Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3798

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state
governmentARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of
human services for the adoption assistance program, for MinnesotaCare and
medical assistance (MA) basic health care grants, for general assistance medical
care, for continuing care and community support, community services block, aging
adult service, deaf and hard of hearing and mental health grants, for the
employer subsidized insurance program, for certain services for farmers, for
compulsive gambling treatment, for developmental disabilities support grants,
for medical assistance long term care waivers and facilities and home care, for
alternative care grants, for group residential housing and for chemical
dependency entitlement and economic support grants including family and general
assistance (GA) and Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA), reducing appropriations
for medical assistance basic health care grants for the elderly and disabled,
for GAMC, for continuing care and community support grants, for medical
assistance long term care waivers and facilities, for GRH and for general
assistance; requiring the commissioner to increase reimbursements for special
transportation services and for living skills training programs for persons with
intractable epilepsy; providing for the availability of federal temporary
assistance for needy families (TANF) funds for certain family, employment and
training, child care and housing services; requiring the commissioner to use a
certain amount of money for the extended learning initiative; appropriating
money to the commissioner of health for funeral services complaints response,
for poison information centers and for sexually transmitted infections screening
and testing, to the health related licensing boards and to the board of
psychology; specifying a carryover limit and sunsetting uncodified
languageARTICLE 2 HEALTH CAREExpanding medical assistance (MA) coverage for
mental health professionals to certain additional marriage and family
therapists; requiring the commissioner of human services to establish and
administer an employer subsidized insurance program to subsidize premiums for
employer subsidized health coverage for certain low income families with
children between certain ages; modifying eligibility requirements under the
senior citizen drug program and changing the name to the prescription drug
program; increasing the income standard and the pharmacy dispensing fee for
certain independent pharmacies under medical assistance; increasing the
capitation rate for nonmetropolitan counties, reducing the rate in the
metropolitan area under the medical assistance prepayment demonstration project
and modifying the payment date; defining gross individual or gross family income
for farm self employed, expanding eligibility for single adults and exempting
individuals losing employment and employer subsidized health insurance due to
nursing facility closure from the waiting period under the MinnesotaCare
program; specifying certain commissioner prescription drug program application
form development and nursing home closure employee notice requirements;
specifying certain phrase change instructions to the revisor of statutes
relating to the prescription drug program ARTICLE 3 LONG TERM CARECreating
exceptions to the nursing home bed moratorium to license and certify a new
replacement facility in St. Louis county, a certain number of replacement beds
in a boarding care home in Minneapolis and a certain number of beds in an
existing facility in Mille Lacs county as part of a renovation project;
authorizing and providing for licensed and certified nursing facilities to place
beds on layaway status with prior notice to the commissioners of health and
human services, time limit, adjusting the medical assistance (MA) reimbursement
rate; modifying certain provisions regulating congregate housing services
projects for certain older persons, changing the projects to on site
coordination (OSC) services projects, providing for grants to public or
nonprofit agencies to provide coordinators for services in designated service
areas (DSA); providing a medical assistance payment rate adjustment for a
certain nursing facility in Redwood county under the special provisions for bed
moratorium exceptions for total replacements; providing additional medical
assistance rate increases to nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities
for persons with mental retardation (ICF MR) and certain waivered services
programs to increase the salaries of certain employees; providing case mix
payment rate increases for a certain nursing facility in Roseau county;
providing rate increases under the medical assistance contractual alternative
payment demonstration project for certain facilities in Hennepin, Goodhue,
Wright and Todd counties and in the cities of Rochester and Pine City;
clarifying the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of human
services for deaf-blind orientation and mobility services and extending the
availability of the appropriation; specifying certain recodification and cross
reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes ARTICLE 4 ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM MODIFICATIONSRequiring counties reimbursing legal nonlicensed child care
arrangements to notify parents, guardians or eligible relative caregivers of
noninspection by the commissioner of human services to ensure child care safety
standards; modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment
program; modifying county aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and
MFIP assistance recovery retention rates; providing for the distribution of
child support and maintenance received by the state as a pass through to certain
individuals and including the distributions in the definition of income for
child care programs eligibility determination purposes; eliminating a certain
restriction on the eligibility of legal noncitizens for the food assistance
program; expanding the required uses of temporary assistance for needy families
block grant money to welfare to work transportation and reimbursements for the
federal share of child support collections passed through to custodial parents;
requiring the commissioner of human services to annually treat financial
assistance expenditures made to or on behalf of certain minor children as
