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                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                        CHAPTER 404-H.F.No. 1315 
           An act relating to the organization and operation of 
          state government; appropriating money for the general 
          legislative, judicial, and administrative expenses of 
          state government; providing for the transfer of 
          certain money in the state treasury; fixing and 
          limiting the amount of fees, penalties, and other 
          costs to be collected in certain cases; creating, 
          abolishing, modifying, and transferring agencies and 
          functions; defining and amending terms; providing for 
          settlement of claims; imposing certain duties, 
          responsibilities, authority, and limitations on 
          agencies and political subdivisions; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 2.722, subdivision 1; 
          3.30, subdivision 2; 3.303, subdivision 5; 3.85, 
          subdivision 12; 3C.035, subdivisions 1 and 2; 3C.11, 
          subdivision 2; 3C.12, subdivision 7; 8.15; 14.08; 
          14.26; 15A.081, subdivisions 1, 7, and 7b; 15A.083, 
          subdivision 4; 16A.127, subdivision 8; 16A.85, by 
          adding a subdivision; 16B.20, subdivision 2; 16B.41; 
          16B.42, subdivision 4; 18.171, subdivisions 1, 5, and 
          by adding a subdivision; 18.241, subdivision 2; 
          18.291; 18.311; 69.021, subdivision 5; 84.01, 
          subdivision 3; 84.0272; 84.091, subdivision 3; 84.83, 
          subdivision 3; 85.30; 85.41; 85.42; 85.43; 85.45; 
          85A.02, subdivision 5a; 85A.04, subdivision 1; 88.065; 
          92.46, subdivision 1; 92.67, subdivisions 1, 3, 4, and 
          by adding a subdivision; 93.335, subdivision 4; 
          97A.061, subdivision 1; 97A.065, subdivision 2; 
          97A.105, subdivision 1; 97A.445, subdivision 1; 
          97A.475, subdivisions 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 
          and 20; 97A.485, subdivision 6; 97C.211, by adding a 
          subdivision; 115A.42; 115A.44; 115A.45; 115A.46, 
          subdivision 1; 115A.49; 115A.51; 115A.52; 115A.53; 
          115A.917; 116.41, subdivision 2; 116C.712, by adding a 
          subdivision; 161.1419, subdivision 4; 168.012, 
          subdivision 1c; 175A.07, subdivision 2; 176.611, 
          subdivisions 2, 6a, and by adding a subdivision; 
          197.481, subdivision 5; 204B.11, subdivision 1; 
          214.04, subdivision 3; 221.67; 271.01, by adding a 
          subdivision; 273.1314, subdivision 16a; 296.16, 
          subdivision 1; 296.421, subdivision 5; 298.22, 
          subdivision 1; 302A.011, subdivision 11; 302A.153; 
          303.07, subdivision 2; 303.13, subdivision 1; 303.21, 
          subdivision 3; 317.67, subdivisions 2 and 3; 322A.16; 
          322A.71; 330.11, subdivision 3; 333.055, subdivision 
          3; 403.11, subdivision 1; 462A.05, by adding a 
          subdivision; 462A.21, by adding a subdivision; 
          473.351, by adding a subdivision; 480.15, by adding a 
          subdivision; 480.241; 480A.08, subdivision 3; 484.68, 
          subdivisions 3 and 5; 540.152; 543.08; 609.101; 
          626.861, subdivision 4; proposing coding for new law 
          in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 3; 5; 16A; 18; 43A; 
          84; 86; 89; 93; 97A; 97C; 115A; 480; 481; and 484; 
          repealing Minnesota Statutes 1986, sections 3.099, 
          subdivision 2; 3.9226, subdivision 8; 6.495, 
          subdivision 2; 15A.081, subdivision 6; 15A.082, 
          subdivision 5; 15A.083, subdivision 1; 92.67, 
          subdivision 6; 116J.87; 296.421, subdivision 5a; and 
          473.351, subdivision 5. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [STATE DEPARTMENTS; APPROPRIATIONS.] 
    The sums shown in the columns marked "APPROPRIATIONS" are 
appropriated from the general fund, or another fund named, to 
the agencies and for the purposes specified in this act, to be 
available for the fiscal years indicated for each purpose.  The 
figures "1987," "1988," and "1989," where used in this act, mean 
that the appropriation or appropriations listed under them are 
available for the year ending June 30, 1987, June 30, 1988, or 
June 30, 1989, respectively.  
                      SUMMARY BY FUND 
                 1987        1988         1989         TOTAL   
General       $3,325,900 $327,120,700 $341,020,700   $671,467,300
Special Revenue  395,000   57,391,400   57,060,300    114,846,700
Game and Fish              37,832,700   39,108,200     76,940,900
Trunk Highway    284,800    6,240,000    6,035,000     12,559,800
Highway User                1,887,100    1,787,100      3,674,200
Workers' Comp.    18,300   11,826,800   11,561,400     23,388,200
Environmental               4,078,900    4,071,100      8,150,000
Metro Landfill 
   Abatement                1,134,000    1,134,000      2,268,000
Metro Landfill 
   Contingency                670,000      170,000        840,000
Minnesota Resources         7,951,700    7,964,500     15,916,200
Motor Vehicle 
  Transfer                  1,675,400    1,210,400      2,885,800
Water Pollution 
  Control                   5,386,800    6,694,800     12,081,600
Transfers to Other
  Direct     (  395,000)   (5,068,300)  (4,765,200)   (9,833,500)
TOTAL        $3,629,000  $458,127,200 $473,052,300   $934,808,500
                                           APPROPRIATIONS
                                       Available for the Year
                                           Ending June 30 
                                           1988        1989
     Sec. 2.  LEGISLATURE 
     Subdivision 1.  Total for         $33,556,500  $36,004,800
this section
              Summary by Fund 
General            $33,529,000  $35,982,100 
Trunk Highway      $    27,500  $    22,700 
     Subd. 2.  Senate                   11,647,000   12,600,800 
     Subd. 3.  House of Representatives 14,737,000   16,036,000 
     Subd. 4.  Legislative Coordinating 
Commission                               4,230,200    4,399,700 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 4,202,700  $ 4,377,000 
Trunk Highway      $    27,500  $    22,700 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows:  
(a) Legislative Reference Library 
      1988          1989 
  $  727,700    $  757,000 
(b) Revisor of Statutes 
  $1,982,900    $2,036,200 
 In addition to the appropriations in 
this section, the commissioner of 
finance shall transfer money from the 
general fund salary supplement 
appropriation to the revisor's account 
for employees of the revisor's office.  
