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HF 3501 Senate Long Description

Relating to the classification and dissemination of government data; making conforming changes for the previously enacted government data practices law recodification relating to headnotes and provisions coded in other chapters; defining government entity, requiring copies of government data in electronic form upon request under certain conditions, authorizing a charge for actual costs; clarifying a certain provision providing for copyrights or patents of government data; prohibiting the monitoring of citizens requesting access to public data; requiring government entity responsible or appropriate authorities by a certain date to appoint or designate employees to act as data practices compliance officials; clarifying the application of civil remedies for data practices violations, authorizing the court to impose a civil penalty against government entities for noncompliance, requiring forwarding of a copy of the compliance order to the commissioner of administration and specifying certain court consideration requirements in assessing the penalty; providing for administrative remedies, authorizing and providing for the filing of complaints with the commissioner and providing for certain actions by the commissioner to resolve the complaints, providing for informal resolution; granting immunity from civil or criminal liability to school districts and agents and employees for the use or sharing of data on juveniles; license applicants or licensees designating business addresses for contact purposes to consent to service of process at the address for legal or administrative proceedings, requiring the mailing of a copy of the documents to the residence address; codifying temporary classifications of certain data submitted to the St. Paul housing and redevelopment authority (HRA) and to the city of St. Paul by individuals and business entities requesting financial assistance; providing access to certain private or confidential court services data by state or local correctional agencies or facilities and making public the dates of birth in court services data on adult individuals; classifying certain data on individuals receiving services from the department of children, families and learning; specifying conditions for the disclosure of personal and privileged or health data information held by health maintenance organizations (HMO); granting local government units access to certain information for child support enforcement or paternity establishment purposes; granting the federal immigration and naturalization service access to reemployment insurance (unemployment compensation) data on specific individuals and employers under investigation by the agency; expanding the authority of the departments of labor and industry and revenue to exchange information to taxpayer identity information relating to employees for tax administration and workers compensation support purposes; excepting alleged or actual inaccuracies in geographic information systems data arising from use by the public from tort liability under certain conditions, defining GIS data and subjecting the data to the government data practices act; providing for presentence investigation reports to local correctional agencies or facilities; authorizing the fourth judicial district to establish a domestic fatality review team pilot project to review domestic violence deaths in the district, specifying the duties of the review team, granting the team access to certain records for review purposes, confidentiality and data privacy provisions, providing for immunity from liability for members and employees of the advisory board and review team (Ch. 468, 2000)