Relating to the financing of state government, cancelling or adjusting certain appropriations and transferring certain balances to avoid a deficit ARTICLE 1 SUMMARY Summarizing the reductions in appropriations to certain areas or programs ARTICLE 2 E-12 EDUCATION FORECAST CHANGES Reducing or modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for early childhood family education (ECFE), school age care, community education, referendum tax base replacement, general and supplemental education, abatement, nonpublic pupil and nonpublic pupil transportation, consolidation transition, charter school building lease and startup cost, integration, magnet school startup, tribal contract school, special education and special education excess cost, children and students with disabilities, teacher travel for home based services, health and safety, debt service, alternative facilities bonding and school lunch aids, MFIP (Minnesota family investment program) child care assistance, American Indian success for the future grants and telecommunication access cost revenue ARTICLE 3 E-12 EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONSReducing appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for charter school building lease aid, for school evaluation services, for alternative teacher compensation, for advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs examination fees and teacher training and support programs, for best practices seminars, for the Perpich center for arts education and for department expenses, appropriating money to the commissioner for excess charter school building lease aid; restricting the payment of AP or IB examination fees to students from low income families; modifying the calculation of charter school building lease aid and providing for excess building lease aid, limit; modifying the training and experience revenue formula for fiscal year 2004, authorizing a levy; reducing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for AP and IB programs, eliminating funding for teacher training programs; setting the base level funding for fiscal years and 2005 for alternative teacher compensation, for department expenses, for AP and IB programs examination fees and teacher training and support programs, for best practices seminars, for the Perpich center for arts education and for charter school excess building lease aid; cancelling the unobligated balance of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for work study student compensation to the general fund ARTICLE 4 HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONSReducing or adjusting appropriations to the higher education services office (HESO) for interstate tuition reciprocity, for minitex, for the learning network of Minnesota, for the Minnesota college savings plan and for agency administration and reducing appropriations to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) and to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota; modifying the cost of attendance for public higher education institutions for state grant calculation purposes; increasing the penalty under the Minnesota college savings plan ARTICLE 5 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the commissioner of human services for basic health care, MinnesotaCare and general assistance medical care (GAMC), group residential housing (GRH), economic support, assistance to families and general assistance (GA) grants, for the prescription drug program and for medical assistance (MA) long term care waivers and home care grants, reducing appropriations for agency and basic health care management, for medical assistance basic health care grants for families and children and the elderly and disabled, for state operated services for continuing care, aging adult service, medical assistance long term care facilities, chemical dependency entitlement, certain economic support and Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA) grants and for continuing care management; reducing appropriations to the commissioner of health for certain one time grants to reduce certain health disparities, for suicide prevention, for health status improvement grants, for health protection and for management and support services; sunsetting uncodified language ARTICLE 6 CONTINUING CARE AND LONG TERM CARE Increasing the nursing home license surcharge based on net gain to the general fund; modifying the division of medical assistance (MA) costs between the state and counties for certain longer term nursing facility placements of persons with disabilities and requiring an additional annual intergovernmental transfer for the number of nursing home beds owned and operated by counties, authorizing the commissioner of human services to reduce the transfers based on payment rate determination; adjusting certain medical assistance nursing facility payment rates; reducing the frequency requirement for addenda to county community based services plans and imposing a time limit for area agencies on aging and seniors agenda for independent living (SAIL) projects to provide the commissioner and counties with review and analyses; reducing the frequency requirement for the report to the legislature by the commissioners of health and human services relating to the development of community based services; delaying the deadline for development and implementation of a quality profile system for long term care providers; repealing the requirement for reduction or elimination of the waiting list for home and community based services for persons with mental retardation or related conditions ARTICLE 7 - HEALTH CAREProviding for the payment of university of Minnesota clinical graduate medical education costs from medical education and research funds; granting the commissioner of human services the authority to administer a supplemental drug rebate program for drugs purchased under the medical assistance (MA) and prescription drug programs, authorizing contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers and implementation of prior authorization requirements for drugs from manufacturers not