The amount transferred must be for the 
same percentage of the revisor's total 
payroll as for similar agencies in the 
executive branch. 
 The revisor of statutes must reindex 
Minnesota Statutes over a period of 
about eight years. 
(c) Legislative Commission on the 
Economic Status of Women 
  $  123,500    $  130,300
(d) Legislative Commission on 
Employee Relations 
  $    95,800   $   96,200 
(e) Great Lakes Commission  
  $    37,200   $   42,200
(f) Legislative Commission on Pensions 
and Retirement 
  $   555,600   $  563,700 
(g) Legislative Commission to Review 
Administrative Rules 
  $  117,800    $  122,700 
(h) Legislative Commission on Waste  
Management 
  $  113,500    $  118,600 
(i) Legislative Committee on 
Planning and Fiscal Policy 
  $  100,000    $  100,000 
(j) Mississippi River Parkway Commission 
  $   27,500    $   22,700 
 This appropriation is from the trunk 
highway fund. 
(k) Legislative Coordinating Commission -
General Support 
  $  348,700    $  410,100 
 $50,000 the first year and $50,000 the 
second year are reserved for 
unanticipated costs of agencies in this 
subdivision and subdivision 5.  The 
legislative coordinating commission may 
transfer necessary amounts from this 
appropriation to the appropriations of 
the agencies concerned, and the amounts 
transferred are appropriated to those 
agencies to be spent by them.  If the 
appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it. 
 $70,200 the first year and $74,400 the 
second year are for the state 
contribution to the national conference 
of state legislatures. 
 $61,600 the first year and $65,300 the 
second year are for the state 
contribution to the Council of State 
Governments. 
     Subd. 5.  Legislative Audit 
Commission                               2,942,200    2,968,300 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows:  
(a) Legislative Audit Commission 
  $   15,000    $   15,500 
(b) Legislative Auditor 
  $2,927,200    $2,952,800 
     Sec. 3.  SUPREME COURT 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                            8,862,700    9,003,600 
              Summary by Fund  
General            $ 6,299,900  $ 6,308,000
Special Revenue    $ 2,562,800  $ 2,695,600
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Supreme Court 
Operations 
Total Appropriation 
  $2,594,900    $2,552,400
 $2,100 the first year and $2,200 the 
second year are for a contingent 
account for expenses necessary for the 
normal operation of the court for which 
no other reimbursement is provided. 
$50,000 is available to the supreme 
court to study gender bias throughout 
the state judicial system and to 
prepare a report for the chair of the 
house appropriations committee and the 
chair of the senate finance committee 
by June 30, 1989. 
     Subd. 3.  Legal Services Surcharge 
Grant 
  $2,562,800    $2,695,600 
 These appropriations are from the legal 
services account in the special revenue 
fund for legal services to low-income 
clients, family farm legal assistance, 
and improvement of court information 
systems.  Any unencumbered balance 
remaining of the legal services 
appropriation in the first year does 
not cancel but is available for the 
second year of the biennium. 
 Of the filing fee surcharge collected 
under Minnesota Statutes, section 
480.241, one-half of the amount is 
available for legal services programs 
and clients under Minnesota Statutes, 
sections 480.242 and 480.243.  Of the 
other half of the surcharge collected, 
$850,000 in fiscal year 1988 and 
$850,000 in fiscal year 1989 is 
available for family farm legal 
assistance under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 480.250, and the remaining 
balance must be transferred to the 
software sales account. 
     Subd. 4.  State Court Administrator 
  $2,981,800    $3,007,300
 $22,400 the first year and $53,700 the 
second year are for allocated costs of 
the revisor of statutes.  If these 
amounts are to be unallotted or 
otherwise reduced for reasons relating 
to budget shortfalls, the reduction may 
not exceed the average of the reduction 
for all state agencies. 
     Subd. 5.  State Law Library 
  $  723,200    $  748,300
     Sec. 4.  COURT OF APPEALS           3,469,200     3,434,000 
     Sec. 5.  TRIAL COURTS              17,935,400    18,244,200 
     Sec. 6.  BOARD ON JUDICIAL 
STANDARDS                                  154,800      154,700 
Approved Complement - 2 
     Sec. 7.  BOARD OF PUBLIC DEFENSE    2,261,200    2,510,400 
Approved Complement - 29 
Of this appropriation, $239,300 the 
first year and $478,700 the second year 
are for the purpose of providing legal 
services to the indigent residents of 
distressed counties as defined under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.257. 
 During the biennium, legal assistance 
to Minnesota prisoners shall serve the 
civil legal needs of persons confined 
to state institutions. 
 None of this appropriation shall be 
used to pay for lawsuits against public 
agencies or public officials to change 
social or public policy.  
     Sec. 8.  GOVERNOR                   2,365,500    2,374,100 
 The amounts that may be spent for each 
activity are as follows: 
 $20,000 the first year and $20,000 the 
second year are for personal expenses 
connected with the office of the 
governor. 
 $78,800 the first year and $84,300 the 
second year are for membership dues of 
the national governors association. 
