E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION AND OTHER AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the department of transportation (DOT) for aeronautics, for airport development and assistance, for aviation support, for air transportation services, for a development grant to the city of Richfield, for greater Minnesota transit assistance, for transit administration, for the rail service improvement program, for port development assistance grants, for rail corridor studies and Northstar commuter rail corridor final design, for state membership in the midwest interstate passenger rail compact, for a grant to the city of St. Paul to purchase the union depot, for motor carrier regulation, for local and state roads and highways, for local bridge replacement and rehabilitation, for transportation studies, for an update of the statewide transportation plan, for a Native American liaison, for information technology infrastructure preservation and improvement and development activities and for an addition to the drivers exam building in Eagan, to the metropolitan council for transit operations, for bus purchases and garages, for a fare increase replacement and for transit ways environmental studies and implementation, to the department of public safety for public safety officer survivor benefits, for soft body armor reimbursements, for new state patrol positions and the recruit training academy and for the purchase of vehicle video cameras, for capitol complex security, for driver and vehicle services and for traffic and pipeline safety, to the Minnesota safety council and to the commissioner of finance for transfer to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) to acquire wetland banking credits, land or services for wetlands replacement purposes, for disaster assistance, for general contingent accounts and for the payment of tort claims; providing certain additional appropriations for 2001; requiring a certain amount of money in the noise wall account of the local road improvement fund to be used for a demonstration project for constructing masonry sound walls; requiring certain reports to the legislature and authorizing certain fund transfers; restricting metropolitan council metro mobility expenditures ARTICLE 2 CRIMINAL JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the crime victim ombudsman, to the commissioner of public safety for emergency management including a grant to the city of Granite Falls to assist with certain tornado related costs, for criminal apprehension and the CriMNet project, for the fire marshal, for alcohol and gambling enforcement, for the crime victim services center and for law enforcement and community grants and to the boards of peace officer standards and training (POST) and of private detectives and protective agent services; authorizing the bureau of criminal apprehension to charge a fee for Internet access to public criminal history data, limit; removing the executive director of the Minnesota police and peace officers association from criminal gang oversight council membership; authorizing and providing for local government units to enter into agreements to establish major financial crimes investigation units; requiring the center for crime victim services to oversee the design and implementation of a statewide automated victim notification system serving state and local correctional facilities and courts; expanding the duty of sheriffs, peace officers and community corrections agencies to collect certain specified information on offenders for forwarding to the BCA, requiring ensurance of the taking of data on juvenile offenders by prosecutors, courts and probation officers; requiring and providing for biannual suspense file reporting by the superintendent of the BCA; granting the district court access to the conditional release computerized data system; specifying certain offender fingerprinting requirements; extending the expiration date of the sexual assault and general crime victims advisory councils; requiring the commissioner of public safety in consultation with the executive director of the center for crime victim services to administer a pilot project for grants to nonprofit organizations to provide neighborhood based services to crime victims and witnesses between the occurrence of the crime and the filing of charges against the alleged perpetrator, specifying certain grant recipient target and services requirements and requiring a director report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain pistol permits summary data reporting requirements of police chiefs and sheriffs, requiring BCA superintendent annual summary reports of data received to the legislature ARTICLE 3 OTHER AGENCY APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the commissioner of commerce for financial examinations, enforcement and compliance, energy, petroleum tank release cleanup, administrative services, telecommunications and weights and measures, to the boards of accountancy, architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture and interior design and barber examiners, to the commissioner of labor and industry for workers compensation, workplace services and for general support, to the bureau of mediation services for mediation services and for labor and management cooperation grants, to the public utilities commission (PUC), to the Minnesota historical society for education and outreach and for preservation and access, to the councils on black Minnesotans, Chicano-Latino affairs and Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, to the Indian affairs council, to the workers compensation court of appeals and to the amateur sports commission; removing search firms from