Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government; adjusting appropriations to reflect further changes in the budget forecast ARTICLE 1 E-12 EDUCATIONRestoring certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for the Perpich center for arts education; adjusting the referendum transfer for independent school district 709, Duluth; providing declining pupil unit aid for certain fiscal years to independent school district 241, Albert Lea; authorizing school districts to reallocate a certain percentage of the basic revenue reserved for staff development for operating expenses in certain fiscal years; appropriating money to the commissioner for the declining pupil unit aid payments to the Albert Lea school district ARTICLE 2 HIGHER EDUCATIONModifying certain prior appropriation reductions to the higher education services office and further 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; increasing certain prior appropriations to HESO for state grants; requiring HESO to transfer to the state grant appropriation amounts from certain prior appropriations for work study and child care grants necessary to make full state grant awards ARTICLE 3 ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCESProportionately reducing the minimum payment to counties for waste reduction and recycling under certain conditions; reducing a certain prior water quality permit fee increase ARTICLE 4 PUBLIC SAFETYModifying certain prior appropriation reductions to the commissioner of public safety, eliminating the reduction in shelter per diems; reinstating the office of crime victim ombudsman and the per diem payment structure for domestic abuse (battered women) shelters ARTICLE 5 STATE GOVERNMENTModifying the requirement for legislative approval of state employee collective bargaining agreements, failure of the legislature to disapprove the agreements or arbitration awards before adjournment to constitute approval; increasing the base funding for the department of military affairs; reducing the amount of expenditures required to be reduced by the governor on executive branch professional and technical services contracts, excluding the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU), the higher education services office (HESO) and the departments of corrections and human services from the definition of executive branch state agency under the consultant contracts moratorium and clarifying the provision providing for waiver of the moratorium; excepting employees at state correctional facilities and employees of state operated services under the department of human services from the hiring freeze; excluding the Minnesota colleges and state universities (MnSCU) from the anticipated savings of the hiring freeze and requiring the governor to exclude the department of corrections from proportional reductions in state agency operating budgets ARTICLE 6 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTIncreasing certain prior appropriations to the uniform laws commission; increasing the workforce enhancement fee paid by employers under the unemployment insurance system for the workforce development fund; modifying the definition of taxable wages and changing the employer solvency assessment to a special assessment to pay the interest on loans from the federal unemployment trust fund ARTICLE 7 CANCELLATIONS; INFLATION; TRANSFERS INCancelling a certain amount of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of transportation for state road construction and reappropriating the same amount to the commissioner and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for improvements to eliminate traffic bottlenecks in the metropolitan area and for improvements to at risk interregional corridors in greater Minnesota; cancelling a certain amount of the unobligated balance in the cash flow account to the general fund; excepting general education revenue from the prohibition on the inclusion of allowances for inflation in revenue forecasts; increasing the amount of excess surplus account assets in the workers compensation special compensation fund required to be transferred by the commissioner of finance to the general fundARTICLE 8 DELAY OF AID PAYMENTSDelaying certain aid payments to school districts and charter schools and requiring certain commissioner of finance education aid and credit appropriation adjustments ARTICLE 9 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONSModifying appropriations to the commissioner of human services for children's grants including a reduction in family preservation and children's mental health grants and an increase in local collaboratives wraparound services coordination grants, for basic health care grants and management, for state operated services and for continuing care and economic support grants, to the commissioner of health for family and provider compliance and to the veterans nursing homes board; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide advance notice to medical assistance (MA) recipients receiving coverage through the employed persons with disabilities program of the new employment documentation requirement; requiring prepaid health plans to pass through to service providers the mental health services rate increase; providing for immediate availability of a certain amount of money for the U special kids program; requiring certain excess appropriations for HIV AIDS grants to be used for the prescription drug program; authorizing the use of community services development grants for housing options for certain persons residing in nursing facilities; reducing the base reduction for adult correctional facilities and eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of corrections to develop an agencywide spending plan for presentation to the legislature; requiring the commissioner of administration to transfer to the veterans nursing homes board payments received from contractors for mold damage at the Luverne facility and limiting total appropriations to the board; exempting the department of human services from the hiring freeze and the consultant contracts moratorium relating to the establishment and implementation of the supplemental drug rebate and critical access pharmacy programs; sunsetting uncodified language ARTICLE 10 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESProviding for optional registration with the commissioner of health of housing with services establishments not meeting certain resident age requirements, prohibiting the establishments from providing group residential housing; eliminating the authority of the commissioner of human services to administer a supplemental drug rebate program for drugs purchased under the prescription drug program; authorizing nursing homes between certain dates to elect to assume full participation in the medical assistance (MA) program by agreeing to comply with the requirements of the program and to begin to receive medical assistance recipients, providing for the determination of rates and rate adjustments; requiring employed persons with disabilities to verify earnings withholdings for medical assistance eligibility purposes; increasing the pharmacy dispensing fee and increasing the actual cost discount percentage under medical assistance and eliminating the requirement for the commissioner to set the maximum allowable costs for certain multisource drugs; authorizing the commissioner to increase the dispensing fee to critical access pharmacies and specifying criteria for commissioner critical access pharmacies designation; requiring the drug formulary committee to consider state medicaid program data in determining drugs for prior authorization; requiring commissioner prior notice of prior authorization requirements and providing for appeal; prohibiting prior authorization requirements for antipsychotic drugs without a generically equivalent drug, providing for a patient safety necessity exception; subjecting the division of medical assistance costs between the state and counties for nursing facility placements of persons with disabilities under a certain age to certain financial responsibility requirements; authorizing managed care plans under the medical assistance prepayment demonstration project and the MinnesotaCare program to include admitted assets in payments withheld and expected to be returned; changing payments to counties by the commissioner under the community social services act to annual payments; eliminating the requirement of the commissioner to seek federal funding to offset costs for GRH services; requiring the commissioners of human services and the housing finance agency (HFA) to make recommendations to the long term care task force by a certain date on ways to increase the ability of persons with disabilities to access affordable housing, specifying certain recommendations requirements; requiring the commissioner of human services to review and report to the legislature by a certain date on the cost effectiveness of prior authorization of prescription drugs in the fee for service medical assistance program (ra)