Chapter No. 78 HF2088

Article 1: Jobs and economic development appropriations provided.

Sec. 1: Jobs and economic development appropriations summary provided.

Sec. 2: Jobs and economic development appropriations provided from the
general fund for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.

Sec. 3: Department of employment and economic development appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Business and community development appropriations provided.
Subd 3: Workforce development appropriations provided.
Subd 4: State-funded administration appropriations provided, Governor's Washington, D.C. office funding provided.

Sec. 4: Public facilities authority appropriations provided.

Sec. 5: Explore Minnesota tourism appropriations provided.

Sec. 6: Housing finance agency appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Economic development and housing challenge program appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Housing trust fund appropriation provided.
Subd 4: Rental housing assistance program for persons with a mental illness appropriation provided.
Subd 5: Family homeless prevention and assistance programs appropriations provided.
Subd 6: Home ownership assistance program appropriations provided.
Subd 7: Affordable rental investment fund program appropriations provided.
Subd 8: Housing rehabilitation program appropriations provided.
Subd 9: Homeownership education, counseling, and training program appropriation provided.
Subd 10: Nonprofit capacity building grants appropriation provided.
Subd 11: Transfer of disaster relief contingency funds authorized.
Subd 12: Demonstration project for high-risk adults appropriation provided.

Sec. 7: Department of labor and industry appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Workers' compensation fund appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Labor standards and apprenticeship program appropriations provided.
Subd 4: General support appropriations provided.

Sec. 8: Bureau of mediation services appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Mediation services appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Labor management cooperation grants appropriations provided.
Subd 4: Workers' compensation court of appeals appropriations provided.

Sec. 10: Minnesota Historical Society appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Education and outreach appropriations provided.
Subd 3: Preservation and access appropriations provided.
Subd 4: Fiscal agent appropriations provided.
Subd 5: Fund transfers authorized.

Sec. 11: Board of the arts appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Operations and services appropriations provided.
Subd 3: Grants programs appropriations provided.
Subd 4: Regional arts council appropriations provided.

Sec. 12: Minnesota humanities center appropriations provided.

Sec. 13: Public broadcasting appropriations provided; Public radio and television funding included.

Sec. 14: Board of accountancy appropriations provided.

Sec. 15: Board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape
architecture, geosciences, and interior design appropriations provided.

Sec. 16: Board of cosmetologist examiners appropriations provided.

Sec. 17: Board of barber examiners appropriations provided.

Sec. 18: Combative sports commission appropriations provided.

Sec. 19: Transfers authorized.

Sec. 20: Legislative coordinating commission appropriation provided.

Article 2: Employment and economic development-related provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Agreements with the Department of Employment and Economic
Development provision language added.

Sec. 2: Transfer of a passenger motor vehicles or trucks authorization language modified.

Sec. 3: Identification and classification of valuable aggregate lands program language modified.

Sec. 4: Commissioner powers provision language modified.

Sec. 5: Commissioner receipt of gifts or money provision language modified.

Sec. 6: Commissioner of economic development duties, authorizations, and
limitations language modified.

Sec. 7: County grants provision providing capital costs language modified.

Sec. 8: City, county, and public infrastructure definitions provided.

Sec. 9: Eligible economic development projects provision language modified.

Sec. 10: Application procedure provision language modified.

Sec. 11: Maximum grant amount provision language modified.

Sec. 12: Grant program provision language modified.

Sec. 13: Minnesota green enterprise assistance multiagency project
established.

Sec. 14: Grants authorization provision for applicant development authority
language modified.

Sec. 15: Priorities language modified.

Sec. 16: Minnesota science and technology economic development project
established.

Sec. 17: Bureau of small business duties language modified.

Sec. 18: Administration of the Small Cities Development Block Grant Program
language added.

Sec. 19: Eligible expenditures language modified.

Sec. 20: Program accountability requirements establishment and report
required.

Sec. 21: Minnesota Job Skills Partnership Board terms provision modified.

Sec. 22: Workforce development funds usage provision language modified.

Sec. 23: Determination and collection of special assessment provision
language modified.

Sec. 24: General grants provision language modified.

Sec. 25: Work experience component requirement language modified.

Sec. 26: Training services responsibility and certification provision language
modified.