regulation under the employment agencies law; including qualified on-farm biogas recovery facilities (anaerobic digester systems) under the renewable energy production incentive program; authorizing amateur sports commission matching grants to local government units to develop new ice arenas for amateur athletics (mighty ducks); requiring the commissioner of labor and industry to appoint an equal pay commission to study wage disparities in the public and private sectors between men and women and between minorities and nonminorities to effectively correct and deter discriminatory wage practices based on sex, race or national origin and report to the commissioner for transmission to the governor ARTICLE 4 TRANSPORTATION POLICYProposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XIV to modify the allocation of motor vehicle sales tax proceeds to the highway user tax distribution fund and to allocate a certain percentage to a fund for operating assistance to public transit systems; modifying certain provisions governing trunk highway bond proceeds and highway bond financed property, authorizing the commissioner of finance to use general or trunk highway fund money to sell highway bonds with legislative authorization, requiring replacement; exempting department of transportation contract work orders and work order amendments from commissioner of administration or attorney general signature requirements and increasing the dollar limits on the requirement to use the solicitation process for department acquisitions and on contracts for DOT professional or technical services requiring approval of the commissioner of administration; authorizing acquiring authorities to consider reimbursing businesses displaced under eminent domain proceedings for a certain amount of relocation or reestablishment expenses; designating Little Elk heritage preserve in Morrison county as a historic preserve; providing for the payment of certain town bridge engineering costs from the town bridge account; designating certain portions of trunk highway 75 as the king of trails; authorizing the placement of DOT advertisements for bids on the Internet and bidders to submit bids electronically to the commissioner; regulating DOT professional and technical services contracts; authorizing road authorities by agreement to advance funds to the commissioner to expedite development of interregional transportation corridors; requiring owner consent for commissioner reconveyance of real property taken through eminent domain to the property owner; clarifying and modifying certain population requirements under the municipal state aid street system; clarifying the definition of passenger automobile relating to vans for registration purposes; providing for lifetime registration of certain light utility trailers; authorizing the display of temporary permits in conjunction with an expired registration on vehicles registered as collector vehicles under certain conditions; providing for lifetime license plates for veterans; removing military and veterans special plates from the definition of special license plates for design purposes; expanding the grounds for cancellation of motor vehicle dealer licenses and modifying the definition of utility trailer for dealer regulation provisions exclusion purposes; increasing the filing fee for motor vehicle registration transactions with deputy registrars, separating the registration renewal fee from the fee for other transactions, clarifying the prohibition on the charging of a fee for correction of errors and providing for dealer retention of a certain portion of the fee for electronic transactions; providing a standing appropriation from the highway user tax distribution fund to the commissioner of public safety to pay the costs of purchasing, delivering and mailing motor vehicle license plates and registration tabs, stickers and notices; specifying conditions for owner cancellation of a motor vehicle purchase after transfer of interest for certificate of title purposes, authorizing the refund of taxes and fees after submittal of certain documentation; authorizing cities or urban towns to by ordinance develop and implement programs allowing peace officers to detect and cite through the mail traffic signal violations through photographic evidence, specifying certain program requirements and exceptions and requiring consultation with the department of public safety in establishing the programs; providing for electronic reporting of motor vehicle accidents, authorizing commissioner dissemination of modified copies of database records; requiring commissioner of transportation establishment of school zone speed limits; requiring motor vehicle drivers approaching and before passing emergency vehicles parked or otherwise stopped on or next to a street or highway with two lanes in the same direction to move to the lane farthest from the emergency vehicle; modifying certain seat belt requirements for children, temporarily making violation of seat belt requirements a primary offense and specifying certain injury and death decrease determination requirements of the commissioner of public safety; authorizing the display of dealer plates or certain permits in conjunction with expired registrations; requiring the commissioner of transportation to set the dates for application of seasonal highway weight limit increases based on frost depth and including the movement of sweet corn under the provision; exempting vehicles delivering animal feed or transporting livestock for certain purposes from certain seasonal highway weight restrictions; creating the drivers license account in the special revenue fund for commissioner of public safety drivers license and related services, providing