HF 729
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
ARTICLE 1: APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1: Jobs and economic development appropriations summarized.
Section 2: Jobs and economic development money appropriated.
Section 3: Department of Employment and Economic Development money appropriated to various funds.
Section 4: Housing Finance Agency money appropriated.
Section 5: Explore Minnesota Toruism money appropriated.
Section 6: Department of Labor and Industry money appropriated to various funds.
Section 7: Bureau of Mediation Services money appropriated.
Section 8: Board of Accountancy money appropriated.
Section 9: Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design money appropriated.
Section 10: Board of Cosmetologist Examiners money appropriated.
Section 11: Board of Barber Examiners money appropriated.
Section 12: Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals money appropriated.
Section 13: Department of Commerce money appropriated to various funds.
Section 14: Public Utilities Commission money appropriated.
Section 15: Account transfers provided for.
ARTICLE 2: LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Section 1: License exceptions modified.
Section 2: Employer compliance orders language modified.
Section 3: Architecture provisions limitation language modified to include elevator contractors.
Section 4: Applicable law provisions modified to include combative sports statutes.
Section 5: Commissioner licensing orders provisions language modified.
Section 6: Construction licensing fee due date modified.
Section 7: State Building Code policy and purpose modified.
Section8: Public building definition modified.
Section 9: State Building Code application language modified.
Section 10: "Direct supervision" defined and clarified.
Section 11: Elevator contractor defined.
Section 12: Limited elevator contractor defined.
Section 13: Limited elevator work defined.
Section 14: Elevator work defined.
Section 15: Master elevator constructor defined.
Section 16: Limited master elevator constructor defined.
Section 17: Limited journeyman elevator constructor defined.
Section 18: Journeyman elevator constructor defined.
Section 19: Registered unlicensed elevator constructor defined.
Section 20: Residential dwelling defined.
Section 21: Responsible licensed individual defined.
Section 22: Various elevator licenses provided for.
Section 23: Elevator construction permit validity clarified.
Section 24: Elevator construction department permit and inspections fees provided.
Section 25: Operating permits and fees, and periodic inspections language modified.
Section 26: Commissioner rule adoption language modified.
Section 27: Request for inspection defined and clarified.
Section 28: License, registration, and renewal fees language modified.
Section 29: Licensing exemptions language modified.
Section 30: Inspection exemptions language modified.
Section 31: Utility interconnected wind generation installation fees provided.
Section 32: Municipality agreement provisions modified.
Section 33: Plan review and audit fee language modified.
Section 34: Plumbing permit and fees modified.
Section 35: Real property owner definition modified.
Section 36: License prerequisite two year experience exemption provided.
Section 37: Commissioner of Labor and Industry definition modified.
Section 38: Combative Sports Advisory Council language modified.
Section 39: Combative Sports Commissioner duties modified.
Section 40: Combative Sports Commissioner jurisdiction modified.
Section 41: Combative Sports prelicensure requirements modified.
Section 42: Combative Sports license expiration and renewal dates modified.
Section 43: Combative Sports fee schedule modified.
Section 44: Various Minnesota statutes and rules repealed.
ARTICLE 3: EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Section 1: Cost of living study and report required.
Section 2: Labor market information data production reports required.
Section 3: Host community economic development grant program created and provided for.
Section 4: Minnesota Investment Fund administration provision language modified.
Section 5: Minnesota Investment Fund eligible expenditures modified.
Section 6: Minnesota Investment Fund disaster contingency account provision modified.
Section 7: Minnesota Investment Fund applicant requirements for assistance modified.
Section 8: Minnesota Job Creation Fund created, defined, and provided for.
Section 9: Trade Policy Advisory Group established and membership, administration, and duties provided.
Section 10: Minnesota Trade Offices required to be established in foreign markets and commissioner duties provided.
Section 11: Minnesota State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) grants program established.
Section 12: Invest Minnesota marketing initiative establishment required.
Section 13: Office of Broadband Development established, defined, and provided for.
Section 14: Coordination of broadband infrastructure development defined and provided for.
Section 15: Local workforce center services provided.
Section 16: Film production jobs program provisions modified.
Section 17: Student job placement provisions modified.
Section 18: Fiber collaboration database provided for.
Section 19: Community support services employment provision modified.
Section 20 and 21: Employment support services for persons with mental illness provisions modified.
Section 22 Dakota County Community Development Agency Minnesota Investment Fund eligibility provided for.
