Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1607

2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for
water program operations, air monitoring, land protection, environmental
assistance and cross-media purposes, administrative support, and remediation
purposes; appropriating money to the department of natural resources (DNR) for
land and mineral resources management, ecological and water resource purposes,
forest management, parks and trails management, fish and wildlife management,
and for certain enforcement and operations support purposes; appropriating money
to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR), the metropolitan council, the
conservation corps of Minnesota, the zoological board, and the science museum of
Minnesota

ARTICLE 2 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES STATUTORY
CHANGES

Classifying trade secret information submitted to the pollution
control (PCA) agency under product stewardship programs; authorizing the
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to establish policies for use and
operation of other power-driven mobility devices for persons with disabilities
for compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); creating a fee
exemption for a utility license when the utility crossing is on an existing
right-of-way of a public road; specifying county and joint county regional
railroad authority fee exemption for federal conveyance of trail easements on
state land; authorizing the exchange of road easements by the commissioner of
natural resources (DNR) and providing certain regulations; allowing snowmobile
nontrail use registration and prescribing a registration fee; extending the
Matthew Lourey Trail; exempting U.S. military personnel and dependents in
possession of a certain federal pass from state park permit requirements;
exempting the La Salle Lake state recreation area from the state park permit
requirement; modifying the state park permit fee for persons with disabilities;
requiring the commissioner to issue duplicate cross-country ski trail passes;
modifying forest management investment account cost certification requirements;
establishing school forests; modifying certain provisions under the State Timber
Act relating to timber rules, trespassing on state lands, forest improvement
contracts, sale of damaged timber, reoffering unsold timber, fee schedules,
permit holder debarment, appraisal standards and appraiser authority, sales
requirements, intermediate auction sales, purchaser requirements, permit
issuance and requirements, security deposit requirements for effective timber
permits, securing timber permits with cutting blocks, timber permit development
options, assignment of auction time permits, deferred payments, informal sale
requirements, extension of timber permits, special use and product permits,
prompt payment of refunds, purchase money when forfeited, timber sales records,
consumer scaling, seizure of unlawfully cut timber, and reward for apprehension
of trespassers; defining scram mining and providing for the term of a scram
mining permit; authorizing nonresident professional wildlife rehabilitators with
federal permits to possess and transport wildlife affected by oil spills;
requiring a drill core library data access fee; establishing a wastewater
laboratory certification process; establishing an architectural paint product
stewardship program and plan; modifying pollution control agency (PCA),
commissioner of agriculture, emergency response commission, and municipal
landfill abatement reporting requirements; modifying petroleum tank fund
property acquisition expenditure requirements; providing for disposition of
property acquired for corrective action; modifying PCA storage tank affidavit
requirements; requiring the development of model standards and criteria for
mining, processing, and transporting silica sand and other nonmetallic minerals
for use by local governmental units, specifying standards and criteria
requirements; requiring the board to assemble a silica sand technical assistance
team; requiring an environmental review of silica sand projects; requiring the
board, in conjunction with local governments, to create and maintain an online
library of local government ordinances and permits; modifying the membership,
support and administration of the environmental quality board; providing for
conveyance of tax forfeited land for school forest use; requiring the
commissioner to annually monitor certain lands and report on use as school
forests and providing for reversion declaration; permitting county auditors to
sell timber off of certain tax-forfeited land under certain conditions;
authorizing the Hennepin county board of commissioners to petition the board of
water and soil resources (BWSR) to discontinue the Hennepin soil and water
conservation district and transfer duties and authority to the Hennepin county
board of commissioners; requiring BWSR petition review, providing for
transfer,
grants, and reestablishment of the Hennepin soil and water
conservation
district; authorizing the Minneapolis park and recreation board to
recreate Hall's Island at a certain site in Hennepin county near Scherer
Brothers lumber yard; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to
grant necessary permits; extending boundaries and authorizing the use of funds
for the North Mississippi regional park; requiring the commissioner to
cancel
certain timber sale permit provisions sold before a certain date that
require
security payment for or removal of balsam fir under certain
conditions;
authorizing certain rulemaking relating to paddle board licenses and silica
sand; permitting the extension of interim ordinances or renewal of expired
ordinances prohibiting new and expanded silica sand projects; repealing certain
provisions related to timber lands, tree nursery program restructuring reports
requirements, acid deposit control, solid waste grant and loan programs
provisions and waste tire programs provisions

