3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses of state government

ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the legislature for the senate, house of representatives and the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for the office of the revisor of statutes, the legislative reference library, the office of legislative auditor and a capitol building and capitol campus facilitated planning process, to the governor and lieutenant governor, state auditor, attorney general and secretary of state, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology for an electronic licensing system, small agency technology infrastructure projects, an electronic documents study and report and for grants to counties participating in the development of the integrated financial system, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities services for a state real property portfolio management web enabled computer system, onetime department of public safety relocation expenses, state and community services for the land management information center, administrative management services for the office of grants management, a targeted group business disparity study, the council on developmental disabilities, the sustainable growth working group, a Washington county capital improvements detailed grant and public broadcasting grants to noncommercial television stations and Minnesota public radio, to the capital area architectural and planning (CAAPB) board for decennial expenses, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management for Northwest airlines and city of Duluth bankruptcy counsel costs and information and management services for the Minnesota accounting and procurement systems (MAPS), to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) for the center for health care purchasing improvement and for a Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) employee and state employee group insurance program (SEGIP) personal health records electronic portfolio system, to the commissioner of revenue for tax system management and accounts receivable management for an integrated tax software package purchase and development and taxpayer assistance nonprofit organizations grants, to the gambling control board, to the racing commission, to the state lottery board, to the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), to the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF), to the teachers retirement association (TRA), to the St. Paul teachers retirement fund, to the amateur sports commission for an additional event development position, to the black Minnesotans, Chicano-Latino affairs, Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and Indian affairs councils for Becker county burial site acquisition and for a fund transfer to the office of higher education for a Dakota/Ojibwe language revitalization project grant and for general contingent accounts; requiring the governor to reduce the number of deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners and certain managerial positions; providing a balance carry forward to the next fiscal year

