Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state governmentARTICLE 1 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for grants to local or regional economic development agencies to support the development and use of labor force assessments, for catalyst grants to local government units to expand Internet access in rural areas of the state and for the tourism loan program, to Minnesota Technology, Inc. for the e-business institute, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the family homeless prevention and assistance program, to the boards of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture and interior design and boxing and to the department of economic security for grants to existing youthbuild programs losing federal funds, for alien labor certification and for displaced homemaker and summer youth employment programs; cancelling certain unspent funds previously appropriated for the job skills partnership pathways program; clarifying term of service limits for members of the rehabilitation advisory council for the blind; reducing certain prior appropriations to and the base budget for the department of commerce; appropriating money to the Minnesota historical society for salary adjustments, to the commissioner of finance to consult with the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) and the Minnesota historical society to consider the causes of ongoing shortfalls in the salary and benefit accounts at the historical society and to the department of labor and industry to administer certain provisions regulating the rights of the next of kin upon employee death; requiring an equal match for the Judy Garland children s museum; providing for the availability of certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of trade and economic development for the upper Red Lake business loan program, for a grant to Advantage Minnesota and for the job skills partnership board pathways program and to the commissioners of health and human services for the health care and human services worker training and retention program; requiring the commissioner of administration to assist the commissioner of economic security and the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities system (MnSCU) to develop and report to the legislature by a certain date on a plan for the possible location of workforce centers on college and university campuses; temporarily entitling contracted school food service workers to reemployment (unemployment) insurance benefits during the summer; providing additional reemployment insurance benefits for a certain applicant laid off due to lack of work from the Hennepin paper company in Morrison county and for certain former employees of the Evtac mining company in St. Louis countyARTICLE 2 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY PROVISIONS Authorizing certain direct contracting by the job skills partnership board; specifying the term and fees for managing general insurance agents licenses; providing for the renewal of certain filings made in connection with securities of open end investment companies and providing for the determination and payment of filing fees; authorizing the rural policy and development center board to appoint additional members under certain conditions; defining nonprofit educational institution; expanding eligibility for the job skills partnership pathways program and authorizing the providing for partnership board grants in aid for distance work projects involving technology in rural areas; authorizing certain equity investments by the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); requiring the commissioner of health to regulate professional boxing matches; increasing the penalties for violations of the child labor law; requiring the department of labor and industry in employee death cases to make reasonable efforts to locate the next of kin and to mail copies of citations for violations and penalty notifications, notices of hearings, complaints and answers, settlement agreements, orders and decisions and notices of appeals, granting the next of kin the right to request a consultation with the department relating to citations and penalty notifications issued as a result of the investigation of the death of the employee, defining next of kin and increasing the fine for causing or contributing to the cause of death of an employee in serious, willful or repeat violation cases; extending the deadline for renewable energy production incentive payments to certain qualified hydroelectric facilities; requiring the department of economic security to promptly process completed applications for certification for permanent alien laborers; modifying the provision requiring the deduction of social security disability benefits from reemployment insurance benefits; increasing the total youthbuild programs grant award and the allocation of funding to grantees under the dislocated worker program for support services; increasing the licensing fee for architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects or geoscience professionals and codifying the fee schedule for state electrical inspections; defining money order under the unclaimed property law and authorizing a dormancy charge for money orders under certain conditions; excluding gift certificates or layaway accounts from the definition of intangible property for property abandonment presumption purposes; changing the expiration date of the boxing board; requiring the commissioner of health to consult with appropriate individuals relating to the development and enforcement of boxing regulations; requiring the department of labor and industry to provide an informational brochure to employers subject to the child labor law; specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain board of electricity rule ARTICLE 3 - ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND AGRICULTUREAppropriating money to the pollution control agency for administration of the wastewater infrastructure fund (WIF) construction program and for the air quality permitting process required to allow an existing Hennepin county resource recovery facility to operate at maximum capacity, to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for professional and technical services to replace wetlands and for agricultural land set aside payments, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for the settlement of certain legal costs relating to the 1837 treaty litigation, for emergency wildfire response grants to Lake, Cook and St. Louis counties and to the department of agriculture for expansion of the state meat inspection program, for grants to cooperative associations to facilitate the production and marketing of short rotation woody crops and to the center for farm financial management at the university of Minnesota for a comprehensive effort to develop software and training