Session Year 2011, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0002

Relating to economic development; modifying certain economic development fees,
licensing provisions, and programs; modifying certain occupational continuing
education requirements; clarifying and modifying regulation of medical gas
system and manufactured home provisions; requiring reports; appropriating money
for jobs, economic development, and housing purposes

ARTICLE 1 - JOBS,
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND HOUSING APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the
department of employment and economic
development (DEED), the housing finance
agency (HFA), the department of labor and industry (DOLI), the bureau of
meditation services, workers? compensation court of appeals, the board of
accountancy, the board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape
architecture, geosciences, and interior design, the board of cosmetologist
examiners, the board of barber examiners and the Minnesota science and
technology authority; providing for transfers

ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS

Requiring monitoring of grant recipients on a
pass-through basis by the department of employment and economic development
(DEED); creating a small business loan guarantee program; increasing combative
sports commission fees to make the commission supported by fee revenue and
removing an expiration date

ARTICLE 3 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Modifying the
independent contractor exemption certificate application fee requirement;
allowing the commissioner of the department of employment and economic
development (DEED) to file and enforce unpaid judgments; clarifying safe patient
handling program enforcement; modifying effective date of state building code
rules under the administrative act (APA), contractor recovery fund allowable
costs and allowing the commissioner of labor and industry and interested parties
to seek administrative law judge findings judicial review; modifying certain
construction codes and licensing provisions; modifying certain powers and duties
of the plumbing board; defining and regulating backflow prevention rebuilders
and testers, allowing sewer or water service installation with contractor
license, modifying surety bond, allowing pipe laying training to do certain work
and requiring registration, charging a biennial bonding filing fee, modifying
regulated industry definition, modifying certain occupational continuing
education requirements; clarifying and modifying regulation of medical gas
system and manufactured home provisions; modifying
alternative design plans and
reinstallation requirements for manufactured homes; modifying manufactured home
relocation trust fund payment provisions; revisors instruction; repealing
residential trade coordinator and licensee definitions and continuing education
accessibility

ARTICLE 4 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Providing an effective date in
relation to other appropriations
(je)