1E Relating to the financing of state government; making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations for various state agencies

ARTICLE 1- GENERAL FUND SUMMARY

Summarizing certain general fund direct appropriations, appropriation reductions and transfers

ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates, modifying the annual report submittal date; modifying and clarifying certain school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish enrollment options programs with an adjoining state, specifying certain agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting, requiring the commissioner to establish certain procedures relating to applications, the collection or payment of funds and the collection of data for implementation of the agreement, specifying certain severance pay exceptions, providing adjustments for special education tuition payments, establishing an equalizing factor to assist in determining equity revenue; modifying the general education transition revenue formula and setting the district transition allowance for fiscal year 2009 and later, prescribing the tuition reciprocity revenue transition formula, establishing an equalizing factor to assist in determining transition revenue; expanding payment of aids to school districts requirements; establishing an equalizing factor to assist in determining referendum equalization levy; modifying the referendum revenue ballot language in cases of renewal of referendum authority; authorizing intermediate school district boards to borrow money in anticipation of the receipt of federal and state aids and membership fees and tuition payments from member school districts, specifying borrowing limitations; requiring enabling resolutions and certain notification requirements, specifying certain aid reduction for repayment limitations and certain repayment conditions for school districts and intermediate school districts; modifying the abatement adjustment aid and excess tax increment formulas to exclude general education levy and aid; appropriating money to the department of education for independent school district #239, Rushford-Peterson for school district flood enrollment impact aid and aid for increased transportation costs; authorizing the department of education to limit the participation in the alternative teacher pay program; establishing the eligibility of independent school district #356, Lancaster for sparsity adjustment aid; permitting a school district eligible to receive sparsity revenue to levy to pay for transportation costs; repealing certain provisions relating to teacher compensation, certain general education aid deductions along with payments of aids and credits to certain school districts

ARTICLE 3 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Establishing a state virtual education program for teachers and student instruction and learning enhancement and improvement; establishing state measures for academic success, requiring a growth based value added indicator of student achievement for statewide and local assessments, defining certain terms, modifying certain statewide testing and reporting system provisions, modifying certain educational accountability and public reporting requirements, requiring the commissioner of education to aggregate certain student performance data, requiring the commissioner to maintain a system for student academic achievement and growth, modifying certain system component requirements, specifying certain school district student academic achievement levels for meeting federally mandated expectations, modifying educational assessment system requirements, specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to establishing a new state growth norm applicable to students in a particular grade for a particular year, specifying certain application requirements for the state growth norm to students in grades 4 through 8, specifying certain student performance reporting requirements, requiring the commissioner to establish criteria for identifying school and school districts demonstrating exceptional growth in order to advance educators professional development and to replicate programs in meeting students diverse learning needs; providing teacher licensure via portfolio, specifying certain application content and fee requirements for candidates seeking licensure; modifying basic alternative teacher compensation aid; requiring teacher institutes to assist teachers in providing advanced training during summer months to licensed mathematics and science teachers in the area of content knowledge and effective instruction practices; authorizing certain school districts to enter into cooperative agreements to provide pupil transportation upon a majority vote of the school board; clarifying pupil notification regarding payment and intent to enroll in online learning, modifying financial arrangements for postsecondary courses; modifying the online learning program (online learning option act) by requiring providers to report student progress to enrolling districts; clarifying online learning standards; appropriating money for a statewide testing and reporting system, preadvanced placement, advanced placement, international baccalaureate and concurrent enrollment programs, the educational planning and assessment system (EPAS) program, college-level examination program (CLEP); requiring the commissioner to convene groups for implementing a student growth based value added system for implementation of rigorous coursework measures relating to student performance and for implementing measures for assessing students self reported sense of school safety, engagement in school and the quality of relationships with teachers, administrators and other students for school report card purposes, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring reports to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota virtual education program, mathematics and science teacher centers and institutes and for certain best practice grants

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND ACCOUNTING

Modifying the debt service appropriation for school facilities; expanding the use of bonds for certain educational facilities; increasing education levy authority for ice arenas; authorizing fund transfers for independent school districts #411, Balaton; #2580, East Central; #671, Hills-Beaver Creek: #750, Rocori and #706, Virginia; authorizing the eligibility of independent school district #623, Roseville for the alternative facilities bonding and levy program

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION

Increasing the K-12 school milk reimbursement to schools by the commissioner of education; appropriating money for traditional school breakfast aid and kindergarten milk

