3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government

ARTICLE 1 - JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY

Appropriating money for jobs and economic development purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for grants for rural policy and development center at St. Peter, for women's business development programs, university enterprise laboratories (UEL) bioscience development activities, the redevelopment grant program, for DEED small businesses department services and a technology and commercialization unit, for the small community wastewater treatment program, small business growth program, bioscience business development programs, the urban challenge grant program, the bioscience business marketing program, and the nanotechnology development fund program (NDF), for a higher education renewable energy economic training needs study, and the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund, for grants to metropolitan economic development association, the Minnesota inventors congress, the Paradise Center for the Arts in Faribault, for municipal building construction in Northome, for the agricultural based bioscience training and testing center in Worthington, the Walker area community center, the Pine Island economic development authority, the Thomson township industrial park, for lakes debris cleanup in Le Sueur county, for public facilities replacement in Warroad, for Upper Sioux community water system improvement, for bioscience business development and commercialization grants, for the neighborhood development center for minority business enterprise retention at the Global market, for the Inver Grove Heights veterans memorial community center, for the River Centre campus in St. Paul, and for entrepreneurial and small business assistance grants in Blue Earth, Faribault and Martin counties, for workforce development and state funded administration purposes, for the Minnesota job skills partnership program, for Twin Cities RISE, for opportunities industrialization center programs, for extended employment services for persons with severe disabilities, for mental illness employment support services grants, for independent living center grants, for state services for the blind activities, for the Minnesota employment center for people who are deaf or hard of hearing grants, for the vocational rehabilitation program for people with significant disabilities for employment assistance, for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf blind students interpreter services, for grants to advocating change together and to lifetrack resources, for youthbuild programs, for summer youth employment in Minneapolis and St. Paul, for grants to northern connections in Perham, the Ramsey county workforce investment board, the Hennepin Carver workforce investment board (WIB), for the workforce development employment and training services pilot project in Mower, Freeborn, Dodge and Steele counties, for HIRED industry sector training initiatives, for a nonprofit organization grant for disabled persons increased employment opportunities, for the Minnesota youth program, for a grant to the Minnesota alliance of boys and girls clubs for youth job skills development, for a study to promote employment opportunities for minorities, and for the Minnesota conservation corps (MCC) summer youth program for deaf students learning stipends, for Explore Minnesota tourism, the Minnesota film and TV board and for the St. Louis county heritage and arts center, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and challenge program, urban and tribal Indian housing programs, housing trust fund, mentally ill rental housing assistance program, family homeless prevention and assistance programs, home ownership assistance and affordable rental investment funds, housing rehabilitation and accessibility, home ownership education, counseling and training program, nonprofit capacity building grants and a grant for Hennepin county for foreclosure prevention purposes, to commissioner of labor and industry for workers compensation Vinland center rehabilitation services, safety codes and services, patient safe handling grants, labor standards enforcement, apprenticeship program labor education and advancement programs grants, and general support, to the bureau of mediation services for mediation services and labor management cooperation grants, the workers compensation court of appeals, to the Minnesota historical society for education and outreach, the Minnesota sesquicentennial commission, grant in aid program for county and local historical societies, preservation and access, the Minnesota international center, the Minnesota air national guard museum and military museum and Farmamerica (MN AIC), for grants for the Nicollet county historical society for history renovation purposes, the Hmong studies center at Concordia university in St. Paul for preservation of historical artifacts and documents, and the hockey hall of fame museum in Eveleth, to the board of the arts for operations and services, grants program and regional arts councils, to the board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, geoscience and interior design, board of accountancy, board of barber and cosmetologists examiners, the Minnesota boxing commission and the Minnesota humanities commission; authorizing certain fund transfers; requiring the Minnesota historical society in cooperation with Explore Minnesota tourism to establish and coordinate a Minnesota River Valley study group to promote the historic, scenic and natural features of the Minnesota River Valley area

ARTICLE 2 - EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT-RELATED PROVISIONS

