HF 2263

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to state government; updating Finance
Department provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes
2004, sections 16A.1286, subdivisions 2, 3; 16A.152,
subdivision 2; 16A.1522, subdivision 1; repealing
Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.30.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1286,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Billing procedures.

The commissioner may bill
up to $7,520,000 in each fiscal year for statewide systems
services provided to state agencies, judicial branch agencies,
the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities, and other entities. Billing must be based only on
usage of services relating to statewide systems deleted text begin provided by the
Intertechnologies Division deleted text end . Each agency shall transfer from
agency operating appropriations to the statewide systems account
the amount billed by the commissioner. Billing policies and
procedures related to statewide systems services must be
developed by the commissioner in consultation with the
commissioners of employee relations and administration, the
University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1286,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Appropriation.

Money transferred into the
account is appropriated to the commissioner to pay for statewide
systems services deleted text begin during the biennium in which it is appropriated deleted text end .

Sec. 3.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.152,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Additional revenues; priority.

(a) If on the
basis of a forecast of general fund revenues and expenditures,
the commissioner of finance determines that there will be a
positive unrestricted budgetary general fund balance at the
close of the biennium, the commissioner of finance must allocate
money to the following accounts and purposes in priority order:

(1) the cash flow account established in subdivision 1
until that account reaches $350,000,000;

(2) the budget reserve account established in subdivision
1a until that account reaches $653,000,000;

(3) the amount necessary to increase the aid payment
schedule for school district aids and credits payments in
section 127A.45 to not more than 90 percent new text begin rounded to the
nearest tenth of a percent without exceeding the amount
available and with any remaining funds deposited in the budget
reserve new text end ; and

(4) the amount necessary to restore all or a portion of the
net aid reductions under section 127A.441 and to reduce the
property tax revenue recognition shift under section 123B.75,
subdivision 5, paragraph (c), and Laws 2003, First Special
Session chapter 9, article 5, section 34, as amended by Laws
2003, First Special Session chapter 23, section 20, by the same
amount.

(b) The amounts necessary to meet the requirements of this
section are appropriated from the general fund within two weeks
after the forecast is released or, in the case of transfers
under paragraph (a), clauses (3) and (4), as necessary to meet
the appropriations schedules otherwise established in statute.

(c) To the extent that a positive unrestricted budgetary
general fund balance is projected, appropriations under this
section must be made before deleted text begin any transfer is made under deleted text end section
16A.1522 new text begin takes effect new text end .

(d) The commissioner of finance shall certify the total
dollar amount of the reductions under paragraph (a), clauses (3)
and (4), to the commissioner of education. The commissioner of
education shall increase the aid payment percentage and reduce
the property tax shift percentage by these amounts and apply
those reductions to the current fiscal year and thereafter.

Sec. 4.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.1522,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Forecast.

If, on the basis of a forecast
of general fund revenues and expenditures in November of an
even-numbered year or February of an odd-numbered year, the
commissioner projects a positive unrestricted budgetary general
fund balance at the close of the biennium that exceeds one-half
of one percent of total general fund biennial revenues, the
commissioner shall designate the entire balance as available for
rebate to the taxpayers of this state. deleted text begin In forecasting,
projecting, or designating the unrestricted budgetary general
fund balance or general fund biennial revenue under this
section, the commissioner shall not include any balance or
revenue attributable to settlement payments received after July
1, 1998, and before July 1, 2001, as defined in Section IIB of
the settlement document, filed May 18, 1998, in State v. Philip
Morris, Inc., No. C1-94-8565 (Minnesota District Court, Second
Judicial District).
deleted text end

Sec. 5. new text begin REPEALER.
new text end

new text begin Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.30, is repealed.
new text end