2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for water program operations, air monitoring, land protection, environmental assistance and cross-media purposes, administrative support, and remediation purposes; appropriating money to the department of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources management, ecological and water resource purposes, forest management, parks and trails management, fish and wildlife management, and for certain enforcement and operations support purposes; appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR), the metropolitan council, the conservation corps of Minnesota, the zoological board, and the science museum of Minnesota

ARTICLE 2 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES STATUTORY CHANGES

Classifying trade secret information submitted to the pollution control (PCA) agency under product stewardship programs; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to establish policies for use and operation of other power-driven mobility devices for persons with disabilities for compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); creating a fee exemption for a utility license when the utility crossing is on an existing right-of-way of a public road; specifying county and joint county regional railroad authority fee exemption for federal conveyance of trail easements on state land; authorizing the exchange of road easements by the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) and providing certain regulations; allowing snowmobile nontrail use registration and prescribing a registration fee; extending the Matthew Lourey Trail; exempting U.S. military personnel and dependents in possession of a certain federal pass from state park permit requirements; exempting the La Salle Lake state recreation area from the state park permit requirement; modifying the state park permit fee for persons with disabilities; requiring the commissioner to issue duplicate cross-country ski trail passes; modifying forest management investment account cost certification requirements; establishing school forests; modifying certain provisions under the State Timber Act relating to timber rules, trespassing on state lands, forest improvement contracts, sale of damaged timber, reoffering unsold timber, fee schedules, permit holder debarment, appraisal standards and appraiser authority, sales requirements, intermediate auction sales, purchaser requirements, permit issuance and requirements, security deposit requirements for effective timber permits, securing timber permits with cutting blocks, timber permit development options, assignment of auction time permits, deferred payments, informal sale requirements, extension of timber permits, special use and product permits, prompt payment of refunds, purchase money when forfeited, timber sales records, consumer scaling, seizure of unlawfully cut timber, and reward for apprehension of trespassers; defining scram mining and providing for the term of a scram mining permit; authorizing nonresident professional wildlife rehabilitators with federal permits to possess and transport wildlife affected by oil spills; requiring a drill core library data access fee; establishing a wastewater laboratory certification process; establishing an architectural paint product stewardship program and plan; modifying pollution control agency (PCA), commissioner of agriculture, emergency response commission, and municipal landfill abatement reporting requirements; modifying petroleum tank fund property acquisition expenditure requirements; providing for disposition of property acquired for corrective action; modifying PCA storage tank affidavit requirements; requiring the development of model standards and criteria for mining, processing, and transporting silica sand and other nonmetallic minerals for use by local governmental units, specifying standards and criteria requirements; requiring the board to assemble a silica sand technical assistance team; requiring an environmental review of silica sand projects; requiring the board, in conjunction with local governments, to create and maintain an online library of local government ordinances and permits; modifying the membership, support and administration of the environmental quality board; providing for conveyance of tax forfeited land for school forest use; requiring the commissioner to annually monitor certain lands and report on use as school forests and providing for reversion declaration; permitting county auditors to sell timber off of certain tax-forfeited land under certain conditions; authorizing the Hennepin county board of commissioners to petition the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) to discontinue the Hennepin soil and water conservation district and transfer duties and authority to the Hennepin county board of commissioners; requiring BWSR petition review, providing for transfer,
grants, and reestablishment of the Hennepin soil and water conservation
district; authorizing the Minneapolis park and recreation board to recreate Hall's Island at a certain site in Hennepin county near Scherer Brothers lumber yard; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to grant necessary permits; extending boundaries and authorizing the use of funds for the North Mississippi regional park; requiring the commissioner to
cancel certain timber sale permit provisions sold before a certain date that
require security payment for or removal of balsam fir under certain
conditions; authorizing certain rulemaking relating to paddle board licenses and silica sand; permitting the extension of interim ordinances or renewal of expired ordinances prohibiting new and expanded silica sand projects; repealing certain provisions related to timber lands, tree nursery program restructuring reports requirements, acid deposit control, solid waste grant and loan programs provisions and waste tire programs provisions