     Sec. 9.  LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR         275,900      276,600 
     Sec. 10.  SECRETARY OF STATE 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation         1988   1989        1,916,700    2,088,100
Approved Complement - 52.5   47.5 
 The appropriations in this section are 
from the special revenue fund. 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Elections and Publications 
  $  264,300    $  540,900 
     Subd. 3.  Uniform Commercial Code 
  $  182,000    $  168,500 
     Subd. 4.  Business Services 
  $  780,500    $  768,400
     Subd. 5.  Administration 
  $  354,500    $  357,300 
     Subd. 6.  Fiscal Operations 
  $  141,600    $  140,500 
     Subd. 7.  Data Services 
  $  193,800    $  112,500 
     Sec. 11.  STATE AUDITOR               547,500      547,100 
Approved Complement - 124.0 
General - 9.5 
Revolving - 114.5 
 $77,300 the first year and $77,300 the 
second year are for an account the 
auditor may bill for costs associated 
with conducting single audits of 
federal funds.  During the biennium, 
this account may be used only when no 
other billing mechanism is feasible. 
 During the biennium ending June 30, 
1989, the commissioner of finance shall 
not approve any rate increase for the 
state auditor beyond those in effect on 
January 1, 1987, except for adjustments 
necessitated by salary increases, 
indirect cost assessments, and other 
verifiably escalating expenses 
associated with performing their 
reimbursable audits. 
 $218,100 the first year and $217,900 
the second year must be subtracted from 
the amount that would otherwise be 
payable as local government aid under 
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 477A, in 
order to fund the government 
information division, and the parts of 
the constitutional office that are 
related to the government information 
function. 
$80,000 the first year and $80,000 the 
second year must be subtracted from the 
total police and fire state aid 
otherwise payable to police and fire 
relief associations pursuant to 
Minnesota Statutes, sections 69.011 to 
69.051 and deposited into the state 
auditor's revolving fund for the costs 
and expenses incurred by the state 
auditor in making review of the audits 
and examinations of relief 
associations.  The amount of $80,000 
the first year and $80,000 the second 
year to be subtracted out of the police 
state aid and the firefighters' state 
aid shall be divided proportionally 
according to the total estimated costs 
of the audits or examinations of the 
police and firefighters' relief 
associations as determined by the state 
auditor. 
$22,500 the first year and $22,500 the 
second year for the costs and expenses 
of the central office staff attached to 
the constitutional office function 
shall be paid for from the audit 
practice revolving fund. 
     Sec. 12.  STATE TREASURER             513,900      512,600 
Approved Complement - 12 
     Sec. 13.  ATTORNEY GENERAL 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           17,944,700   17,836,900 
Approved Complement - 347.5 
General - 313.8 
Federal - 6.7 
Special Revenue - 18 
Environmental - 9 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $15,354,500  $15,246,700 
Special Revenue    $   840,000  $   840,000
Environmental      $ 1,500,000  $ 1,500,000 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Public Administration 
  $1,366,600    $1,354,300 
     Subd. 3.  Public Resources 
  $4,988,300    $5,000,600 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 3,488,300  $ 3,500,600 
Environmental      $ 1,500,000  $ 1,500,000 
 $500,000 the first year is appropriated 
from the environmental response, 
compensation, and compliance fund for 
the regional groundwater contamination 
litigation at the Twin Cities Army 
Ammunition Plant (TCAAP).  The 
pollution control agency shall make 
transfers from the unencumbered 
balances of its environmental fund 
appropriations to reimburse the 
attorney general's litigation account 
when obligations to the account have 
been paid.  $1,000,000 the first year 
and $1,500,000 the second year are 
available to reimburse the attorney 
general litigation account.  This 
appropriation is available until the 
state reaches a signed agreement with 
the defendants and closes the case or 
until the appropriation is spent.  When 
the case is closed, unliquidated 
balances from the attorney general's 
appropriation must be transferred back 
to the pollution control agency for all 
other activities authorized in 
Minnesota Statutes, section 115B.20, 
subdivision 2.  The complement of the 
attorney general is increased by nine 
positions for the purpose of this 
lawsuit.  These are not permanent 
complement positions of the agency; 
when the lawsuit is over, the 
complement is reduced. 
     Subd. 4.  Public Assistance 
  $2,620,400    $2,621,300 
              Summary by Fund 
                       1988         1989 
General            $ 1,780,400  $ 1,781,300 
Special Revenue    $   840,000      840,000
     Subd. 5.  Public Protection 
  $4,697,200    $4,690,000 
     Subd. 6.  Legal Policy and 
Administration 
  $4,272,200    $4,170,700 
 $50,000 the first year and $50,000 the 
second year are for a special account 
for unanticipated legal expenses.  If 
the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
     Subd. 7.  Base Adjustment  
  $  (250,200)  $  (250,200)
 The adjustment in the budgetary base 
from the "same" level may be 
reallocated among the department's 
general fund appropriations as 
determined by the department head. 
     Sec. 14.  INVESTMENT BOARD          1,602,300    1,600,600 
Approved Complement - 25 
 Any unencumbered balance remaining in 
the first year does not cancel but is 
available for the second year of the 
biennium. 
 The state board of investment shall 
conduct a study and report to the 
legislature by January 15, 1988, on how 
to improve the selection of the state's 
external stock and bond managers in 
order to reduce management costs and 
improve the net return on the state's 
invested funds. 
     Sec. 15.  ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS   2,940,700    2,782,400 
Approved Complement - 70.5 
Revolving - 18.5 
Workers' Compensation - 52 
 This appropriation is from the workers' 
compensation special compensation fund 
for considering workers' compensation 
claims. 
 The approved complement of the office 
shall be reduced by four workers' 
compensation judges and two workers' 
compensation support staff when the 
commissioner of finance determines that 
the office can reasonably hold a 
hearing within six months of the date 
when a claim petition is filed with the 
department of labor and industry. 
