Minnesota Legislature
SF 2378
as introduced - 87th Legislature (2011 - 2012) Posted on 03/13/2012 11:00am
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A bill for an act
relating to human services; transferring an appropriation for Advocating Change
Together; amending Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 4, article 1, section
3, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 4, article 1, section 3, subdivision
2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2.Business and Community
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13,281,000 |
8,281,000 |
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| Appropriations by Fund |
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| General |
12,242,000 |
7,242,000 |
| Remediation |
700,000 |
700,000 |
| Workforce Development |
339,000 |
339,000 |
(a) $700,000 the first year and $700,000 the
second year are from the remediation fund for
contaminated site cleanup and development
grants under Minnesota Statutes, section
116J.554. This appropriation is available
until expended.
(b) $1,022,000 the first year and $1,022,000
the second year are from the general fund for
contaminated site cleanup and development
grants under Minnesota Statutes, section
116J.554. The base funding for this program
is $1,272,000 each year beginning in fiscal
year 2014 and thereafter.
(c) $150,000 the first year is from the general
fund for a grant to WomenVenture for
women's business development programs
and for programs that encourage and assist
women to enter nontraditional careers in the
trades; manual and technical occupations;
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics-related occupations; and green
jobs. This appropriation may be matched
dollar for dollar with any resources available
from the federal government for these
purposes with priority given to initiatives
that have a goal of increasing by at least ten
percent the number of women in occupations
where women currently comprise less than
25 percent of the workforce. This is a
onetime appropriation.
(d) $79,000 the first year is from the general
fund and $50,000 the first year is from the
workforce development fund for a grant to
the Metropolitan Economic Development
Association for continuing minority business
development programs in the metropolitan
area. This appropriation must be used for the
sole purpose of providing free or reduced
fee business consulting services to minority
entrepreneurs and contractors. This is a
onetime appropriation.
(e)(1) $356,000 the first year is a onetime
appropriation from the general fund for a
grant to BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota
for bioscience business development
programs to promote and position the state
as a global leader in bioscience business
activities. These funds may be used to create,
recruit, retain, and expand biobusiness
activity in Minnesota; implement the
destination 2025 statewide plan; update
a statewide assessment of the bioscience
industry and the competitive position of
Minnesota-based bioscience businesses
relative to other states and other nations;
and develop and implement business and
scenario-planning models to create, recruit,
retain, and expand biobusiness activity in
Minnesota.
(2) The BioBusiness Alliance must report
each year by February 15 to the committees
of the house of representatives and the senate
having jurisdiction over bioscience industry
activity in Minnesota on the use of funds;
the number of bioscience businesses and
jobs created, recruited, retained, or expanded
in the state since the last reporting period;
the competitive position of the biobusiness
industry; and utilization rates and results of
the business and scenario-planning models
and outcomes resulting from utilization of
the business and scenario-planning models.
(f) $37,000 the first year is from the general
fund for a grant to the Minnesota Inventors
Congress, of which at least $3,700 must be
used for youth inventors. This is a onetime
appropriation.
(g)(1) $100,000 the first year is from the
workforce development fund for a grant
under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.421,
to the Rural Policy and Development
Center at St. Peter, Minnesota. The grant
shall be used for research and policy
analysis on emerging economic and social
issues in rural Minnesota, to serve as a
policy resource center for rural Minnesota
communities, to encourage collaboration
across higher education institutions, to
provide interdisciplinary team approaches
to research and problem-solving in rural
communities, and to administer overall
operations of the center. This is a onetime
appropriation.
(2) The grant shall be provided upon the
condition that each state-appropriated
dollar be matched with a nonstate dollar.
Acceptable matching funds are nonstate
contributions that the center has received and
have not been used to match previous state
grants. Any funds not spent the first year are
available the second year.
(h) $189,000 the first year is from
the workforce development fund for
entrepreneur and small business development
direct professional business assistance in
Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Le Sueur,
Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan, and
Waseca Counties. These services must
include, but are not limited to, preventure
assistance for individuals considering
starting a business. Funds must be awarded
to an organization or organizations that can
demonstrate leverage of at least an equal
amount of federal funds. Any balance in the
first year does not cancel but is available in
the second year. The grant recipient must
report to the commissioner by February 1
of each year that the organization receives
a grant with the number of customers
served; the amount of direct consulting hours
delivered; the number of new businesses
started; the amount of capital accessed for
business start-up or expansion; and the
number of jobs created and retained in each
county. The commissioner must report to
the house of representatives and senate
committees with jurisdiction over economic
development finance on the effectiveness
of these programs for assisting in the
development of entrepreneurs and small
businesses. This is a onetime appropriation.
(i) deleted text begin $757,000deleted text end new text begin $622,000new text end the second year is from
the general fund and $339,000 the second
year is from the workforce development fund
for the business development competitive
grant pilot program.
(1) The commissioner shall develop and
implement a competitive grant program
for business development assistance
and services including, but not limited
to: minority business development,
women's business development, rural
business development, bioscience business
development, entrepreneur development,
and services to inventors. Of this amount,
up to five percent is for administration and
monitoring of the business development
competitive grant program.
(2) The commissioner must report to the
legislative committees having jurisdiction
over economic development issues by
January 10 each year on the following:
methodologies and processes for soliciting
and evaluating grant proposals; criteria and
methodology for selecting grant recipients;
methods and procedures for monitoring the
use of grant awards including expenditures
for administrative expenses by grant
recipients; and methods for measuring
outcomes and accomplishments of grant
recipients including but not limited to the
total number of new jobs created by each
grant recipient, average wage of new jobs
created, amount of private funds leveraged,
number of new businesses created and the
number of new jobs per business, return
on investment to the state, and ongoing
solicitation and feedback from interested
parties regarding ongoing improvement
and enhancement to the competitive grant
program. The commissioner must also report
on department expenditures related to the
administration and monitoring of grants
under this subdivision.
(j) $1,492,000 each year is from the general
fund for the Minnesota Trade Office.
(k) $3,000,000 the first year is from the
general fund for the Minnesota investment
fund under Minnesota Statutes, section
116J.8731. This is a onetime appropriation
and is available until spent.
(l) $2,000,000 the first year is from the
general fund for grants under Minnesota
Statutes, section 116J.571, for the
redevelopment program. This is a onetime
appropriation and is available until spent.
(m) $135,000 the first year new text begin and $135,000
the second year new text end is from the general fund for
a grant to Advocating Change Together for
training, technical assistance, and resource
materials for persons with developmental
and mental illness disabilities. deleted text begin This is a
onetime appropriationdeleted text end new text begin The appropriation
in the second year is for transfer to the
commissioner of human services and is
added to the Department of Human Services'
base budget beginning in fiscal year 2014 and
each year thereafter. The base budget of the
Department of Employment and Economic
Development is reduced by $135,000 each
year beginning in fiscal year 2014new text end .
(n) $250,000 each year is from the general
fund for a grant to Enterprise Minnesota, Inc.,
for the small business growth acceleration
program under Minnesota Statutes, section
116O.115. This is a onetime appropriation.