HF1781

FIRST COMMITTEE ENGROSSMENT

Omnibus state government bill.

Article 1: State government appropriations provided.

Sec. 1: State government appropriations provided from the general fund for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.

Sec. 2: Legislature appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Senate appropriation provided.
Subd 3: House of Representatives appropriation provided.
Subd 4: Legislative Coordinating Commission appropriation provided, funding allocated for the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, the Legislative Reference Library, the Office of the Legislative Auditor, and the legislators' forum.

Sec. 3: Office of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor appropriation provided.

Sec. 4: State auditor appropriation provided, funding allocated for additional audit activities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Sec. 5: Attorney General appropriation provided.

Sec. 6: Secretary of State appropriation provided.

Sec. 7: Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board appropriation provided.

Sec. 8: Investment Board appropriation provided.

Sec. 9: Office of Enterprise Technology appropriation provided.

Sec. 10: Administrative Hearings appropriation provided.

Sec. 11: Administration appropriation provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Government and Citizen Services appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Administrative Management Support appropriation provided, funding allocated for the Office of Grant Management.

Sec. 12: Capitol Area and Architectural and Planning Board appropriation provided.

Sec. 13: Finance appropriation provided, funding allocated for oversight of federal funds received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Sec. 14: Revenue appropriation provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Tax System management appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Debt Collection Management appropriation provided.

Sec 15: Gambling Control appropriation provided.

Sec. 16: Racing Commission appropriation provided.

Sec. 17: State Lottery appropriation provided.

Sec. 18: Tort claims appropriation provided.

Sec. 19: Minnesota State Retirement System appropriation provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Legislators appropriation provided.
Subd 3: Constitutional Officers appropriation provided.

Sec. 20: Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund appropriation provided.

Sec. 21: Teachers Retirement Association appropriation provided.

Sec. 22: St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund appropriation provided.

Sec. 23: Duluth Teachers Retirement Fund appropriation provided.

Sec. 24: General contingent accounts appropriations provided.

Sec. 25: Problem gambling appropriation provided from the lottery prize fund to the Gambling Control Board.

Sec. 26: Managerial position reductions required, includes deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners and unclassified positions.

Article 2: State Government operations provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Senate and House of Representative's finance committee divisions referred to as the Enterprise Services and Government Efficiency Finance Divisions.

Sec. 2: Review of financial management and internal controls required.

Sec. 3: Financial audits provision language stricken.

Sec. 4: Legislative Audit Commission report required in case of misuse of public money or other resources, language added.

Sec. 5: Governor's office budget provision provided.

Sec. 6: State demographer language added.

Sec. 7: International student exchange visitor placement organization registration application language modified.

Sec. 8: State government telephone use and approval procedures language added.

Sec. 9: Naming of laws provision provided.

Sec. 10: Web site and publications purpose language modified.

Sec. 11: State agency contact information display required.

Sec. 12: Campaign finance appropriation language modified.

Sec. 13: State Board of Investment report on postretirement investment fund, investment performance, and adjustment calculation language added.

Sec. 14: Department of Administration Data language modified to become the Department of Finance Data.

Sec. 15: Parking spaces reserved for the public on Aurora Avenue in front of the Capitol building.

Sec. 16: Definitions provided.

Sec. 17: Liability for certain acts provided.

Sec. 18: Exclusions provided.

Sec. 19: Attorney General responsibilities provided.

Sec. 20: Private remedies authorized, court complaint 60 day seal required, and copy of complaint and written disclosure of evidence required to be sent to the Attorney General.

Sec. 21: Attorney general intervention action required within 60 days, motion to extend time authorized, unsealing of complaint required after attorney general's intervention decision.

Sec. 22: Service of unsealed complaint required and defendant response required within 20 days.

Sec. 23: Attorney general and private party roles provided.

Sec. 24: Stay of discovery and extension authorized.

Sec. 25: Court-imposed limitations upon participation of private plaintiff in action authorized.

Sec. 26: Action limitations and remedies provided.

Sec. 27: Expenses award and attorney fees coverage provided.

Sec. 28: Recovery distribution procedure to private plaintiffs in certain actions provided.

Sec. 29: Employer restrictions on information disclosure prohibited, liability provided.

Sec. 30: Naming of the commissioner and Department of Finance provision provided.

Sec. 31: Commissioner of Finance duties language modified.

Sec. 32: Additional duties provided.

Sec. 33: Web site maintenance with searchable database on state expenditures required.

Sec. 34: Internal controls and internal auditing system establishment required.

Sec. 35: Financial Controls Council establishment and duties provided.

Sec. 36: Information technology budget proposals requesting at least 100,000 required appropriation to the Office of Enterprise Technology.

Sec. 37: Agency rates language added.

Sec. 38: Payroll direct deposit and deductions provision language modified.

Sec. 39: Misappropriation of money language modified.

Sec. 40: Best practices policy required for investigations.

Sec. 41: Report on budget reserve percentage required.

Sec. 42: Technology development lease-purchase financing provision provided.