     Sec. 16.  ADMINISTRATION  
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           21,413,200   20,997,700 
                      1988    1989 
Approved Complement - 843.1   842.1 
General -             196.6   195.6
Special Revenue -      43.6    43.6  
Gift -                    1       1  
Revolving -           601.9   601.9 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $16,193,100  $15,844,100 
Special Revenue    $ 5,220,100  $ 5,153,600 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Operations Management 
  $3,665,400    $3,483,000 
The commissioner shall report to the 
legislature by January 1, 1988, on 
whether bonding requirements applicable 
to small businesses are an impediment 
to those businesses in obtaining state 
contracts.  If the bonding requirements 
are found to be impediments to 
obtaining state contracts, the 
commissioner shall also include in the 
report proposals for altering the 
bonding requirements to alleviate the 
impediments. 
 $7,200 the first year is for transfer 
to the central motor pool fund for the 
commissioner of administration to 
conduct a test of the use of permanent 
synthetic motor oil in state vehicles. 
     Subd. 3.  Information Management 
  $6,166,300    $6,060,200 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 2,399,400  $ 2,381,500
Special Revenue    $ 3,766,900  $ 3,668,700
 The appropriation from the special 
revenue fund is for recurring costs of 
911 emergency telephone service.  
The commissioner shall study the 
placement of the office of information 
systems management within the executive 
branch and make recommendations to the 
legislature.  The recommendations must 
be submitted by January 15, 1988. 
 $201,100 the first year and $205,800 
the second year must be subtracted from 
the amount that would otherwise be 
payable to local government aid under 
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 477A, in 
order to fund the local government 
records program and the 
intergovernmental information systems 
activity. 
 The commissioner shall use the 
authority under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 16B.48, subdivision 2, clause 
(5) to charge local units of government 
assessments equal to the department's 
costs for helping local governments 
manage records and implement records 
retention schedules. 
 In those instances where state agencies 
have need for the same or similar 
computer data, the commissioner shall 
ensure that the most efficient and cost 
effective method of producing and 
storing data for or sharing data 
between those agencies is used. 
     Subd. 4.  Property Management 
  $6,483,300    $6,709,400 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $5,030,100   $5,224,500 
Special Revenue    $1,453,200   $1,484,900 
 Of the total appropriation for this 
program $175,000 is made available in 
fiscal year 1988 and $175,000 in fiscal 
year 1989 to fund capitol area repairs 
and replacements.  Any unencumbered 
balance at the end of fiscal year 1988 
shall not cancel to the general fund 
but shall be made available for use in 
fiscal year 1989. 
 The commissioner shall study and 
prepare a report for the legislature by 
January 1, 1988, on the competing 
policies and the costs of leasing space 
in privately-owned buildings versus 
constructing new state buildings to 
house state departments and agencies. 
 $3,387,900 the first year and 
$3,581,500 the second year are for 
office space costs of the legislature 
and veterans organizations for 
ceremonial space, and for statutorily 
free space. 
 The commissioner shall contract with a 
private organization to do a needs 
assessment and prepare a report for the 
legislature by January 1, 1988, on the 
feasibility of providing in the capitol 
complex area a privately-run child day 
care and latch-key center for children 
of state employees and visitors to the 
state capitol.  If the report indicates 
that such a center is feasible, the 
commissioner shall submit to the 
legislature by March 1, 1988, a list of 
recommended sites within the capitol 
complex area for locating the center. 
     Subd. 5.  Administrative Management 
  $5,098,200    $4,745,100 
 $2,000 the first year and $2,000 the 
second year are for the state 
employees' band. 
 $715,600 the first year and $750,900 
the second year are for allocated costs 
of the revisor of statutes.  If these 
amounts are to be unallotted or 
otherwise reduced for reasons relating 
to budget shortfalls, the reduction may 
not exceed the average of the reduction 
for all state agencies. 
 $75,000 of the fiscal year 1988 
appropriation is to fund a management 
study of veterans affairs.  Any 
unencumbered balance at the end of 
fiscal year 1988 shall not cancel to 
the general fund but instead shall be 
made available in fiscal year 1989 for 
the study. 
$229,300 the first year and $229,300 
the second year is for block grants to 
public television stations. 
$404,100 the first year and $404,100 
the second year is for matching grants 
to public television stations. 
 $1,135,900 the first year and 
$1,135,900 the second year is for 
public television equipment needs.  
Equipment grant allocations shall be 
made after consideration of the 
recommendations of the Minnesota Public 
Television Association. 
$211,100 the first year and $211,100 
the second year is for operational 
grants to public educational radio 
stations, which must be allocated after 
consideration of the recommendations of 
the Association of Minnesota Public 
Educational Radio Stations under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 139.19. 
 $115,900 the first year and $115,900 
the second year is for public 
educational radio stations, which must 
be allocated after consideration of the 
recommendations of the Association of 
Minnesota Public Educational Radio 
Stations for equipment needs. 
$15,000 in the first year is for 
KAWE-TV to conduct an engineering study 
for the placement of a remote 
transmitter in a portion of 
northwestern Minnesota.  This 
appropriation is available the day 
after final enactment.  
$21,400 the first year is to conduct a 
survey to determine the number and 
listening pattern of listeners to 
stations that are members of the 
Association of Minnesota Public 
Educational Radio Stations.  The 
results of the survey must be submitted 
to the senate finance committee and 
house of representatives appropriations 
committee. 
If an appropriation for either year for 
grants to public television or radio 
stations is not sufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
$100,000 the first year is for 
equipment grants to affiliate stations 
of Minnesota Public Radio, 
Incorporated.  Equipment grant 
allocations must be made after 
consideration of the recommendations of 
Minnesota Public Radio, Incorporated. 
If the amounts allocated to public 
broadcasting are to be reduced for 
reasons relating to budget shortfalls, 
the reduction shall not exceed the 
average of the reduction for all state 
agencies. 
The commissioner, in consultation with 
representatives of public broadcasting 
stations, must prepare a report for the 
legislature by August 1, 1988, 
recommending specific criteria for 
awarding operational and equipment 
grants to public broadcasting stations. 
