Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations and appropriation reductions by fund; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of commerce for administration and office of energy security programs, to the commissioner of employment and economic security (DEED) for the employment grants program, to the commissioner of labor and industry for the municipal building permit reporting unit in the labor standards program and to the bureau of mediation services; appropriating money to the commissioner of commerce for energy and telecommunications, to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development and workforce development, to Explore Minnesota tourism for the Minnesota film and TV board, to the Minnesota historical society for the sesquicentennial commission and to the combative sports commission; requiring fund transfers from the commissioner of commerce insurance fraud prevention account, the public utilities commission (PUC) telephone access account and DEED workforce development fund and 21st century mineral fund to the general fund; requiring certain fund cancellations from the commissioner of commerce and DEED

ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL

Expanding the definition of public official to include the director of Explore Minnesota tourism; modifying certain filing fee and refund requirements under regulation of securities provisions; requiring the revisor of statutes in Minnesota rules to adjust dollar amounts to costs announced by the petroleum tank release compensation board upon written notification from the board; authorizing the job skills partnership board to provide rural workforce innovation grants; modifying the fee schedule for professional licenses issued by the combative sports commission; authorizing and providing for nonprofit housing bonds and appropriating money to pay the debt service, establishing the nonprofit housing bond account, increasing the bond fund debt ceiling; including the department of commerce division of insurance fraud prevention in the definition of appropriate agency for law enforcement agency jurisdiction provisions; extending the availability of a prior appropriation to DEED for business and community development; repealing a certain vocational rehabilitation transfer

ARTICLE 3 - ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Establishing the rural enterprise microloan program under the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to provide rural enterprise grants to nonprofit corporations to encourage private investment, create jobs for persons in rural areas and promote economic development, defining targeted rural opportunity community, specifying eligibility, providing for revolving loan funds, specifying loan criteria, requiring annual reports to the commissioner and the legislature; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish and implement an office of technology and commercialization, an office of entrepreneurship and small business development, an office of business information and professional services and a small business product development program; creating the main street revitalization grant program, specifying eligibility and providing for an application process; establishing the community leadership and planning program; requiring the job skills partnership program to administer the rural workforce innovation grant program; creating the rural workforce innovation grant program

ARTICLE 4 - VETERANS LOANS

Establishing a military reservist economic injury loan program; authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to make onetime interest free loans up to a certain amount to eligible borrowers sustaining substantial economic injury as a result of the call to active service of an essential employee; requiring use of a revolving loan account and expedited rules adoption process; extending state dislocated worker program benefits to certain veterans; adding an unemployment insurance benefits tax calculation exception for employers in cases of military reservist replacement worker lay off

ARTICLE 5 - PUBLIC FACILITY AUTHORITY

Requiring the public facilities authority to make funds available for wastewater infrastructures based on pollution control agency (PCA) priority list ranking and requiring funds reservation upon applicant federal commitment receipt or PCA plan submission; increasing public facilities authority grant funding; establishing and providing for a credit enhanced bond program to provide governmental unit loans through governmental units general obligation bonds purchased for purpose of project financing; requiring the authority to obtain funds to make loans through revenue bonds issuance payable from loan repayments pledged to the bonds; establishing a fund and accounts; permitting revenue bond issuance by the authority; specifying a bonding limit
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