E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money for the legislative and executive branches of state government; appropriating money to the legislature for the commissions, for the office of the revisor of statutes and for the legislative reference library (LRL), to the governor and lieutenant governor, to the state auditor, to the state treasurer, to the attorney general, to the secretary of state for uniform commercial code (UCC) and elections costs, to the campaign finance and public disclosure and investment boards, to the office of administrative hearings, to the office of strategic and long range planning for continuation of the generic environmental impact statements (GEIS) on urban development and on animal agriculture and for regional development commissions, to the commissioner of administration for operations management, for the office of technology to plan, develop and implement CriMNet, for administrative services, for small agency infrastructure, for the technology enterprise fund, for the intertechnologies group, for facilities management, for the information policy training program, for the office of the state archaeologist, for the developmental disabilities council, for the STAR program, for grants to the city of Granite Falls to reconstruct project turnabout and to the city of Longville for completion of the city hall ambulance building, for the state employees band and for public television and radio grants, to the capitol area architectural and planning board (CAAPB), to the commissioner of finance, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) for employee insurance and for human resources management, to the commissioner of revenue for reimbursement to counties for property tax abatements resulting from certain disasters and for tax system and accounts receivable management, to the commissioner of military affairs (adjutant general) for training facilities maintenance, for the national guard youth camp at Camp Ripley, for enlistment incentives and for emergency services, to the commissioner of veterans affairs for a grant to the St. Louis county heritage and arts center in Duluth for completion of the veterans memorial hall physical exhibit and displays, to the veterans of foreign wars, to the military order of the purple heart, to the disabled American veterans, to the gambling control, arts and government innovation and cooperation boards, to the racing and humanities commissions, to the commissioner of finance for the payment of tort claims, to the Minnesota state retirement systems (MSRS), to the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF), to the commissioner of revenue for police and fire amortization aid, to the workers compensation court of appeals and to the commissioner of children, families and learning for reimbursement grants to transitional housing programs and for emergency services for the homeless; ratifying the salary increases recommended by the compensation council for judges, constitutional officers and legislators with certain modifications; requiring the office of strategic and long range planning to prepare urban rivers sustainable development draft guidelines along central business districts; requiring the office of technology to study the unemployment insurance technology initiative project and the management analysis division of the department of administration to study the feasibility of collecting fees for services provided by the state archaeologist; establishing a technology enterprise fund to fund enterprisewide technology projects and citizen telecommunications access; authorizing the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of administration for Guthrie theater site acquisition and preparation for predesign and design; authorizing the commissioner of finance to charge for statewide systems services and requiring the commissioner to study authorized state agency building projects; requiring a workers compensation reinsurance association operating expenses report to the legislature by a certain date; providing certain deficiency appropriations and for certain funds transfers ARTICLE 2 CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROVISIONSAppropriating money to the supreme court for operating expenses, for reimbursements to Carlton and Aitkin counties for extraordinary expenses relating to homicide trials, for civil legal services to low income clients and family farmers, for continued redevelopment of the court information system and for law library operations, to the court of appeals, to the district courts for new judge units and for alternative dispute resolution programs, to the board on judicial standards, to the tax court, to the human rights department and to the uniform laws commissionARTICLE 3 JUDICIARY PROVISIONSIncreasing the number of trial court judgeships in the first, third, seventh, ninth and tenth judicial districts; requiring the supreme court to determine the pay and expenses to be received by retired justices and judges; increasing the salaries of judges of the supreme and district courts and the court of appeals; requiring the state to assume court interpreter program personnel costs; requiring and providing for the third and fifth judicial districts to develop or continue alternative dispute resolution programs to provide services in conciliation court cases and unlawful detainer proceedings ARTICLE 4 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOBS APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the commissioner of trade and economic development (DTED) for a grant to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the north star research coalition, for redevelopment, metropolitan livable communities, capacity building, northeast entrepreneur fund initiative and small business microenterprise technical assistance grants, for grants to Camp Knutson for capital improvements, to the city of Duluth for the technology village, to the rural policy and development center at Mankato state university, to the cities of Ada, Breckenridge, East Grand Forks and Warren for flood recovery work, to Granite Falls for tornado relief and project turnabout, to local government units for business tornado loans and grants, to the city of St. Paul for a new Roy Wilkins auditorium and exhibit hall, to the Albert Lea port authority for a business development center, to Koochiching county for a north American bear center, to Blue Earth, Martin and St. Louis counties for a rural advanced business facilitation program pilot project, to the west central growth alliance for an economic development pilot project, to Neighborhood Development Center, Inc., to local government units