1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; requiring the Legislative Coordinating Commission 
1.3 	to oversee legislative training forums; establishing a schedule for consideration 
1.4 	of legislation; limiting the content of budget bills; specifying conference 
1.5 	committee procedures; appropriating money for expenses of a governor-elect, 
1.6 	and for 2007 legislative forums; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
1.7 	Statutes, chapters 3; 4.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. [3.051] LEGISLATIVE TRAINING FORUMS.
1.10 	(a) The Legislative Coordinating Commission shall oversee two legislative training 
1.11 	forums each year. The commission shall: 
1.12 	(1) create an annual gathering of legislators to be held within the first two weeks of 
1.13 	January each year, and one other legislative training forum each February; 
1.14 	(2) select speakers, including executive or nonpartisan legislative staff, who 
1.15 	will provide an oversight of the issues affecting Minnesota, including demographic, 
1.16 	environmental, sociological, and economic perspectives on Minnesota, background on 
1.17 	key policy issues the legislature is expected to address that year, and training to improve 
1.18 	legislative skills in running effective meetings and other issues; 
1.19 	(3)  invite current executive branch officials in order to provide opportunities for 
1.20 	legislators and invited executive branch officials to interact and work to form cooperative 
1.21 	solutions to Minnesota issues, problems, and challenges. 
1.22 	(b) The joint rules of the house of representatives and senate must prohibit any 
1.23 	official gathering of legislators that might conflict with the legislative forums provided 
1.24 	for in this section. 
2.1 	 (c) The Legislative Coordinating Commission may select a partner or partners from 
2.2 	Minnesota??a??a??s institutions of higher education and nonprofit communities, and if such a 
2.3 	choice is made, must give all interested institutions an opportunity to submit a proposal to 
2.4 	run the training, schedule activities, and create meeting agendas.  The commission may 
2.5 	accept donations from foundations, corporations, and individuals to defray costs of the 
2.6 	forums, and shall publish those donations on the legislature's Web site.  No registered 
2.7 	lobbyist or principal shall contribute for this purpose.  Donations received are appropriated 
2.8 	to the Legislative Coordinating Commission for purposes of this section.

2.9 	Sec. 2. [3.052] SCHEDULE FOR CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATION.
2.10 		Subdivision 1.Agency bills.  An executive department or agency intending to urge 
2.11 	the legislature to adopt a bill shall deliver the bill to the revisor of statutes by November 1 
2.12 	before the regular session at which adoption will be urged.  This deadline does not apply: 
2.13 	(1) to bills necessary to implement the governor??a??a??s budget proposals;  (2) to other bills that 
2.14 	are initiatives of the governor, as opposed to administrative initiatives of a department or 
2.15 	agency; or (3) as otherwise provided in section 3C.035.
2.16 		Subd. 2. Resolution for structure of budget bills.  By January 15 of each 
2.17 	odd-numbered year, the legislature must adopt a concurrent resolution designating the 
2.18 	major budget bills to be considered that legislation session, and allocating all state 
2.19 	programs and budget accounts for consideration in one of the major budget bills.
2.20 		Subd. 3. Deadline resolution.  By January 31 of each odd-numbered year, the 
2.21 	legislature must adopt a concurrent resolution establishing deadlines for committee 
2.22 	consideration of policy and budget bills.
2.23 		Subd. 4. State of the State.  The governor is encouraged to submit a State of the 
2.24 	State address in January of each odd-numbered year and within the first ten days after the 
2.25 	start of the legislative session in an even-numbered year.  Before or during this address, the 
2.26 	governor is encouraged to announce major legislative policy initiatives that the governor 
2.27 	intends to promote that year.
2.28 		Subd. 5. Executive submission of budget bills.  The governor must submit bills 
2.29 	necessary to implement the governor??a??a??s operating budget to the legislature within one 
2.30 	week after the date specified in section 16A.11 for the governor to submit the detailed 
2.31 	operating budget to the legislature. The bills must be provided to the speaker of the house 
2.32 	of representatives and the majority leader of the senate in a manner ready for formal 
2.33 	introduction and final consideration.
3.1 		Subd. 6. Price of government resolution.  By March 15 of each odd-numbered 
3.2 	year, the legislature must adopt the price of government resolution required by section 
3.3 	16A.102, subdivision 2.
3.4 		Subd. 7. Individual budget resolutions.  By April 1 of each odd-numbered year, 
3.5 	the house of representatives and the senate must each adopt a budget resolution that 
3.6 	applies to that house.  Each house's resolution must establish overall expenditure targets 
3.7 	for the upcoming biennium, and separate expenditure targets for each major budget bill 
3.8 	designated in the concurrent resolution adopted under subdivision 2.

3.9 	Sec. 3. [3.053] CONTENTS OF BUDGET BILLS.
3.10 	(a) A bill containing one or more items of appropriation may contain only the 
3.11 	following language: 
3.12 	(1) appropriations of money from the state treasury, and related language specifying 
3.13 	the purpose of the appropriations, placing conditions on expenditure of the appropriations, 
3.14 	or requiring reporting on topics related to expenditure of the appropriations; and 
3.15 	(2) proposed new law or proposed changes in existing law that are directly related to 
3.16 	and are necessary to implement the  appropriations in the bill.
3.17 	(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to one bill each regular annual legislative session 
3.18 	designated by concurrent resolution as the omnibus tax bill.  This bill must contain only 
3.19 	items described in paragraph (a) and language necessary to raise revenue for state and 
3.20 	local government, and to determine the mix and rates of revenue sources.
3.21 	(c) A conference committee report on a bill containing one or more items of 
3.22 	appropriation may contain only subject matter contained in the house or senate versions 
3.23 	of the bill for which the conference committee was appointed. If a compromise 
3.24 	proposal emerges in conference committee that would change a policy or program or its 
3.25 	administration in a manner substantially and in a major way different from that proposed 
3.26 	in either the house or senate bill, the conference committee must delay final action for 
3.27 	at least 12 hours and then allow for input from persons impacted by the change before 
3.28 	the final vote. 
3.29 		(d) The legislature must adopt joint rules to implement and enforce this section. 
3.30 	Remedies provided by these joint rules are exclusive.  No court or administrative agency 
3.31 	has jurisdiction to enforce an alleged violation of this section, to invalidate any provision 
3.32 	of law because of a violation of this section, or to otherwise interpret this section.

3.33 	Sec. 4. [4.51] EXPENSES OF GOVERNOR-ELECT.
4.1 	This section applies after a state general election in which a person who is not the 
4.2 	current governor is elected to take office as the next governor.  There is appropriated from 
4.3 	the general fund to the commissioner of administration an amount equal to ... percent 
4.4 	of the amount appropriated for operation of the Office of the Governor and Lieutenant 
4.5 	Governor for the current fiscal year.  The commissioner of administration must make this 
4.6 	amount available to the governor-elect to immediately hire staff and provide other support 
4.7 	to the governor-elect before he or she takes office. The commissioner must provide office 
4.8 	space for the governor-elect and for any employees the governor-elect hires with funds 
4.9 	appropriated in this section. 

4.10 	Sec. 5. APPROPRIATION.
 4.11 	$30,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Legislative Coordinating 
4.12 	Commission in fiscal year 2007 for the legislative forums in January and February of 2007.