 $200,000 the first year is for a grant 
to the World Theater Corporation of 
Minnesota, to be paid only if the 
following criteria are met:  no state 
money will be allocated unless matched 
by payment of verified private 
nontax-generated contributions made 
after January 1, 1987, and the World 
Theater Corporation must document to 
the commissioner it is a nonprofit 
corporation.  The World Theater 
Corporation of Minnesota may use this 
grant money for the costs of renovation 
of the World Theater in St. Paul.  
Furthermore, the World Theater 
Corporation must document that this 
grant money was used on renovation 
expenses and not operating expenses. 
     Sec. 17.  CAPITOL AREA 
ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING BOARD           172,000      167,000 
                           1988    1989 
Approved Complement -        3       3 
     Sec. 18.  FINANCE 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                            8,009,500    7,585,900 
Approved Complement - 124 
     General -              124     124 
     Rural Finance -          0       2 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are 
specified below. 
$141,000 the first year to cover costs 
associated with modifying the state's 
personnel/payroll systems.  Any 
unencumbered balance remaining in the 
first year does not cancel but is 
available for the second year of the 
biennium. 
The department of finance shall reflect 
the reimbursement of statewide indirect 
costs and human services federal 
reimbursement costs as expenditure 
reductions in the general fund budgeted 
fund balance as they would be reported 
in conformity with generally accepted 
accounting principles. 
Amounts paid to the department of 
finance pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, 
section 13.03, subdivision 3, for the 
costs of searching for and retrieving 
government data and for making, 
certifying and compiling the copies of 
the data, are appropriated to the 
department of finance to be added to 
the appropriations from which the costs 
were paid. 
The governor's budget recommendations 
submitted to the legislature in 
January, 1989 must include as general 
fund revenue and appropriations for 
fiscal years 1990 and 1991 all revenues 
and expenditures previously accounted 
for in the statewide accounting system 
in other operating funds.  This 
requirement does not apply (1) to 
revenues and expenditures which, under 
the constitution, must be accounted for 
in funds other than the general fund; 
or (2) to revenues and expenditures 
which are related to specific user fees 
that provide a primary benefit to 
individual fee payers, as opposed to 
the general community. 
 Notwithstanding the provision of 
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.11, the 
commissioner of finance shall consult 
with and seek the recommendations of 
the chair of the House Appropriations 
committee and the chair of the Senate 
Finance committee as well as their 
respective division and subcommittee 
chairs prior to adopting a format for 
the 1989-1991 biennial budget document. 
The commissioner of finance shall not 
adopt a format for the 1989-1991 
biennial budget until the commissioner 
has received the recommendations of the 
chair of the house appropriations 
committee and the chair of the senate 
finance committee.  Appropriations 
provided to the department of finance 
to upgrade the current biennial budget 
system shall only be expended upon 
receipt of the recommendations of the 
chair of the house appropriations 
committee and the chair of the senate 
finance committee.  These 
recommendations are advisory only. 
     Subd. 2.  Fiscal Management and 
Administration 
  $ 1,125,900   $ 1,137,000
     Subd. 3.  Accounting Operations 
  $ 4,827,500   $ 4,721,200
     Subd. 4.  Budget Analysis and Operations 
  $ 1,845,600   $ 1,572,800
     Subd. 5.  Cash and Debt Management 
  $   210,500   $   154,900
     Sec. 19.  EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                            5,174,200    5,471,000 
                           1988   1989 
 Approved Complement -      121    122 
 General -                  106    107 
 Special Revenue -            6      6 
 Revolving -                  9      9 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Administration 
  $1,872,100    $1,997,000 
     Subd. 3.  Equal Opportunity 
  $  205,100    $  204,900 
     Subd. 4.  Labor Relations 
  $  464,800    $  464,100 
     Subd. 5.  Personnel 
  $2,632,200    $2,805,000 
 $250,000 the first year and $250,000 
the second year is appropriated to 
begin to establish the statewide fringe 
benefit plan.  Benefit coverage for 
employees of school districts, 
educational cooperative service units, 
intermediate districts, cooperative 
centers for vocational education, 
regional management information centers 
and education units organized under the 
joint powers act begins September 1, 
1989, and benefit coverage for all 
other employees begins January 1, 
1991.  This appropriation is available 
in either year.  This appropriation is 
to be repaid to the general fund by the 
fringe benefit fund over a period of 
five years.  The repayment period 
commences upon an actuarial 
determination that the fund can support 
the repayment.  
     Sec. 20.  REVENUE 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           57,333,100   54,930,800 
                            1988     1989 
Approved Complement -     1,142.2  1,178.2
General -                 1,006.2  1,042.2
Highway User -                 39       39 
Special Revenue -              97       97 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $51,222,500  $48,847,200 
Special Revenue    $ 4,617,800  $ 4,588,200
Highway User       $ 1,492,800  $ 1,495,400
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Revenue Administration 
  $13,768,000   $10,222,000
$7,391,000 the first year and 
$3,594,700 the second year are for 
development and operation of new 
integrated computer systems.  After the 
commissioner of revenue begins to spend 
the appropriation, the commissioner 
shall report every three months 
describing the progress made and the 
money spent in the development and 
operation of new integrated computer 
systems.  The report must be submitted 
to the committee on finance of the 
senate and the committee on 
appropriations of the house of 
representatives.  Any unencumbered 
balance on this appropriation remaining 
in the first year does not cancel and 
is available for the second year. 
$39,800 the first year and $39,700 the 
second year are from the special 
revenue fund. 
     Subd. 3.  Tax Policy 
  $2,848,400    $2,841,100 
 $131,500 for the first year and 
$131,300 for the second year is from 
the special revenue fund. 
     Subd. 4.  Taxpayer Service  
  $7,580,300   $7,565,800
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 5,794,400  $ 5,784,900 
Highway User       $ 1,492,800  $ 1,495,400 
Special Revenue    $   293,100  $   285,500
 $30,000 the first year and $30,000 the 
second year are for state-paid tuition 
for required assessor training. 