Classifying data from safety and education programs for loggers; authorizing certain powers of the commissioner of labor and industry, specifying certain notice, rulemaking and fee requirements; permitting the commissioner of administration to determine state building code surcharges, requiring municipal state building code surcharges to be remitted to the commissioner, removing administrative monetary penalties payment to the special revenue fund; making technical and housekeeping changes in the department of employment and economic development (DEED); modifying contamination cleanup and greater Minnesota redevelopment grant provisions; expanding commissioner trade promotion duties; creating a working group on state role in trade policy, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; expanding the job skills partnership pathways program to include grants in aid to workforce development intermediaries, modifying the matching formula; defining workforce development intermediaries; expanding the definition of dislocated worker to include terminated persons due to plant closings and layoff under the state dislocated worker program; authorizing a workforce enhancement fee under certain conditions; removing the workforce development fund special assessment adjusted decrease; modifying workforce services areas designation requirements; limiting interest charges and origination fees on nonprofit corporation loans under the urban challenge grants program; establishing the small business growth acceleration program under Minnesota Technology, Inc. to provide assistance to certain qualified manufacturing companies; establishing a packinghouse workers bill of rights for the meatpacking industry covering the rights to adequate equipment; modifying bureau of mediation services arbitrator application fees; prohibiting employment of minors relating to the presence of intoxicating liquors, amending rules; modifying enforcement program requirements under the occupational safety and health act; requiring the commissioner of labor and industry to assign occupational safety and health inspectors to offices on the Iron Range and in Bemidji; "Safe Patient Handling Act"; requiring every licensed health care facility in the state to implement by a certain date a safe patient handling program to eliminate patient manual lifting by nurses (RN) and (LPN) and direct patient care workers, requiring mechanical assistive devices use, requiring safe patient handling program committee formation, providing for facilities with existing programs, authorizing commissioner of labor and industry enforcement and grants; clarifying certain eligibility requirements for unemployment insurance benefits and specifying certain telephone system requirements; requiring the commissioner to study ways to require workers compensation insurers to recognize compliance in workers compensation premiums for health care and long term care facilities; requiring the Minnesota state council on disability to convene a safe patient handling work group, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; expanding the definition of supported employment and defining affirmative business enterprise employment for vocational rehabilitation purposes; modifying rehabilitation facility boards membership requirements; authorizing paid work on the premises of a rehabilitation facility certified as an integrated setting under certain conditions; "Restroom Access Act", authorizing customer access to restroom facilities in retail establishments under certain conditions, limiting liability and imposing certain penalties for violations; authorizing regional development commissions or regional organizations selected by the commissioner to develop a program to support planning work on behalf of local government units; modifying designation of biotechnology and health sciences industry zones requirements; establishing a technology and commercialization unit in the department for certain bioscience and technology issues and federal procurement liaison activities; specifying certain public facilities authority projects funding requirements; repealing state building code fees for licensure and inspection, state procurement commissioner of employment and economic development reports, fees and deposit requirements for division of boiler inspection, board of electricity, plumbers fees, pipefitters, water conditioning contractors and installers, and the contractors recovery fund

