Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: HF0218

hf218 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus state government finance appropriations bill.
ARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: State government appropriations summary
provided. Sec. 2: Legislature appropriations summarized by fund; legislative
coordinating commission actions detailed. House public information office and
senate publications office combined, house television services and senate media
services offices combined. Sec. 3: Governor and Lieutenant Governor money
appropriated. Sec. 4: State Auditor money appropriated. Sec. 5: State treasurer
money appropriated. Sec. 6: Attorney General money appropriated. Sec. 7:
Secretary of State money appropriated. Sec. 8: Campaign finance and public
disclosure board money appropriated. Sec. 9: Investment board money
appropriated. Sec. 10: Administrative hearings money appropriated. Sec. 11:
Office of strategic and long-range planning money appropriated. Sec. 12:
Administration money appropriated. Sec. 13: Employee relations money
appropriated. Sec. 14: Capitol Area architectural and planning board money
appropriated. Sec. 15: Finance money appropriated. Sec. 16: Revenue money
appropriated. Sec. 17: Military affairs money appropriated. Sec. 18: Veterans
affairs money appropriated. Sec. 19: Veterans of foreign wars money
appropriated. Sec. 20: Military order of the purple heart money appropriated.
Sec. 21: Disabled American Veterans money appropriated. Sec. 22: Gambling
control money appropriated. Sec. 23: Racing commission money appropriated. Sec.
24: State Lottery money appropriated. Sec. 25: Amateur sports commission money
appropriated. Sec. 26: Board of the arts money appropriated. Sec. 27: Minnesota
Humanities commission money appropriated. Sec. 28: General contingent accounts
money appropriated. Sec. 29: Tort claims money appropriated. Sec. 30: Minnesota
State retirement system money appropriated. Sec. 31: Minneapolis employees
retirement fund money appropriated. Sec. 32: Police and fire amortization aid
money appropriated. Sec. 33: Compensation council information provided.ARTICLE 2
STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONSSection 1: Definition of legislative day modified.
Sec. 2: Budget request deadlines clarified. Sec. 3-4: Reference to subdivision
six added. Sec. 5: Federal money expenditure allotment for governor's budget
increased. Sec. 6: Reference to subdivision two added. Sec. 7: References to
subdivisions 3a and 3b added. Sec. 8: Approval procedures for federal money
requests in non-urgent cases provided. Sec. 9: Legislative public information
office established. Sec. 10: Television production of legislative proceedings
office established. Sec. 11: House and senate meeting time regulations
established. Sec. 12: Joint standing committees system established and duties
provided. Sec. 13: Statutory references added. Sec. 14: Legislative auditor
evaluation topics selection procedures provided. Sec. 15: Data access
regulations and auditor review provided. Sec. 16: Cost estimate assumptions
included in fiscal note. Sec. 17: Legislative commission on metropolitan
government established. Sec. 18: Land management information center purpose
clarified. Sec. 19: "Sustainable development" definition modified. Sec. 20:
Strategic and long-range planning office planning guide purpose modified. Sec.
21: Language updated relating to planning guide and guide required to be made
available on the Internet. Sec. 22: "Model ordinance" replaced with "planning
guide." Sec. 23: Sustainable land use planning goals modified and purpose
clarified. Sec. 24: Technical assistance language updated. Sec. 25: Office of
strategic-planning plan review established and purpose provided. Sec. 26:
"Planning assistance" defined and provided. Sec. 27: Secretary of state
revolving fund established. Sec. 28: State auditor revolving fund established.
Sec. 29: References to state auditor revolving fund included in county
examination procedures. Sec. 30: References to state auditor revolving fund
included in billing procedures. Sec. 31: References to state auditor revolving
fund made in description of general fund. Sec. 32: Clarification of gift
acceptance procedures provided. Sec. 33: Definition of lobbyist modified. Sec.
34: State board contract disclosure procedures provided. Sec. 35: Mississippi
River parkway commission removed from list of later expiration. Sec. 36:
"Capitol area" land border definitions modified. Sec. 37: Board's computer
connections to state computer networks provided. Sec. 38: Salary limit
references to subdivision five added. Sec. 39: Salary recommendation appointing
authority procedures established. Sec. 40: Technology budget book publication
required. Sec. 41: Change item performance measures publication required. Sec.
42: Building maintenance budget restrictions modified. Sec. 43: Statewide
systems account and billing procedures provided. Sec. 44: State official
litigation restrictions established. "Litigation," "state official," and "money
recovered" defined. Sec. 45: Deficit remedies modified and created. Sec. 46:
Statutory reference changed. Sec. 47: Capitol parking restrictions provided.
