5E Relating to stadiums

ARTICLE 1 - MINNESOTA SPORTS FACILITIES AUTHORITY

Establishing the legislative commission on Minnesota sports facilities, prescribing membership, terms and vacancies, the election of a chair, compensation, staff, meetings and procedures, and certain powers, duties and budget oversight procedures; providing for a sales and use tax exemption for stadium building materials; establishing the Minnesota sports facilities authority and prescribing responsibilities, membership, compensation, chair, bylaws, audit, employees, website, quorum, powers, and duties; including authority employees in the definition of state employees; providing a purpose and defining terms; requiring stadium construction at the stadium site in Minneapolis; specifying stadium design and construction; requiring commemorative bricks; providing for employment, stadium operations, capital improvements, operating expenses, criteria and conditions, and municipal activities; imposing certain stadium user fees; authorizing a property tax exemption for infrastructure; requiring the metropolitan sports facilities commission to pay authority operating expenses and transfer assets by a certain date; abolishing the metropolitan sports facility commission and transferring employees to the authority

ARTICLE 2 - STATE STADIUM FUNDING

Authorizing the issuance of appropriation bonds by Minnesota management and budget (MMB); specifying appropriations

ARTICLE 3 - MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER

Modifying the Minneapolis sales tax to produce sufficient revenue and specifying a tax limit and specifying commissioner of revenue tax revenues application; allowing Minneapolis excess tax revenues to first fund convention center debt; imposing additional liquor taxes and extending liquor and lodging taxes; providing an exemption from charter limitations and local sales tax requirements; severability clause

ARTICLE 4 - LAWFUL GAMBLING

Providing for special allocation of gambling tax revenues; Allowing extended hours for linked electronic device bingo games, expanding the electronic bingo device definition; defining electronic pull-tab device, electronic pull-tab game, and electronic pull-tab game system and expanding the gambling equipment definition; allowing electronic paddle wheels; prohibiting slot machines; allowing the gambling control board to adopt rules for electronic games; modifying provisions related to the disqualification, revocation, suspension, denial and censure of licenses; prohibiting distributors or distributor salesperson from also being linked bingo game providers; requiring distributor board notification of electronic pull-tab games sale and transfer methods; requiring software manufacturer submissions; specifying linked bingo game services requirements; providing linked bingo game requirements; modifying the conduct of pull-tabs; requiring licensed organization electronic format reporting; modifying linked bingo prize limits; appropriating money to the gambling control board

ARTICLE 5 - MISCELLANEOUS

Authorizing a compulsive gambling annual report; exempting sales taxes on building materials for capital projects; specifying use of local tax revenues by cities of the first class; requiring amateur use of the stadium; authorizing Bloomington to extend certain tax increment financing (TIF) district duration time limits

ARTICLE 6 - SALES AND USE TAX

Defining solicitor for nexus purposes; providing for a presumption of a solicitor for retailers with an Internet web site link, specifying a minimum gross receipts from sales for application, providing for a rebuttal, clarifying nonapplicability to income taxes

ARTICLE 7 - MINNESOTA EDUCATION, RETRAINING, AND INVESTMENT IN TALENT ACT

"Minnesota Education, Retraining, and Investment in Talent Act"; creating a special account in the state treasury; establishing the Minnesota Education, Retraining and Investment in talent scholarship
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