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creating and providing for the Minnesota commission on ethnic heritage and new Americans; clarifying the length of time executive orders of the governor are valid; establishing the position of state poet laureate; clarifying provisions relating to secretary of state fee charging for assumed name; imposing a temporary technology surcharge on certain filing fees, providing for the surcharge to be deposited in the uniform commercial code account, sunset provision; authorizing the attorney general to assist veterans and families on public and private agency services availability; requiring the state board of investment to file a report with the legislative reference library on activities and work product; creating and providing for the Minnesota commission on terrorism and disaster preparedness; establishing in the department of administration a grants management process, defining certain terms regarding grants, providing that data created by a granting agency be classified as nonpublic until the publishing of a request for proposal, providing for all responses submitted by a grantee to a request for proposal are private until opened, providing for evaluation data as private until the completion of the evaluation process, requiring grant recipients to agree to administrative costs limits, specifying code of ethics applicability, requiring commissioner conflict of interest and code of ethics policies development; providing for violations reporting, grant agreements creation and validity, grant administration and payments, audit, attorney general authority and Indian (native American) tribes and bands grants; clarifying commissioner and governor terms of office end simultaneously, requiring confirmation for a second or subsequent term of the governor; specifying certain deposit requirements for money received by the capital area architectural and planning (CAAPB) board for review and planning services; modifying department of finance budgeting revenue relevant to personal income reporting requirements, providing department continuing appropriations under certain conditions, modifying department provisions relating to billing procedures, leases and management contracts, property sales and state general obligation bond proceeds by specifying general applicability and requiring grant agreement, specifying bond proceeds fund grant match requirements, permitting ground lease for state bond financed property; designating the department of administration as the lead agency to execute assistive technology act of 1998 responsibilities and establishing and providing for the Minnesota assistive technology advisory council; authorizing the commissioner of administration to lease space in the Elmer L. Andersen and Orville L. Freeman buildings to state agencies and charge rent on a space occupation basis, requiring money collected to be used to fund future building repairs and credited to a set aside account, providing an appropriation to the commissioner for building repairs, requiring account abolishment and remaining balances transfer upon state building title acquisition; removing the appropriation limit for art in state buildings; modifying provisions relating to state procurement, allowing commissioner of administration rulemaking authority relating to the procurement process, authorizing the commissioner to require agencies to accept delegated responsibility for goods and services procurement, exempting low dollar procurements from accounting system requirement, providing for enterprise procurements, prohibiting reverse auctions to procure engineering design services or architectural services; requiring state agencies to consider state employees on seniority unit layoff lists prior to contracting out previously eliminated jobs; requiring the commissioner of administration to maintain a website with a searchable database providing public information on state contracts and grants, specifying database information requirements; restricting agency call center contracting; requiring the commissioner of administration to promote document imaging work in government agencies to be done by persons with developmental disabilities; requiring the commissioner of administration to designate veteran majority owned businesses as targeted group businesses for the purpose of awarding state and metro agency procurement contracts; prohibiting best and final offer solicitation processes from use in state procurement building and construction contracts; defining significant individual under state employment provisions; restricting temporary unclassified positions duration under department of employee relations (DOER) provisions; adding legislative employees to the state employee definition; extending the expiration date of the Mississippi River parkway commission; authorizing the commissioner of revenue to disclose tax return information to the commissioner of finance to prepare a revenue forecast; requiring the commissioner of revenue to maintain a toll free telephone tax payer (taxpayer) assistance line and to provide public notice of nonprofit organizations grants availability; modifying cooperative associations and nonprofit corporations registration and dissolution provisions by requiring calendar year filings, removing secretary of state notification requirements and requiring cooperatives to file a notice of intent to dissolve, modifying record secretary of state filing fees under the uniform limited partnership act of 2001, requiring foreign limited partnership name change notification to the secretary of state, clarifying uniform commercial code account use, authorizing uniform commercial code records transmission using extensible markup language (XML) format, requiring uniform commercial code fee deposit; allowing limited liability companies to be placed in a representative capacity; requiring persons signing documents to be present for notary officers and notary officers to be present for signatures; allowing local government units to define dependent for purposes of employees group benefits; requiring the state auditor to bill the commissioner of revenue for tax increment financing investment and finance (TIF) division services; allowing state representation in conciliation court by the department of administration division of risk management without written authorization and the electronic real estate recording task force to amend certain standards set by the task force; increasing marriage license fees and modifying fee disposition; extending the deadlines for state owned land sales and the genetic information work group legislative report results; extending an office of administrative hearings relocation appropriation; prohibiting Ford building demolition for a time certain; requiring the chief information officer to study how electronic data, hardware, software and media can be created, maintained, exchanged and preserved by the state, specifying evaluation considerations; requiring the Minnesota state colleges and
universities board of trustees (MnSCU) in collaboration with the commissioner of employee relations to establish an enterprise wide pilot project to provide consumer owned electronic personal health records to MnSCU employees and to participants in the state employees group insurance program; creating a sustainable growth working group to identify strategies, recommendations and process for implementing state level coordination of state and local policies, programs and regulations in areas of housing, transportation, natural resources preservation, capital development, economic development, sustainability and preservation of the environment; requiring state executive branch agencies to consider using services provided by government training services prior to outside vendor contracting; abolishing the department of employee relations and transferring duties to the commissioner of finance and certain other duties to the commissioners of administration and health, authorizing the governor to transfer duties; establishing and providing for the state budget trends study commission to complete a study on state demographic trends implications for future state budget conditions; requiring the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to study and report to the legislature by a certain date on the estimated state employee group insurance program (SEGIP) financial impact of allowing unmarried state employees to designate one significant individual as an employee dependent; specifying certain reference replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes regarding DOER; repealing provisions relating to department of finance budgeting revenues relative to personal income, department of administration as lead agency for people with disabilities technology, a barter agreement reporting requirement and a professional or technical services performance evaluation, a state auditor requirement to provide the secretary of state with a list of volunteer firefighter relief associations, failure to appear before a notary for signature provision and statutory fee and tax definitions

ARTICLE 3 - BEST VALUE CONTRACTS

Relating to state government, defining best value for purposes of construction, building, alternation, improvement and repair services; defining vendor; modifying the acquisition authority relating to construction contracts; requiring the commissioner of administration to establish procedures for developing and awarding best value requests for proposals for construction projects; authorizing the commissioner to develop a training program for best value procurement for construction projects; adding competitive proposals to the contract application process; specifying contract award requirements; modifying the contract awarding process to include the issuing of request for proposal and best value alternatives for certain contracts; permitting construction authority contract award to lowest responsible bidder

