Session Year 2007, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0001

1E Relating to disaster relief

ARTICLE 1 - SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA FLOOD
RELIEF

Providing for flood relief from the bond proceeds and other funds for
certain federally designated southeastern Minnesota flood damaged areas,
permitting certain funding transfers under certain conditions and requiring
commissioner of finance interagency agreement approval, requiring the
commissioner to report fund transfers to legislative committee chairs,
specifying repayment conditions and authorizing the commissioner to approve
other repayment methods, requiring local government state repayment;
appropriating money to the department of public safety for federal disaster
assistance for the individual assistance state match and the state and local
match, debris removal and burial grants and allowing the commissioner to require
costs documentation, to the department of transportation (DOT) for
infrastructure investment support, state trunk highways and bridges and local
road and bridge rehabilitation and replacement and requiring final plans
submission prior to grant money release and project priorities review and
determination, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for facility damage,
flood hazard mitigation grants and stream debris removal and requiring project
priorities determination, to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for
conservation easements acquisition and waiving land improvements payment
maximums, to the pollution control agency (PCA) for building rehabilitation
costs grants due to petroleum contamination, to the department of employment and
economic development (DEED) for local governmental unit grants for businesses
directly affected by flood damage and requiring locally established and
commissioner approved criteria and requirements and a report to the legislative
committee chairs, to the public facilities authority for local governmental
units publicly owned infrastructure rehabilitation and replacement grants, to
the housing development fund for the economic development and housing challenge
program and capacity building grants, to the disaster relief contingency fund
for reimbursement, to the Minnesota historical society for cleanup, repair and
replacement costs, to the department of education for independent school
district #239, Rushford-Peterson, for flood enrollment impact aid, disaster
relief facilities grant and pupil transportation aid, for independent school
district #238, Mabel-Canton, independent school district #294, Houston and
other districts for certain facilities cleanup, repair and replacement costs,
allowing the commissioner to request district information prior to grant award
and specifying an allocation priority, for independent school district #857,
Lewiston for student transportation increased costs, to the department of
revenue for county reimbursement of property tax abatements on flooded property
and to the commissioner of finance for bond sale expenses; authorizing and
providing for the sale of state bonds from the bond proceeds, trunk highway and
transportation funds, specifying a maximum amount from each fund; authorizing
certain DNR and BOWSR maximum grant award waivers; requiring contractors to hire
employees available through certain federal grants; authorizing the commissioner
of human services (DHS) to continue reimbursement to contracted parties for
residential, health and child care, social or other services to a certain
resident until a certain date; authorizing qualified counties to grant property
tax abatements of a certain percentage for flooded property, specifying special
assessments exclusion, requiring local and county assessor county board and
property owner notification and commissioner of revenue county reimbursement;
providing flood loss city replacement aid, requiring county assessor computation
of hypothetical city taxable net tax capacity for flood net tax capacity loss
determination, specifying flood loss aid and commissioner of revenue duties,
allowing an optional city expenditure and appropriating money to the
commissioner of revenue; authorizing an extension for business property taxes
due in the second half of payable 2007 property taxes, penalty exemption;
continuing the agricultural homestead classification for flood damaged
agricultural lands and buildings under certain specified conditions and located
in Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha and Winona counties;
authorizing counties and local governments petition for disaster relief waivers
of truth in taxation requirements

ARTICLE 2 - I-35W BRIDGE
COLLAPSE

Appropriating money from the general fund to the commissioner of
public safety for the state match for federal disaster assistance to political
subdivisions as a one time appropriation; appropriating money from federal
grants and aids to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for purposes
specified in the federal grant as an appropriation in addition to the 2007 DOT
appropriation; prohibiting certain incorrect information regarding the effect of
a motor vehicle claim on future insurability or premium rates for claims related
to the I-35W bridge collapse

ARTICLE 3 - OTHER STATEWIDE DISASTER
RELIEF

Appropriating money from the general fund to the commissioner of
agriculture for flood and drought recovery assistance to affected agricultural
producers, to the commissioner of revenue to be paid to the city of Crookston
for flood recovery and mitigation issues as a onetime appropriation, the city of
Browns Valley for flood assistance as a onetime appropriation, the city of Grand
Marais and Cook county for the Ham Lake fire of 2007 aid costs and requiring aid
distribution proportionate to eligible costs amounts; authorizing the waiver of
the deduction for reimbursement or payment of response costs by the board of
agriculture chemical response compensation board; specifying tax relief for
destroyed property; providing for a local option disaster abatement; providing
fro homestead and disaster credits; authorizing agencies to waive fees charged
for agency services, restricting waiver to areas affected by flooding within
counties included in a federal disaster declaration and minimum time periods,
requiring an agency suspended fees impact report to legislative committee
chairs; ; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes
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