for crediting of certain fees to the account in lieu of the trunk highway fund; eliminating the requirement to sign drivers licenses in ink; increasing certain judgment satisfaction requirements; eliminating a certain exemption from requirements for driver training schools; authorizing the commissioner of transportation to bill highway maintenance operating units of the department and local road authorities for the costs of a centrally managed pavement marking program; limiting highway expenditures in the metropolitan district; modifying the public transit subsidy program, eliminating the large urbanized area service classification and excluding costs related to the Superior, Wisconsin service contract and the school bus service contract from total operating costs of the Duluth transit authority (DTA); restricting expenditures from the transit assistance fund to operating assistance; creating a local road improvement fund, requiring the commissioner to appoint a local road improvement advisory committee for consultation on criteria for expenditures and allocations from the fund, establishing the trunk highway corridor, local road development, small cities and towns and noise wall accounts in the fund and specifying certain required uses of money in the accounts; making optional the requirement for the commissioner to construct a public safety radio communications system, requiring the commissioner to annually publish a list of state owned tower sites available to commercial wireless service providers and other tower owners for installation of equipment; restricting the expenditure of funds by the commissioner or the metropolitan council to study commuter or light rail transit (LRT); authorizing counties, cities or towns to prohibit whistle blowing within a certain distance of commuter rail stations and to establish quiet zones; modifying the distribution of motor vehicle sales tax proceeds to the general fund and providing for the deposit of a certain percentage of the proceeds in the transit assistance fund; expanding the authority of the commissioner of public safety to accept paid advertising in publications; creating a trooper training account in the special revenue fund and providing for the crediting of a certain portion of fines and forfeited bail money collected by the state patrol from traffic and motor vehicle law violations to the account, providing an annual appropriation to the commissioner of public safety from the account for in-service training programs for existing state patrol members; creating a state fire marshal account in the special revenue fund and providing for the crediting of certain fees, penalties, gifts, grants, reimbursements or appropriations relating to the fire protection industry to the account, providing a standing appropriation from the account to the commissioner for the administration of fire protection industry licensing requirements; modifying certain provisions relating to the transportation revolving loan fund, establishing a state funds general account in the fund for certain transportation projects; requiring land use plans in the metropolitan area to include consideration of the protection and development of aggregate resources; authorizing the metropolitan council with the approval of a majority of the voters in the metropolitan transportation area to temporarily impose additional sales and use and a motor vehicle excise taxes (MVET) for metropolitan area bus system capital expenses and for transfer to the trunk highway fund for expenditure by the commissioner of transportation to complete certain metropolitan highway system improvements, specifying certain special election and reporting requirements; expanding the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for costs resulting from the termination of certain public safety radio communications system agreements; requiring the commissioner to temporarily suspend work on the I-35W trunk highway 62 improvement project and report to the legislature by a certain date recommendations for adequate public transit during the closure and alternative designs for the project; requiring the commissioner to consider erecting a differential global positioning system tower at the Bedora state nursery site in Hubbard county under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to study bridge jurisdiction and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of public safety develop and implement a long range plan to promote awareness among drivers of the need for reduced speed in proximity to stopped emergency vehicles and to present a state trooper training report to the legislature by certain date; requiring the commissioner of administration to conduct a study of required documentation for drivers license applications and report to the legislature by a certain date; increasing census figures for the city of Chisholm to continue state aid eligibility; repealing certain provisions relating to the distribution of the transit assistance fund ARTICLE 5 PUBLIC SERVICE CONSOLIDATION Codifying a certain reorganization order transferring remaining powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of the commissioner of public service to the commissioner of commerce; increasing the number of free copies of Minnesota statutes required to be distributed to the department of commerce; making certain other technical corrections relating to the transfer of powers and duties from the department of public service to the public utilities commission (PUC) and the department of transportation (DOT); modifying inspection requirements for grocery stores and other retail food establishments; specifying certain word change instructions to the revisor of statutes (ja)