ARTICLE 3 -
AGRICULTURE

Relating to agriculture; appropriating money to the department of
agriculture for protection services, agricultural marketing and development,
bioenergy and value-added agriculture, and administration and financial
assistance, to the board of animal health, and to the agricultural utilization
research institute; making department of agriculture clarifying changes;
updating pesticide education and training requirements and specifying
new
requirements; modifying commercial animal waste technician requirements by
designating a waste technician applicator license, a commercial animal waste
technician site manager license, and a commercial animal waste technician
company license, specifying requirements; requiring the commissioner of
agriculture to use existing pesticide account resources for the new education
and training requirements

ARTICLE 4 - COMMERCE AND ENERGY

Appropriating
money to the department of commerce for the regulation of mortgage originators
and servicers, for the petroleum tank release compensation board, for
administrative services, for telecommunication services, and for enforcement,
energy resources and insurance purposes; appropriating money to the public
utilities commission; providing commerce department funding for the insurance
fraud prevention account; requiring cost of service to be the primary
consideration for the public utilities commission (PUC) in determining revenue
allocation among customer classes, allowing other factors for consideration;
establishing the "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive; defining
certain terms; creating and allocating funds to the "Made in Minnesota" solar
energy production incentive account; specifying application process for
manufacturers of solar photovoltaic modules to qualify for the incentive;
authorizing the department of commerce to calculate the production
incentive
for each qualified module; specifying certain eligibility and process
for
certain payments to owners of solar photovoltaic modules; establishing and
providing for the office of broadband development in the executive branch to
improve broadband within the state; requiring the office to
coordinate
broadband infrastructure development in collaboration with
appropriate state
agencies, local units of government, and private entities;
requiring a state
broadband strategy report to the legislature by a certain
date; modifying
certain appropriations and expenditures to the telecommunications access
Minnesota fund relating to the legislative coordinating commission providing
closed captioning of legislative activity on their website; expanding the use of
petroleum inspection fee revenues by the commissioner of commerce weights and
measures division to include grants to eligible providers of low-income
weatherization services to install renewable energy equipment; specifying that
all state funded solar photovoltaic modules be made in Minnesota; authorizing a
study of costs and benefits of installing utility managed energy storage modules
in residential and commercial buildings; authorizing a study regarding the costs
and benefits of expanding the installation of solar thermal projects

ARTICLE
5 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the
department of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and
community development, workforce development, general support services, the
Minnesota trade office, vocational rehabilitation purposes and services for the
blind; appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the challenge
program, the housing trust fund, rental assistance for the mentally ill, family
homeless prevention, home ownership trust fund, affordable rental investment
fund, housing rehabilitation, homeownership education, counseling and training,
capacity-building grants, and rental rehabilitation; appropriating money to the
department of labor and industry for workers compensation, the labor standards
and apprenticeship program, workplace safety and general support; appropriating
money to explore Minnesota tourism, the bureau
of mediation services, and the
workers compensation court of appeals

ARTICLE 6 - LABOR AND
INDUSTRY

Prohibiting the state building code or state fire code from
requiring fire sprinklers be installed in single family dwellings as a condition
for receiving public funding; regulating elevator industry workers; defining
terms; requiring persons performing or supervising elevator work to be licensed
or be registered; exempting elevator workers from electrical worker licensing
requirements; repealing elevator constructor, contractor, and master elevator
constructor provisions; modifying certain provisions relating to the permits,
licensure and inspection of elevators; inspection fees for utility
interconnected generation installations, plumbing permits and fees and certain
fee schedules associated with combative sports; repealing rule relating to
elevator inspection fees