materials to help farmers improve profitability through sophisticated business planning, for establishment of agricultural water quality and quantity management, research, demonstration and education projects at Lamberton and Waseca, for the farm advocates program, for expansion of the Minnesota grown pilot program, for grants to organizations participating in the farm wrap and rural help networks and to the board of animal health for continued efforts to control pseudorabies in swine; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to use a certain percentage of a certain snowmobile maintenance and grooming grant to reimburse the intended recipient for the actual cost of snowmobile trail grooming equipment; cancelling a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of agriculture for the dairy producers board; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations for the proposed trail between the city of Pelican Rapids and Maplewood state park and for the Hyland-Bush-Anderson Lake park reserve development project; reducing the annual aquatic farming license fee; expanding the definition of livestock for marketing purposes to include buffalo; expanding authorized reimbursements from the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement account for corrective action costs; eliminating ethanol production payments after a certain date, increasing the payment limit and modifying certain payment provisions; modifying certain eligibility requirements and maximum loan amounts for certain rural finance authority loan programs; requiring and providing for the RFA to establish and implement an agroforestry loan program to help finance the production of short rotation woody crops; establishing the Big Bog state recreation area in Beltrami county and the Red River state recreation area in Polk county; providing for the establishment of the Mill Towns trail; expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources to lease portions of Fort Snelling state park, providing for the deposit of receipts; authorizing drainage authorities to accept and use funds from sources other than or in addition to assessments based on the benefits of the drainage system for wetland preservation and restoration, water quality improvements or flood control, authorizing use of the funding outside the benefited area but within the watershed of the drainage system; modifying PCA field citation issuance authority relating to trucks and certain storage tanks; requiring the commissioner of revenue in depositing revenue from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets to credit a certain percentage to the game and fish fund for activities to improve or enhance fish and wildlife resources and certain percentages to the natural resources fund for state and local parks and trails; authorizing an existing resource recovery facility in Hennepin county to reclaim, burn, use, process or dispose of mixed municipal solid waste to the full extent of maximum yearly capacity, requiring the facility to continue to comply with federal and state environmental laws and regulations and to obtain a conditional use permit from the municipality of location; exempting lakeshore lot exchanges with counties from certain well disclosure and sealing and individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) disclosure requirements; authorizing the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of natural resources for metro regional trails by the city of St. Paul for certain amenities at the trailhead to the Rice Creek west regional trail; modifying certain prior appropriations to the PCA for continuing research on malformed frogs and to the board of water and soil resources for grants to soil and water conservation districts for erosion control and water quality management cost sharing contracts, eliminating the priority for feedlot operators; expanding eligibility for reimbursement from the ethanol development account and modifying the deposit requirements for principal and interest payments on rural finance authority (RFA) ethanol development program loans; modifying the source of a certain prior appropriation to the agricultural utilization research institute; providing for reimbursement under the petroleum tank release cleanup program for the removal of agricultural and small gasoline storage tanks; establishing an agricultural land set aside and payment program to provide short term economic assistance to landowners ARTICLE 4 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the supreme court for a judicial seminar on parenting plans, to the court of appeals for restoration of legal judicial support services, to the district court for reduction of judge unit vacancies and restoration of judicial branch infrastructure funding, for continuation of the second judicial district community court and for extraordinary prosecution costs in Carlton county, to the commissioner of public safety for recodification of the driving while impaired (DWI) laws, for the state match for federal disaster assistance, for criminal apprehension overtime costs, for the court security training program, for juvenile prostitution law enforcement and officer training grants, for grants to the Ramsey county attorney for the domestic assault and child prosecution unit and to local law enforcement agencies for purchase of dogs trained to detect or locate controlled substances, for the automobile theft prevention program and for matching funds to counties participating in multijurisdictional narcotics task forces, to the center for crime victim services for per diem payments and allocation increases to battered women shelters and for a grant to the center for applied research and policy analysis at metropolitan state university for the domestic violence shelter study, to the commissioner of corrections for local adult regional detention facility grants and for predesign of a joint headquarters building for the departments of corrections and public safety, to the sentencing guidelines commission for salary increases, to the Minnesota safety council for the crosswalk safety awareness program and to the university of Minnesota for updating of the parent education curriculum; requiring the commissioner of corrections to predesign a vocational building at the St. Cloud correctional facility; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for juvenile residential treatment grants and to the commissioner of public safety for the automobile theft prevention board, requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer the unencumbered balance from the automobile theft prevention account in the special revenue fund to the general fund; removing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of public safety for computer controlled driving simulator grants to law enforcement agencies or peace officers standards and training board