ARTICLE 3 - AGRICULTURE

Relating to agriculture; appropriating money to the department of agriculture for protection services, agricultural marketing and development, bioenergy and value-added agriculture, and administration and financial assistance, to the board of animal health, and to the agricultural utilization research institute; making department of agriculture clarifying changes; updating pesticide education and training requirements and specifying new
requirements; modifying commercial animal waste technician requirements by designating a waste technician applicator license, a commercial animal waste technician site manager license, and a commercial animal waste technician company license, specifying requirements; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to use existing pesticide account resources for the new education and training requirements

ARTICLE 4 - COMMERCE AND ENERGY

Appropriating money to the department of commerce for the regulation of mortgage originators and servicers, for the petroleum tank release compensation board, for administrative services, for telecommunication services, and for enforcement, energy resources and insurance purposes; appropriating money to the public utilities commission; providing commerce department funding for the insurance fraud prevention account; requiring cost of service to be the primary consideration for the public utilities commission (PUC) in determining revenue allocation among customer classes, allowing other factors for consideration; establishing the "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive; defining certain terms; creating and allocating funds to the "Made in Minnesota" solar energy production incentive account; specifying application process for manufacturers of solar photovoltaic modules to qualify for the incentive; authorizing the department of commerce to calculate the production
incentive for each qualified module; specifying certain eligibility and process
for certain payments to owners of solar photovoltaic modules; establishing and providing for the office of broadband development in the executive branch to improve broadband within the state; requiring the office to
coordinate broadband infrastructure development in collaboration with
appropriate state agencies, local units of government, and private entities;
requiring a state broadband strategy report to the legislature by a certain
date; modifying certain appropriations and expenditures to the telecommunications access Minnesota fund relating to the legislative coordinating commission providing closed captioning of legislative activity on their website; expanding the use of petroleum inspection fee revenues by the commissioner of commerce weights and measures division to include grants to eligible providers of low-income weatherization services to install renewable energy equipment; specifying that all state funded solar photovoltaic modules be made in Minnesota; authorizing a study of costs and benefits of installing utility managed energy storage modules in residential and commercial buildings; authorizing a study regarding the costs and benefits of expanding the installation of solar thermal projects

ARTICLE 5 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, workforce development, general support services, the Minnesota trade office, vocational rehabilitation purposes and services for the blind; appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the challenge program, the housing trust fund, rental assistance for the mentally ill, family homeless prevention, home ownership trust fund, affordable rental investment fund, housing rehabilitation, homeownership education, counseling and training, capacity-building grants, and rental rehabilitation; appropriating money to the department of labor and industry for workers compensation, the labor standards and apprenticeship program, workplace safety and general support; appropriating money to explore Minnesota tourism, the bureau
of mediation services, and the workers compensation court of appeals

ARTICLE 6 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Prohibiting the state building code or state fire code from requiring fire sprinklers be installed in single family dwellings as a condition for receiving public funding; regulating elevator industry workers; defining terms; requiring persons performing or supervising elevator work to be licensed or be registered; exempting elevator workers from electrical worker licensing requirements; repealing elevator constructor, contractor, and master elevator constructor provisions; modifying certain provisions relating to the permits, licensure and inspection of elevators; inspection fees for utility interconnected generation installations, plumbing permits and fees and certain fee schedules associated with combative sports; repealing rule relating to elevator inspection fees

