Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state governmentARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for Minnesota investment fund and rural job creation grants, for the job skills partnership, pathways and contamination cleanup and development grant programs, for the public facilities authority, for microenterprise technical assistance, for grants to Advantage Minnesota, Inc., to the city of Fridley for certain infrastructure improvements, to the community resources program, to the rural policy and development center board, to the metropolitan economic development association, to WomenVenture, to the St. Paul rehabilitation center, to the city of Windom for loans to assist an expanding business, to the Camp Heartland center, to the city of Lake Benton for a new visitor center and railroad depot building, to the Chatfield brass band music lending library, to the Duluth economic development authority for Lake Superior Mississippi railroad scenic railway improvements, to the city of Lanesboro for the Root River regional arts center and to county and district agricultural societies and associations, to the city of Duluth to support the development of the Duluth technology village, to the suburban Hennepin regional park district for restoration of the Grimm farmstead, to the city of Ely for rehabilitation of the Ely technical building, to the Highland Park district council for enhancement of the west seventh street gateway area of St. Paul, for the redevelopment account, for a grant to the Perham business technology center, to the Perham business technology center and to the city of Owatonna for city infrastructure improvements, for the redevelopment account, for the Minnesota trade office to promote Minnesota internationally, for certain tourism activities including development of maximum private sector involvement, joint venture marketing grants, the Minnesota film board and grants to the Minnesota festivals and events association, to the Upper Red Lake business loan program, to promote tourism in the Mille Lacs area and in the areas near the northern border of the state and to the Mississippi River parkway commission and for enhancements to the journey travel destination system, to Minnesota Technology, Inc. for grants to the inventors congress, to the cold weather research center, to Minnesota project innovation, to the natural resources research institute (NRRI) and to the Minnesota council for quality, to the department of economic security for independent living centers, for welfare to work extended employment services to welfare recipients with severe impairment to employment, for employment support services for persons with mental illness, for extended employment services reimbursement rate increases, for grants to the Minnesota employment center for deaf and hard of hearing people and to Advocating Change Together, Inc. (ACT), for state services for the blind, for job training and displaced homemaker programs, for a federal department of labor welfare to work funds match, for youth intervention, youthbuild and youth violence prevention programs, for enterprise zone incentive grants, for asset preservation and facility repair and for electronic commerce systems development in the job service and reemployment insurance program, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and housing challenge program, for a rental housing assistance program for persons or families with mental illness, for the family homeless and mortgage foreclosure prevention and assistance, rent assistance for family stabilization, affordable rental investment fund, urban and tribal Indian housing, rural and urban homesteading, community rehabilitation, housing rehabilitation and accessibility, employer matching grant and innovative and inclusionary housing programs, for capacity building grants, for the housing trust and home ownership assistance funds and for the school stability project, to the department of commerce for financial examinations, for an educational campaign aimed at stopping mortgage flipping, for enforcement and licensing, for the petroleum tank release cleanup board and for administrative services, to the boards of accountancy, architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, geoscience and interior design, barber examiners and boxing, to the department of labor and industry for workers compensation, for workplace services and for general support, to the bureau of mediation services for mediation services, for grants to area labor management committees and for the office of dispute resolution, to the workers compensation court of appeals, to the labor interpretive center, to the public utilities commission (PUC), to the department of public service for telecommunications, for weights and measures, and for information and operations management and for certain energy programs, to the Minnesota historical society for education and outreach, for preservation and access, for information program delivery, for the Sibley house association, for the Minnesota international center, for the Minnesota air national guard and military museums, for the institute for learning and teaching-project 120, for farmamerica, for the Winona county historical society and for grants to the city of Maplewood to pay a certain portion of the costs of acquiring, relocating and renovating certain historic farm buildings in Ramsey county and to the city of Little Falls for establishment of a fishing museum and for refurbishment of the Fridley historical museum, to the Minnesota municipal board, to the black Minnesotans, Chicano Latino affairs, Asian Pacific Minnesotans and Indian affairs councils, to the office of strategic and long range planning, to the department of military affairs for the use of camp Ripley to provide soft skill job skills training and to the commissioner of administration for the low income energy task force study and report; providing for certain fund transfers for the full cycle homeownership services, housing rehabilitation and accessibility and affordable rental investment fund programs ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUSEliminating or increasing certain fees charged by the department of commerce; imposing criminal penalties for violating certain real estate appraiser regulations; prohibiting the department of trade and economic development from operating or providing a travel reservation system in competition with private sector travel agents; providing for the designation of counties or cities as electronic commerce ready cities or counties by DTED; increasing the maximum loan amount under the rural development challenge grant program; requiring the board of directors of the rural policy and development center to appoint a public member and providing for compensation and expense reimbursement to board members, expanding the duties of the center to research and authorizing the use of state appropriations to the board for administration purposes; creating the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund for loans to or equity investments in mineral processing facilities, requiring the commissioner of the iron range rescues and rehabilitation board with the approval of the IRRRB to provide an equal match for loans to or equity investments in facilities in the taconite tax relief area; expanding the authority of the office of tourism to market promotional publications; modifying certain requirements for microenterprise entrepreneurial technical