ARTICLE 7 - EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT

Requiring the publication of labor market information by the
department of employment and economic development (DEED); requiring the use and
dissemination of labor market information by the Minnesota state colleges and
universities (MnSCU) modifying certain provisions relating to the Minnesota
investment fund; establishing the Minnesota job creation fund, defining certain
terms, specifying application, business designation and certification
requirements, establishing capital investment rebate and job creation award
eligibility; authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development
to establish a certain number of Minnesota trade offices in foreign markets,
state trade and export promotion (STEP) grants and the invest Minnesota
marketing initiative; utilizing workforce centers in
assisting individuals
seeking credentials for high-demand jobs; modifying certain film production jobs
program requirements; transferring program administrative oversight and control
from the commissioner of administration to the commissioner of employment and
economic development (DEED) and modifying reporting requirements; modifying
reimbursements and expanding production costs for films; redefining certain
terms; modifying the community support and day treatment services program by
requiring the program to find and maintain competitive employment and
encouraging counties to fund evidence-based practices; modifying department of
employment and economic development (DEED)
employment support services for
persons with mental illness requirements; providing for an unemployment
insurance employer tax reduction under certain circumstances; establishing a
pilot program combining career and higher education advising in the workforce
service areas of Hennepin/Carver, Northeast Minnesota, Stearns/Benton and rural
Minnesota CEP

ARTICLE 8 - MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
PROVISIONS

Requiring public entities to purchase paper which has been made on
a paper machine located in Minnesota; authorizing the commissioner of mediation
services to make grants to private nonprofit entities to assist in dispute
resolution; specifying certain grant eligibility requirements; modifying certain
contracting options of the commissioner of iron range resources and
rehabilitation board; modifying the allocation from the proceeds of the
taconite; modifying contracts for deed filing requirements; specifying notice
requirements for contracts for deed involving residential property; providing
for a right to cancel purchase agreements; providing for remedies for failure to
deliver notices in a timely manner; clarifying certain remedies and distribution
amounts; St. Paul Rivercentre arena city of St. Paul repayment reduction
authorization; repealing the Minnesota science and technology authority, the
Minnesota science and technology program and a provision related to criminal
penalties for failure to record a contract for deed when required

ARTICLE 9 -
SANITARY DISTRICTS

Authorizing the restructuring of sanitary districts;
establishing the creation of sanitary districts as special taxing districts;
defining certain terms; specifying applicability to current sanitary districts;
establishing certain procedures and authority of the sanitary districts;
providing for the filing of maps in sanitary district proceedings; authorizing
sanitary district annexation, detachment and dissolution under certain
circumstances, specifying proceedings for sanitary district annexation,
detachment and dissolution authorizing the utilization of a joint petition under
certain circumstances, requiring the administrative law judge to publish notice
of intent for sanitary district annexation, detachment or dissolution and
designate a hearing time and place, requiring the administrative law judge to
consider relevant factors when arriving at an decision, specifying role of
administrative law judge in denying and authorizing an annexation, detachment or
dissolution establishing certain filing requirements; requiring a joint public
informational meeting of local government creation, annexation, detachment or
dissolution; authorizing the pollution control agency to annex a sanitary
district under certain circumstances; specifying petitioner is responsible for
certain expenses; establishing certain time limits for orders and specifying
appeals process and the utilization of uniform procedures; establishing a
sanitary district board of managers, specifying board composition, terms,
election of board, specifying the
designation of a central governing body under
certain circumstances, permitting nominations for board members to be made by
petitions, specifying the procedure when electing a single government body and
multiple governing bodies, specifying the filling of vacancies, prescribing the
certification of the election and temporary chair designation; establishing
sanitation board organization and procedures; specifying the district status as
a public corporation and a governmental subdivision and the district powers,
authorizing certain specific powers such as pollution prevention, sewage
disposal, garbage and refuse disposal, water supply procurement, and road
repair; specifying provisions relating to district facilities and projects with
one or more governmental subdivisions; establishing district control and
regulation of sanitary facilities; authorizing the district to develop programs,
surveys, studies and investigations; authorizing district to have general and
statutory powers awarded to cities; establishing powers of the district board;
authorizing the district board to levy taxes, assessments and service charges;
authorizing the district board to have borrowing and bond issuance powers;
requiring the deposit
of all tax levies, assessments and other charges into the
district treasury;
authorizing ordinances authorized by the district to
supersede other ordinances of a related governmental unit, prohibiting the
duplication of facilities with any other governmental subdivision or public
agency except upon approval by the district board; specifying the creation of
the sanitary districts do not supersede the authority of the pollution control
agency (PCA) or the department of health; specifying certain powers of the
administrative law judge in relation to the sanitary districts; repealing
obsolete provisions relating to sanitary
districts
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