and tribal governments to expand Internet access in rural areas and to the metropolitan economic development association for minority business development programs, for the job skills partnership program, for the St. Paul port authority customized job training program, for the health care and human services training program, for grants to livetrack resources for immigrant refugee collaborative programs, to WomenVenture for business development programs and to Twin Cities rise for job training to hard to train individuals, for travel information centers, for 2004 grand excursion, tourism and marketing grants, for the film board and for consulting contracts, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for a civilian conservation corps worker statue, to Minnesota Technology, Inc. for grants to the Minnesota inventors congress, Minnesota project innovation and the Minnesota investment network corporation, to the commissioner of economic security for workplace HIV education, for grants to provide employment support services to persons with mental illness and for deaf and hard of hearing people, for a grant to Advocating Change Together, Inc. (ACT), for independent living centers, for the vocational rehabilitation brain injury pilot program, for extended employment services rehabilitation rate increases, for state services for the blind, for displaced homemaker programs, for youth intervention and youthbuild program grants, for grants to nonprofit organizations for programs to encourage and assist women to enter nontraditional careers, for opportunities industrialization center programs and for the voluntary paid parental leave pilot project ARTICLE 5 2001 HOUSING APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the housing finance agency for the economic development and housing challenge and family homeless prevention and assistance programs, for grants to organizations providing case management for certain persons needing rental housing, for the rental housing pilot project in Benton, Clay, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Ramsey, St. Louis, Sherburne and Stearns counties, for the school stability project, for the housing trust and affordable rental investment funds, for capacity building, section 8 housing and adults with disabilities supportive housing program grants, for the full cycle home ownership and innovative and inclusionary housing programs and for local initiative block grants and to the commissioner of children, families and learning for emergency services and transitional housing; authorizing HFA grants to local government units or nonprofit organizations for housing production and preservation programs for certain low income persons, loans or grants to local government units for permanent housing for veterans and single adults and grants to local government units and nonprofit organizations for lead hazard reduction; requiring and providing for the HFA to establish a manufactured home park redevelopment programARTICLE 6 HOUSING FINANCE AGENCYAppropriating money to the housing finance agency for the rental housing assistance program for persons or families with mental illness, for the housing trust fund, for the family homeless prevention and assistance, homeownership education and training, affordable rental investment fund, urban and tribal Indian housing and economic development and housing challenge programs and for capacity building grants; authorizing the transfer of money appropriated for disaster relief between the affordable rental investment and community rehabilitation fund accounts; regulating state and local construction projects; modifying certain state building code provisions, providing for uniform and consistent application, granting the state building official final interpretative authority, requiring annual local government unit reports to the department of administration on the collection of construction and development related fees; prohibiting local residential building contractor license or registration fees, regulating the imposition of municipal planning fees and providing for affordable housing; modifying certain HFA rehabilitation loan provisions; authorizing aggregation of investment earnings in the housing development fund, authorizing costs and expenses relating to the development and operation of programs funded by state appropriations to be paid from the aggregated earnings before periodic distributions of earnings to separate accounts; clarifying certain elements of the rental housing assistance (bridges) program; authorizing the HFA to spend money from the housing development fund for the family stabilization demonstration project; providing for affordable housing in the metropolitan area; modifying certain inclusionary housing account and development requirements under the livable communities act; expanding eligibility for the Bruce F. Vento year 2000 affordable housing program relating to the loss of eligibility for the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) ARTICLE 7 BUDGET PREPARATIONModifying certain state budget and forecast provisions; imposing a deadline for submission of budget requests from the governor to the legislature; authorizing the governor to submit revised requests for allotment of additional federal money received after approval of the original budget request; requiring fiscal notes to include the assumptions used in determining the cost estimates; requiring the commissioner of finance to hold open public meetings with state agencies to discuss budget information, agency performance data and proposed changes in level of services and new activities; requiring the commissioner upon delivery of forecasts to the legislature to reconcile the fund balance statement for the general fund to the end of session legislative tracking documents and detail differences by omnibus budget bill jurisdiction for the current and next biennium, specifying certain notice requirements and requiring a second later reconciliation; requiring forecasts to include a set aside amount reflecting inflationary increases in the delivery of services, specifying certain limits ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUSRequiring and providing for the office of strategic and long range planning to biennially calculate a self sufficiency standard to measure the amount of income needed for families to meet basic needs, specifying certain report publication and availability requirements; providing for the transfer of certain attorney general fees to the attorney general; eliminating certain commissioner of administration abandoned property published notice requirements; exempting certain local government