ARTICLE 7 - EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Requiring the publication of labor market information by the department of employment and economic development (DEED); requiring the use and dissemination of labor market information by the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) modifying certain provisions relating to the Minnesota investment fund; establishing the Minnesota job creation fund, defining certain terms, specifying application, business designation and certification requirements, establishing capital investment rebate and job creation award eligibility; authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development to establish a certain number of Minnesota trade offices in foreign markets, state trade and export promotion (STEP) grants and the invest Minnesota marketing initiative; utilizing workforce centers in
assisting individuals seeking credentials for high-demand jobs; modifying certain film production jobs program requirements; transferring program administrative oversight and control from the commissioner of administration to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) and modifying reporting requirements; modifying reimbursements and expanding production costs for films; redefining certain terms; modifying the community support and day treatment services program by requiring the program to find and maintain competitive employment and encouraging counties to fund evidence-based practices; modifying department of employment and economic development (DEED)
employment support services for persons with mental illness requirements; providing for an unemployment insurance employer tax reduction under certain circumstances; establishing a pilot program combining career and higher education advising in the workforce service areas of Hennepin/Carver, Northeast Minnesota, Stearns/Benton and rural Minnesota CEP

ARTICLE 8 - MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS

Requiring public entities to purchase paper which has been made on a paper machine located in Minnesota; authorizing the commissioner of mediation services to make grants to private nonprofit entities to assist in dispute resolution; specifying certain grant eligibility requirements; modifying certain contracting options of the commissioner of iron range resources and rehabilitation board; modifying the allocation from the proceeds of the taconite; modifying contracts for deed filing requirements; specifying notice requirements for contracts for deed involving residential property; providing for a right to cancel purchase agreements; providing for remedies for failure to deliver notices in a timely manner; clarifying certain remedies and distribution amounts; St. Paul Rivercentre arena city of St. Paul repayment reduction authorization; repealing the Minnesota science and technology authority, the Minnesota science and technology program and a provision related to criminal penalties for failure to record a contract for deed when required

ARTICLE 9 - SANITARY DISTRICTS

Authorizing the restructuring of sanitary districts; establishing the creation of sanitary districts as special taxing districts; defining certain terms; specifying applicability to current sanitary districts; establishing certain procedures and authority of the sanitary districts; providing for the filing of maps in sanitary district proceedings; authorizing sanitary district annexation, detachment and dissolution under certain circumstances, specifying proceedings for sanitary district annexation, detachment and dissolution authorizing the utilization of a joint petition under certain circumstances, requiring the administrative law judge to publish notice of intent for sanitary district annexation, detachment or dissolution and designate a hearing time and place, requiring the administrative law judge to consider relevant factors when arriving at an decision, specifying role of administrative law judge in denying and authorizing an annexation, detachment or dissolution establishing certain filing requirements; requiring a joint public informational meeting of local government creation, annexation, detachment or dissolution; authorizing the pollution control agency to annex a sanitary district under certain circumstances; specifying petitioner is responsible for certain expenses; establishing certain time limits for orders and specifying appeals process and the utilization of uniform procedures; establishing a sanitary district board of managers, specifying board composition, terms, election of board, specifying the
designation of a central governing body under certain circumstances, permitting nominations for board members to be made by petitions, specifying the procedure when electing a single government body and multiple governing bodies, specifying the filling of vacancies, prescribing the certification of the election and temporary chair designation; establishing sanitation board organization and procedures; specifying the district status as a public corporation and a governmental subdivision and the district powers, authorizing certain specific powers such as pollution prevention, sewage disposal, garbage and refuse disposal, water supply procurement, and road repair; specifying provisions relating to district facilities and projects with one or more governmental subdivisions; establishing district control and regulation of sanitary facilities; authorizing the district to develop programs, surveys, studies and investigations; authorizing district to have general and statutory powers awarded to cities; establishing powers of the district board; authorizing the district board to levy taxes, assessments and service charges; authorizing the district board to have borrowing and bond issuance powers; requiring the deposit
of all tax levies, assessments and other charges into the district treasury;
authorizing ordinances authorized by the district to supersede other ordinances of a related governmental unit, prohibiting the duplication of facilities with any other governmental subdivision or public agency except upon approval by the district board; specifying the creation of the sanitary districts do not supersede the authority of the pollution control agency (PCA) or the department of health; specifying certain powers of the administrative law judge in relation to the sanitary districts; repealing obsolete provisions relating to sanitary districts
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