certified skills programs and reducing certain prior appropriations to the corrections and crime victims ombudsmenARTICLE 5 - COURTS Increasing the maximum fines for petty misdemeanor and misdemeanor offenses and for ordinance violations; requiring the courts and state and local correctional facilities to consider implementing an automated victim notification system; requiring the superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) to develop and implement a court security training program ARTICLE 6 - PUBLIC SAFETYEliminating the automobile theft prevention board and transferring administration of the automobile theft prevention program from the board to the commissioner of public safety, recodifying the program and limiting the application of the automobile insurance surcharge for the program; expanding the crosswalk safety law to intersections with no marked crosswalk and requiring drivers to remain stopped until passage of the pedestrian from the vehicle lane; authorizing local road authorities to provide by ordinance for the designation of pedestrian safety crossings on highways; establishing a program of grants by the commissioner to local law enforcement agencies for enhanced law enforcement efforts and peace officer education and training to combat juvenile prostitution; creating the capitol complex oversight committee, specifying membership and duties; requiring the Minnesota safety council to continue the crosswalk safety awareness program; establishing a pilot project to develop a joint domestic abuse prosecution unit pilot project to be administered by the offices of the Ramsey county attorney and St. Paul city attorney, specifying certain goals and requiring progress reports to the legislature by certain dates; requiring the center for applied research and policy analysis at metropolitan state university in cooperation with the Minnesota center for crime victim services and the department of public safety to study and make recommendations to the legislature on issues relating to providing shelter for victims of domestic violence; specifying certain reference elimination and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes ARTICLE 7 - CORRECTIONS Requiring the commissioner of corrections to develop a uniform method to calculate the average department wide per diem cost of incarcerating offenders at state adult correctional facilities and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring counties and the department of corrections to share in the per diem cost of housing juveniles committed to the commissioner of corrections and admitted to the Red Wing facility under established admissions criteria; requiring and providing for commissioner juvenile residential treatment grants to counties; specifying certain consideration requirements of the commissioner and the courts in placing juveniles at the Red Wing facility and restricting out of state placement; requiring the court to commit certain juveniles to the custody of the commissioner, requiring certain reports; requiring the commissioner to study the state juvenile correctional system relating to serious and chronic offenders and report findings and proposals to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to report information relating to changes in per diem charges to counties for juveniles placed at the Red wing correctional facility and the resulting reduction in juvenile residential treatment grants to the legislature by the same date; authorizing and providing for the conveyance of certain surplus state land and the building located on the land formerly used for operations of the Brainerd regional human services center to the central Minnesota regional jail joint powers group for governmental use ARTICLE 8 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for the adoption and relative custody assistance programs, for MinnesotaCare and medical assistance (MA) basic health care grants, for general assistance medical care, for community services block, aging adult service, deaf and hard of hearing services, mental health, developmental disabilities support, alternative care, chemical dependency entitlement, economic support and assistance to families grants, for medical assistance long term care waivers and facilities and home care, for AFDC (aid to families with dependent children) and other assistance, for general assistance (GA) and for Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA); reducing appropriations to the commissioner for medical assistance basic health care grants for the elderly and disabled, for GAMC, for state operated services, for continuing care and community support grants, for medical assistance long term care waivers and facilities and home care, for group residential housing (GRH), for assistance to families and work grants and for general assistance; authorizing the commissioner to apply for a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation for health care technical support for families moving from welfare to work; providing for advance capitation payments to county based purchasing sites, for medical assistance and GAMC special transportation services increased mileage reimbursements, for a reimbursement increase to living skills training programs for persons with intractable epilepsy, for certain services for farmers and for compulsive gambling treatment programs; providing for the use of temporary assistance for needy families block grant funds for local intervention grants, for a grant to the Southeast Asian MFIP (Minnesota family investment program) services collaborative for an intensive intervention transitional employment training project, for nontraditional career assistance and training programs, for college and university tuition waivers to employees of health care and human services providers, for training job counselors about MFIP, for out of wedlock pregnancy prevention funds, for the supportive housing and managed care pilot project for TANF eligible families and for certain social services to low income families; regulating commissioner TANF MOE (maintenance of effort) expenditures reports; providing for certain funds transfers to the housing finance agency (HFA) for certain affordable housing programs and for calculation of the value of the refundable portion of the working family income tax credit; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for poison information centers, for funeral and preneed complaint responses and for expanding access to free screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections and to the health related licensing boards; limiting carryovers and sunsetting uncodified language ARTICLE 9 - HEALTH CARE Creating exceptions to the hospital construction moratorium for a certain hospital in Beltrami county and to the nursing home bed moratorium to license and certify a new replacement facility in St. Louis county, a certain