unit projects from predesign requirements; requiring the commissioner to by a certain date adopt rules establishing a building code for the renovation and rehabilitation of historic structures; eliminating the requirement for the office of citizenship and volunteer services to coordinate work on citizen engagement with certain other agencies; authorizing the commissioner to enter into agreements under state procurement provisions to acquire district cooling services; eliminating certain responsibilities of the office of technology relating to reducing or eliminating the redundant storage of data and establishing information sales systems; establishing a technology enterprise fund and board; limiting state paid benefits under state employee collective bargaining agreements or plans; expanding job skills partnership board distance work grants eligibility requirements and modifying certain match requirements; requiring employers to grant paid leaves of absence to employees undergoing a medical procedure for organ donation; establishing an unemployment insurance technology initiative; providing for the allocation of the fee charged for refund setoff collections under the revenue recapture act for act administration purposes; establishing the uniform commercial code account to pay for secretary of state implementation and maintenance of the UCC central filing system; modifying the validity period for lawful gambling premises permits and creating new classes for permits issued during the second year of an organization license, fees; increasing the county recorder electronic real estate recording surcharge fee for appropriation to the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for the task force on electronic real estate recording; increasing the maximum allowable fee for emergency telephone services and setting the enhanced fee, authorizing use of fee proceeds for the installation or maintenance of associated signs, posts or other markers; authorizing and providing for the metropolitan council to establish a separate governing body to exercise delegated housing and redevelopment authority (HRA) powers; modifying the cost allocation system for the metropolitan disposal system; expanding authorized use by the commissioner of administration of emergency telephone service (911) fees in the metropolitan area to providing aid to local government units for sites and equipment in support of mutual aid and emergency medical communications services; reducing the marriage license fee for couples receiving a certain number of hours of premarital education; extending the voluntary unpaid leave of absence program for state employees; providing for the maintenance of office of administrative hearings settlement division offices in Hennepin or Ramsey counties and eliminating the St. Paul location requirement; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of administration to annually report on the progress of the small agency infrastructure project to the legislature; providing for extra unemployment insurance benefits for laid off employees of Fingerhut, Inc. in Mora or Onan Power Electronics in Nicollet county and M.E. International in St. Louis county; requiring and providing for the commissioner of economic security to operate a voluntary paid parental leave program; repealing the attorney general legal services biennial budget request requirement, the requirement for the office of technology to establish a business license information system, arts organization grants and public employer collective bargaining agreement uniform settlement document requirements ARTICLE 9 STATE AGENCY RESTRUCTURINGAbolishing the departments of labor and industry and economic security, renaming the department of trade and economic development (DTED) the department of economic and workforce development and creating a new department of labor; transferring responsibilities of the department of economic security relating to workforce services to the renamed department, to the unemployment insurance program to the department of labor and to energy programs to the department of commerce; transferring responsibilities of the department of labor and industry to the newly created department of labor; providing for organization of the department of economic and workforce development, creating a workforce development program reorganization transition advisory team and specifying team membership requirements duties; requiring the commissioners of trade and economic development and economic security to cooperate with and provide staff support to the team; granting the team access to private or nonpublic data within the departments of economic security, labor and industry and trade and economic development; providing for worker protection ARTICLE 10 TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH AND INVESTMENTRequiring the state board of investment to identify and invest in Minnesota based start-up businesses meeting board investment guidelines; creating the high technology venture capital account in the special revenue fund for investment in private venture capital funds providing seed capital for early stage development of Minnesota based high technology companies expected to experience high growth, specifying certain investment limits; requiring and providing for the north star research coalition to establish the biomedical innovation and commercialization initiative (BICI) as a for-profit collaborative economic development initiative between the university of Minnesota, the medical technology industry and investors; requesting the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to establish a partnership with private industry to leverage research capabilities into economic development results through creation of a nonprofit tax exempt corporation to be known as the north star research coalition ARTICLE 11- HOUSING PROGRAM CONSOLIDATIONConsolidating supportive housing related programs into the housing trust fund program; modifying a certain provision providing for housing finance agency grants or loans for low income housing, requiring the housing trust fund account to be used for the benefit of certain low income persons and families and rental assistance to be provided by governmental units administering housing assistance supplements or for-profit or by nonprofit organizations experienced in housing management, specifying certain limits and priorities; reducing the frequency of and expanding the content requirements for the HFA report to the governor and legislature on the account; changing the full cycle home ownership services program to the homeownership education, counseling and training program and