Relating to the state budget

ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY

Reducing appropriations to E-12 education, higher education, environment and natural resources, energy, agriculture, economic development, transportation, public safety, state government, health and human services, and for tax aids and credits

ARTICLE 2 - CASH FLOW

Relating to state finance; modifying certain state payment and liability payment
schedules for the university of Minnesota, state property taxes, and sales and
use taxes

ARTICLE 3 - E-12 EDUCATION

Relating to education finance; adjusting the education aid payment schedule; reducing certain prior appropriations for general education aid, the educate parents partnership, the kindergarten assessment initiative and intervention program and the department of education, providing for advance payments for fiscal years 2010 and 2011

ARTICLE 4 - E-12 EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Reducing appropriations for consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid, nonpublic pupil transportation. charter school building lease aid, charter school startup aid, integration aid, success for the future, tribal contract schools special education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home based services, special education, health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, deferred maintenance aid, kindergarten milk, basic system support, multicounty library systems, regional library telecommunications aid, school readiness, early childhood family education (ECFE) aid, health and development screening aid, community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid, and adult basic education aid

ARTICLE 5 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Reducing appropriations to the Minnesota office of higher education, the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU), and the board of regents of the University of Minnesota

ARTICLE 6 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Reducing appropriations to the pollution control agency (PCA), the department of natural resources (DNR) and the metropolitan council

ARTICLE 7 - ENERGY

Reducing appropriations to the department of commerce

ARTICLE 8 - AGRICULTURE

Reducing appropriations to the department of agriculture

ARTICLE 9 -ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Reducing appropriations to department of employment and economic development (DEED), the department of labor and industry, the bureau of mediation services and the Minnesota historical society,

ARTICLE 10 - TRANSPORTATION

Reducing appropriations to the department of transportation (DOT) and the metropolitan council

ARTICLE 11 - PUBLIC SAFETY

Reducing appropriations to the department of human rights

ARTICLE 12 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Reducing appropriations to the governor and lieutenant governor, the office of enterprise technology, the department of administration, the office of management and budget and the department of revenue

ARTICLE 13 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Reducing appropriations to the department of human services and the department of health; limiting payments for substance abuse treatment; eliminating $75,000 in fiscal year 2010 for pentachlorophenol and a PFC citizens advisory group; changing the medical assistance asset limit for a household of two or more to $6,000, plus $200 for each additional legal dependent and $3,000 for a household of one for the period January 1, 2011, through June 30, 2011; limiting the hours of personal care services that a personal care attendant may provide and be paid for to 275 hours per month for the period July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010; eliminating the partial increase of nursing facility operating payment rates that was scheduled to occur on October 1, 2009; increasing the withhold percentage of managed care plan payments and county-based purchasing plan payments for services rendered on or after January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2010, by 1.0 percent to 4.5 percent and for services rendered on or after January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2011, by 0.5 percent. If an extension of FMAP is enacted before June 15, 2010, the withhold for services rendered on or after January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2011, shall be 4.0 percent; reducing the payment rates under medical assistance for physician and professional services rendered on or after July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2011, by 6.5 percent over the rates in effect June 30, 2009. This additional 1.5 percent reduction in effect for the period July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, does not apply to physician services billed by a psychiatrist or an advanced practice registered nurse with a specialty in mental health; eliminating the critical access dental provider payments for dental services provided from April 1, 2010, to June 30, 2010; reducing the the payment rates under medical assistance for basic care services by 4.5 percent for the period July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2011; requiring the commissioner of human services to decrease the group residential housing (GRH) supplementary service rate by five percent except for GRH facilities that are reimbursed as a nursing facility

Article 14: Aids, Credits, Refunds

ARTICLE 14 - AIDS, CREDITS, REFUNDS

Modifying the credit reduction; providing for the computation of reductions in aids and market value credit reimbursements to cities, counties, and towns for both 2009 and 2010; modifying a provision in the budget-cutting bill enacted earlier this year to eliminate references to unallotments; providing for a temporary modification of existing refund and credit programs; validating the special levies made to compensate for reductions in aids due to unallotments

ARTICLE 15 - SPECIAL REVENUE FUND

Providing for postsecondary education board payments by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) to the legislative auditor to pay audit expenses for audits requested by the board of trustees; providing for funds of the attorney general for interagency legal services; costs for providing copies of data; state surplus property net proceeds of the sale of surplus state property by the department of administration for state agencies; providing for money received by the board of water and soil resources (BWSR); providing for fees received by the department of natural resources (DNR) for underground storage are credited to an account in the natural resources fund; providing for federal reimbursements received by the department of military affairs; providing for guardian ad litem legal fees money deposited by the commissioner of management and budget for supreme court guardian ad litem reimbursement; providing for money deposited by the commissioner of revenue from a county for the contaminated site cleanup and development grant account in the department of employment and economic development (DEED); providing for money collected by the commissioner of public safety in conjunction with the criminal justice data communications network; providing for fees received by the commissioner of public safety for contract services by the capitol complex security division; providing for application fees for the credit enhancement program collected by the public facilities authority; providing for money received by the commissioner of management and budget from county treasurers for tax increment financing (TIF) and appropriated to the state auditor for reporting and auditing TIF; providing for a fine above the statutory minimum imposed by a court for violation of the prostitution solicitation statute and appropriated to the commissioner of public safety; providing for repayment to the commissioner of management and budget of public defender costs by persons determined to have ability to pay and appropriated to the board of public defense; providing for sale of wildlife lands with proceeds of certain lands sold by the commissioner of administration to deposited into an account in the natural resources fund and appropriated to natural resources

ARTICLE 16 - INCOME TAX

Modifying individual income tax rates by adding a new 9.1 percent rate at $200,000 of taxable income for married joint filers, with the threshold adjusted for other filing statuses ($100,000 for married separate filers, $113,110 for single filers, and $170,350 for head of household filers), providing for the sunset of the 9.1 percent rate after tax year 2013 if the February 2013 forecast shows an unrestricted general fund balance of $500 million or more; re-setting the annual inflation adjustment of the income tax brackets to use the tax year 2010 amounts specified in section 1 as the base for future annual adjustments; providing for the accelerated reinstatement of federal additions to taxable income
(Ch. 340, 2010 - VETO)