assistance under DTED; requiring and providing for the commissioner to facilitate and support world trade center programs and services; providing for compensation for job skills partnership board members, eliminating the requirement for the board to coordinate the pathways program with the federal job training partnership act and increasing the single grant limit; increasing the loan term under the hire education loan program; expanding the powers of the commissioner of labor and industry; increasing the workers compensation insurance self insurance application fee; expanding the definition of qualified wind energy conversion facility under the renewable energy production incentive and providing for incentive payments for publicly owned hydropower facilities for electric energy generated by and used outside the facility; providing for a statewide reimbursement system for employment support services for persons with mental illness; establishing a youthbuild tech pilot program of department of economic security grants to certain eligible organizations to fund programs to provide students completing a certain number of months in a funded program with knowledge and skills necessary to obtain entry level jobs in the computer industry; requiring certain workforce centers to attempt to provide outreach interpreter services; modifying the limit on dislocation event services grant fund allocations for support services; modifying the membership of the IRRRB, authorizing the commissioner of the board to establish, participate in the management of and dispose of the assets of charitable foundations and nonprofit corporations associated with funded projects and modifying the board vote requirement for project approval; expanding the authority of the Hennepin county board to acquire property under the multijurisdictional reinvestment program; increasing the funding limit under the wastewater infrastructure funding program under certain conditions and eliminating the ineligibility of certain municipalities for the program; eliminating the limit on certain housing finance agency expenditures for general program administration costs and requiring HFA annual operating cost reports to the legislature; authorizing and providing for the agency in consultation with the interagency task force on homelessness to establish a school stability demonstration project under the family homeless prevention and assistance program; eliminating the limit on the administrative fee for local housing organizations under the rent assistance for family stabilization demonstration project; expanding the full cycle home ownership services program to seniors and providing for use of the housing development fund to fund the program; providing for an innovative and inclusionary housing program under the HFA in nonmetropolitan towns or cities; creating the economic development and housing challenge program to provide grants or loans for construction, acquisition, rehabilitation and financing of housing to support economic development activities or job creation; creating the inclusionary housing account in the metropolitan livable communities fund for metropolitan council loans or grants for construction of developments designed to serve families with a range of incomes and housing needs; reducing certain recently passed fee increases for licensing or certification of architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, geoscience professionals or interior designers; requiring nonstate source funding of the balance of the cost of the labor interpretive center project; extending the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of trade and economic development for the Judy Garland children's museum; exempting a grant by the DTED commissioner Grant county for value added agriprocessing facility infrastructure improvements from certain Minnesota investment fund grant limits; requiring the commissioner of the HFA to report to the legislature by a certain date on current and proposed strategies relating to HIV AIDS for coordinating local, state and federal housing resources; requiring the board of electricity in consultation with the commissioner of finance to report to the legislature by a certain date on efforts to control administrative costs, involve citizen board members in business activities, computer system improvements and a proposal to codify the fee schedule, prohibiting the board from increasing handling or inspection fees before a certain date; transferring the world trade center corporation to the department of trade and economic development trade office and a certain amount of a prior appropriation to DTED for a grant to the world trade center corporation to establish an annual medical exposition, trade fair and health care congress to the center account for center activities; requiring the commissioners of commerce and health to study issues involved in consistent regulation of entities assuming financial risks relating to health coverage and report to the legislature by a certain date; transferring a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of trade and economic development for direct iron reduction processing facilities to the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund; requiring and providing for the DTED commissioner to make interest free loans to businesses in the upper Red Lake area severely affected by the significant decline of the walleye fishing resource in upper Red Lake; authorizing the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to transfer the historic Pipestone Indian school superintendent house and gymnasium at the Minnesota west campus; requiring and providing for the director of the office of strategic and long range planning to evaluate certain pass through grants; requiring the management analysis division of the department of administration to report to the legislature by a certain date on the future of low income energy assistance; requiring the DTED commissioner to develop a comprehensive marketing plan for the trade, tourism and economic development activities of the state and submit recommendations to the legislature by a certain date and to submit to the legislature by a certain later date a report reviewing business regulations; creating the governor's airport community stabilization funding task force to identify and recommend to the governor and legislature funding sources for implementation of noise mitigation measures identified in the MSP noise mitigation program report; requiring the public utilities commission (PUC) to use available general fund appropriations to pay a certain amount of the costs allocated and assessed to local units of government for right-of-way rulemaking procedures; repealing the home equity conversion loan counseling program, enterprise zone incentive grants, the boxing board and the criminal penalty for violating certain real estate appraiser regulations ARTICLE 3 - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAININGIncreasing the membership of the job skills partnership board and requiring organized labor representation; changing the workforce investment fund to the workforce development fund, modifying the payroll tax percentage and eliminating the tax reduction trigger and appropriating money to the fund; providing for a comprehensive workforce development analysis; transferring the responsibility of the department of economic security for the dislocated workers program to the job skills partnership board (Ch. 223, 1999)