SF 983

Introduction - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004)

Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00 a.m.

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to the military; changing certain 
  1.3             qualifications and the term of the adjutant general; 
  1.4             eliminating a restriction on service of assistant 
  1.5             adjutants general; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
  1.6             sections 15.06, subdivision 1; 190.07; 190.08, 
  1.7             subdivision 1. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 15.06, 
  1.10  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subdivision 1.  [APPLICABILITY.] This section applies to 
  1.12  the following departments or agencies:  the departments of 
  1.13  administration, agriculture, commerce, corrections, economic 
  1.14  security, children, families, and learning, employee relations, 
  1.15  trade and economic development, finance, health, human rights, 
  1.16  labor and industry, military affairs, natural resources, public 
  1.17  safety, human services, revenue, transportation, and veterans 
  1.18  affairs; the housing finance and pollution control agencies; the 
  1.19  office of commissioner of iron range resources and 
  1.20  rehabilitation; the bureau of mediation services; and their 
  1.21  successor departments and agencies.  The heads of the foregoing 
  1.22  departments or agencies are "commissioners." 
  1.23     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 190.07, is 
  1.24  amended to read: 
  1.25     190.07 [APPOINTMENT; QUALIFICATIONS; RANK.] 
  1.26     There shall be an adjutant general of the state who shall 
  2.1   be appointed by the governor.  The adjutant general shall be a 
  2.2   staff officer, who at the time of appointment shall be 
  2.3   a appointed from among a group of commissioned officer officers 
  2.4   of the national guard of this state, with not less than ten 
  2.5   years military service in the national guard of this state or 
  2.6   the armed forces of the United States, at least three of which 
  2.7   shall have been commissioned and, who shall have reached at 
  2.8   least the grade of a field officer colonel.  
  2.9      The adjutant general shall hold at least the rank of major 
  2.10  general and may be promoted to and including the highest rank 
  2.11  authorized under federal law.  However, the adjutant general may 
  2.12  not be promoted to the rank of major general without having at 
  2.13  least 20 years of military service in the Minnesota national 
  2.14  guard, at least one of which has been in the rank of brigadier 
  2.15  general.  
  2.16     The term of the adjutant general is seven years from the 
  2.17  date of appointment serves at the pleasure of the governor.  
  2.18  Section 15.06, subdivisions 3, 4, and 5, governs filling of 
  2.19  vacancies in the office of adjutant general.  The adjutant 
  2.20  general shall not be removed from office during a term except 
  2.21  upon withdrawal of federal recognition or as otherwise provided 
  2.22  by the military laws of this state. 
  2.23     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 190.08, 
  2.24  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  2.25     Subdivision 1.  [ASSISTANT ADJUTANTS GENERAL.] The adjutant 
  2.26  general, with the approval of the governor, may appoint from 
  2.27  among the field officers and general officers of the national 
  2.28  guard two assistant adjutants general for army national guard 
  2.29  and one assistant adjutant general for air national guard who, 
  2.30  if otherwise qualified, may be appointed to general officer 
  2.31  grade.  An assistant adjutant general serves at the pleasure of 
  2.32  the adjutant general.  An assistant adjutant general shall also 
  2.33  cease to serve upon withdrawal of federal recognition or when 
  2.34  otherwise removed in accordance with the military laws of this 
  2.35  state.