Sec. 48: "Municipality" definition modified. Sec. 49: "Designate" defined. Sec.
50: "Administrative authority" defined. Sec. 51: Building code requirements
modified. Sec. 52: Building officials designation procedures and qualifications
provided. Sec. 53: References to special revenue fund replaced with general
fund. Sec. 54: Construction codes advisory council expiration date modified.
Sec. 55: Appointment by governor of director of office of citizenship and
volunteer services required. Sec. 56: Language updated. Sec. 57: Barter
arrangements prohibited. Sec. 58: Cost-benefit analysis required. Sec. 59:
Life-cycle costing principle usage required. Sec. 60: Technology appropriation
review and approval provided. Sec. 61: Web page format provided. Sec. 62:
Salaries of a government unit receiving state funds required to be posted on its
Web site. Sec. 63: Technology enterprise fund established. Sec. 64: Total
compensation reporting requirements provided. Sec. 65: Combined charities
campaign administration regulations established. Sec. 66: Salary determination
criteria modified. Sec. 67: Co-payment system required. Sec. 68: "Employee"
defined. Sec. 69: Conflict of interest determination procedures modified. Sec.
70: Conflict of interest resolution procedures clarified. Sec. 71: "Board" and
"corporation" defined. Sec. 72: Northern Technology Initiative, Inc. made a
public corporation, purpose provided, board of directors established, and
business procedures given. Sec. 73: Corporate personnel appointment procedures
provided. Sec. 74: Corporation powers and duties established. Sec. 75:
Corporation subjected to auditing requirements. Sec. 76: Corporation dissolution
procedures provided. Sec. 77: Chancellor duties clarified. Sec. 78: Contracting
procedures between the board and the chancellor, vice-chancellor, or president
modified. Sec. 79: Archeological services fee authorized. Sec. 80: State
archeologist's duties clarified. Sec. 81: Language relating to commission
expiration modified. Sec. 82: "Must" replaces "may" in reference to the lowest
responsible bidder. Sec. 83: Language relating to conflict mediation updated.
Sec. 84: Militia composition requirements modified. Sec. 85: Adjutant general
appointment procedure and qualifications clarified. Sec. 86: Property
reconveyance procedures for unused sites provided. Sec. 87: Adjutant general
authorized to make payments whether or not bonds are issued. Sec. 88: Armory
building funds conveyance conditions clarified. Sec. 89: Benefits expenditure
maximum amounts increased. Sec. 90: Veteran's benefit limitations modified. Sec.
91: Soccer field development money appropriated. Sec. 92: Soccer field
development grants established and matching criteria provided. Sec. 93: Filing
fee not required for registered office change of address. Sec. 94: Fee for
reinstatement of corporate existence eliminated. Sec. 95: "Community-based"
replaced by "sustainable land-use" plan. Sec. 96: County development of planning
process with broad resident participation encouraged. Sec. 97: Notice of
county's planning process required and procedure modified. Sec. 98: Plan
coordination with neighbors and constituent municipalities encouraged. Sec. 99:
Single plan for a joint planning district and zoning authority delegation to the
joint planning board prohibited. Sec. 100: Sustainable land use plan submission
and comment required. References to community-based planning removed.. Sec. 101:
Community-based plan replaced with land use plan. Sec. 102: Emergency telephone
service fee reduced. Sec. 103: Municipal planning and development statement of
policy provided and modified. Sec. 104: Definition of "comprehensive municipal
plan" modified. Sec. 105: Definition of "land-use plan" modified. Sec. 106:
"Community-based" eliminated from the term "community-based comprehensive
municipal plan." Sec. 107: Definition of comprehensive municipal plan modifie,
and including proposed densities for development prohibited. Sec. 108:
Definition of land use plan modified, and land use plan required to include
procedures for members of the public to initiate amendments to the plan. Sec.
109: Urban growth areas statement of purpose clarified. Sec. 110: Mandamus
proceeding to require conformation of land use plans prohibited. Sec. 111:
Annual budget list of expenditures on consultants required. Sec. 112: Written
response regarding metropolitan development required. Sec. 113: Information on
the metropolitan council's tax rates required. Sec. 114: Premarital education
marriage license fee discount provided. Sec. 115: Fifteen dollars of the twenty
dollar marriage license fee retained by the county. Sec. 116: "Must" is
mandatory. Sec. 117: Settlement division of the office of administrative
hearings location regulations eliminated. Sec. 118: Rivercentre loan repayment
deposits placed in general fund. Sec. 119: Repealer. Sec. 120: Language updated.