Sec. 27: Displaced homemaker programs provision language modified.

Sec. 28: Small business growth acceleration program's qualified company
provision language modified.

Sec. 29: Fund awards and usage provision language modified.

Sec. 30: Use of outside sources for resources and services authorization
provision language modified.

Sec. 31: Local education and employment transitions systems language
modified.

Sec. 32: Revenue derived from advertising provision language modified.

Sec. 33: Establishment of Minnesota correction industries, MINNCOR
industries provision language modified.

Sec. 34: Eligible individual definition modified.

Sec. 35: Blind, vending stands and machines on government property limited
liability provision language modified.

Sec. 36: Revolving find for vocational rehabilitation of the blind provision
language modified, and licensing provision for operation of vending stands
language modified.

Sec. 37: County and tribal biennial service agreements provision language
modified.

Sec. 38: MFIP caregiver on-the-job training programs authorization provision
language modified.

Sec. 39: Application for assistance in establishing or operating a community
rehabilitation facility provision language modified.

Sec. 40: Evaluation of applications provision language modified.

Sec. 41: Economic development strategy working group established.

Sec. 42: Green enterprise assistance appropriation provided.

Sec. 43: Revisor's instruction; Renumbering.

Article 3: Unemployment insurance policy provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Election by state or political subdivision to be a taxpaying employer provision language modified.

Sec. 2: Election provision language modified.

Sec. 3: Cancellation of amounts due from employers provision language
modified.

Sec. 4: Compromise authorization provision language modified.

Sec. 5: Unemployment benefits paid from state funds provision language
modified.

Sec.6: Limitations on applications and benefit accounts provision language
modified.

Sec. 7: Payments that delay unemployment benefits provision language
modified.

Sec. 8: Receipt of back pay provision language modified.

Sec. 9: Available for suitable employment definition modified.

Sec. 10: Benefits eligibility during certain voluntary unemployment provided.

Sec. 11: Benefits eligibility when applicant quits employment provision
language modified.

Sec. 12: Quit definition modified.

Sec. 13: Employer-agent appeals required to be filed online.

Sec. 14: Court and collection fees provision language modified.

Sec. 15: Records and audits provision language modified.

Sec. 16: Federal entrepreneurship grant for dislocated workers provided.

Sec. 17: Effective date.

Article 4: Unemployment insurance technical changes provided.

Sec. 1: Stand of proof provision extended to include statutory application
provision.

Sec. 2: Computations of money rounded down.

Sec. 3: Agricultural employment definition modified.

Sec. 4: Independent contractor designation when performing construction
provided.

Sec. 5: Determination definition provided.

Sec. 6: Filing or filed definition modified.

Sec. 7: Preponderance of the evidence definition provided.

Sec. 8: Election to have noncovered employment considered covered
employment provision language modified.

Sec. 9: Determinations of coverage provision language modified.

Sec. 10: Failure to timely file the quarterly wage detail report and late fees
provision language modified.

Sec. 11: General rule language modified.

Sec. 12: Exceptions for employers language modified.

Sec. 13: Payments provision language modified.

Sec. 14: Experience rating history transfer provision modified.

Sec. 15: Costs provision language modified.

Sec. 16: Interest on amounts past due provision language modified.

Sec. 17: Notice of debt to licensing authority requirement language
modified.

Sec. 18: Unemployment benefits applicant requirements provision language
modified.

Sec. 19: Unemployment benefits application procedure and determination
of benefit account provision language modified.

Sec. 20: Benefit account requirements and weekly unemployment benefit
amount and maximum amount of unemployment benefits provision language
modified.

Sec. 21: Second benefit account requirements modified.

Sec. 22: Personal identification number requirement language modified.

Sec. 23: Eligibility conditions modified.

Sec. 24: Ineligibility conditions modified.

Sec. 25: Workers' compensation and disability insurance offset provision
language modified.

Sec. 26: Social Security benefits application procedure requirements
modified.

Sec. 27: Deductible earnings provision language modified.

Sec. 28: Continued requests procedure for unemployment benefits provided.

Sec. 29: Ineligibility duration provision language modified.

Sec. 30: Application modified.

Sec. 31: Unemployment notification procedure language modified.