expenditures under a separately funded state program and report the expenditures
to the federal department of health and human services as separate state program
expenditures; providing for the claiming of the pass through of child support as
maintenance of effort (MOE) for the TANF grant; expanding the definition of
unearned income under MFIP to child support and maintenance payments and
providing an income exclusion for a certain percentage of current child support
and maintenance payments; removing anticipated child support and maintenance
from the MFIP monthly income test; eliminating the requirement for county
agencies to budget child support income received by assistance units to
determine the assistance payment amount, a certain supplementary assistance
payments restriction and a certain provision requiring county agencies to count
a certain amount of the value of public and assisted rental subsidies provided
through the federal department of housing and urban development (HUD) as
unearned income; modifying the sanction for the first occurrence of
noncompliance with program requirements; expanding eligibility for the
diversionary assistance program; specifying local service unit plan content
requirements, requiring approval before eligibility for allocation of local
intervention for family employment funds; specifying certain additional job
counselor initial assessment requirements relating to determination of good
cause exemptions and barriers to employment, requiring a secondary assessment
under certain conditions; requiring participants with low skills in reading or
math to be allowed to include basic education activities in the job search
support or employment plan; clarifying or modifying certain secondary assessment
requirements; requiring job counselor assessment of participant ability to
obtain and retain employment and specifying certain requirements for
post-secondary education or training programs approval as an approved work
activity; expanding employment and training services requirements exemptions to
caregivers of children or adults with certain disabilities or mental illness;
providing for the allocation of local intervention for family employment funds;
providing for a child only TANF program; requiring the commissioner to report to
the legislature on MFIP sanctions; requiring and providing for the commissioner
to establish an MFIP diversionary assistance pilot project in Dakota county to
encourage rapid entrance into the work force through employability and self
sufficiency improvement; repealing certain provisions providing for the
ineligibility of certain persons for certain state funded programsARTICLE 5
TECHNICAL AMENDMENTSMaking technical amendments to certain provisions in statute
and law; clarifying the date for compliance with uniform billing requirements by
certain health care providers; requiring school districts to pay the nonfederal
share of medical assistance (MA) provided for certain special education medical
services; correcting the placement of the provision sunsetting the tobacco use
prevention and local public health endowment fund, requiring commissioner of
finance transfer of remaining funds to the general fund and clarifying fund
audit and appropriation requirements; clarifying home and community based waiver
services waiting list reduction requirements; eliminating certain obsolete
provisions relating to general assistance medical care (GAMC) payment
reductions; clarifying the requirement for the use of state dollars to fund the
food portion of noncitizen Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) food
benefits; correcting certain cross references; clarifying the effective date
relating to eligibility for MinnesotaCare; repealing a obsolete home and
community based services waiver amendment requirement of the commissioner of
human services ARTICLE 6 APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the department of
trade and economic development (DTED) for Advantage Minnesota, Inc., for
catalyst grants to local government units to expand telecommunications capacity,
for grants to the community resources program, to the board of the rural policy
and development center and to Lifetrack Resources, Inc. for programs to improve
the self sufficiency of disadvantaged persons, for the job skills partnership
board for distance work grants, for separate grants to the cities of Minneapolis
and St. Paul for aging commercial corridors, for a grant to county and district
agricultural societies and associations, for rural job creation grants, for
grants to the city of Duluth for aerial lift bridge repair and restoration, to
the city of St. Paul for native landscaping along trunk highway 5, to the
Neighborhood Development Center, Inc. and to the city of Owatonna for
infrastructure improvements, for an agreement with the city of Virginia for
relocation of the Silver Lake storm sewer outlet, construction of sedimentation
ponds and renovation of the Sauntry Creek diversion structure and for tourism
loans to businesses adversely impacted by the lack of snowfall, to Minnesota
Technology, Inc. for grants to the e-business institute, to Minnesota project
innovation, to the natural resources research institute (NRRI) and to the
Minnesota council for quality, to the department of economic security for a
grant to Advocating Change Together, Inc. (ACT), for the alien certification and
summer youth employment programs, for a pilot parental leave program, for
services to people with severe impairments to employment, for enterprise zone
incentive grants and for grants to the city of Minneapolis for a high risk
populations prevention services provider located in Hennepin county and to the
Tri-County Action Programs, Inc., to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the
family homeless prevention and assistance and nursing home conversion grant
programs, to the commissioner of commerce for maintenance of the no call
information list, to the Minnesota historical society for local historic
preservation projects, to the board of architecture, engineering, land
surveying, landscape architecture and interior design and to the office of
strategic and long range planning for the legislative job training program task
force; requiring an equal match for the Judy Garland children s museum;
providing for the availability of certain prior appropriations to the
commissioner of trade and economic development for the upper Red Lake business
loan program, for the job skills partnership board pathways and health care and
