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SF 2227 Senate Long Description

Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government; appropriating money to the department of trade and economic development for Minnesota investment fund and taconite mining program grants, for the job skills partnership program, for grants to Advantage Minnesota, Inc., to the city of Fridley for design and construction of the Moore lakes area business campus, to the St. Paul port authority for certain redevelopment activities, to the board of the rural policy and development center, to the metropolitan economic development association, to WomenVenture, to the city of Duluth for development of the technology village, to the Neighborhood Development Center, Inc. to expand and improve ethnic based entrepreneur training, lending and support programs in the poorest communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, to the suburban Hennepin regional park district for restoration of the Grimm farmstead, to the city of Ely for rehabilitation of the technical building, to the city of Lake Benton for a new visitor center and railroad depot building, to Camp Heartland center, to the city of St. Paul for enhancement of the west seventh street gateway area, to Perham business technology center, to the city of Owatonna for infrastructure improvements, to the city of St. Peter for the cost of a tornado destroyed community center, to the greater metropolitan area foreign trade zone commission and to Wabasha county for water and sanitary sewer extension, for microenterprise entrepreneurial assistance, for the public facilities authority, for the community resources program, for the redevelopment account, for the Minnesota trade office to promote Minnesota internationally, for development of maximum private sector involvement in tourism and for enhancements to the journey travel destination system, to Minnesota Technology, Inc. for grants to the Minnesota inventors congress, to Minnesota project innovation, to the natural resources research institute (NRRI), to the Minnesota council for quality and to the cold weather research center, to the department of economic security for independent living centers, for extended employment services reimbursement rate increases, for state services for the blind, for the youthbuild and youth violence prevention programs, for a grant to the center for victims of torture, for systems development of electronic commerce to improve communication with the job service and reemployment insurance program and for asset preservation and facility repair, to the housing finance agency for a rental housing assistance program for persons or families with mental illness, for the economic development and housing challenge, 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 and employer matching grant programs, for the housing trust and home ownership assistance funds, for the school stability project and for nonprofit capacity building grants, to the department of commerce for financial examinations, for registration and insurance, for enforcement and licensing 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 labor management cooperation grants 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, for information and operations management and for programs administered by the commissioner of children, families and learning to improve the energy efficiency of oil fired heating plants in low income households, 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, military and fishing museums, for the institute for learning and teaching-project 120, for farmamerica, for grants to the Minnesota center for community legal education for citizenship programs in Minnesota schools and to the city of Maplewood to relocate and renovate certain historic buildings and for refurbishing 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 board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for a virtual reality center at Pine technical college and to the office of strategic and long range planning; specifying certain commissioner of trade and economic development joint venture marketing grant priorities and authorizing the use of a certain appropriation to resolve a fishing restrictions dispute in Ontario waters, to increase occupancy and visitations at lodging and attractions in the Mille Lacs area and for a grant to Minnesota festivals and events association for certain tourism purposes; providing money for the upper Red Lake business loan program, for a grant to the city of Lanesboro for the Root River regional arts center and for the film board; providing for the use of the appropriation to the HFA under the community rehabilitation program for full cycle home ownership and purchase rehabilitation lending initiatives, for grants to the city of Hilltop for a manufactured housing pilot project and to a statewide organization advocating on behalf of persons with mental retardation or related conditions to provide counseling under the Fannie Mae homechoice demonstration project and for reduction of health risks relating to HIV AIDS through housing opportunities; specifying the intent of the legislature and the commissioner of trade and economic development to monitor the balance of the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund and provide additional funding in future fiscal years to carry out the purposes of the fund; transferring the world trade center corporation to the department of trade and economic development trade office, the unobligated balance of a certain 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 world trade center account in the special revenue fund and a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for direct iron reduction processing facilities to the minerals 21st century fund; requiring and providing for the commissioner to make loans to businesses in the upper Red Lake area severely affected by the significant decline of the walleye fishing resource; authorizing the Duluth city council to provide for the issuance and sale of refunding bonds to refund in advance the gross revenue recreation facility bonds issued for the entertainment and convention center (DECC); authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds by the Long Prairie housing and redevelopment authority (HRA) to renovate the Hotel Richert building on the national register of historic places without the requirement of ownership by the issuer; authorizing the MnSCU board of trustees to transfer the historic Pipestone Indian school superintendent house and gymnasium at the Minnesota west community and technical college; requiring and providing for the commissioner of trade and economic development to evaluate certain pass through grants; exempting a grant by the commissioner to Grant county for value added agriprocessing facilities from Minnesota investment fund grant limits; requiring the management analysis division of the department of administration in consultation with appropriate commissioners to report to the legislature by a certain date on the future of low income energy assistance; authorizing and providing for the city of Hilltop to establish a manufactured housing pilot project; requiring the commissioner of trade and economic development to study the impact of permitting the growth of industrial hemp in the state and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to submit a report to the legislature reviewing business regulations; providing for the establishment of airport impact zones in the cities of Richfield, Bloomington, Eagan and Minneapolis; eliminating or increasing certain fees paid to the department of commerce; imposing criminal penalties for violating certain real estate appraiser regulations; prohibiting the department of trade and economic development from operating a travel reservation system in competition with the private sector; expanding the duties of the rural policy and development center and providing for the use of appropriations to and for compensation and expense reimbursement to members of the board; creating the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund for loans or equity investments in mineral processing facilities by the commissioner of trade and economic development; eliminating the limit on Minnesota investment fund grants; modifying certain requirements for microenterprise entrepreneurial technical assistance; requiring the commissioner to facilitate and support world trade center programs and services and to promote the center; expanding the powers of the commissioner of labor and industry; increasing the workers compensation self insurance application fee; expanding the definition of qualified wind energy conversion facility under the renewable energy production incentive; requiring certain workforce centers to arrange for interpreter services; providing for a statewide reimbursement system for employment support services for persons with mental illness; establishing a youthbuild tech pilot grant program within the department of economic security; modifying certain powers and duties of the iron range resources and rehabilitation board (IRRRB); increasing the licensing fee for residential contractors; modifying certain requirements for the administration of the Hennepin county multijurisdictional reinvestment program; authorizing and providing for the HFA in consultation with the interagency task force on homelessness to establish a school stability project under the family homeless prevention and assistance program; including seniors under the full cycle home ownership services program; requiring HFA grants to promote inclusionary housing in nonmetropolitan municipalities, specifying application requirements; authorizing expenditures for the home ownership services program from the housing development fund; creating the economic development and housing challenge program to be administered by the HFA; creating the inclusionary housing account in the metropolitan livable communities fund, authorizing the metropolitan council to work with municipalities and developers to provide incentives to inclusionary housing developments, defining inclusionary housing development, providing for grants or loans; reducing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning for a grant to independent school district 473, Isle to convert a school building into a community center, requiring a match (ra)