ARTICLE 6 - STATE AGENCIES

Requiring the commissioner of education to create an American Indian education committee to advise the commissioner; appropriating money for the outdoor education working group, the administration of the online learning program, the online learning advisory council, the state advisory board on early learning, the administration of the school performance report card and the academic achievement plan; authorizing the establishment of a outdoor education working group

ARTICLE 7 - LIFELONG LEARNING

Modifying early education developmental screening aid; modifying the calculation and amounts of certain adult basic education supplemental service grants; clarifying replacement revenue for independent school district #2899, Plainview-Elgin-Millville; appropriating money for health and developmental screening aid; establishing the office of early learning to coordinate a high quality early childhood system to make early childhood and child care programs more effective and improve the educational outcomes of children under the administration of the commissioners of education, health and human services

ARTICLE 8 - PREKINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

A. GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying appropriations for general education aid, referendum tax base
replacement aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue,
consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil
transportation

B. EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying appropriations for charter school building lease aid, charter school startup cost aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants and tribal contract school aid

C. SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying appropriations for aid to children with disabilities and travel aid
for homebased services

D. FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Modifying appropriations health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, deferred maintenance aid and school technology and capital aid grants

E. NUTRITION

Modifying appropriations for school lunch and summer food service replacement aid

F. EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ADULT PROGRAMS

Modifying appropriations for early childhood family education (ECFE) aid, school readiness, community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid and adult basic education aid

ARTICLE 9 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Summarizing higher education appropriations and appropriation reductions; modifying appropriations to the office of higher education for interstate tuition reciprocity, the Minnesota college savings plan and modifying appropriations for agency administration, providing for certain cancellations and transfers; appropriating money to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for the elimination of nonresident tuition and for reciprocity tuition aid, providing for general reductions; appropriating money to the regents of the university of Minnesota for global modeling of health care reforms and economic analysis of health care reform plans; modifying the assigned family responsibility for a students higher education attendance cost; modifying the definition of resident student for purposes of determining eligibility for state financial aid for higher education to include a spouse or dependent of a resident veteran; clarifying administrative funding for the teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH) program grants for nonprofit organizations; modifying the disposition process of certain surplus property owned my the Minnesota state colleges and universities; modifying the eligibility of a spouse or a child of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty to receive educational benefits; modifying certain appropriations for state grants, the operation and maintenance of certain programs within the higher education system and providing for transfers to the Indian scholarship appropriation; requiring the commissioner of health to award a grant to the university of Minnesota to develop a model to assess the impact of proposed health care reforms or major health care related legislation on all sectors of the health care system requiring the commissioner of health to award a grant to the university of Minnesota to conduct a study and economic analysis of costs and benefits of various health care reform proposals including an analysis of the recommendations of the legislative health care access; repealing the achieve scholarship program

ARTICLE 10 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; reducing certain prior
appropriations to the pollution control agency for water, multi media and
administration, commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the lands and
minerals budget and iron ore cooperative agreements, water resource management, parks and recreation and fish and wildlife management, ecological services, enforcement budget and for operations support, board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for cost sharing contract for native buffers, county cooperative weed management programs, drainage assistance program and rehabilitation, erosion and sediment control projects, and to the metropolitan council for metropolitan area regional parks maintenance and operation; appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for forest, trails and waterways management and modifying prior appropriation requirements; providing for expedited exchanges of public land involving the state and governmental subdivisions of the state; specifying classes of land involved in expedited exchanges; providing for the determination of the valuation of land; requiring examination of title by involved parties; requiring unanimous approval of the land exchange board; providing for the conveyance process; requiring deeds to include a reverter under certain conditions; specifying status for certain classes of land; modifying restrictions and penalties for wildlife feeding within a certain area of the infected cattle herd; establishing the outdoor heritage fund and creating the forest fragmentation and consolidation account and the conservation partners account within the fund, providing for allocation of expenditures; creating the Lessard-Heritage enhancement council, specifying membership requirements, requiring the governor to appoint an outdoor heritage fund citizen selection committee and specifying certain duties of the committee; requiring the council to adopt a strategic plan; specifying council duties and administration; providing for open meetings; modifying certain environmental quality board assessment requirements; providing a process for designating star lakes and rivers; providing for application and eligibility; requiring a comprehensive lake or river management plan; creating the star lake board as a nonprofit corporation, specifying powers and duties, specifying board membership; modifying certain water use permit processing fees; providing for the authority of county, statutory or home rule charter cities and towns to erect star lake or river signs, specifying sign standards, specifying first meeting and deadline for appointment requirements; modifying certain forest management appropriations; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to complete rulemaking to update rules on structures in public waters and permit requirements