human services worker training and retention programs; providing reemployment
insurance (unemployment compensation) benefits for certain school food services
workers; establishing a legislative job training program task force to study
federal and state job training programs and to make recommendation to the
legislature for consolidation and modification; requiring the commissioner of
administration to assist the commissioner of economic security and the board of
trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to develop and
report to the legislature by a certain date on a plan for the possible location
of workforce centers on college and university campuses; providing additional
reemployment insurance benefits for a certain applicant laid off due to lack of
work from the Hennepin paper company in Morrison county and for certain former
employees of the Evtac mining company in St. Louis countyARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS
STATUTORY PROVISIONSAuthorizing certain direct contracting by the job skills
partnership board; providing for the renewal of certain filings made in
connection with securities of open end investment companies and providing for
the determination and payment of filing fees; expanding eligibility for the job
skills partnership pathways program and authorizing and providing for
partnership board grants in aid for distance work projects involving technology
in rural areas; authorizing certain equity investments by the board of trustees
of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); increasing the
penalties for violations of the child labor law; extending the expiration date
of the legislative electric energy task force and the deadline for renewable
energy production incentive payments to certain qualified hydroelectric
facilities; requiring the department of economic security to promptly process
completed applications for certification for permanent alien laborers; modifying
the provision requiring the deduction of social security disability benefits
from reemployment insurance benefits; increasing the allocation of funding to
grantees under the dislocated worker program for support services; increasing
the licensing fee for architects, professional engineers, land surveyors,
landscape architects or geoscience professionals and codifying the fee schedule
for state electrical inspections; creating the nursing home facility conversion
loan program to be administered by the commissioner of the housing finance
agency (HFA); specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of
statutes and repealing a certain rule relating to electrical inspection fees
ARTICLE 8 CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROVISIONSAppropriating money to the supreme court
for civil legal services to low income clients and for a judicial seminar on
parenting plans, to the court of appeals for restoration of legal judicial
support services, to the district court for reduction of judge unit vacancies,
for restoration of judicial branch infrastructure funding, for continuation of
the second judicial district community court and for extraordinary prosecution
costs in Carlton county, to the commissioner of corrections for local adult
detention and criminal justice system facility grants, for bed expansion at the
Faribault correctional facility and for predesign of a joint headquarters
building for the departments of corrections and public safety and of a
vocational building at the St. Cloud correctional facility, to the commissioner
of public safety for organization of the capitol police department, for
recodification of the driving while impaired (DWI) laws, for the state match for
federal disaster assistance, for criminal apprehension overtime costs, for the
court security training program, for juvenile prostitution law enforcement and
officer training grants, for grants to the Ramsey county attorney for the
domestic assault and child prosecution unit and to local law enforcement
agencies for purchase of dogs trained to detect or locate controlled substances
and for matching funds to counties participating in multijurisdictional
narcotics task forces, to the center for crime victim services for per diem
payments and allocation increases to battered women shelters and for a grant to
the center for applied research and policy analysis at metropolitan state
university for the domestic violence shelter study, to the board of public
defense for certain services, to the sentencing guidelines commission for salary
increases, to the Minnesota safety council for continuation of the crosswalk
safety awareness program, to the commissioner of human services for youth
shelter and prostitution prevention grants and to the university of Minnesota to
cover the cost of updating the parent education curriculum; granting pedestrians
the right of way in crossing the roadway on walk signals and in marked or
unmarked crosswalks at intersections without traffic control signals, requiring
drivers to remain stopped until passage of the pedestrian from the vehicle lane,
authorizing local road authorities to provide by ordinance for the designation
of pedestrian safety crossings on highways; requiring the commissioner of
corrections to develop a uniform method to calculate the average department wide
per diem cost of incarcerating offenders at state correctional facilities;
allocating correctional fees collected from criminal offenders supervised by
corrections department agents to the county treasurer of the county of
supervision; encouraging courts to place juvenile offenders at the correctional
facility at Red Wing instead of in out of state facilities; requiring counties
and the department of corrections to share in the per diem cost of housing
juveniles committed to the commissioner of corrections and admitted to the Red
Wing correctional facility under established admissions criteria; requiring and
providing for commissioner juvenile residential treatment grants to counties;
specifying certain consideration requirements of the commissioner and the courts
in placing juveniles at the Red Wing facility and restricting out of state
placement; requiring the court to commit certain juveniles to the custody of the
commissioner, requiring certain reports; establishing a program of grants by the
commissioner of human services to nonprofit corporations or government agencies
to increase the availability of emergency and transitional housing for homeless,
runaway or thrown away youth at risk of being prostituted or currently being