Sec. 32: Ineligibility determination provision language modified.

Sec. 33: Commissioner's discretion provision language modified.

Sec. 34: Evidentiary hearing by unemployment law judge requirement modified.

Sec. 35: Request for reconsideration of a judge's decision provision language modified.

Sec. 36: Unemployment law judge decision provision language modified.

Sec. 37: Unemployment law judge authority provided to administer oaths
and subpoenas provision language modified.

Sec. 38: Evidence usage and data privacy provision language modified.

Sec. 39: Maximum amount of extended unemployment benefits provision
language modified.

Sec. 40: Maximum amount of unemployment benefits provision language
modified.

Sec. 41: Weekly benefit amount determination provision language modified.

Sec. 42: Notification of applicant requirements language modified.

Sec. 43: Nonfraud overpayment provision language modified.

Sec. 44: Overpayment because of fraud provision language modified.

Sec. 45: Administration account provision language modified.

Sec. 46: State replacement requirement of wrongfully used money provision
language modified.

Sec. 47: Contingent account provision language modified.

Sec. 48: Unemployment insurance benefits telephone system language
modified.

Sec. 49: Unemployment law judges requirements provided.

Sec. 50: Revisor's instruction; "Shall" changed to "must."

Sec. 51: Repealer.

Sec. 52: Effective date.

Article 5: Labor standards and wages, and licensing and fees provision provided.

Sec. 1: Contract awards liability provision provided.

Sec. 2: Compliance orders provision language modified.

Sec. 3: Records keeping provision language modified.

Sec. 4: Law and rule position requirements language modified.

Sec. 5: Penalties modified.

Sec. 6: Prevailing wage rate definition modified.

Sec. 7: Employer definition provided.

Sec. 8: Contract requirements modified.

Sec. 9: Equipment and apparel requirements provided.

Sec. 10: Deposit of revenues provision language modified.

Sec. 11: Building permit fees and requirements provided.

Sec. 12: Unlicensed individual registration provision language modified.

Sec. 13: License and registration expiration and renewal fees provision
language modified.

Sec. 14: Bond registration fee provision language modified.

Sec. 15: Master plumber and restricted journeyman plumber license renewal
provision language modified.

Sec. 16: Master plumber and restricted journeyman plumber license renewal
fee provision language modified.

Sec. 17: Plumber's license application provision language modified.

Sec. 18: Bond registration fee for water condition contractor and installer
licenses provision language modified.

Sec. 19: Examination fees for water condition contractor and installer
licenses provision language modified.

Sec. 20: Licensing fee for manufacture home installers provision language
modified.

Sec. 21: Hours of continuing education requirement modified.

Sec. 22: Licensed manufactured home installers and residential roofers
surety bond requirement language modified.

Sec. 23: Renewal periods provision language modified.

Sec. 24: Fund fees provision language modified.

Sec. 25: Additional assessment authorization provision language modified.

Sec. 26: Examination and licensing requirements for masters of boats
language modified.

Sec. 27: Boiler, steam engine, and turbine operator license requirements
language modified.

Sec. 28: Master's license fee amounts modified.

Sec. 29: Boiler engineer license fees provision modified.

Sec. 30: Certificate of competency for inspectors provision language
modified.

Sec. 31: License or license renewal fee provision language modified.

Sec. 32: Dealer license fees provided.

Sec. 33:Limited dealer's license provision language modified.

Sec. 34: Repealer.

Article 6: Miscellaneous provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Ice Hockey designated the official state sport of Minnesota.

Sec. 2: Small business development definition modified.

Sec. 3: Limitation exemption language modified.

Sec. 4: Eligible small business designation and criteria provision language
modified.

Sec. 5: Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area Citizens Advisory Council
provision language modified.

Sec. 6: Forest Resources Research Advisory Committee provision language
modified.

Sec. 7: Petroleum tank fund expenditures provision language modified.

Sec. 8: University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and Duluth neighborhood
development organizations established.

Sec. 9: Board of Barber Examiners provisions modified to exclude
cosmetologist examiners.

Sec. 10: Board fees provision language modified.

Sec. 11: Violations provision language modified.

Sec. 12: License fee schedule modified.