number of replacement beds in a boarding care home in Minneapolis and a certain number of beds in an existing facility in Mille Lacs county as part of a renovation project; authorizing and providing for licensed and certified nursing facilities to place beds on layaway status with prior notice to the commissioner of health; expanding medical assistance (MA) coverage for mental health professionals to certain additional marriage and family therapists; authorizing the commissioner of human services to license service sites for residents moving from a certain intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation or related conditions closing in Olmsted county; requiring rebate agreements for prescription drugs delivered after a certain date to include rebates for non-senior citizens covered under the prescription drug program; expanding eligibility requirements under the senior citizen drug program and changing the name to the prescription drug program; modifying certain provisions regulating congregate housing services projects for certain older persons, changing the projects to on site coordination (OSC) services projects, providing for grants to public or nonprofit agencies to provide coordinators for services in designated service areas (DSA); increasing the asset limits for certain qualified medicare beneficiaries; authorizing medical assistance reimbursements for child welfare targeted case management provided by Indian tribes or tribal organizations to be made according to relevant federally approved rate setting methodologies; modifying the special reimbursement provisions for nursing home bed moratorium exceptions, establishing reimbursable per bed property cost limits for a certain facility in Redwood county; providing additional medical assistance rate increases to nursing facilities, ICF MRs and certain waivered services programs to increase the salaries of certain employees; providing case mix payment rate increases for a certain nursing facility in Roseau county; providing rate increases under the medical assistance contractual alternative payment demonstration project for certain facilities in Hennepin, Goodhue, Wright and Todd counties and in the cities of Rochester and Pine City; modifying and clarifying certain provisions under the medical assistance prepayment demonstration project, modifying certain medical education and research fund reduction requirements and the payment dates for capitation payments for services rendered after a certain date; expanding information availability requirements relating to private insurance under the MinnesotaCare program; clarifying the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of human services for deaf-blind orientation and mobility services and extending the availability of the appropriation; delaying the expiration of the home sharing program; requiring the commissioner to determine requirements necessary to obtain federal matching funds for payment of a direct subsidy for the employee share of employer based health care coverage available to dependent children of certain low income employees and to develop a strategy to provide information to physicians and pharmacists on prescription drug patient assistance programs and cost savings opportunities offered by pharmaceutical manufacturers; extending the expiration date of the day training and habilitation task force and requiring the task force to present recommendations for a new payment rate schedule for day training and habilitation services to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to by a certain date develop and present to the legislature proposals to provide a certain number of respite care days per year for family adult foster care providers, specifying certain consultation and proposal content requirements; requiring the commissioner of health to convene a group of stakeholders to evaluate the appropriateness of the current distribution formula for the medical education and research fund; specifying certain phrase change and recodification instructions to the revisor of statutes; providing for the status of certain inconsistent amendments ARTICLE 10 - HUMAN SERVICES ASSISTANCE PROGRAM MODIFICATIONSRequiring the commissioner of human services to use the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program to verify immigration status of applicants for food or general assistance (GA), general assistance medical care (GAMC), Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA), MinnesotaCare or group residential housing (GRH) under certain federal funds use conditions, specifying certain reporting requirements; modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program; modifying county aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and MFIP assistance recovery retention rates; providing for the distribution of child support and maintenance received by the state as a pass through to certain individuals and including the distributions in the definition of income for child care programs eligibility determination purposes; delaying a certain restriction on the eligibility of legal noncitizens for the food assistance program; expanding the required uses of temporary assistance for needy families block grant money to welfare to work transportation, reimbursements for the federal share of child support collections passed through to custodial parents and for the working family credit, intensive English as a second language grants, transitional housing programs and work first program pilot projects; expanding the definition of unearned income under MFIP to child support and maintenance payments and providing an income exclusion for consumer support grant funds and resources and services for disabled household members under one of the home and community based waiver services programs; removing anticipated child support and maintenance from the MFIP monthly income test; eliminating the requirement for county agencies to budget child support income received by assistance units to determine the assistance payment amount and a certain supplementary assistance payments restriction; delaying the requirement for county agencies to count a certain amount of the value of public and assisted rental subsidies provided through the federal department of housing and urban development (HUD) as unearned income; expanding good cause exemptions for not attending orientation and exemptions from the employment and training services component relating to disability, severe emotional disturbance or serious and persistent mental illness; expanding eligibility for the diversionary assistance program; limiting the inclusion of ESL classes as an approved work activity; conforming employment and training services participation requirements for single parent families to the participation requirements for two parent families, excepting Blue Earth and Nicollet counties; specifying