expanding program services and eligibility criteria, requiring the HFA to consider certain criteria in selecting organizations eligible for the funds, requiring designated program areas, communities or neighborhoods, providing for assistance and counseling to prevent mortgage foreclosures or cancellations of contracts for deed, requiring annual nonprofit organization reports to the agency and agency reports to the legislature; authorizing the HFA to spend money from the housing development fund for the economic development and housing challenge program and expanding the purposes of the grant and loan program, providing for gap financing, eliminating certain preference requirements and modifying certain income limits; repealing the housing trust fund account advisory committee, the mortgage foreclosure prevention and emergency rental assistance and entry cost home ownership opportunity programs and certain provisions under the economic development and housing challenge program ARTICLE 12 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIONProviding for the administration of workforce development programs; designating the job skills partnership board as the lead agency for workforce policy and program development and coordination; increasing and modifying the membership of the board; authorizing the board to hire an executive director and staff to carry out duties; requiring exclusive offices and authorizing contracting with the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for administrative services; requiring the board to administer and coordinate state workforce development activities; requiring the board by a certain date to develop performance standards for workforce development and job training programs receiving state funding, authorizing a contract with a consultant to develop the standards and specifying certain minimum standards requirements; requiring the board to annually submit recommendations to the legislature relating to modifications to or elimination of existing workforce development programs and the potential implementation of new programs; providing for allocation of workforce development funds to the job skills partnership board; requiring the commissioner of economic security to notify certain unemployment insurance applicants of the opportunity for employment and training services through workforce centers; creating an executive committee of the workforce development council, specifying membership requirements; requiring the committee to develop performance standards for the state workforce centers, to annually report to the legislature on the performance of the centers and to develop a strategic plan for the appropriate placement and number of workforce centers within the state, specifying certain plan requirements; requiring local workforce centers to establish advanced reemployment programs to monitor and contact underemployed individuals about advanced placement and training opportunities ARTICLE 13 ELECTIONSRelating to the financing of election campaigns; expanding the definition of campaign expenditure to include communications advocating support for or opposition to the nomination or election of a candidate (issue ads); modifying the definition of independent expenditure, increasing the limit on the expenditures, changing the affidavit filing requirement to a web site notice posting requirement with a description to the state board of campaign finance and public disclosure, providing for a false affidavit of notice; requiring the board to publish certain information on the web site; providing for the application of voluntary spending limits to political parties as a condition of receiving a public subsidy; prohibiting independent expenditures by political parties; providing for the matching of independent expenditures advocating the defeat or election of candidates, establishing an independent expenditure matching account for use by the board for loans to certain candidates to respond to independent expenditures, requiring a repayment agreement, authorizing the acceptance of additional contributions from political party units to match the independent expenditure and authorizing candidate targets of independent expenditures with no notice to make additional expenditures; increasing the limit on political party contributions to candidates for the state senate; prohibiting candidates accepting a public subsidy from accepting contributions from lobbyists; limiting the purposes of political party multicandidate expenditures; subjecting political party chairs to a civil fine for violating certain spending limits; modifying the provision providing for the qualification of political parties for the income tax checkoff, requiring the secretary of state to notify each political party, the commissioner of revenue and the board by a certain date of the parties qualifying for inclusion on the income tax form and property tax refund return; restricting state elections campaign fund party account allocations to state committees of political parties to parties signing and filing spending limit agreements with the board, requiring cancellation of unallocated amounts to the general fund; modifying the distribution from the general account of the state elections campaign fund and changing the certification date; requiring the reduction of payments to candidates failing to file campaign reports due before the primary election; changing the date for filing spending limit agreements with the board; requiring chairs of state committees of political parties to file spending limit agreements with the board as a condition of receiving a public subsidy, requiring board notice to the commissioner of revenue of agreements filed; extending the time limit for filing affidavits of contributions in special elections to qualify for a public subsidy; modifying the definition of minor political party; modifying a certain bundling limit exception; limiting the charging of fees to election candidates participating in public parades; restricting refunds for contributions to political parties signing spending limit agreements with the board; nonseverability clause ARTICLE 14 - TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGESMaking conforming amendments to certain provisions under the Minnesota housing finance agency law of 1971; requiring new construction of single family homes, duplexes, triplexes and multilevel townhouses financed in whole or in part by the HFA to incorporate basic visitability access into the design and construction, defining visitability, authorizing HFA waiver of certain design requirements under certain conditions; repealing certain redundant definitions(ra, ja)