Section 23: Employment support and independent living services for individuals with high-functioning autism, Asperger's syndrome, nonverbal learning disorders, and pervasive development disorders pilot program created and provided for.
Section 24: Customized training pilot program for skilled manufacturing industries development and implementation provided for.
Section 25: Skilled manufacturing reports required.
Section 26: State broadband strategy report required.
Section 27: Pilot programs combining career and higher education advising operation provided for.
Section 28: Broadband goals annual report provision repealed.
ARTICLE 4: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Section 1: State dislocated worker program use of funds provisions modified.
Section 2: Converting layoffs into Minnesota businesses (CLIMB) program created and provided for.
Section 3: New employer tax rate provisions modified.
Section 4: Unemployment benefit limitations on applications and benefit accounts language modified.
Section 5: Additional unemployment benefits availability modified.
Section 6: Additional unemployment benefits eligibility conditions modified.
Section 7: Weekly unemployment benefit amount language modified.
Section 8: Maximum amount of unemployment benefits modified.
Section 9: Unemployment benefits provided to be available to dislocated workers while in entrepreneurial training.
Section 10: Shared work plan requirements modified.
Section 11: Shared work plan commissioner approval required and language modified.
Section 12: Shared work plan notice to participating employees required.
Section 13: Shared work applicant requirements modified.
Section 14: Shared work plan amount of unemployment benefits available modified.
Section 15: Cancellation or modification of shared work plan provisions modified.
Section 16: Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law severability language modified.
Section 17: Unemployment insurance federal conformity effective date provision modified.
Section 18: Unemployment insurance employer tax reduction provided.
Section 19: Commissioner of employment and economic development authorized to request federal shared work funds.
Section 20: Shared work plans effective date provided.
ARTICLE 5: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 1: Department of Administration paper purchasing provision modified.
Section 2: Board of Barbers comprehensive examination defined and clarified.
Section 3: Barbering fees modified.
Section 4: Barbering practices definition modified.
Section 5: Registered barber certificate eligibility provisions modified.
Section 6: Registered barber apprentice certificate eligibility modified.
Section 7: Instructor of barbering registration eligibility modified.
Section 8: Barber school admission requirements and course of instruction provisions modified.
Section 9: Board of Barber Examiners application and fee provisions modified.
Section 10: Barber examinations, conduct, and scope provisions modified.
Section 11: Board of Barbering application provisions modified.
Section 12: Board of Barbering examination of nonresidents provision modified.
Section 13: Board of Barbering examination of nonresident apprentices provision modified.
Section 14: Certificates of registration and temporary permit display standards modified.
Section 15: Registered barber or apprentice failure to renew provision modified.
Section 16: Various barbering registration administrative penalties imposed.
Section 17: Municipal regulation of barber shop business hours authorized.
Section18: Licensed barber or barber shop misrepresentation prohibited.
Section 19: Barber pole symbol reserved for operators with valid barber license.
Section 20: Cosmetology definition modified.
Section 21: Cosmetology school manager licensing requirement modified.
Section 22: Cosmetology instructor licensing requirement modified.
Section 23: Cosmetology fee schedule modified.
Section 24: Cosmetology school and salon license expiration provision modified.
Section 25: Cosmetology testing provision modified.
Section 26: Cosmetology licensing renewal provision modified.
Section 27: Nonresident cosmetology license provision modified.
Section 28: Cosmetology continuing education requirements modified.
Section 29: Salon licensing requirements modified.
Section 30: Cosmetology school instruction requirements modified.
Section 31: Cosmetology equipment, implements, or material use prohibitions clarified.
Section 32: Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution establishment required.
Section 33: Commissioner of mediation grants authorized and provided for.
Section 34: The office of the commissioner of Iron Range resources and rehabilitation provisions modified.
Section 35: City of Eveleth tax distribution for the support of the Hockey Hall of Fame provisions modified.
Section 36: Accountancy Board certificate issuance and renewal timing changed.
Section 37: Accountancy Board residents of other states' application provisions modified.
Section 38: Accountancy Board fees modified.
Section 39: Accountancy Board foreign-issued certificate provisions modified.
Section 40: Accountancy Board unlawful acts provisions modified.
Section 41: Municipal planning "fair market value" provision modified.
Section 42: Housing infrastructure bonds definition modified.
Section 43: Minneapolis dedication fee provisions modified.
Section 44: St. Paul dedication fee provisions modified.
Section 45: Board of Cosmetology good cause exemption provided for.
