HF 1101

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to water; increasing the water implementation 
  1.3             tax that may be levied by a county; increasing the 
  1.4             amount of the base grant that may be awarded to a 
  1.5             county that levies a water implementation tax; 
  1.6             appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, 
  1.7             section 103B.3369, subdivision 5. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 103B.3369, 
  1.10  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 5.  [FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.] The board may award 
  1.12  grants to watershed management organizations in the seven-county 
  1.13  metropolitan area or counties to carry out water resource 
  1.14  protection and management programs identified as priorities in 
  1.15  comprehensive local water plans.  Grants may be used to employ 
  1.16  persons and to obtain and use information necessary to: 
  1.17     (1) develop comprehensive local water plans under sections 
  1.18  103B.255 and 103B.311 that have not received state funding for 
  1.19  water resources planning as provided for in Laws 1987, chapter 
  1.20  404, section 30, subdivision 5, clause (a); 
  1.21     (2) revise comprehensive local water plans under section 
  1.22  103B.201; and 
  1.23     (3) implement comprehensive local water plans.  
  1.24  A base grant shall be awarded to a county that levies a water 
  1.25  implementation tax at a rate, which shall be determined by the 
  1.26  board.  The minimum amount of the water implementation tax shall 
  2.1   be a tax rate times the adjusted net tax capacity of the county 
  2.2   for the preceding year.  The rate shall be the rate, rounded to 
  2.3   the nearest .001 of a percent, that, when applied to the 
  2.4   adjusted net tax capacity for all counties, raises the amount of 
  2.5   $1,500,000 $2,100,000.  The base grant will be in an amount 
  2.6   equal to $37,500 $75,000 less the amount raised by that levy.  
  2.7   If the amount necessary to implement the local water plan for 
  2.8   the county is less than $37,500 $75,000, the amount of the base 
  2.9   grant shall be the amount that, when added to the levy amount, 
  2.10  equals the amount required to implement the plan.  For counties 
  2.11  where the tax rate generates an amount equal to or greater 
  2.12  than $18,750 $25,000, the base grant shall be in an amount equal 
  2.13  to $18,750 $25,000. 
  2.14     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.15     $900,000 in the biennium ending June 30, 2003, is 
  2.16  appropriated from the general fund to the board of water and 
  2.17  soil resources for an increase in the comprehensive local water 
  2.18  planning grants to counties component of the natural resources 
  2.19  block grants to local governments.