Relating to legislationARTICLE 1 - UNIFORM STATUTE AND RULE CONSTRUCTION ACTProviding rules for the construction of laws and administrative rules; providing for the meaning of words and phrases in common and technical usage, for the use of shall, must and may and number, gender and tense, for references to a series of numbers or letters, for the computation of time, for the prospective operation of a statute or rule, for severability of invalid statutes or rules, for irreconcilable statutes or rules, for the prevalence of enrolled acts over later publications, for incorporation by reference, for continuation of previous statutes or rules under revision and for the effect of the repeal of a repealing statute or rule and of amendment or repeal on a pending action or proceeding; prescribing the principles of construction, negating a certain presumption relating to the construction of a civil statute in derogation of the common law; text of a statute or rule to be the primary essential source of meaning; specifying certain other aids to construction in ascertaining meaning of text; repealing certain existing provisions providing for the construction of laws ARTICLE 2 - CONFORMING CHANGESMaking conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to the Minnesota rural finance authority (RFA) act, state financing of aircraft facilities, railroad abandonment, the time receipt of filings by the teachers retirement association (TRA), wrongful death actions and the repeal of an amendatory law (ra)