Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF0888

4E Relating to the operation of state government

ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the legislature and the legislative
coordinating commission (LCC), constitutional officers, campaign finance and
public disclosure board, investment board, office of administrative hearings,
office of MN.IT services, department of administration, capitol area
architectural and planning board (CAAPB), Minnesota management and budget (MMB),
department of revenue, gambling control board, racing commission, state lottery,
amateur sports commission, councils on black Minnesotans, Asian-Pacific
Minnesotans, and affairs of Chicano/Latino people, Indian affairs council,
Minnesota historical society, board of the arts, Minnesota humanities center,
board of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture,
geoscience, and interior design, board of cosmetologist examiners, board of
barber examiners, general contingent accounts, tort claims, Minnesota state
retirement system (MSRS), public employees retirement association (PERA),
teachers retirement association (TRA), St. Paul teachers retirement fund,
department of military affairs and the department of veterans affairs;
cancelling certain appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - STATE GOVERNMENT
OPERATIONS

Requiring the legislative coordinating commission (LCC) to provide
support staff
for the legislative commission on data practices; requiring the
legislative auditor to evaluate state economic development incentive programs;
specifying the selection of general incentives for review and evaluation
schedule, exclusive incentive schedule, and certain evaluation plans; modifying
state auditor county audits provisions; long distance telephone use and payment
provisions modification; revising certain ethnic councils; creating the
Minnesota council on Latino affairs, Minnesota African heritage council, and the
council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans as part of the legislative branch;
specifying membership requirements and duties of the legislative coordinating
commission (LCC); report requirement; changing the due date for a department of
management and budget (MMB) legislative budget reserve report and changing the
legislative recipients for
the report; reimbursing state agencies for the costs
of providing reasonable accommodation; requiring a report; appropriating money
to the commissioner of administration and requiring procedure development and
education; specifying certain grant management provisions not apply to certain
general obligation grants and certain capital project grants to political
subdivisions; modifying guaranteed energy-savings program lease purchase
agreements and guaranteed energy-savings agreements; modifying certain
provisions related to state procurement from small businesses and veteran-owned
small business; requiring commissioner of administration certification of
veteran-owned small businesses for program participation; allowing local
government bodies to implement programs providing veteran-owned small businesses
bidding preference; establishing and providing for the Healthy Eating, Here at
Home program to
provide incentives for low-income people to use supplemental
nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits; appropriating money to the
commissioner of human services (DHS); providing expedited and temporary health
licensing for licensed optometrist,
nutritionist, marriage and family therapy
counselor, professional counselor (LPC), a professional clinical counselor
(LPCC), alcohol and drug counselor (LADC), podiatrist, and barber for former and
current members of the military; relating to the board of cosmetologist
examiners; modifying certain provisions relating to policy, definitions, and
hiring and assignment of employees; making changes to licensing provisions;
modifying the fee schedule for fees and penalties; modifying certain continuing
education requirements; provisions relating to practitioners, salon licensing
requirements, and
postsecondary licensed cosmetology schools requirements;
specifying rulemaking
authority; changing the expiration date for the
Mississippi River Parkway Commission; clarifying certain provisions relating to
administrative hearings be paid for from appropriations to the office of
administrative hearings; relating to the secretary of state; modifying the fee
requirement for liens and notices under the Uniform Federal Lien Registration
Act; modifying certain foreign corporations certificate of authority
reinstatement requirements; modifying annual benefit report requirements under
the Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation Act; and modifying the procedure for
online and written inquiries for farm products financing statements and lien
notices; modifying accountancy examination definitions, standards, and
penalties; authorizing additional rulemaking; lawful gambling monthly regulatory
fee and distributor license fees modification; gambling equipment fees increase;
excluding eminent domain power from railroad powers over certain governmental
property interests owned by Hennepin county; clarifying a previous appropriation
to MN.IT services; modifying certain financing provisions for the legislative
parking garage; specifying capitol room numbers; requiring the commissioner of
administration evaluate and provide recommendations relating to an in-lieu of
rent payment structure for capitol space and in other buildings on the capitol
grounds; authorizing the board of cosmetologist examiners to make and adopt
certain rules; eliminating the political contribution income tax credit;
specifying certain state agency technology projects be provided by MN.IT
services; requiring the legislative auditor to report on the efficiency of the
examinations conducted by the state auditor; requiring the chief officer of
MN.IT to report to the legislature by a certain date on reduction in the number
of chief information officers ICIOs) in state agencies; providing for ethnic
councils transition provisions; specifying revisor instructions; repealing the
council on affairs of Chicano/Latino people, council on Black Minnesotans, and
the council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, the assessment and road districts
appointment in unorganized territories and the definition of licensed practice
relating to cosmetology

ARTICLE 3 - MILITARY AND VETERANS
AFFAIRS

Specifying additional uses for the Support Our Troops Fund, requiring
a report; modifying certain provisions relating to death gratuity payments for
families of military forces members; providing for a military reclassification
bonus program for eligible members of the Minnesota national guard; making
technical changes to the veterans trust; allowing appointed trustees to remove
trustees of the trust at any time and without cause; designating the Honor and
Remember Flag as an official symbol of the state's commitment to military
service members who have lost their lives in service to our country; describing
the design of the flag; encouraging display of the flag on certain holidays and
days in certain public locations; establishing the flag as an exception to the
gift ban repealing the board of governors of Big Island veterans camp and powers
and duties; modifying cost of care calculations for veterans homes; providing
for annual personal needs allowance adjustments

ARTICLE 4 - PARI-MUTUEL
HORSE RACING

Modifying horse racing regulations and making certain policy and
technical changes; defining certain terms; modifying and clarifying powers and
duties of the Minnesota racing commission; modifying certain provisions relating
to occupation licenses, license fees, pari-mutuel betting purses and
simulcasting, card club revenue, payments to state, stewards powers and duties,
fines, and rulemaking authority; expanding certain licensing process exceptions;
specifying revisor's instructions; repealing the definitions of average daily
handle and full racing card
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