Relating to appropriations

ARTICLE 1 - SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

Providing for supplemental appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Appropriating money to the office of enterprise technology for enterprise information technology security management, to the commissioner of finance for bankruptcy counsel representing the state in the Northwest airlines bankruptcy, to the commissioner of employee relations for development of a data warehouse to support the public buyers group; changing the public employee insurance program under the commissioner of employee relations to the public buyers group program, modifying certain provisions, authorizing the commissioner to plan, develop, purchase, administer and evaluate disease management and other programs, strategies and incentives to improve the health and health outcomes of members; providing for the labor management committee to be appointed by the governor, requiring a report to the governor and legislature biennially by a certain date

ARTICLE 3 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Modifying certain provisions relating to public postsecondary education; requiring instructional expenditure and enrollment data to be submitted to the office of higher education and the commissioner of finance; eliminating legislative intent for operating budget appropriations; modifying the definitions of eligible institution and resident student; defining eligible cosigner; authorizing the office of higher education to enter into interest rate exchange or swap agreements, hedges, forward purchase or sale agreements and other comparable interest rate protection agreements under certain conditions; modifying certain data classification provisions; modifying certain student loan provisions; providing for rehabilitation of SELF loans; providing for the granting of temporary total disability to borrowers upon medical certification; modifying work study payment provisions; authorizing the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to establish a branch campus at Rochester; appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the Rochester branch campus; specifying revisor instructions; repealing certain provisions

ARTICLE 4 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUDICIAL BRANCH

Appropriating money to the supreme court for addressing the increasing numbers of alcohol and other drug offenders, to the board of judicial standards for special hearings and an investigation regarding complaints of judicial misconduct, to the board of public defense for appellate transcripts costs, to the commissioner of public safety for matching FEMA funds, to create a child pornography investigative unit, to create the Minnesota illegal immigration enforcement team, for enhancement of the predatory offender database to facilitate notification of noncompliant sex offenders on the internet, to provide a training component to the licensing of alcohol vendors to help prevent youth access to alcohol, to the commissioner of corrections for correctional institutions and for a grant to provide a mentoring program for children of incarcerated offenders and for an increase in the community corrections act subsidy for the addition of Scott county; increasing a prior appropriation to the peace officer standards and training (POST) board and clarifying a certain prior appropriation relating to sex offender assessment reimbursements

ARTICLE 5 - ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota for completion of a study on the bioscience industry, for the collaborative research partnership between the university of Minnesota and the Mayo foundation, to the commissioner of transportation for petroleum tank release cleanup, to the commissioner of commerce for a grant to the Minnesota comprehensive health association, to the boxing commission, to the commissioner of labor and industry for staffing and design of the first phase of the development of a statewide license system, to the commissioner of agriculture for invasive species control, livestock depredation and crop damage, promotion of biofuels and for plant pathology and biological control facility operations, to the board of animal health to eliminate bovine tuberculosis, to the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR) for development of a strategic long range plan for future expenditures from the environmental trust fund, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for bovine tuberculosis surveillance and diagnosis, the all terrain vehicle grant in aid program and the prevention and control of harmful species and to the pollution control agency (PCA), public facilities authority, the commissioner of agriculture, the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) and the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the clean water legacy; setting limits for destroyed livestock claims; extending the date for retail locations and transport vehicles under petroleum tank release cleanup provisions; requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to assist small businesses to access certain federal research funds; modifying the apportionment of gasoline used for all terrain vehicles; eliminating the fee for monitoring licensing examinations for applicants for licensure as an architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, or geoscience professional; establishing the Minnesota boxing commission; specifying certain membership requirements, authorizing the appointment of an executive director; requiring the commission to adopt rules to include standards for the physical examination and condition of boxers, nontraditional fighters and referees and certain rules relating to the conduct of boxing exhibitions, bouts, fights and nontraditional fighting contests and events; specifying certain commission meeting requirements and licensing duties; specifying certain regulations for boxing contests, tough man contests and nontraditional fighting contests; specifying commission jurisdictions; specifying certain licensure and fees requirements and certain
simulcast license requirements; specifying certain insurance requirements for boxers or nontraditional fighters; imposing penalties for certain nonlicensed exhibitions; defining certain terms; imposing a gross receipts tax on contests and exhibitions for credit to the Minnesota boxing commission fund; providing for the public facilities authority to establish a clean waters capital improvement fund for grants to governmental units for the capital costs of wastewater treatment facility projects to reduce the discharge of total phosphorus, specifying certain project eligibility requirements, eligible costs and grant amounts and priorities, authorizing the authority to charge grant recipients a fee for administrative costs, limit; requiring the public facilities authority to
establish a small community wastewater treatment fund for loans to governmental units for projects to replace noncomplying ISTSs, specifying certain project proposal and loan application and award requirements, authorizing deferment of local special assessments to repay the loans; providing for a total maximum daily load grants program; increasing the bonding authority of the public facilities authority; increasing certain prior appropriations for fish and wildlife habitat; repealing certain commissioner of agriculture biennial report requirements

ARTICLE 6 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for TANF maintenance of effort, for children and economic assistance grants, children and economic assistance management, health care grants, health care management, continuing care grants, continuing care management and state operated services, to the commissioner of health for pandemic influenza preparedness, health information technology and immigrant health, to the veterans nursing homes board, to health related boards including the board of chiropractic examiners, board of medical practice, board of physical therapy and emergency medical services board; increasing the limit on the amount of excess funds transferred from the health care access fund to the general fund; providing for interconnected electronic health record grants program, requiring commissioner of health evaluation and report to the legislature

ARTICLE 7 - TRANSPORTATION

Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation for infrastructure investment support, state road construction and Mounds View land conveyance and to the commissioner of public safety for driver services; modifying the deposit of the motor vehicle transfer fee; requiring the commissioner of transportation to transfer a certain amount to the state airports fund by an earlier date

ARTICLE 8 - TRANSFERS

Requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer any balance in the tax relief account to the general fund; requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer to the general fund budget reserve an amount equal to any unreserved general fund budgetary balance
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