3E Relating to jobs, economic development and housing; appropriating money

ARTICLE 1 -JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND HOUSING APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED), the housing finance agency (HFA), the commissioner of labor and industry (DOLI), the bureau of meditation services, workers compensation court of appeals, the board of accountancy, the board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, geoscience and interior design, the board of cosmetologist examiners, the board of barber examiners and the Minnesota science and technology authority; providing for transfers

ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS

Modifying certain contamination cleanup grants expenditure requirements; requiring monitoring pass-through grant recipients by the department of employment and economic development (DEED); creating a small business loan guarantee program; specifying certain deposit requirements for unemployment benefits fraud penalties; extending the date for the submittal of independent compliance audits of extended employment service providers; modifying certain allocation requirements for mineral occupation taxes; increasing combative sports commission fees to make the commission supported by fee revenue and removing an expiration date

ARTICLE 3 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Modifying the independent contractor exemption certificate application fee requirement; allowing the commissioner of the department of employment and economic development (DEED) to file and enforce unpaid judgments; clarifying safe patient handling program enforcement; modifying effective date of state building code rules under the administrative act (APA), contractor recovery fund allowable costs and allowing the commissioner of labor and industry and interested parties to seek administrative law judge findings judicial review; modifying certain construction codes and licensing provisions; modifying certain powers and duties of the plumbing board; defining and regulating backflow prevention rebuilders and testers, allowing sewer or water service installation with contractor license, modifying surety bond, allowing pipe laying training to do certain work and requiring registration, charging a biennial bonding filing fee, modifying regulated industry definition, modifying certain occupational continuing education requirements; clarifying and modifying regulation of medical gas system and manufactured home provisions; modifying alternative design plans and reinstallation requirements for manufactured homes; modifying manufactured home relocation trust fund payment provisions; revisors instruction; repealing residential trade coordinator and licensee definitions and continuing education accessibility
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