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SF 1529 Senate Long Description

"Minnesota Emergency Employment Development (MEED) Act of 2009"; establishing an emergency employment program consisting of temporary employment projects in the government and nonprofit agencies and new permanent job creation in the private sector; defining certain terms; requiring commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to develop and implement the program, specifying certain enforcement requirements, requiring report to the legislature and authorizing rulemaking; providing for allocation of funds among and within workforce service areas for eligible job applicants and employers; regulating use of appropriated funds; specifying certain powers and duties of employment administrators for each workforce service area; specifying project eligibility requirements for government, nonprofit agencies and business employers; giving fund allocation priority to certain eligible businesses meeting certain criteria; requiring employer accountability; creating the MEED account in the state treasury, specifying fund distribution and funding; prohibiting worker displacement; sunset provision; appropriating money to the commissioner
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