1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to tax collection; authorizing municipal
1.3 	utilities to collect unpaid debts from state tax
1.4 	refunds; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
1.5 	270A.03, subdivision 2.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 270A.03,
1.8 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.9 		Subd. 2.Claimant agency.  "Claimant agency" means any
1.10 	state agency, as defined by section 14.02, subdivision 2, the
1.11 	regents of the University of Minnesota, any district court of
1.12 	the state, any county, any statutory or home rule charter city
1.13 	presenting a claim for a municipal hospital or a public library
1.14 	or a municipal ambulance service, a hospital district, a private
1.15 	nonprofit hospital that leases its building from the county in
1.16 	which it is located, a municipal utility that distributes
1.17 	electric energy or gas,any public agency responsible for child
1.18 	support enforcement, any public agency responsible for the
1.19 	collection of court-ordered restitution, and any public agency
1.20 	established by general or special law that is responsible for
1.21 	the administration of a low-income housing program, and the
1.22 	Minnesota collection enterprise as defined in section 16D.02,
1.23 	subdivision 8, for the purpose of collecting the costs imposed
1.24 	under section 16D.11.  A county may act as a claimant agency on
1.25 	behalf of an ambulance service licensed under chapter 144E if
2.1 	the ambulance service's primary service area is located at least
2.2 	in part within the county, but more than one county may not act
2.3 	as a claimant agency for a licensed ambulance service with
2.4 	respect to the same debt.
2.5 	
EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day
2.6 	following final enactment.