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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