written hospital charity care policies, requiring the commissioner to adopt rules establishing standardized debt collection practices for hospitals; modifying performance payments for certain medical groups; requiring the

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Relating to taxation ARTICLE 1 - AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Increasing the city aid base for the city of Mahnomen; modifying the city aid formula; modifying city aid distribution calculations; modifying Mahnomen county, city and school district property tax reimbursements, tax base adjustments and tax base adjustments for calculation of school district aids and levies; requiring the commissioner of revenue to compute the adjusted net tax capacity and referendum market value for tax base adjustments for the calculation of school district and county, city and town aids and levies for utility property ARTICLE 2 - PROPERTY TAXES Allowing towns incorporating into cities to continue to receive payment in lieu of tax allocations for public hunting areas; requiring the assessment/sales ratio study to take into account the changes in the use of the property; authorizing utilities to recover [...]

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Relating to solid waste; requiring the department of administration to require state building construction and demolition contracts to divert a certain percentage of waste from landfill deposit and require a certain percentage to be recycled; removing source separated compostable materials from mixed municipal solid waste inclusion and requiring composting or transfer to a composting facility; defining reuse and including food products in the definition; providing a product stewardship standard for resource conservation, public health protection, waste prevention and toxicity reduction purposes and requiring pollution control agency (PCA) commissioner recommendations and requiring a periodic PCA solid waste characterization study; requiring certain incinerator resource recovery facilities to recover ferrous (iron) and nonferrous metals for reuse after a certain date; prescribing metropolitan area contractor construction [...]

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2E Relating to corrections; authorizing deferral of judgment for certain first time drug offenses under certain conditions; requiring the commissioners of corrections and employment and economic development (DEED) to develop and maintain a formal marketing plan to attract private sector business and industries for inmate employment through MINNCOR industries; modifying certain evidence of rehabilitation requirements; clarifying certain licensing exceptions; authorizing petitions for certificate of good conduct by adjudicated persons, providing for filing fee, petition contents and service, proposed order, hearing, eligibility, certificate issuance and effect, bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) record, revocation, limited effect and crime for misuse; requiring crime victim certificate of good conduct notification; requiring the commissioner of corrections to perform an internal review of department guidelines for [...]

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Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - MFIP WORK PARTICIPATION Prohibiting MFIP recipients from using MFIP monthly cash assistance payments issued in the form of electronic benefits transfer (EBT) to purchase tobacco products, lottery tickets or alcoholic beverages; requiring participants to develop and comply with an employment plan or a family stabilization services plan in order to maintain eligibility for any of the hardship extension categories; prohibiting unpaid work experience to include work on a partisan campaign; defining work activity to exclude partisan activities related to distributing and collecting voter registration cards; prohibiting a county or tribe from imposing residency requirements on families; modifying the allocation of performance base funds ARTICLE 2 - CHILD CARE Modifying the basic sliding fee child care program formula; restricting absent day payment [...]

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