Section 46: St. Louis County special fund distribution provided for.
Section 47: St. Paul Rivercentre Arena repayment provision modified/
Section 48: Whiskey Road improvement funding provided for.
Section 49: Revisor instructions for certain terms provided.
Section 50: Certain statutes and rules repealed.
ARTICLE 6: COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION POLICY
Section 1: Insurance fraud prevention account language modified.
Section 2: Fees other than examination fees provisions modified.
Section 3: Commissioner of commerce duties modified.
Section 4: Coin dealer registration fees provided for.
Section 5: Petroleum inspection fee amount increased.
Section 6: Penalty to failure to file contract for deed provision modified.
Section 7: Contracts for deed terms defined.
Section 8: Contract for deeds involving residential property definitions provided, and notice required and provided for.
Section 9: Additional real estate remedy provisions modified.
Section 10: Department of Commerce administrative services appropriations modified.
Section 11: Solar photovoltaic modules appropriation provision modified.
Section 12: Possibility of Internet Web site link for counseling certification entities study required by commissioner of commerce.
Section 13: Contract for deed criminal penalty provision repealed.
ARTICLE 7: UTILITY REGULATION
Section 1: Transmission cost adjustment provisions modified.
Section 2: Recovery of gas utility infrastructure costs provisions modified.
Section 3: Standard compliance rate impact report provisions modified.
Section 4: Emissions-reduction rider qualifying project provisions modified.
Section 5: Emissions-reduction rider qualifying project exemptions provided.
Section 6: Emissions-reduction rider sunset date extended.
Section 7: Utility environmental project cost recovery provision modified.
Section 8: : Utility environmental project cost recovery rate of return provided for.
Section 9: Gas utility infrastructure replacement eligible cost recovery sunset date extended.
ARTICLE 8: PACE
Section 1: Cost-effective energy improvements defined.
Section 2: Qualifying real property definition modified.
Section 3: Energy improvements program for local governments requirements modified.
Section 4: Energy improvements program for local governments repayment provision modified.
Section 5: Energy improvements program for local governments repayment through bond issuance provision modified.
Section 6: Special assessment provision modified to include energy improvement financing program exception.
ARTICLE 9: DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
Section 1: Cogeneration and small power production applicability provision modified.
Section 2: Cogeneration and small power production terms defined.
Section 3: Small facility purchase provision modified.
Section 4: Net metered facility provided for.
Section 5: Cogeneration and small power production purchase provision applicability modified to include net metered facilities.
Section 6: Public utility meter aggregation required and provided for.
Section 7: Public Utility Commission allowed to limit cumulative generation.
Section 8: Individual system capacity limits defined and provided for.
Section 9: Cogeneration and small power production rules and uniform contract provisions modified.
Section 10: Alternative tariff and compensation for resource value provided for.
ARTICLE 10: SOLAR ENERGY
Section 1: Solar energy incentive program operation required and provided for.
Section 2: Community solar garden operation by public utilities defined and provided for.
Section 3: Solar energy standard created and provided for.
Section 4: Distributed energy resource provisions modified.
ARTICLE 11: MADE IN MINNESOTA
Section 1: Solar photovoltaic module manufacturing in Minnesota defined and provided for.
Section 2: "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive account established and provided for.
Section 3:"Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive qualifications provided.
Section 4: "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive determination provided for.
Section 5: "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive payment provided for.
Section 6: Solar thermal rebates program operation provided for.
ARTICLE 12: ENERGY POLICY DEVELOPMENT
Section 1: Planning strategy for sustainable energy future development required and provided for.
Section 2: Energy savings policy goal provision modified.
Section 3: Energy planning provisions modified.
Section 4: Integration and transmission study for future renewable energy study required and provided for.
Section 5: Value of on-site energy storage study required and provided for.
Section 6: Value of solar thermal projects study required and provided for.
Section 7: Renewable energy study scope development required and provided for.
Section 8: Division of Energy Resources in the Department of Commerce study and report required.
ARTICLE 13: MISCELLANEOUS
Section 1: Guaranteed energy-savings agreement provisions modified.
Section 2: Energy conservation improvement definitions modified.
Section 3: Energy conservation improvement applied research and development grant provisions modified.
Section 4: Energy conservation improvement waste heat recovery and thermal energy distribution provision added.
Section 5: Severability provided for.
Section 6: Greenhouse gas infrastructure cost recovery provision repealed.