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SF 777 Senate Long Description

Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state +government ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money for the legislative and executive branches of +state government; appropriating money to the legislature and legislative +coordinating commission (LCC), to the constitutional officers, to the campaign +finance and public disclosure, investment and gambling control boards, to the +offices of administrative hearings and strategic and long range planning, to the commissioner of administration for agency relocation expenses, for +the capitol area architectural and planning board (CAAPB), for the office of +technology and for public broadcasting, to the commissioners of finance and employee+ relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts +receivable management, to the commissioner of military affairs for maintenance +of training facilities, for general support, for enlistment incentives and for +emergency services, to the commissioner of veterans affairs, to the racing and +amateur sports commissions, to the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) +for legislators and constitutional officers retirement costs and to the commissioner of revenue for the payment of police and fire +amortization aid; providing for the payment of tort claims and for the funding of +general contingent accounts ARTICLE 2 � STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONSRequiring the campaign finance and public disclosure board to deposit+ fees collected in the general fund and as part of biennial budget requests+ to propose changes to fees sufficient to recover direct appropriations +to the board; providing for the imposition of a biennial lobbyist and +principal reporting fee to pay for the cost of administering lobbyist +registration and regulation provisions; requiring supplementary statements of economic+ interest and imposing a filing fee on statements and supplementary statements;+ imposing certain registration fees on principal campaign committees, political committees and funds and party units; increasing the percentage of +income tax payments designated to the state elections campaign fund required to +be deposited in the general fund; clarifying the jurisdiction of the +department of administration over the capitol area architectural and planning +board (CAAPB), requiring commissioner appointment of the executive secretary and +employment of personnel; specifying a periodic payment requirement for certain +grants paid by the commissioner of finance, authorizing the commissioner to require+ direct deposit for all state employees paid by the state payroll system and +expanding the authority of the commissioner to require payees to supply bank +routing information for electronic fund transfer purposes and to deposit +additional money in the technology enterprise fund; modifying certain +provisions relating to the veterans service office grant program; expanding the fee +imposition authority of the racing commission with legislative approval to +recover operating costs, requiring the commission as part of biennial budget +requests to propose changes to fees for costs recovery purposes and modifying +the disposition of proceeds from license fees and fines, requiring +crediting to a racing and card playing regulation account in the special revenue +fund; expanding the fee imposition authority of the amateur sports +commission with legislative approval to recover operating costs, requiring the +commission as part of biennial budget requests to propose changes to fees for costs+ recovery purposes, requiring funds received from advertising to be credited to+ the general fund and making optional certain promotion, development and +sponsorship duties of the commission; requiring the commissioner of revenue to +deduct a fee from income tax refunds levied for federal income tax liabilities +payment purposes for deposit in the department revenue recapture revolving +fund; requiring the state board of assessors to charge certain fees, +requiring deposit in the board fund for appropriation to the department of +revenue for board administration purposes; increasing fees for debt setoffs +against tax refunds under the revenue recapture act; expanding the definition of +lawful purpose for charitable gambling purposes to the payment of state +imposed gambling fees; expanding the authority of the gambling control board+ to the issuance of licenses to distributor salespersons, defining +distributor salesperson, prohibiting the salespersons from selling or furnishing +gambling equipment without employment by or as a licensed distributor, +including the salespersons under certain other prohibited acts and requiring the +crediting of fees imposed by the board to the lawful gambling regulation account +in the special revenue fund; eliminating the pull tab dispensing device and organization license renewal fees and the different classes of +licenses; imposing an annual distributor license fee in lieu of separate +initial and renewal license fees and setting the fee for distributor salespersons+ licenses, eliminating the fee for registration stamps, imposing annual +manufacturer and bingo hall license fees, requiring the board to impose certain fees +for approval and testing of gambling equipment and modifying certain +other fee requirements; requiring the director of the state lottery to transfer+ all unclaimed prize money from the lottery cash flow account to the +general fund; requiring the deposit of bond allocation application fees collected +by the department of finance in the general fund; eliminating thc city of +Detroit Lakes as a location of an office of the settlement division of the +office of administrative hearings; specifying certain bond sale schedule +requirements of the commissioner of finance; providing a transitional period for +gambling fees; repealing the tobacco settlement fund (ra)