ARTICLE 3 - LICENSING AND WAGES

Requiring persons engaged in hair braiding for compensation to register with the state board of barber and cosmetology examiners, specifying registration cost and instruction and curriculum requirements, imposing fees; modifying powers and duties of the commissioner of labor and industry under the Fair Labor Standards Act, modifying employer record keeping requirements; modifying contract requirements for state projects, specifying certain posting requirements by a contractor or subcontractor performing public works projects, authorizing the department of labor and industry to employ investigators for enforcement purposes, requiring the commissioner to issue a withholding order to the contracting authority for certain prevailing wage violations, specifying certain notification requirements; providing independent contractors regulations for individuals performing public or private sector commercial or residential building construction or improvements services; prohibiting public employers from retaliating against employees communicating the findings of a scientific or technical study, classifying data, prescribing penalties, requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date recommendations for implementing an administrative review procedure for addressing whistle blower protection complaints; establishing the plumbing board to specify the plumbing code and adopt rules necessary for enforcement of the codes licensing requirements as determined by the board; specifying certain membership requirements and duties; requiring the board to establish fees for licensing and certifications; specifying certain reporting, transfer of authority and appointment requirements; specifying limitations for termination of sales representatives agreements for plumbing equipment and supplies; prohibiting installation of air admittance valves and water free urinals under the plumbing code; specifying certain requirements for licensing as a restricted journeyman plumber or restricted master plumber by the commissioner; modifying plumber license reciprocity provisions; establishing the construction code fund and providing for deposits and balances transfer; requiring the access review board to apply to the department of labor and industry for waivers and pay a fee to the construction code fund; providing for a contractor recovery fund; modifying certain boxing provisions, defining mixed martial arts, specifying regulatory authority for similar sporting events, subjecting tough person contests to American boxing commission rules, requiring physical examination prior to bouts; specifying one year validity for licenses; increasing license fees; specifying final interpretative authority for the state building code, the state plumbing code, the state electrical code and the high pressure piping code; specifying certain final interpretative committee review requirements; repealing certain provisions relating to independent contractors and the definition of contractor/independent contractor, and a certain plumbing license provision for cities above a certain population

ARTICLE 4 - HIGH PRESSURE PIPING

Modifying certain provisions regulating high pressure piping; establishing the board of high pressure piping systems, specifying composition, powers and duties of the board, providing administrative support; authorizing the board to set fees for licenses and certifications and to adopt rules regulating high pressure piping systems; specifying certain license reciprocity authority; modifying certain powers and duties of the commissioner of labor and industry; making certain conforming modifications; requiring contracting bonds to be filed with the commissioner of labor and industry

ARTICLE 5 - IRON RANGE RESOURCES AND REHABILITATION BOARD

Modifying the membership of the iron range resources and rehabilitation board (IRRRB); modifying certain taconite economic development fund release requirements; appropriating money from the IRRRB fund for allocation to extend electric services and other infrastructure to a peat project in Spencer township in Aitkin county, for the preservation of the B'nai Abraham synagogue in the city of Virginia, and for grants to the Iron Range youth in action program, to the Iron Range retriever club for pond and field construction and to the city of Chisholm for infrastructure improvements at the city owned baseball field; naming of the IRRRB office building in the city of Eveleth as the Joe Begich building

ARTICLE 6 - ELECTRICAL

Modifying certain provisions regulating electricians; defining direct supervision; modifying the board of electricity, specifying composition, powers and duties of the board, providing administrative support; authorizing the board to set fees for licenses and certifications and to adopt rules regulating electrical businesses; modifying certain powers and duties of the commissioner of labor and industry; making certain conforming modifications; requiring unlicensed persons performing electrical work to register, modifying electrician licensing, registration and renewal fees and expiration provisions, the inspection fee schedule and requirements under the Minnesota electrical act; and modifying reciprocity provision for the licensing of electricians

ARTICLE 7 - APPRENTICESHIP BOARD

Renaming the apprenticeship advisory council the apprenticeship board and making conforming changes to certain statutory provisions; modifying certain rule requirements

ARTICLE 8 - MISCELLANEOUS

Authorizing the Minnesota historical society to contract for the repair of battle flags, specifying certain preservation requirements; modifying manufactured home building code administrative and fees deposit requirements; modifying the housing development fund by allowing grants for public housing operating costs; requiring a certain percentage of housing challenge program grants to be used for housing proposals with financial or in kind contributions from nonstate resources, requiring certain preferences among proposals; establishing the nanotechnology development fund (NDF) program to develop a collaborative economic development initiative between the state, private sector and multiple academic institutions to promote small businesses and increase in the use of advanced nanoinstrumentation; defining qualifying small business; providing for use of funds and grants; specifying grant application and award procedures; requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to develop and maintain a record keeping system; providing for gifts and donations; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to convene a work group to evaluate the impact of the money appropriated for wage incentives
(Ch. 55, 2007 - VETO)