Sec. 13: Enforcement provisions provided.

Sec. 14: Board of Cosmetologist Examiners established.

Sec. 15: Special event services definition provided, permit required.

Sec. 16: Apprenticeship board terms provision language modified.

Sec. 17: Advisory task force on employee misclassification required.

Sec. 18: Council meetings provision language modified.

Sec. 19: Non-health-related licensing board provision language modified.

Sec. 20: Health-related board officers and staff requirements language
modified.

Sec. 21: Definitions modified.

Sec. 22: Iron Range resources and rehabilitation technical advisory
committee requirement language modified.

Sec. 23: Committee creation and purpose provision language modified.

Sec. 24: Advisory committees provision language added.

Sec. 25: Responsibilities and authority of the Board of Barber and
Cosmetologist Examiners transferred to the Board of Barber Examiners.

Sec. 26: Revisor's instruction; Language substitutions provided.

Article 7: Iron Range resources provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board contribution requirements modified.

Sec. 2: Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board early separation
incentive program authorized.

Sec. 3: Application of other laws provided.

Sec. 4: Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board provision language
modified.

Sec. 5: Forest trust provision language modified.

Sec. 6: Private entity participation authorization provision language
modified.

Sec. 7: Project area development authority provision language modified.

Sec. 8: Spending priority requirement language modified.

Sec. 9: Sale or privatization of the Ironworld Discovery Center or Giants
Ridge Golf and Ski Resort provision language modified.

Sec. 10: Budget requirements modified.

Sec. 11: Receipts from contracts provision language modified.

Sec. 12: Project approval requirement language modified.

Sec. 13: Project approval requirement language modified.

Sec. 14: Per diem authorized for members of the committee.

Sec. 15: Taconite area environmental protection fund provision language
modified.

Sec. 16: Taconite economic development fund provision language modified.

Sec. 17: Iron Range higher education account requirement language
modified.

Sec. 18: Money use requirements for the Douglas J. Johnson economic
protection trust language modified.

Sec. 19: Mesabi Nugget, LLC project loan repayment fund transfer
authorized.

Sec. 20: Fund investment requirements modified.

Sec. 21: Fund expenditure requirements modified.

Sec. 22: Producer grants appropriation and project approval provision
language modified.

Article 8: Housing Finance Agency provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Payment to the Minnesota manufactured home relocation trust fund
provided.

Sec. 2: Payment to the manufactured home owner relocation trust fund language modified.

Sec. 3: Relocation expenses provision language modified.

Sec.4: Minnesota Housing Finance Agency rehabilitation loans provision
modified.

Sec. 5: Rehabilitation loans provision language modified, maximum loan amount increased.

Sec. 6: City definition modified.

Sec. 7: City matching money definition modified.

Sec. 8: Housing activities provision language modified.

Sec. 9: Lost unit definition modified.

Sec. 10: Targeted community definition modified.

Sec. 11: Targeted community money definition modified.

Sec. 12: Targeted community revitalization and financing program definition
modified.

Sec. 13: Designation of targeted communities and eligibility criteria language
modified.

Sec. 14: City requirements for requesting state financial assistance language
modified.

Sec. 15: Targeted community participation process in preparing revitalization program language modified.

Sec. 16: City approval requirement language modified.

Sec. 17: Payment requirement for revitalization program within 30 days of
approval language modified.

Sec. 18: Targeted community revitalization revolving fund established in the
state treasury.

Sec. 19: City powers and uses of targeted community money language modified.

Sec. 20: Annual report requirement language modified.

Sec. 21: Postponement of foreclosed home sale provision language modified.

Sec. 22: Construction mitigation grant program established.

Sec. 23: Repealer.

Article 9: Minnesota Heritage provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Fund distribution provision language modified.

Sec. 2: Contribution amount exclusions provision language modified.

Sec. 3: Grant receiving stations report requirement modified.

Sec. 4: Grant application eligibility provision language modified.

Sec. 5: State community service block grants eligibility provision language
modified.

Sec. 6: Grant receiving stations audit requirement modified.

Sec. 7: Fund repayment requirement language modified.

Sec. 8: Revisor's instruction; "Commission" changed to "center."

Sec. 9: Repealer.

ERS, 5/12/09