ARTICLE 11 - ENERGY

Summarizing energy appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations for commerce, energy and telecommunications purposes; modifying appropriations to the public utilities commission; providing for direction to conform state economic development policies with state environmental policy; defining the term green economy to include certain products and processes, methods, technologies or services; requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) and the job skills partnership board to cooperate to promote job training to complement green economy business development; requiring the commissioner to analyze all state grant and loan programs and develop a program to optimize green economy growth and report to the legislature by a certain date; creating the green economy transformation task force to advise and assist the governor and legislature regarding activities to transform the economy of the state and develop a statewide action plan; specifying membership and duties, sunset provision; requiring a statewide action plan to be presented to the legislature and the governor by a certain date

ARTICLE 12 - AGRICULTURE

Summarizing agriculture appropriations and appropriation reductions; modifying appropriations for livestock investment grants, ethanol producer payments; appropriating money to the board of animal health for a grant to the North Central Research Center at Grand Rapids for a study of bovine tuberculosis and for payments for cattle owners to remove cattle herds located within the bovine tuberculosis management zone; establishing a livestock investment grant program, defining certain terms, specifying eligibility for the program, specifying commissioner of agriculture review process for certification of eligible applicants; defining bovine tuberculosis management zone, providing for the buyout of certain cattle by the board of animal health, requiring the board to conduct a risk assessment for cattle continuing to be located within the bovine tuberculosis management zone, providing fencing cost sharing assistance to certain cattle producers, granting the board of animal health the authority to control tuberculosis and the movement of cattle, bison and farmed cervidae within and between tuberculosis zones in the state, providing for the designation of zones, specifying the authority of the board to control cattle, bison and farmed cervidae within modified accredited zones, requiring the commissioner of agriculture to collect a bovine tuberculosis control assessment for each head of cattle

ARTICLE 13 - VETERANS AFFAIRS

Summarizing veterans affairs appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations to the department of veterans affairs for soldiers assistance, the LinkVet linkage line, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) outreach and education, additional state veterans case workers for comprehensive individual assistance, a northern Minnesota veterans cemetery, the Minnesota assistance council for homelessness assistance, state navigator positions, the veterans claims office for outreach and training and for a female veterans service officer/coordinator position, the Minnesota ambulance association to implement a veterans paramedic apprenticeship program, for veterans affairs marketing and for a veterans homes strategic planning study; appropriating money in the world war II memorial donation match account after state construction costs payment to the commissioner of veterans affairs for veterans and families services and programs; specifying uses of money appropriated to the department of veterans affairs from the support our troops account

ARTICLE 14 - MILITARY AFFAIRS

Summarizing military affairs appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations to the department of military affairs for the guard and reserve program employer support state enhancement (ESGR), recertifying national guard medics biannual bonus payments, state navigator positions and a study of the national guard youth challenge program; appropriating money in the "support our troops" account equally to the departments of military affairs and veterans affairs, permitting department of military affairs expenditures on grants to family readiness groups and permitting department of veterans affairs expenditures on grants to veterans service organizations and outreach to underserved veterans; authorizing the adjutant general to sell timber on the camp Ripley military field training center land, requiring deposit of proceeds and appropriation for camp Ripley timber resources management; authorizing the adjutant general to establish and administer a state enhancement to the federal employer support of guard and reserve (ESGR) program, requiring policy and guidelines development, authorizing the adjutant general to establish a program to provide a recertification bonus to recertifying emergency medical technicians (EMT) national guard members, specifying eligibility; requiring the adjutant general and the department of military affairs to study participation by the Minnesota national guard youth challenge program, specifying components of study, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 15 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Summarizing economic development appropriations and appropriations reductions; instructing the commissioner of commerce to transfer money from certain funds into the general fund, modifying appropriations to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for a major economic design nanotechnology project and workforce development, to Explore Minnesota tourism for the Minnesota film and TV board, to the housing finance agency, to the Minnesota historical society for the sesquicentennial commission and to the board of arts; requiring certain fund transfers and cancellations; modifying certain filing fee and refund requirements under regulation of securities provisions; authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development to make infrastructure grants counties or county regional rail authorities; 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; requiring institutions to provide for grant funded project summary results dissemination; allowing the job skills partnership board to use a portion of funds to collect and disseminate activities information and requiring the board to plan for statewide information dissemination; authorizing the Minnesota film and TV board to make reimbursements to for film production under certain conditions; modifying certain duties of the iron range resources and rehabilitation board; 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; providing for an increase in assistance to an individual or a family to prevent mortgage foreclosure; 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; modifying city gas distribution procedure in the city of Nashwauk; forgiving loan repayments on a loan to the city of St. Paul to finance the St. Paul RiverCentre after a certain number of years of payment; modifying a certain loan repayment provision by the Upper Red Lake business loan program; modifying certain Itasca county infrastructure appropriations; establishing an expiration date for an appropriation to Minnesota Technology, Inc.; providing for taconite production tax distributions for the Hibbing economic development authority and St. Louis county school district #2142 for consolidation study purposes; defining economic hardship and specifying notice and payment requirements; providing for additional unemployment insurance benefits to workers laid off from the Ainsworth Lumber Company in the city of Cook, specifying certain notice and eligibility requirements