under contract; reducing the medical assistance and general assistance medical care payment rates for fee for service hospital inpatient admissions and outpatient services; modifying the exclusion of assets designated as burial expenses and requiring employed persons with disabilities to verify earnings from employment for medical assistance eligibility determination purposes; clarifying certain provisions providing for the division of assets between spouses in institutionalized spouse cases and expanding the provisions to prohibited transfers, limiting the total amount of assets available to the community spouse, assets exceeding the limits to be considered available to the institutionalized spouse; prohibiting the transfer of certain annuities purchased after a certain date and reducing the dollar limit on uncompensated transfers for period of ineligibility determination purposes; increasing the pharmacy dispensing fee; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner to set maximum allowable costs for certain multisource drugs and modifying the formula for commissioner estimation of the actual acquisition costs of drugs for medical assistance coverage purposes; requiring the commissioner to withhold a certain percentage of managed care plan payments for the prepaid medical assistance, GAMC and MinnesotaCare programs pending completion of performance targets, authorizing the commissioner to exclude special demonstration projects involving alternative integrated long term care services for the elderly and disabled; reducing the capitation rates for nonmetropolitan counties for prospective reimbursement rate determination purposes; increasing the funding of the medical education and research fund from capitation rates and increasing the rates; reducing the payment rate for managed care plans under the prepayment demonstration project for covered services after a certain date, exclusions; delaying implementation of the medical assistance outpatient hospital payment system based on the medicare outpatient prospective payment system; expanding MinnesotaCare program eligibility for children and eliminating a certain copayment payment requirement; repealing medical assistance coverage for intensive early intervention behavior therapy services for children with autism spectrum disorders ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUSEliminating the requirement for the commissioner of health to develop curricula for the training and education of professionals relating to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS); specifying the intent of the legislature relating to continued operation of the Willmar and Fergus Falls regional treatment centers; reducing the total supplementary service rate negotiated percentage for group residential housing (GRH) services; requiring the day training and habilitation task force to ensure the equitable distribution of funds based on need with no additional cost to the state and to evaluate the feasibility of conversion to an individualized payment rate structure, extending the deadline for the task force report to the legislature and shortening the life of the task force; repealing the occupational respiratory disease information system advisory group, the juvenile assessment centers pilot grant program, on site coordination (OSC) services projects, the work first program and the day training and habilitation payment structure pilot project ARTICLE 9 CORRECTIONS Reducing appropriations to the board of public defense and to the department of corrections for adult institutions and for juvenile and community services; eliminating the pretrial bail evaluation reimbursement and the community reentry program and reducing community corrections act subsidy funding; requiring the involvement of mental health case management services providers in predischarge assessment and planning meetings for criminal offenders with serious and persistent mental illness; making permanent the provision requiring the commissioner of corrections to charge counties or other appropriate jurisdictions a certain percentage of the per diem cost of confinement of juveniles at the correctional facility in Red Wing and of juvenile females committed to the commissioner; requiring correctional and social services agencies delivering direct case management services to certain mentally ill persons under correctional supervision to develop policies and practices maximizing collaborative case planning for adult and juvenile offenders diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness or severe emotional disturbance, requiring certain reports and authorizing the sharing of data for purposes of collaborative case planningARTICLE 10 TRANSPORTATION AND OTHER AGENCY APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for trunk highway construction and reducing appropriations to the metropolitan council for transportation services, to the commissioner of public safety for the crime victim services center, for law enforcement and community grants and for state patrol capitol security, to the commissioners of commerce and labor and industry for staff reductions and to the bureau of mediation services for reduction of labor management cooperation grants; requiring annual transfer of a certain amount of money from the automobile theft prevention account to the general fund; increasing the percentage of money allocated to the general fund from the drivers license reinstatement fee and eliminating the allocation to the alcohol impaired driver education account; eliminating the crediting of certain criminal offender fines and surcharges to the criminal justice special projects account in the special revenue fund and increasing allocation to the general fund; reducing certain prior appropriations to the board of peace officer standards and training (POST) ARTICLE 11 ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONSReducing appropriations to the pollution control agency for water and land protection and for administrative support, to the office of environmental assistance, to the zoological, water and soil resources