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SF 1331 Senate Long Description

Establishing the state park fund for state park management and +operations purposes, requiring the commissioner of finance to establish separate+ accounts for each state park and recreation area and for parks administration +within the fund, providing for the crediting of certain revenues to the +accounts, prescribing a disposition formula; providing for the management and +operations of state parks; specifying certain powers of state park managers or supervisors, requiring and providing for development of operational +plans, subjecting the plans to approval of the commissioner of natural +resources (DNR) before implementation, specifying certain approval +restrictions; specifying certain additional state park financial management and administrative duties of the commissioner and authorizing the +commissioner to award limited grants to state parks or recreation areas to address +short term budgetary shortfalls under certain conditions, specifying certain +manager application requirements; prohibiting general fund appropriations for+ state park and recreation area operations after a certain date; changing +the name of state park permits to state park vehicle permits and setting the fee, authorizing use of a daily vehicle permit in lieu of a state park +vehicle permit under certain conditions; prohibiting state park entrance fees+ for employees performing official duties; authorizing the commissioner to+ enter into an agreement with the state of Wisconsin for reciprocal entrance+ fees for Interstate park upon request of the manager; exempting Fort Snelling +from fees set under operational plans; reducing general fund appropriations for+ state park and recreation area operations in stages and imposing a self +sufficiency requirement, providing for redesignation for failure to reach the +self sufficiency goal; requiring the commissioner to report to the +legislature by a certain date relating to the financing of state parks and recreation +areas; repealing certain provisions prohibiting worker displacement under +the adopt a park program, providing for special uses of state parks and for the +working capital fund and regulating state park daily permits and permit +exemptions and fees (ra)