     Subd. 5.  Operations 
  $11,106,100   $11,125,400
     Subd. 6.  Tax Compliance 
  $22,030,300   $23,176,500
Notwithstanding any contrary 
provisions, $1,900,000 of the amount 
appropriated to the commissioner of 
revenue must be used by the department 
of revenue for compliance initiatives.  
Of this amount, $570,000 the first year 
is for the automated collection 
system.  If this system is not fully 
operational by August 1, 1988, the 
general fund appropriation for the 
department shall be reduced by $570,000.
Notwithstanding any law to the 
contrary, and to accomplish this 
purpose, the agency may transfer up to 
$1,900,000 of unencumbered balances 
among programs after getting the 
approval of the commissioner of 
finance.  The transfer must follow the 
general procedures for transfers 
contained in this act. 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $17,876,900  $19,044,800 
Special Revenue    $ 4,153,400  $ 4,131,700 
 The first $4,617,800 of corporate 
income tax receipts in the first year 
and the first $4,588,200 of corporate 
income tax receipts in the second year 
must be credited to the special revenue 
fund. 
     Sec. 21.  TAX COURT                   402,400      401,900 
Approved Complement - 6 
     Sec. 22.  NATURAL RESOURCES 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                          108,850,200  108,784,600
                            1988   1989 
Approved Complement -       1,660  1,660 
General -                     962    962 
Special Revenue -              53     53 
Game and Fish -               540    540 
Federal -                      43     43 
 Water Recreation -            62     62 
              Summary by Fund
General                  $48,212,500  $47,436,400 
Con. Con.                $   250,000  $   250,000 
Forest Management        $ 5,697,200  $ 5,697,300 
Nongame Wildlife         $ 1,224,800  $ 1,228,600 
Snowmobile               $ 3,800,800  $ 3,926,200 
State Park M. & O.       $ 3,944,400  $ 3,944,400 
All Terrain              $   650,000  $   650,000 
Water Recreation         $ 7,265,200  $ 7,348,700 
Wildlife Acquis.         $ 1,086,500  $ 1,086,500 
Game and Fish            $36,177,700  $36,872,500 
Water Pollution Control  $   200,000  $   125,000 
Wild Rice                $    30,000  $    30,000 
Trust Suspense           $   311,100  $   189,000 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Mineral Resources Management 
  $3,851,000    $3,704,600 
The commissioner is authorized one 
complement position in the unclassified 
service from the mineral lease account. 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows:  
(a) Metallic Minerals 
  $ 2,959,400   $ 2,964,700 
 $200,000 the first year and $200,000 
the second year are for copper-nickel 
test drilling.  One position for this 
purpose is in the unclassified civil 
service and its continued employment is 
contingent upon the availability of 
money from the appropriation.  When the 
appropriation has been spent, the 
position shall be canceled and the 
approved complement of the agency 
reduced accordingly.  Part-time 
employment of persons is authorized. 
 $160,000 the first year and $160,000 
the second year are for minerals 
research.  Any unencumbered balance 
remaining in the first year does not 
cancel but is available for the second 
year. 
 $300,000 the first year and $300,000 
the second year are for iron ore 
cooperative research, of which $200,000 
the first year and $200,000 the second 
year are available only as matched by 
$1 of nonstate money for each $1 of 
state money.  Any unencumbered balance 
remaining in the first year does not 
cancel but is available for the second 
year. 
(b) Industrial Minerals 
  $   514,100   $   363,500 
 $150,000 the first year is for peat 
development.  The commissioner may 
match this state money with money from 
nonstate sources.  Any unencumbered 
balance remaining in the first year 
does not cancel but is available for 
the second year. 
$100,000 is available until June 30, 
1989 for the purpose of horticultural 
peat marketing and promotion in 
cooperation with the department of 
agriculture and the natural resources 
research institute. 
(c) Mineland Reclamation 
$ 377,500 $ 376,400
     Subd. 3.  Water Resources Management
  $4,413,900    $4,343,200 
                         Summary by Fund 
General                   $4,140,000   $4,144,400 
Water Pollution Control   $  200,000   $  125,000 
Water Recreation          $   73,900   $   73,800 
$85,000 the first year and $85,000 the 
second year from the flood damage 
reduction program is for a grant to the 
counties of Cook, Lake, and the town of 
Duluth for the development of a 
comprehensive shoreland management plan 
along the shoreline of Lake Superior.  
This grant is not subject to the 
$75,000 limit in Minnesota Statutes, 
section 104.11.  The study must be sent 
by the commissioner of natural 
resources to the chairs of the house 
appropriations and senate finance 
committees by December 1, 1989. 
 $125,000 each year is appropriated from 
the water pollution control fund for 
groundwater exploration and data 
automation.  
 $75,000 is appropriated from the water 
pollution control fund for a grant to 
the city of Waseca for the purpose of 
rehabilitating Clear Lake in and about 
the city.  This appropriation is 
available until expended. 
     Subd. 4.  Forest Management
  $20,616,500   $20,780,500
              Summary by Fund 
General            $14,839,300  $15,003,200 
Con. Con.          $   250,000  $   250,000 
Forest Management  $ 5,527,200  $ 5,527,300 
The divisions of forestry and fish and 
wildlife must coordinate the harvesting 
of trees in order to ensure optimum 
wildlife habitat benefits and water 
quality of adjacent streams or lakes. 
 $750,000 the first year and $750,000 
the second year are for emergency fire 
fighting and are not subject to 
transfer.  If the appropriation for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it.  The unencumbered 
balance of any other appropriation from 
the general fund to the commissioner of 
natural resources remaining in the 
first year must not be canceled but 
must be transferred and added to this 
appropriation for the second year.  No 
more than $400,000 the first year and 
$410,000 the second year are available 
for presuppression costs. 
 Up to $120,000 per year from the 
general fund under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 89.04 may be used for grants to 
the soil and water conservation board 
for cost-sharing with landowners in the 
state forest improvement program. 