and animal health boards, to the commissioner of natural resources for land and mineral resources, forest, parks and recreation, trails and waterways, fish and wildlife management, for ecological services, for snowmobile laws enforcement and for operations support, to the science museum of Minnesota, to the commissioner of agriculture for agricultural marketing and development and for administration and financial assistance and to the agricultural utilization research institute; reducing certain nonstate match amounts required for certain prior iron ore and minerals cooperative environmental research appropriations; reducing the annual base level funding for value added agricultural product processing and marketing grants; requiring the commissioner of finance to cancel a certain amount of the unencumbered bond proceeds balance in the family farm security program bond account to the debt service fund; reducing ethanol producer payments and certain payment limits; authorizing the zoological board without legislative approval to establish a schedule of charges for admission to or use of the zoological gardens and related facilities; reducing the standing appropriation to the DNR for taconite mining grants; increasing certain water quality permit fees collected by the PCA; repealing certain rule and priority requirements of BOWSR under the local water resources protection and management program and the requirement for annual reports by the board on the metropolitan surface water management program, certain groundwater education requirements and the annual wetlands reporting requirement of BOWSR and the DNR and certain rules governing local water management plans and grants ARTICLE 12 STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONSReducing appropriations to the legislature, to the constitutional officers, to the board of government innovation and cooperation, to the office of strategic and long range planning, to the commissioner of administration for operations and facilities management, for the office of technology, for the intertechnologies group, for management services, for public broadcasting and for fiscal agents, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and for information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the Minnesota humanities commission, to the board of the arts for operations and services, for grants programs and for regional arts councils, to the departments of military and veterans affairs, to the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) to eliminate the open appropriation for judges not participating in the postretirement fund, to the campaign finance and public disclosure, investment, capitol area architectural and planning (CAAPB) and lawful gambling control boards, to the Minnesota racing commission, to the commissioner of trade and economic development for business and community and workforce development, for the Minnesota trade office, for the office of tourism, for information and analysis, for administrative support, for the film board grants and dislocated worker programs and for the biomedical innovation and commercialization initiative, to Minnesota Technology, Inc., to the commissioner of economic security for workforce services, to the housing finance agency (HFA), to the commissioner of human rights, to the judicial standards board and to the uniform laws commission; reducing appropriations for tort claims and for contingent accounts; requiring the attorney general to prepare a plan for ending partnership agreements with agencies for submittal to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain state agency spending cut requirements and restrictions; appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for recurring costs of emergency telephone services (911); prohibiting reduction of base funding for the information policy analysis program; reducing professional and technical contracts and voting equipment grants; eliminating the office of citizenship and volunteer services, transferring certain duties to the commissioner of human services; requiring certain commissioner of finance payments by electronic funds transfer; requiring the crediting of receipts from building official services to the special revenue fund in lieu of the general fund and certain St. Paul RiverCentre arena loan repayments to the general fund in lieu of the youth activities account in the special revenue fund; increasing certain district court fees; requiring judges to participate in the postretirement investment fund; delaying the effective date for the abolishment of the department of economic security and the reorganization of DTED and temporarily suspending the authority of the commissioner of administration to issue a reorganization order affecting the department of economic security ARTICLE 13 CANCELLATIONS; TRANSFERS; SALES TAX COLLECTIONS Setting the budget reserve and cash flow account balances and providing for replenishment from the medical education and tobacco use prevention and local public health endowment funds under certain general fund balance conditions; delaying the abolishment of the retailer June sales tax liability; cancelling certain unobligated balances in the cash flow, budget reserve, tax relief, local government aid reform and tax increment financing grant accounts to the general fund; requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer certain asset amounts of the assigned risk plan and the special compensation fund to the general fund and repealing a certain prior severability clause relating to assigned risk plan surplus transfers; cancelling certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for certain transportation projects to the general fund; appropriating money to the commissioner of finance for transfer to the budget reserve account; repealing the local government aid reform account, a certain provision providing for TIF grants and certain prior budget reserve account increase requirements ARTICLE 14 - INFLATION ADJUSTMENTSEliminating the requirement to include inflation adjustments in future budget forecasts (mk)