E Establishing a public telecommunications services account to provide support for various public telecommunication networks; imposing an access fee on telecommunications services sales, requiring the commissioner of revenue to collect and deposit fee revenues in the account, fee to terminate on the effective date of the creation of a universal service fund by the public utilities commission (PUC) or the legislature; requiring funding of the learning network formerly funded through the higher education services office (HESO), the school districts telecommunication access revenue program and regional library telecommunication aid; requiring the Minnesota education telecommunications council to develop a specific integrated funding plan consistent with the recommended regional distribution method presented to the legislature by the permanent funding committee, requiring the council to submit the plan to the legislature by a certain date; requiring entities receiving funding and eligible for federal telecommunication aid or discounts to apply for the maximum available federal funding to be used to reduce state aid; requiring commissioner of administration grants from the account, prohibiting management or operation of the programs funded by the grants and requiring consultation with the Minnesota education telecommunications council before making grant decisions relating to education networks; specifying certain cost reductions and performance improvements requirements; regulating the funding of connection costs; requiring commissioner grants to fund hospital emergency communications networks upon funding availability, authorizing the use of initial grants for equipment and connection charges, requiring use of subsequent grants for connection costs, requiring applications to be submitted by regional hospital groups and requiring the commissioner to ensure the interoperability of networks among hospitals with the learning network; requiring establishment of an application procedure and awarding of the grants with the advice of the commissioner of health and the technology enterprise board; specifying a grant limit and certain network requirements; authorizing use of the grants to upgrade existing systems; reducing the base level funding for regional library basic system support grants and setting the base level funding and eliminating the expiration date for regional library telecommunications aid; appropriating money in the account to the commissioner of children, families and learning for the telecommunications access revenue program and for regional library telecommunications aid (ra, ja)