Relating to state government;

ARTICLE 1 - JOBS 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, and specifying competitive grant limitations; 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 fund, the affordable rental investment fund, housing rehabilitation, homeownership education, counseling, and training, and capacity building grants; appropriating money to explore Minnesota tourism, requiring a match; 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 to the workers' compensation court of appeals; appropriating money to the department of commerce for the petroleum tank release compensation board, telecommunications, enforcement, energy resources, insurance, and propane prepurchase; appropriating money to the public utilities commission (PUC); authorizing a fund transfer from the closed landfill investment fund

ARTICLE 2 - DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Changing broadband unserved areas criteria; establishing the workforce housing development program to award grants to eligible project areas; requiring certification of greater Minnesota businesses application fees to be deposited in the greater Minnesota business expansion administration account and appropriating funds for administrative expenses; allowing dislocated worker program funds use for direct training services; providing for jobs training grants outside the metropolitan area; requiring rural career counseling coordinators; changing workforce-related programs to include all education and training programs administered by the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) and requiring program costs reporting with certain information; requiring a net impact analysis of career pathways programs; modifying vocational rehabilitation; increasing workforce housing grants pilot program allocations; requiring DEED to report on mechanisms and associated costs for a state insurance program providing partial wage replacement for workers taking parental, family, or medical leave; requiring the commissioner to coordinate and monitor customized training programs for skilled manufacturing industries at participating Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) institutions; requiring a customized training program for skilled manufacturing industries integrating academic instruction and job-related learning in the workplace at MnSCU institutions

ARTICLE 3 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Allowing state appropriations for utility cooperatives; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to impose certain administrative penalties for insurance fraud; regulating guaranteed asset protection waivers; limiting registered insurer expense liability; prohibiting persons convicted of insurance fraud from enforcing a contract for payment of services eligible for reimbursement; providing for MNvest securities registration exemption for crowdfunding transactions; defining propane and propane related terms including propane storage facility and synthetic gas; allowing public utility positive net book value recovery under condition of operation termination; modifying facility transmission cost adjustments and multiyear rate plans; allowing the public utilities commission (PUC) to approve rate recovery for natural gas extension project revenue deficiencies; allowing cooperative electric associations and municipal utilities to charge additional fees to recover fixed costs not paid by customers; allowing compensation for customer net input into utility systems; requiring certain utility investment reporting; extending the expiration date for the assessment for department regional and national duties; requiring a legislative review of a draft plan required for the federal environmental protection agency; establishing a no-fault automobile insurance reform issues task force; providing for rate options and terms under a competitive rate schedule for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) electric utility customers

ARTICLE 4 - HOUSING

Modifying manufactured home space requirements by removing a minimum requirement; authorizing the Olmsted county board by resolution to serve as the county housing and redevelopment authority and requiring provision for necessary additional members for federal compliance

ARTICLE 5 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Modifying construction licensing, reinstatement application fees, and certificate of competency provisions; modifying the fee schedule for combative sports amateur licenses; reinstating a repealed provision regarding employment agencies

ARTICLE 6 - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Making housekeeping changes; making statutory stylistic and technical changes; making federal conformity policy; modifying eligibility conditions; modifying ineligibility duration, withdrawal of appeal, judicial review, shared work plan requirements, and money recovery; allowing unemployment law judges to administer oaths; providing special unemployment benefit assistance to workers indefinitely laid off due to adverse trade impacts; providing poultry worker extra unemployment benefits; repealing commissioner reciprocal arrangements with other states

ARTICLE 7 - STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Delaying an effective date

ARTICLE 8 - DESTINATION MEDICAL CENTER

Expanding the public infrastructure project definition to include planning; prohibiting city fund use to support Destination Medical Center development; authorizing Rochester to use local tax proceeds to pay for the local matching contribution required by the state for destination medical center and allowing reduction of the matching requirement by certain city payments and costs
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