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SF 1745 Senate Long Description

E Abolishing the department of economic security and renaming the department of trade and economic development the department of economic and workforce development to consolidate and streamline the workforce development system; transferring the responsibilities of the department of economic security relating to employment, workforce and youth services to the renamed department and the responsibility for energy programs to the department of commerce; providing for a division of economic development within the department of economic and workforce development consisting of business and community development, the Minnesota trade office, the tourism and information and analysis divisions and administrative support, requiring a workforce transition services unit and housing in the department of the job skills partnership program with a policy, research and evaluation unit; creating a temporary workforce development reorganization transition advisory task force to make recommendations to the governor and the legislature by a certain date on state government structure and department organization for delivering workforce development programs, specifying task force membership and consultation requirements and duties; requiring the task force to recommend transfer to the appropriate state agencies of the responsibilities for administration of programs currently administered by the departments of trade and economic development, labor and industry and economic security; requiring the commissioners of trade and economic development and economic security to cooperate with and provide staff support to the task force; granting the task force access to private or nonpublic data within the department of economic security and DTED; requesting the legislative audit commission (LAC) to evaluate the unemployment insurance program (je, ja)