SF 3799 Senate Long Description
Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, providing supplemental appropriations for economic developmentARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for Advantage Minnesota, Inc., for catalyst grants to local government units to expand telecommunications capacity, for grants to the community resources program, to the board of the rural policy and development center and to Lifetrack Resources, Inc. for programs to improve the self sufficiency of disadvantaged persons, for the job skills partnership board for distance work grants, for separate grants to the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for aging commercial corridors, for a grant to county and district agricultural societies and associations, for rural job creation grants, for grants to the city of Duluth for aerial lift bridge repair and restoration, to the city of St. Paul for native landscaping along trunk highway 5, to the Neighborhood Development Center, Inc. and to the city of Owatonna for infrastructure improvements, for an agreement with the city of Virginia for relocation of the Silver Lake storm sewer outlet, construction of sedimentation ponds and renovation of the Sauntry Creek diversion structure and for tourism loans to businesses adversely impacted by the lack of snowfall, to Minnesota Technology, Inc. for grants to the e-business institute, 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 a grant to Advocating Change Together, Inc. (ACT), for the alien certification and summer youth employment programs, for a pilot parental leave program, for services to people with severe impairments to employment and for enterprise zone incentive grants, to the housing finance agency for the family homeless prevention and assistance and nursing home conversion grant programs, to the commissioner of commerce for maintenance of the no call information list, to the Minnesota historical society for local historic preservation projects, to the secretary of state for a grant to kids voting Minnesota, to the board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture and interior design and to the office of strategic and long range planning for the legislative job training program task force; requiring the commissioner of human services to transfer certain temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) funds to the HFA for the housing development fund, for a loan to habitat for humanity and for the affordable rental investment fund program; 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 the job skills partnership board pathways and health care and human services worker training and retention programs; providing reemployment insurance (unemployment compensation) benefits for certain school food services workers; establishing a legislative job training program task force to study federal and state job training programs and to make recommendation to the legislature for consolidation and modification; requiring the commissioner of administration to assist the commissioner of economic security and the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (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; 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 MISCELLANEOUS STATUTORY PROVISIONSAuthorizing certain direct contracting by the job skills partnership board; 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; expanding eligibility for the job skills partnership pathways program and authorizing and 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); increasing the penalties for violations of the child labor law; 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 allocation of funding to grantees under the dislocated worker program for support services; providing for department of commerce maintenance of a residential telephone subscribers no solicitation sales call list; increasing the licensing fee for architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects or geoscience professionals and codifying the fee schedule for state electrical inspections; creating the nursing home facility conversion loan program to be administered by the commissioner of the housing finance agency (HFA); specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes and repealing a certain rule relating to electrical inspection fees (mk)