 $500,000 the first year and $500,000 
the second year are for grants to 
counties or groups of counties for 
county forestry assistance programs.  
The commissioners of natural resources, 
revenue, and transportation shall 
jointly study and determine the amount 
of unrefunded gas tax attributable to 
forest logging trucks that use forest 
roads under the authority of the 
commissioner.  Their findings and 
determinations must be reported to the 
chairs of the house appropriations and 
senate finance committees by December 
1, 1988, along with proposed changes to 
Minnesota Statutes, section 296.421, 
that reflect their determinations. 
     Subd. 5.  Parks and Recreation 
Management 
  $14,062,000   $14,122,500 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $9,450,900   $9,511,400 
State Park 
Maintenance and 
Operation          $3,944,400   $3,944,400 
Water Recreation   $  666,700   $  666,700 
If a bill is signed into law in 1987 
that allows a second state park motor 
vehicle permit at a reduced price, the 
commissioner of natural resources must 
keep a record of resident and 
nonresident second permits that are 
sold. 
 $666,700 is appropriated each year of 
the biennium from the water recreation 
account for state park development 
projects.  Should the appropriation in 
either year be insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year shall 
be available. 
The department of natural resources may 
not subcontract the operation of the 
Douglas Lodge facilities at Itasca 
State Park so long as revenues are at 
least equal to the cost of operation.  
A management plan must be prepared by 
the commissioner that outlines specific 
steps and timelines to achieve 
self-sufficiency of the Douglas Lodge 
facilities.  The management plan must 
incorporate recommendations concerning 
the best utilization of management, 
labor and other resources to achieve 
self-sufficiency.  The commissioner 
must send the management plan to the 
Legislature by March 1, 1988. 
 $20,000 the first year and $20,000 the 
second year are for payments in lieu of 
taxes on lands in Voyageurs National 
Park and St. Croix Wild River State 
Park.  If the appropriation for either 
year is insufficient, the appropriation 
for the other year is available for it. 
     Subd. 6.  Trails and Waterways 
  $7,807,300    $8,218,700 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $   751,500  $   753,300
Snowmobile         $ 3,258,700  $ 3,379,400
All Terrain        $   475,000  $   475,000
Water Recreation   $ 3,112,100  $ 3,196,000
Game and Fish      $   210,000  $   415,000 
 $1,698,000 the first year and 
$1,748,000 the second year are for 
snowmobile grants-in-aid. 
An accounting report for the 1986 and 
1987 cross country ski seasons is to be 
submitted to the chair of the senate 
finance committee and the house 
appropriations committee.  
     Subd. 7.  Fish and Wildlife 
Management 
  $25,734,700   $25,985,500 
                  Summary by Fund 
General                $   788,600  $   795,900
Nongame Wildlife       $ 1,179,800  $ 1,183,600
Water Recreation $ 150,000 $ 150,000
Wildlife Acquis.  $ 961,500 $ 836,500
Game and Fish          $22,624,800  $22,989,500 
Wild Rice Management   $    30,000  $    30,000 
 $685,700 in the first year and $685,700 
the second year are appropriated from 
the game and fish fund for payments to 
counties in lieu of taxes on acquired 
wildlife lands and is not subject to 
transfer. 
 $1,179,800 the first year and 
$1,183,600 the second year are from the 
nongame wildlife management account in 
the special revenue fund for the 
purpose of nongame wildlife 
management.  Any unencumbered balance 
remaining in the first year does not 
cancel but is available the second year.
 $54,400 in the first year and $54,200 
the second year are for acid rain 
research. 
$40,000 the first year and $40,000 the 
second year is from the general fund 
for one complement position to serve as 
a native prairie biologist. 
 $127,900 the first year and $127,900 
the second year are for emergency deer 
feeding.  If the appropriation for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
 $30,000 is appropriated each year from 
the wild rice management account 
project to improve natural wild rice 
production on public waters pursuant to 
Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.065, 
subdivision 4. 
 $40,000 for the first year and $40,000 
for the second year is from the general 
fund to be transferred to the 
commissioner of agriculture to 
compensate landowners for agricultural 
crops damaged by elk. 
 $10,000 each year is appropriated from 
the general fund to be used as an 
additional payment to the Leech Lake 
Indian Reservation for enforcement 
activities.  The reservation may also 
use $40,000 of the increased annual 
payment that it receives as a result of 
the fee increases in this act for 
enforcement.  The department of natural 
resources shall also make surplus 
equipment available to the reservation. 
 Effective July 1, l987, aquatic plant 
control permit fees established under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 84.092, 
subdivision 1, are doubled.  Notice of 
the revised fees must be published in 
the State Register as soon as practical.
     Subd. 8.  Enforcement 
  $10,983,000   $11,107,200 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $1,206,500   $1,227,500 
Snowmobile         $  240,800   $  240,800 
Water Recreation   $1,888,900   $1,887,800 
Game and Fish      $7,505,900   $7,610,200 
All Terrain        $  140,900   $  140,900 
 The appropriation from the game and 
fish fund includes $20,000 the first 
year and $20,000 the second year for 
the purpose of controlling smelt 
fishing activities on the north shore, 
including development of parking 
facilities, traffic control, 
coordination of regulatory agencies, 
control of trespass and vandalism, 
control of littering and sanitation, 
and public information and education.  
If the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
 $1,124,300 the first year and 
$1,124,300 the second year are from the 
water recreation account for grants to 
counties for boat and water safety. 
 The commissioner must seek maximum 
participation from federal agencies in 
removing nuisance beaver.  A 
competitive bid process must be used to 
select beaver trappers. 
Conservation officers must maintain 
their residence, on an all weather 
road, within 15 miles of their assigned 
station location.  The director of the 
division of enforcement may permit 
valid exceptions as is deemed 
appropriate. 
 $70,000 the first year and $35,000 the 
second year are from the game and fish 
fund to create one additional 
conservation officer position.  The 
commissioner shall create three 
additional conservation officer 
positions in the water recreation 
account. 
