Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, cancelling and transferring certain balances and reducing certain appropriations to avert a deficit ARTICLE 1 EDUCATION AID PAYMENT DELAYDelaying certain aid payments to school districts and charter schools, modifying certain payment dates and percentages; providing for advance final payments to school districts and charter schools with negative fund balances adversely affected by cash flow changes and appropriating money to the commissioner of children, families and learning for the payments ARTICLE 2 EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY EDUCATIONModifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for school readiness program revenue, for early childhood family education (ECFE), health and developmental screening and school age care aids, for MFIP (Minnesota family investment program) child care assistance and social services child care costs, for transition year families, for community education, adults with disabilities program and adult basic education and graduation aids and for violence prevention education and basic support and multicounty, multitype library systems grants; transferring temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) block grant funds to the child care and development fund for appropriation to the commissioner in lieu of a direct appropriation ARTICLE 3 K-12 EDUCATION APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENTSModifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for debt service equalization, referendum tax base replacement, general and supplemental education, abatement, nonpublic pupil and nonpublic pupil transportation, consolidation transition, charter school building lease and integration, magnet school startup, tribal contract school, special education and excess cost, children with a disability, travel for home based services, students with disabilities transition, health and safety, debt service, alternative facilities bonding aid and school breakfast aids and charter school startup and American Indian success for the future grants ARTICLE 4 K-12 EDUCATION Authorizing school districts to allocate undesignated general funds to private contracted alternative programs to providing comprehensive secondary academic programs for chemically dependent students; modifying resident school district tuition payment requirements for the attendance of students at the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and changing certain references to visually disabled or hearing impaired to blind visually impaired or deaf hard of hearing respectively; extending the telecommunications access revenue program (TARP) reserve requirement; limiting referendum equalization aid; restoring certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for the Perpich center for arts education; adjusting the referendum allowance for independent school district 709, Duluth; providing declining pupil unit aid for certain fiscal years to independent school district 241, Albert Lea and for independent school district 2711, Mesabi East due to the LTV plant closure in Hoyt Lakes; authorizing independent school districts 836, Butterfield and 458. Truman to permanently transfer certain amounts of money from reserved capital accounts to undesignated fund balances; appropriating money to the commissioner for payment of the declining pupil unit aid and for the Duluth referendum transfer adjustment ARTICLE 5 HIGHER EDUCATIONClarifying the procedure used by the higher education services office to prorate state financial aid grants in the event of insufficient appropriations; appropriating money to HESO for the grants for post secondary education, requiring HESO to determine the projected sufficiency or deficiency in state money for full state grant awards, requiring certain appropriation transfers in deficiency cases to avoid grant award reductions ARTICLE 6 ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Temporarily cancelling a certain general fund appropriation to the office of environmental assistance for the county waste reduction and recycling funding program (SCORE block grants) and replacing the funds with an appropriation from the solid waste fund; proportionately reducing the minimum payment to counties for waste reduction and recycling under certain conditions; transferring the administration of the household hazardous waste program from the pollution control agency to the OEA; reducing a certain major water quality permit fee; encouraging the governor to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of making the governor the appointing authority for the director of environmental assistance in lieu of the commissioner of the PCA ARTICLE 7 STATE GOVERNMENT Reducing certain prior appropriations to the legislature; appropriating money to the office of the governor to reopen and provide security at the residence for public use; transferring a certain amount of money from the state building code account in the special revenue fund to the general fund; increasing certain prior appropriations to the uniform laws commission; providing for the carryforward of encumbrances for grants issued by a certain date and authorizing services under grant contracts to occur during the certification period; requiring nonstate entities using the residence of the governor to pay the state for costs associated with use of the facility; increasing the limit on state employee voluntary unpaid leaves of absence; eliminating the prohibition on funding the operation of the office of the governor in Washington, D.C.; modifying the required reduction in professional or technical services contract expenditures; exempting the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) and the higher education services office (HESO) from the moratorium on consultant contracts moratorium and modifying or expanding certain other exemptions, transferring waiver authority from the commissioner of administration to the governor and requiring periodic reporting of exemptions; excepting state correctional facility and certain department of corrections or human services employees, student workers and employees paid entirely with federal or special revenue funds or with costs recovered from nonstate entities from the hiring freeze and reducing anticipated savings amounts; providing for the processing of certain nonprofit grants and contracts; requiring the commissioner of administration to make certain previously authorized voting equipment grants ARTICLE 8 CANCELLATIONS; CASH FLOW; TRANSFERS IN Providing for commissioner of finance use of the cash reserves of the medical education endowment fund after using the cash reserves of the tobacco use prevention and local public health endowment fund under certain general fund balance insufficiency determination conditions, requiring and providing for repayment plus interest; requiring the transfer of excess assets in the workers compensation assigned risk plan to the budget reserve account in the general fund, defining excess surplus; increasing amounts transferred to the general fund from the cash flow account, the assigned risk plan and the special compensation fund; requiring positive unrestricted general fund balances to be allocated to the budget reserve account in the general fund ARTICLE 9 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONSModifying appropriations to the commissioner of human services for family preservation and children's mental health, basic health care, MinnesotaCare, general assistance medical care (GAMC), continuing care and economic support grants and appropriating money to the commissioner for state operated services; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for registering certain housing with services establishments and to the veterans nursing homes board for an operations deficiency; requiring the commissioner of administration to transfer to the board payments received from contractors for mold damage at the Luverne facility, limit; exempting the department of human services from the hiring freeze and the consultant contracts moratorium relating to the establishment and implementation of a supplemental drug rebate program; requiring the commissioner of corrections to report to the legislature by a certain date on alternatives for dealing with offenders serving less than one year in prison; requiring the commissioner of human services to maintain the maintenance of effort amount used in certain MFIP (Minnesota family investment program, TANF) forecasts at a certain minimum amount; sunsetting uncodified language ARTICLE 10 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESAuthorizing ongoing consent to the dissemination of private data relating to applications for medical assistance (MA) or MinnesotaCare data during terms of eligibility for individual education plan health related services provided by school districts; authorizing the commissioner of corrections to reimburse health care providers at rates equal to the medical assistance rate unless otherwise negotiated; authorizing the corrections ombudsman to apply for and receive grants from public and private entities to exercise powers and duties; increasing the nursing home license surcharge and modifying the medical assistance reimbursement rate increase dates accordingly; modifying the date for commissioner of human services nursing home payment adjustments to county owned nursing homes; delaying the date for implementation of the provision limiting variable rate adjustments to certain intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (ICF MR); requiring annual in lieu of quarterly community social services (CSSA) payments to counties; expanding Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) hardship extension eligibility to victims of family violence participating in an alternative employment plan, to certain participants with limited work hours due to health conditions and to certain participants receiving temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) during employment and training services requirements exemption periods; defining gross individual or gross family income for farm self employed under the MinnesotaCare program; extending eligibility of certain individuals with a certain annual prescription drug benefit for the prescription drug program ARTICLE 11 GENERAL FUND CONVERSION TO BOND FUNDS Returning a certain amount of money to the general fund by changing the funding source of certain projects authorized in the 1998, 1999 and 2000 buildings bonding laws to the bond proceeds and transportation funds; appropriating money to the commissioner of finance for bond sale expenses(Ch. 374, 2002 veto overridden)