Sec. 121: Sections 111 and 113 applied to certain counties. Sec. 122:
Intertechnologies services issue of proposal requests required. Sec. 123: Urban
rivers guidelines and sustainable development initiatives established. Sec. 124:
Initial board of Northern Technology, Inc. established. Sec. 125: Wine and beer
license issued to capitol cafeteria. Sec. 126: Use of Fuji Ya restaurant space
by Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board approved. Sec. 127: Hiawatha Avenue
light rail transit cost calculation study required. Sec. 128: Pay equity study
initiated. Sec. 129: "Shall" replaced by "must" in Minnesota Statutes. Sec. 130:
State agency location determination study initiated. Sec. 131: Applications for
increasing rent costs reduction required. Sec. 132: Amendments and proposals
relating to Minnesota state colleges and universities, heads of state agencies,
and engineers ratified. Sec. 133: Revisor instructions. Sec. 134: Transfer of
control of the office of citizenship and volunteer services authorized. Sec.
135: Repealer. Sec. 136: Effective date.ARTICLE 3 ELECTIONSSection 1:
Supervisors required to be a resident of the district to be elected. Sec. 2:
Ballot question petition requirements provided. Sec. 3: Incremental penalties
for voting fraud provided. Sec. 4: Maintenance of a statewide voter registration
system required and rules modified. Sec. 5: Voter registration identification
requirements modified. Sec. 6: Required information for voter registration card
provided. Sec. 7: Registration containing last 4 digits of voter's social
security number not to be deemed deficient. Sec. 8: Usage of existing stocks of
registration cards allowed. Sec. 9: Rules providing for new registration cards
required. Sec. 10: Inclusion of last four digits of voter's social security
number on master list prohibited. Sec. 11: Inclusion of last four digits of
voter's social security number on polling place roster prohibited. Sec. 12:
Inclusion of last four digits of voter's social security number on public
information lists prohibited. Sec. 13: Inclusion of last four digits of voter's
social security number on felony convictions report required. Sec. 14: Local
jurisdiction election notification duties provided. Sec. 15:. Special taxing
districts included in local government meeting limitations. Sec. 16: Absentee
ballot application procedures provided Sec. 17: Mail elections exempted from
absentee balloting by permanently ill voters. Sec. 18: Unofficial ballot
distribution conditions provided. Sec. 19: Absentee ballot directions allowed to
be printed on the envelope. Sec. 20: Voter privacy study initiated. Sec. 21:
Federal uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act adopted. Sec. 22:
Absentee ballot application submission procedures modified. Sec. 23: Exemption
of form of affidavit for candidates of partisan offices made for candidates for
president or vice-president. Sec. 24-25: Presidential elector petition
regulations exempted for candidates nominated by major political parties. Sec.
26: Write-in voting procedures modified. Sec. 27-28: Head election judge duties
provided. Sec. 29: Lever voting machines eliminated from voting language. Sec.
30: "Chair of election board" replaced with "head election judge." Sec. 31:
Translation of voting instructions authorized. Sec. 32: "Chair of election
board" replaced with "head election judge." Sec. 33-34: Deadline for designating
a new polling place established. Sec. 35: Voting equipment grant fund
established. Sec. 36: Special taxing districts added to list of entities not
allowed to hold meetings on election day. Sec. 37: Documents required for
identification purposes and voter registration provided. Sec. 38: "Legislative"
replaced by "federal, state, and" in reference to recount procedures. Sec. 39:
Required recounts exception provided and procedures modified. Sec. 40: Statutory
references removed. Sec. 41: Printer instructions provided. Sec. 42: Example
ballot publication deadlines and format provided. Sec. 43: Federal white ballot
format provided. Sec. 44: Voter registration regulations applied to presidential
primaries. Sec. 45: Exception to Minnesota election law provided. Sec. 46:
Affidavit of candidacy filing deadline modified. Sec. 47: Example ballot format
and deadlines provided. Sec. 48: Election conduct regulations modified. Sec. 49:
Language clarified regarding return canvassing. Sec. 50: Language updated
regarding election law applicability. Sec. 51: Deadline for designating a new
polling place established. Sec. 52: Experimental use of electronic voting
systems authorized. Sec. 53: Voting equipment report required. Sec. 54:
Presidential elector meeting procedures modified. Sec. 55: Electors required to
meet at state capitol. Sec. 56: Contest proceedings pleading procedures
modified. Sec. 57: Language relating to committee filing regulations updated.
Sec. 58: Publishing candidate reports on the FEC web site allowed. Sec. 59:
County attorney inquiry procedures modified. Sec. 60: List of individuals
authorized to administer elections modified. Sec. 61: Vacancy procedures
provided. Sec. 62: Repealer.AE