ARTICLE 4 - ELECTIONS

Clarifying voter residency violations; modifying certain signature requirements on registration applications for individuals unable to write; allowing secretary of state website voter registration for persons with state drivers licenses, identification cards or learner permits; prohibiting compensatory award or deprivation based on voter registration application quotas; facilitating same day voter registration by updating certain election day registration proof of residence requirements; removing a secretary of state requirement to provide election judges with forms for voters signing proof of residence oaths, removing certain requirements for oath records and residential facility list preparation requirements and requiring residential facility employees to prove employment with current identification cards; modifying voter registration paper form requirements; adding military identification card numbers and passport numbers to restricted data provisions; providing voter registration procedures for persons moving within the state or moving out of state; providing for an automatic voter registration for drivers license, permit and identification (ID) card applicants, specifying secretary of state and commissioner of public safety requirements; specifying certain testing and certification requirements by the secretary of state, specifying registration application effective date under certain conditions; modifying secretary of state voting history record tracking requirement and counting rejected absentee and mail ballots for registration purposes; simplifying the process of voting by absentee ballot; expanding eligibility and certain ballot delivery requirements; providing for delivery of absentee ballots to an agent of certain persons and return of ballots by an agent; providing for ongoing delivery of absentee ballots on request without application under certain conditions; modifying return envelope design provisions; requiring electronic ballot marker availability in polling places; expanding time for agent delivery of absentee ballots; modifying mail opening and absentee ballot board and duties provisions; modifying provisions relating to United States citizens permanently residing outside the United States; modifying required information for ballot application; expanding the identification numbers accepted for recording ballot applications; modifying certain voter application challenging procedure; providing for ballots to be sent electronically upon voter request; modifying identification information request on the back of the ballot return envelope; authorizing county auditors to mail replacement ballots under certain conditions; providing for the transmission of ballots electronically, specifying ballot return procedures; providing for the rejection of transmitted ballots under certain conditions; authorizing the use of the state write in absentee ballot; authorizing county auditors to establish absentee ballot boards for absentee ballots, specifying duties of board; modifying certain duties of election judges relating to checking voter eligibility and recording ballots; modifying provisions for the recording of accepted and rejected ballots; providing for ballot counting in the case of a voter voting more than once; providing for a separate record of absent voters to be generated by the statewide registration system; authorizing the secretary of state to use emergency powers in the event of a national or local emergency; requiring affidavits and petitions for state offices to be filed with the secretary of state or with the county auditor of residence; modifying certain absent candidates affidavit of candidacy filing requirements; modifying certain write in candidate requirements; allowing circulation of candidate petitions; modifying the distance for the location of polling places from precinct boundaries; providing for the appointment of election judges not affiliated with a major political party, making appointments from furnished lists optional, requiring a certain number of election judges to be affiliated with different political parties; establishing a voter complaint and resolution process; modifying the mail balloting procedures; modifying the mail balloting procedures; requiring challengers to take an oath to abide by laws and rules governing challengers; providing for party balance requirements to not apply to town elections under certain conditions; providing for the cancellation of special elections by municipalities; expanding certain municipal filing
requirements for write in candidates; providing for cancellation of special elections by school boards; requiring the school district clerk to provide written notice to the county auditor and the commissioner of education of special election cancellations; modifying certain requirements relating to voting systems for individuals with disabilities; designating the county auditor as the postelection review official and allowing municipal clerk designation; modifying certain postelection additional review requirements; modifying certain campaign financial information reporting requirements; prescribing misdemeanor penalty for candidate failure to file a certification; exempting affidavits of candidacy from the uniform electronic transaction act regulation; making optional the immediate filling of office vacancies for county commissioners and extending the time period for elections; allowing other vacancies within the office of county commissioners to be filled by board appointment at a regular or special meeting, specifying appointment requirements, requiring vacancy elections to be for unexpired terms; regulating city charter petition signature; specifying certain write in candidate written request requirements for a hospital district office; repealing certain provisions relating to help America vote act complaints provision, record of attempted registrations election judge requirements, school elections use of voter registration systems, county board general eligibility requirements experimental procedures and absentee ballot boards absentee voter list, permanent illness or disability ballot application and municipal clerk county auditor absentee voting procedures duties administration

ARTICLE 5 - ELECTIONS CLARIFICATIONS

Relating to elections; clarifying certain procedures and terminology; modifying soil and water conservation district ballot content requirements; changing registration card to registration application; modifying county auditor change of registration provisions; modifying absentee ballot provisions; modifying proof of eligibility for candidates for judicial office, county attorney and county sheriff; modifying school district clerk ballot preparation provisions; modifying school district combined polling places provisions; modifying certain duties of the commissioner of public safety relating to verifying social security number voter information
(Ch. 56, 2007 - VETO)