2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for protection services, agricultural marketing and development, bioenergy and value-added agriculture, administration and financial assistance; appropriating money to the board of animal health,and the agricultural utilization research institute

ARTICLE 2 - AGRICULTURE STATUTORY CHANGES

Providing pilot urban agriculture development grants; modifying pest and phytosanitary certificate provisions; defining certain terms; "Industrial Hemp Development Act"; defining terms, allowing an industrial hemp pilot program, authorizing possession as an agricultural crop, providing for licensing, reporting, rulemaking, fees, and an affirmative defense for marijuana possession; modifying seed provisions; providing a food handler licensing exemption for cottage foods, requiring registration, and creating a cottage foods account; providing advanced biofuel production, renewable chemical production, and biomass thermal production incentive payments for certain facilities, requiring reporting; creating the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer grant program and creating a fund; establishing a rural finance authority (RFA) administrative account and making conforming changes; establishing the farm opportunity loan program and making conforming changes; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to coordinate a pilot program to train inmates for careers as butchers; providing balance transfers; requiring a livestock study; repealing the shared savings loan program, certain food handler licensing exclusions, and the agricultural growth, research, and innovation program sunset

ARTICLE 3 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for clean water and air, land cleanup and for environmental assistance and cross-media; appropriating money to the department of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources management, ecological and water resources, forest management, parks and trails management, fish and wildlife management, certain enforcement provisions and operations support; appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for natural resource block grants to local government, soil and water general purposes, certain cost-share programs, enforcement and oversight of the wetland conservation act, local drainage,
floodplain, and water management purposes; appropriating money to the metropolitan council for regional parks and trails operation and maintenance purposes; appropriating money to Conservation Corps Minnesota, the zoological board, and the science museum; providing for certain transfers

ARTICLE 4 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES STATUTORY CHANGES

Specifying data treatment of priority chemical trade secret information; creating the natural resources conservation easement stewardship account; clarifying snowmobile nontrail use registration requirements and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) definitions; requiring aquatic invasive species affirmation for watercraft and fishing licenses and providing a penalty for failure; designating the Mississippi Blufflands trail in Goodhue and Wabasha counties; increasing state park permit fees; adding Shell Rock to water trails marked; adding skeet and archery to shooting sports facility grants; increasing the timber auction bid increase excess; reducing the timber permit extension interest rate; extinguishing the school trust interest in school trust lands where long-term economic return is prohibited by designation or policy while producing economic benefits for Minnesota public schools; modifying rule application for mine waste disposal; allowing senior citizen residents over a certain age to take deer of either sex; requiring nonresident fishing licenses to include an aquatic invasive species affirmation; modifying BWSR wetland requirements and procedure; modifying county waste reduction and recycling funding; regulating chemicals of high concern in children's products and requiring manufacturer reporting, prescribing fees and enforcement, requiring education and outreach; requiring a wetland conservation report; authorizing youth bear license youth refunds; clarifying wild rice water quality and Red River of the North water quality standards applications; requiring BWSR to develop a working lands watershed restoration implementation plan; requiring the PCA to issue a request for a cost analysis of water quality standards; repealing the forests for the future conservation easement account, the aquatic invasive species trailer decal, and certain prior enacted laws; requiring an independent peer review and a cost analysis of water quality standards; providing for the sale of surplus school trust lands

ARTICLE 5 - JOBS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND HOUSING 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, services for the blind, and broadband development; appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the challenge program, the housing trust fund, rental assistance for mentally ill, family homeless prevention, the home ownership assistance and the affordable rental investment funds, housing rehabilitation, homeownership education, counseling, and training, capacity building grants, and explore Minnesota Tourism; appropriating money to the department of labor and industry for workers compensation, labor standards and apprenticeship, and workplace safety; appropriating money to the bureau of mediation services and the workers' compensation court of appeals; appropriating money to the department of commerce for the petroleum tank release compensation board; appropriating money to the public utilities commission (PUC); requiring the commissioner of DEED to grant certain unspent amounts from the Minnesota minerals 21st century fund for legal fees

ARTICLE 6 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Prohibiting mandatory fire sprinkler installation; changing department of labor and industry license, renewal, and reinstatement fees; requiring the commissioner to regularly review new model building codes and requiring public copies, requiring electronic publication; modifying boiler inspections; modifying combative sports provisions

ARTICLE 7 - DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Establishing and providing for a workforce housing grants program; appropriating money in the greater Minnesota business expansion administration account to the commissioner; providing for rural career counseling coordinators; requiring the Minnesota film and TV board to develop certain grant agreements; modifying unemployment insurance; exempting employees from court subpoena for vocational rehabilitation matters; authorizing the Olmsted county board to serve as the county housing and redevelopment authority and requiring provision for necessary
additional members for federal compliance; requiring reporting on a statewide insurance program providing paid family and medical leave; providing special unemployment benefit assistance; requiring day training and habilitation grant program development; establishing a "getting to work" grant program

ARTICLE 8 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Modifying the guaranteed energy-savings program funding and creating a platform account; modifying supervisory colleges; creating a MNvest issuer registration exemption for securities; modifying petroleum tank release cleanup reimbursement, the innovation energy project stating and permitting, and collection agency definitions; extending an assigned risk transfer appropriation; providing for a public utility solar project and a propane prepurchase program operation study; establishing a task force on no-fault auto insurance issues; providing for rate options and terms under a competitive rate schedule for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) electric utility customers;

ARTICLE 9 - IRON RANGE RESOURCES

Clarifying definitions; modifying minerals tax use and iron range and resources board (IRRB) commissioner authority; changing the taconite area environmental protection fund to taconite area economic development fund; changing the taconite economic development fund to the mining reinvestment fund; specifying amount to be used for the Mesabi Range College iron range engineering program; modifying money use and funds expenditures; repealing the Douglas J. Johnson economic protection trust fund act long-range plan

ARTICLE 10 - BUREAU OF MEDIATION SERVICES

Modifying personnel data access by labor organizations; classifying public employment relations board data; requiring labor-management stakeholder coordination by the commissioner of mediation services; exempting the public employment relations board from open meeting law
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