used in prostitution and by the commissioner of public safety to local law
enforcement agencies for enhanced law enforcement efforts and peace officer
education and training to combat juvenile prostitution; establishing the capitol
police department as a law enforcement division in the department of public
safety under the supervision and control of a director to be appointed by the
commissioner of public safety to provide law enforcement services in the capitol
complex and in other state owned or leased buildings; transferring the duties of
the capitol complex security division to the capitol police department; creating
a permanent capitol complex oversight committee, specifying membership and
duties; providing for the funding of certain additional county public defender
costs; enhancing penalties for persons (pimps and patrons) soliciting or
promoting juvenile prostitution; classifying certain data collected by shelter
facilities receiving per diem payments; establishing guidelines for the
administration of battered women shelter per diem funding by the Minnesota
center for crime victim services in the department of public safety and
specifying eligibility for the program; eliminating the requirement for the
commissioner of public safety to distribute a computer controlled driving
simulator to local or state law enforcement agencies or peace officers standards
and training (POST) board certified skills programs; requiring the courts and
state and local correctional facilities to consider implementing an automated
victim notification system, requiring the commissioner of public safety in
cooperation with the commissioners of children, families and learning,
corrections and economic security to provide financial assistance to implement
the systems; requiring the superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension
(BCA) to develop and implement a training program for court and law enforcement
personnel; requiring the Minnesota safety council to continue the crosswalk
safety awareness program; requiring the center for applied research and policy
analysis at metropolitan state university in cooperation with the Minnesota
center for crime victim services and the department of public safety to study
and make recommendations to the legislature on providing shelter for victims of
domestic violence; reducing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of
corrections for certain community services; requiring the commissioner to study
the state juvenile correctional system relating to serious and chronic offenders
and report findings and proposals to the legislature by a certain date; reducing
a certain transfer from the automobile theft prevention account in the special
revenue fund to the commissioner of public safety for purchase of tire deflators
and a driving simulator, requiring the commissioner of finance by a certain date
to transfer a certain amount of money from the account to the general fund for
criminal justice information systems technology; authorizing and providing for
commissioner of corrections grants to counties and tribal governments for the
construction of local adult detention and criminal justice system facilities;
establishing a joint domestic abuse prosecution unit pilot project to be
administered by the offices of the Ramsey county attorney and the St. Paul city
attorney; repealing the automobile theft prevention board and program and the
capitol complex security division of the department of public safety ARTICLE 9
ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURE PROVISIONSAppropriating money to
the pollution control agency for administration of the wastewater infrastructure
fund, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for the settlement of certain
legal costs relating to the 1837 treaty litigation, for fish and wildlife
management, for the walleye stocking program, for natural resources laws
enforcement, for lifetime licenses administration and marketing, for grants in
certain amounts to Lake, Cook, and St. Louis counties for emergency
communications and response equipment and planning and training to respond to
major wildfires, for state park and trail operations, for a grant to the
metropolitan council for metropolitan area regional parks and trails maintenance
and operations, for trail grants to local government units and for grants to the
Minnesota zoological garden, the city of St. Paul for the Como zoo and
conservatory and the city of Duluth for the Duluth zoo, to the board of water
and soil resources (BOWSR) for professional and technical services to replace
wetlands, to the department of agriculture for the farm advocates program, for
the Minnesota grown pilot program, for establishment of agricultural water
quality and quantity management, research, demonstration and education projects
at Lamberton and Waseca, for the state meat inspection program and for grants to
organizations participating in the farm wrap and rural help networks, to the
board of animal health for pseudorabies control and to the citizens council on
Voyageurs national park; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to
use a certain percentage of a snowmobile maintenance and grooming grant to
reimburse recipients for equipment costs; cancelling a certain prior
appropriation to the commissioner of agriculture for the dairy producers board;
expanding authorized reimbursements from the agricultural chemical response and
reimbursement account for corrective action costs; establishing the Big Bog
state recreation area in Beltrami county and the Red River state recreation area
in Polk county; expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources
to lease portions of Fort Snelling state park, providing for the deposit of
receipts; requiring money appropriated from the game and fish fund to be spent
in accordance with certain federal regulations; authorizing and providing for
the commissioner to issue lifetime angling, small game, firearms deer or
sporting licenses to certain state residents and lifetime angling or small game
hunting licenses to nonresidents, fees, establishing the lifetime fish and
wildlife trust fund for crediting of the fees, providing for transfer of certain
amounts to the game and fish fund, specifying certain reporting requirements;
increasing hunting and fishing license fees; authorizing the PCA to temporarily
enter into agreements for implementation of a portion of an approved response