local service unit plan content requirements, requiring approval before eligibility for allocation of local intervention grants for self sufficiency; modifying certain job search support plan requirements; requiring and providing for commissioner allocation of local intervention grants for self sufficiency to more effectively serve hard to employ MFIP participants, sunset; authorizing participation in the nontraditional career assistance and training program by MFIP participants with approval of the job counselor; providing for a child only TANF program for assistance units without a caregiver; codifying the provision requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a supportive housing and managed care pilot project; requiring the commissioner to establish a program of reimbursement based grants to nonprofit organizations to provide NCAT programs to encourage and assist low income women with minor children in entering nontraditional careers in the trades and in manual and technical operations and a statewide grant program to prevent or reduce the incidence of out of wedlock pregnancies among at risk youth; delaying certain provisions providing for the ineligibility of certain persons for certain state funded programs, department of human services study and reporting requirement; requiring the commissioner to authorize Dakota and a certain number of additional counties to test alternative approaches to improve compliance with MFIP work requirements or to encourage rapid entrance into the workforce; repealing the original supportive housing and managed care pilot project session law ARTICLE 11 - TECHNICAL CORRECTIONSMaking technical amendments to certain provisions in statute and law; clarifying the date for compliance with uniform billing requirements by certain health care providers; requiring school districts to pay the nonfederal share of medical assistance (MA) provided for certain special education medical services; correcting the placement of the provision sunsetting the tobacco use prevention and local public health endowment fund, requiring commissioner of finance transfer of remaining funds to the general fund and clarifying fund audit and appropriation requirements; clarifying home and community based waiver services waiting list reduction requirements; eliminating certain obsolete provisions relating to general assistance medical care (GAMC) payment reductions; correcting certain cross references; providing an effective date for certain provisions providing for reimbursements to school districts for health related services under individual education plans and certain retroactive coverage under MinnesotaCare and clarifying the effective date relating to reenrollment under MinnesotaCare after disenrollment for nonpayment of premium; repealing an obsolete home and community based services waiver amendment requirement of the commissioner of human services ARTICLE 12 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONSMaking supplemental appropriations and appropriation reductions to certain state departments and agencies; appropriating money to the secretary of state to construct and maintain the uniform commercial code central filing system, to the office of strategic and long range planning for regional development commissions, to the department of administration for the metropolitan radio board, for the electronic delivery of government services and for facilities management, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board for certain legal costs, to the department of employee relations (DOER) for the costs of conducting the postretirement and active employee health care study and report, to the gambling control board for workers compensation claims and to the commissioner of revenue for the income tax reengineering initiative; extending the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of administration for the long range plan of the office of technology; prohibiting a certain data practices base adjustment; reducing appropriations to the Minneapolis employees retirement fund; expanding certain state revenue and expenditures forecast requirements of the commissioner of finance, requiring expenditure data revisions submittal from state agencies; expanding the content requirement for part two of the detailed budget submitted by the governor to the legislature relating to internal service funds; requiring the commissioner of finance to report to the legislature the amount and purpose of general fund transfers to revolving funds and the commissioner of administration to report to the legislature the amount and purpose of transfers from internal service or enterprise fund accounts to other internal service or enterprise fund accounts, the rates to be charged for revolving funds and the amount and purpose of interfund loans; requiring risk assessment and mitigation plans for certain large information systems development projects undertaken by executive or judicial branch agencies or constitutional officers; eliminating the payment of interest on cash advances from the general fund; requiring the maintenance of certain data by state agencies, the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) board of trustees and the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for capital funding purposes; changing the state contribution to MERF from installments to an annual payment; transferring a certain prior appropriation for a grant to the city of Mankato to complete the Mankato area growth management and planning study phase 2 from the department of finance to the office of strategic and long range planning and a certain requirement for preparation of a separate budget book for the next biennium containing the technology initiatives of the administration from the department of employee relations to the department of finance; modifying the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to the department of administration for grants for public information television, authorizing use for contracts with the legislature for Internet, intranet and other transmission of legislative activities; broadening the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to the department of veterans affairs for grants to county veterans offices; clarifying the effect of the repeal of a certain provision regulating departmental earnings; prohibiting certain commissioner of finance state agency base adjustments ARTICLE 13 - MINNESOTA COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSOCIATIONRequiring the commissioner of finance on a certain date to transfer a certain amount of money in assets of the workers compensation assigned risk plan surplus to the general fund and appropriating the amount to the commissioner of commerce for payment to the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA) to reduce the operating deficit assessment for calendar year 2001 (Ch. 488, 2000)