Sec. 43: Technology lease-purchase appropriation provided.

Sec. 44: Letter-sized paper required for documents.

Sec. 45: Employee fitness and wellness facilities authorized.

Sec. 46: Rulemaking by the commissioner of public safety required.

Sec. 47: Enterprise real property technology system and services account established.

Sec. 48: Attempted reductions of dangers posed to migrating birds required by state-owned or leased buildings.

Sec. 49: Sale of naming rights authorized.

Sec. 50: Sale of advertising authorized.

Sec. 51: Motor vehicle use provision language modified.

Sec. 52: Economic, social, and environmental performance measures system establishment required.

Sec. 53: The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office, responsibilities, authority, and duties established.

Sec. 54: Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses preference
established.

Sec. 55: Small business eligibility provision language added.

Sec. 56: Small business certification provision language modified.

Sec. 57: Statewide electronic licensing system and account established.

Sec. 58: Domestic partner definition provided.

Sec. 59: Donation to sick leave account language modified.

Sec. 60: Employee state paid insurance and benefits provision language added.

Sec. 61: Voluntary unpaid leave of absence provision language modified.

Sec. 62: Management analysis revolving fund established in the state treasury.

Sec. 63: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area provision language stricken.

Sec. 64: Open space inclusion in designated critical areas considered by the Metropolitan Council in consultation with the Environmental Quality Board.

Sec. 65: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system residential housing list language modified.

Sec. 66: Small business contracts language added.

Sec. 67: Voter registration procedure prior to election day language added.

Sec. 68: Election day registration language modified.

Sec. 70: Secretary of State's Web site capability to confirm voter registration required.

Sec. 71: Costs of unfair campaign practices provision language modified.

Sec. 72: Technology lease-purchase appropriation provided.

Sec. 73: Cooperative purchasing authorized.

Sec. 74: Preference awarded to small businesses provision language added.

Sec. 75: Sale of state land provision language modified.

Sec. 76: Optical scan equipment appropriation availability from the America Vote Act account extended.

Sec. 77: Government training services provision language modified.

Sec. 78: Cash flow condition study of the general fund required.

Sec. 79: State employees' personal health records system selection criteria provided.

Sec. 80: Transfer of powers, duties or personnel associate with the Environmental Quality Board prohibited.

Sec. 81: State accounting and procurement systems provision provided.

Sec. 82: Racing license fees ratified.

Sec. 83: Technology lease-purchase authorization provided.

Sec. 84: Light Rail Transit mitigation impacts in the Capitol Area required.

Sec. 85: Enterprise real property technology system contribution procedures provided.

Sec. 86: State agency rental cost savings report required.

Sec. 87: Existing funds, assets, employees, equipment, and supplies of the Land management Information Center transferred to the Minnesota Geospatial Information Office.

Sec. 88: Office of Enterprise Technology study required.

Sec. 89: Revisor's instruction; Land Management Information Center to be substituted with Minnesota Geospatial Information Office.

Sec. 90: Revisor's instruction; Tennessen, Lessard, and Douglas J. Johnson deleted from Minnesota Statutes.

Sec. 91: Repealer.

Article 3: Secretary of State provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Definitions and language provided.

Sec. 2: E-mail address field and use authorized.

Sec. 3: Secretary of State fees language modified.

Sec. 4: Global filings provision language modified.

Sec. 5: Temporary technology surcharges language modified.

Sec. 6: Annual business renewal filings format provided.

Sec. 7: International student exchange organization complaints language modified.

Sec. 8: Lien search fees language modified.

Sec. 9: Minnesota corporate annual renewal procedure language modified.

Sec. 10: Annual renewal notice and filing provision language modified.

Sec. 11: Withdrawal application approval language modified.

Sec. 12: Cooperative annual renewal process language modified.

Sec. 13: Cooperative annual renewal process language modified.

Sec. 14: Renewal form contents provided.

Sec. 15: Annual corporate renewal notification procedure language modified.

Sec. 16: Delivery to and filing of records by secretary of state procedure language modified.

Sec. 17: Annual partnership renewal for secretary of state procedure language modified.

Sec. 18: Limited partnership reinstatement following administrative dissolution procedure language modified.

Sec. 19: Limited liability company annual renewal procedure language modified.

Sec. 20: Annual renewal notification procedure provided.

Sec. 21: Term of certificate provision language modified.

Sec. 22: Filing and indexing fees language modified.

Sec. 23: Financing statement and lien notice searches requirement language modified.

Sec. 24: Application for a commission fee language modified.

Article 4: Military Affairs provisions provided.

Sec. 1: Military appropriations provided from the general fund.

Sec. 2: Military affairs appropriations provided.
Subd 1: Total appropriation provided.
Subd 2: Maintenance of training facilities appropriation provided.
Subd 3: General support appropriation provided.
Subd 4: Enlistment incentives appropriation provided.

Sec. 3: Postdeployment health and wellness assessments program establishment for members of the National Guard required.

ERS, 4/17/09