ARTICLE 16 - TRANSPORTATION

Summarizing transportation appropriations and appropriation reductions; modifying appropriations for the state roads, for certain transfers from the rail service improvement account, for a security coordinator for the republican national convention and to the university of Minnesota for a value capture study; modifying the fee amount charged for vehicle title transfer, modifying deposit of fee

ARTICLE 17 - PUBLIC SAFETY

Summarizing public safety appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations for public safety purposes including emergency management, criminal apprehension, alcohol and gambling enforcement and the office of justice programs; providing for general agency operation reductions; reducing certain appropriations relating to human rights and corrections including to correctional institutions and for certain community services and operations support; modifying certain transfers and allocation in the fire safety account; modifying transfers from the peace officer standards and training (POST) board to the general fund

ARTICLE 18 - JUDICIARY

Summarizing judiciary appropriations and appropriations reductions, modifying appropriations to the supreme court, court of appeals, district courts and the board of public defense; modifying the surcharge on license tab violations for collection by district court administrators, modifying the disbursement of surcharges by the commissioner of finance; authorizing the judicial branch to accept electronic fund transfer, permitting the judiciary to impose a convenience fee on transactions, specifying the access to electronic fund transfer data; repealing a certain provision permitting payment of correctional fees by a credit card

ARTICLE 19 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Summarizing state government appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations to the legislature including the senate, house of representatives and the legislative coordinating commission and canceling a balance carried forward to the general fund; modifying appropriations to the governor, to the state auditor, to the attorney general, to the secretary of state, to the office of enterprise technology and authorizing transfers to the general fund, to the department of administration including state facilities services, state and community services, administrative management services, and providing for transfers to the general fund, to the finance department including state financial management and information and management services, to the departments of employee relations and revenue; establishing tax debtor data match system, defining certain terms, specifying the commissioner of revenue process for providing data, specifying access to certain data, permitting financial institutions to charge the commissioner fees for providing certain information, establishing penalty for financial institutions who fail to respond to written requests for information, specifying debtor confidentiality and financial institution immunity, providing for civil action for unauthorized disclosure by a financial institution; modifying the number of and duties of certain deputy and assistant commissioners; authorizing and providing for state employees to be granted leave from work for blood donation purposes, providing for no effect on vacation, sick and other leave, requiring employee to provide notice; authorizing employers to grant employee leave for blood donation purposes; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to appoint a deputy commissioner/chief engineer requiring the deputy/chief engineer to be a licensed professional engineer; establishing a statewide licensing system surcharge; providing for certain appropriations, budget reserve cash flow, professional and technical contracts and nonessential travel reductions by the commissioner of finance; repealing an appropriation to the Minnesota amateur sports commission

ARTICLE 20 - HEALTH CARE

Emergency medical services regulatory board service credit value clarification; authorizing the commissioner of health to approve and implement additional projects with one or more county based purchasing plans; modifying beneficiary and medical assistance eligibility for the Minnesota partnership for long term care program; expanding the role of the health services policy committee; modifying the payment rates for drug acquisitions; modifying the medical assistance (MA) co-payments for certain people; amending the MA reimbursement collection process; authorizing the commissioner of human services to withhold an additional amount for prepaid medical assistance and general assistance medical care programs; reducing the total payment for fee for services made to hospitals for outpatient hospital facilities before third party liability and spenddown; requiring the commissioner to identify certain unnecessary and ineffective health care services and report to the legislature by a certain date; authorizing the commissioner of human services in consultation with the commissioner of health to determine the excess surplus and administrative costs of each health maintenance organization (HMO) and county based purchasing plan

ARTICLE 21 - MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM (MSOP)

Authorizing the commissioner of human services to establish, equip, maintain and operate the Minnesota state industries at any sex offender program facility, establishing a revolving fund and providing for disbursements from the fund, authorizing commissioner to borrow from the fund, providing for federal grant fund transfers, providing for patient wages; providing for petitions for a reduction in custody of persons committee as mentally ill and dangerous; modifying the definition of vulnerable adult; instructing the commissioner of human services to convene a working group to develop standards and guidelines for the operations of the Minnesota sex offender program