action plan and to provide grant funds for agreement implementation under the
environmental response and liability act (superfund); requiring the commissioner
of revenue in depositing revenue from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets
to credit a certain percentage to the game and fish fund for activities to
improve or enhance fish and wildlife resources and certain percentages to the
natural resources fund for state and local parks and trails; authorizing an
existing resource recovery facility in Hennepin county to reclaim, burn, use,
process or dispose of mixed municipal solid waste to the full extent of maximum
yearly capacity, requiring the facility to continue to comply with federal and
state environmental laws and regulations and to obtain a conditional use permit
from the municipality of location; authorizing the use of a certain prior
appropriation to the commissioner of natural resources for metro regional trails
by the city of St. Paul for certain amenities at the trailhead to the Rice Creek
west regional trail; modifying the use of a certain prior appropriation to the
board of water and soil resources for grants to soil and water conservation
districts for erosion control and water quality management cost sharing
contracts, eliminating the priority for feedlot operators; expanding eligibility
for reimbursement from the ethanol development account and modifying the deposit
requirements for principal and interest payments on rural finance authority
(RFA) ethanol development program loans; modifying the source of a certain prior
appropriation to the agricultural utilization research institute; extending
landfill cleanup program eligibility to the western Lake Superior sanitary
district under certain conditions; providing for reimbursement by the petroleum
tank release compensation board to owners or operators of petroleum storage
tanks used for agricultural purposes and for certain small gasoline retailers
for storage tank removal purposes; requiring the legislative audit commission to
consider updating a certain report on ethanol programs; extending the
availability of certain prior appropriations for the proposed trail project
between the city of Pelican Rapids and Maplewood state park and for the
Hyland-Bush-Anderson Lake Park Reserve development project ARTICLE 10
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND REDUCTIONSMaking supplemental appropriations and
appropriation reductions to certain state departments and agencies;
appropriating money to the secretary of state to construct and maintain a
uniform commercial code central filing system, to the campaign finance and
public disclosure board for certain legal costs, to the office of strategic and
long range planning for regional development commissions, to the department of
administration for the metropolitan radio board, for a government data practices
study and for facilities management and to the gambling control board for
workers compensation claims; extending the availability of a certain prior
appropriation to the commissioner of administration for the long range plan of
the office of technology; reducing appropriations to the Minneapolis employees
retirement fund; excluding elected Indian members of the Indian affairs council
from the definition of public official for ethics in government purposes;
expanding the content requirement for part two of the detailed budget submitted
by the governor to the legislature relating to internal service funds; requiring
the commissioner of finance to report to the legislature the amount and purpose
of general fund transfers to revolving funds; eliminating the payment of
interest on cash advances from the general fund; removing the authority of the
governor to control the sale of state bonds and certificates of indebtedness and
the authority of the legislature to reauthorize bond authorization or bond
proceed unencumbered balance cancellations; requiring the commissioner of
administration to report to the legislature the amount and purpose of transfers
from internal service or enterprise fund accounts to other internal service or
enterprise fund accounts and consult with the office of environmental
assistance, state agencies and other interested parties to update specifications
for recycled content and other environmentally preferable products consistent
with other state procurement requirements, to consider federal procurement
guidelines, annually issue public reports listing environmentally preferable
products and report to the legislature the rates to be charged for revolving
funds and the amount and purpose of interfund loans; changing the name of the
office of technology to the technology policy bureau and modifying the
responsibility of the office relating to the business license and permit online
system; changing the state contribution to MERF from installments to an annual
payment; transferring a certain prior appropriation for a grant to the city of
Mankato to complete the Mankato area growth management and planning study phase
2 from the department of finance to the office of strategic and long range
planning and a certain requirement for preparation of a separate budget book for
the next biennium containing the technology initiatives of the administration
from the department of employee relations (DOER) to the department of finance;
modifying the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to the department
of administration for grants for public information television, authorizing use
for contracts with the legislature for Internet, intranet and other transmission
of legislative activities; broadening the authorized use of a certain prior
appropriation to the department of veterans affairs for grants to county
veterans offices; clarifying the effect of the repeal of a certain provision
regulating departmental earnings; providing for use of the surplus under the
Minnesota workers compensation assigned risk plan, requiring and providing for
the commissioner of commerce to transfer certain amounts for the benefit of the
Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA); requiring the legislative
coordinating commission (LCC) to study and report to the legislature by a
certain date recommendations to streamline the bill introduction process;
prohibiting certain commissioner of finance state agency base adjustments;
providing for the allocation of the costs of certain boundary adjustment
matters; specifying certain term substitution instructions to the revisor of
statutes (ra, ja)