ARTICLE 22 - CHILDREN AND FAMLIY SERVICES

Modifying certain powers of the commissioner of human services relating to foster care; defining child support, arrears and maintenance; modifying provisions relating to assignment of support and maintenance rights; modifying provisions relating to distribution of child support; making certain technical modifications to Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) provisions; modifying the MFIP transitional standard; modifying the eligibility maintenance procedure for hardship extensions; eliminating the self-employment investment demonstration program (SEID) from the definition of work activity; modifying certain family violence waiver criteria provisions; clarifying the eligibility for the consolidated fund, modifying the effective date for the expiration of cash support benefits; prohibiting a county or tribe from imposing a residency requirement on families, exception; modifying the MFIP work participation program; modifying performance based funds allocation for counties and tribes; modifying provisions relating to child support order payments to public agencies; clarifying payer of funds responsibilities relating to paid amounts; modifying the temporary aid for needy families (TANF) supported work for MFIP participants appropriation; modifying the appropriation for prekindergarten exploratory projects; increasing the long term homelessness appropriation; repealing provisions relating to child support distribution and an MFIP family cap

ARTICLE 23 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying certain targeted case management provisions; authorizing the commissioner of human services to award through a competitive process contracts for grants to public and private agencies to support and assist individuals eligible for publicly funded home and community-based services to access housing; modifying the rate year structure for ICF/MR rate increases; requiring demonstration providers providing nursing home and community-based services to provide relocation service coordination to enrolled persons age 65 and over; expanding general assistance (GA) shelter needy eligibility to self-directed supports option participants and home and community-based waiver recipients living independently, extending the state-funded transitional supports allowance to certain persons eligible for shelter needy funding; requiring counties overspending in calendar year 2004 and 2005 under the waivered services program for persons with developmental disabilities to pay back overspending by a certain date; modifying the month provider rate increases go into effect

ARTICLE 24 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Providing for a summary of appropriations and appropriation reductions; providing for the department of human services forecast adjustment; reducing appropriations for children and economic assistance grants, basic health care grants and continuing care grants

ARTICLE 25 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS

Summarizing health and human services appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying human services appropriations for agency management financial operations; revenue and pass-through revenue expenditures including for TANF maintenance of effort (MOE) purposes, working family credit expenditures claimed as TANF/MOE and additional working family credit expenditures to be claimed for TANF/MOE; for children and economic assistance grants including MFIP/DWP grants, support services grants including supported work, basic sliding fee child care assistance grants including the child care and development fund unexpended balance, child care development grants, children's services grants, children and community services grants, Minnesota supplemental aid grants, group residential housing grants and other children's and economic assistance grants; for auto repairs and purchases; for basic health care grants such as MinnesotaCare grants, medical assistance (MA) basic health care grants for families and children including implementing hospital payment delay, third party liability activities, fee for service payment reductions as well as limiting administrative costs, MA basic health care grants to the elderly and disabled including the development of the Minnesota disability health options rate setting methodology, general assistance medical care grants and other health care grants including a transfer from the MinnesotaCare outreach grants special revenue account to the general fund; continuing care grants including aging and adult services grants, MA long-term care facility grants including a delay in the long term care provider rate adjustment, MA long term care waivers and home care grants including personal care services, limiting the caseload growth in the traumatic brain injury (TBI) and community alternatives for disabled individuals (CADI) waivers, mental health grants with funding usage specifications; deaf and hard-of-hearing grants, chemical dependency entitlement grants including transferring funds from the chemical dependency treatment fund special revenue account to the general fund; chemical dependency nonentitlement grants and other continuing care grants including housing access grants, developmental disability semi-independent living services grants and developmental disability family support grants; for state operated services including withholding county past due receivables, an internet-based resource chemical dependency treatment program, community behavioral hospitals dealing with mental health services and sex offender services and per diem rates for the Minnesota sex offender program; modifying health department appropriations including items relating to community and family health such as the Minnesota ENABL program; for policy, quality and compliance grants; for health protection; for minority and multicultural health and for administrative support services; modifying appropriations to the veterans home board; modifying appropriations to certain health related boards including the board of nursing home administrators and the board of marriage and family therapy; modifying appropriations to the emergency medical services board for the longevity award and incentive program; modifying the appropriation to the medical education and research cost (MERC) program for federal compliance; modifying an appropriation to the veterans nursing home board for repair and betterment activities; establishing a sunset date for certain uncodified language
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