     Subd. 9.  Field Operations Support
  $8,709,100    $7,712,300 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $4,735,700   $3,848,200 
Game and Fish      $3,393,100   $3,406,200 
Water Recreation   $  243,200   $  242,900 
Trust Suspense     $  311,100   $  189,000 
Snowmobile         $   26,000   $   26,000 
For the biennium $350,000 is for the 
purpose of surveys of lots offered for 
sale under Minnesota Statutes, section 
92.67, subdivision 3. 
 The two complement positions for the 
department of natural resources 
lakeshore lease sale program shall be 
funded only until June 30, 1991.  
 If the appropriation made under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 92.46, 
subdivision 1, paragraph (d), for 
fiscal year 1988 is not expended, it is 
available for use in fiscal year 1989. 
     Subd. 10.  Regional Operations Support 
  $3,487,700    $3,474,200 
              Summary by Fund 
General Fund       $2,919,400   $2,903,500 
Game and Fish      $  510,000   $  512,400 
Water Recreation   $   58,300   $   58,300 
     Subd. 11.  Special Services and 
Programs
  $4,294,600    $4,430,500 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 3,184,300  $ 3,194,400
Forest Management  $   170,000  $   170,000
Nongame Wildlife   $    45,000  $    45,000
Snowmobile         $   132,600  $   132,600
Water Recreation   $   560,500  $   561,000
Wildlife Acquis.   $   125,000  $   250,000
Game and Fish      $    77,200  $    77,500
The commissioner of natural resources 
shall develop, in consultation with the 
commissioners of jobs and training and 
education, a coordinated plan for 
enhanced youth education, employment, 
and service opportunities.  This plan 
shall consider the current programming 
of the Minnesota Conservation Corps, 
the Minnesota Youth Program, the Summer 
Youth Employment and Training Program, 
Community and Secondary Vocational 
Education, and other appropriate 
programs in designing a coordinated 
model which would enhance opportunities 
for youth.  The plan may also recommend 
coordinated funding.  The commissioner 
shall present the plan to the house 
appropriation and senate finance 
committees by January 1, 1988. 
$201,500 the first year and $326,500 
the second year of this appropriation 
are from the following funds for an 
expansion of the youth programs 
activity: 
                   Summary by Fund
                       1988        1989
Wildlife Acquisition             $125,000
Snowmobile           $ 66,300    $ 66,300
Water Recreation     $ 27,700    $ 27,700
Forest Management    $ 85,000    $ 85,000
Nongame Wildlife     $ 22,500    $ 22,500
     Total           $201,500    $326,500
This appropriation shall not be made 
available until a work plan for use of 
the funds is prepared and approved by 
the commissioner of natural resources. 
 $84,800 the first year and $84,800 the 
second year are for a grant to the 
Mississippi headwaters board for up to 
50 percent of the cost of implementing 
the comprehensive plan for the upper 
Mississippi within areas under its 
jurisdiction.  
 $21,400 the first year and $21,300 the 
second year are for department 
operating and administrative expenses 
associated with the Mississippi 
headwaters board grant and the 
implementation of the plan in areas 
along the river that are not included 
within the jurisdiction of the 
Mississippi headwaters board. 
     Subd. 12.  Administrative Management 
Services
  $5,521,000    $5,536,100 
                 Summary by Fund 
General                $ 2,975,900  $ 2,980,700
Snowmobile             $   142,700  $   147,400
Water Recreation       $   511,600  $   512,200
Game and Fish          $ 1,856,700  $ 1,861,700
All Terrain Vehicles   $    34,100  $    34,100 
The commissioner of employee relations 
shall transfer persons occupying 
unclassified seasonal, part-time, or 
full-time positions in the department 
of natural resources that are converted 
to full-time classified positions by 
the state departments appropriation act 
of 1987 to the same classification and 
pay step in the classified civil 
service without competitive examination 
as of June 30, 1987. 
     Subd. 13.  Base Adjustment  
  $  (630,600)  $  (630,700) 
 The adjustment in the budgetary base 
from the "same" level may be 
reallocated among the department's 
general fund appropriations as 
determined by the department head. 
     Sec. 23.  ZOOLOGICAL BOARD          4,548,600    4,754,000 
    Approved Complement - 162 
 This appropriation is for transfer by 
the commissioner of finance to the zoo 
fund.  
The Minnesota Zoological Garden is 
eligible for a salary supplement in the 
same manner as other state agencies.  
The commissioner of finance will 
determine the amount of salary 
supplement based on appropriated funds, 
and will transfer the amount to the Zoo 
Fund. 
 $500,000 the second year is for a grant 
to the Minnesota zoo as a one-for-one 
matching grant for funds donated 
through fund raising activities. 
     Sec. 24.  POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           19,725,700   20,288,400 
                       1988   1989 
Approved Complement -   493    494 
General -             142.5  142.5
Special Revenue -        46     46 
Public Health -           5      5 
Federal -             214.5  214.5
Environmental -          50     50 
Metro Landfill 
  Contingency -           2      2 
Motor Vehicle Transfer -  6      7 
Water Pollution 
  Control -              15     15 
Building -               12     12
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 5,819,900  $ 6,009,400
Special Revenue    $ 2,688,900  $ 2,651,900
Public Health      $   218,000     $218,000
Environmental      $ 2,578,900  $ 2,571,100
Metro Landfill 
Abatement          $ 1,134,000  $ 1,134,000
Metro Landfill 
Contingency        $   670,000  $   170,000
Motor Vehicle Transfer    $ 1,479,200    $ 1,014,200 
Water Pollution Control       $ 5,136,800    $ 6,519,800 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Water Pollution Control
  $2,699,200    $2,693,600 
           Summary by Fund 
General          $ 1,399,800 $ 1,394,200
Special Revenue  $   806,100 $   806,100
Water Pollution 
Control          $   493,300 $   493,300
    Subd. 3.  Air Pollution Control 
  $1,710,000    $1,936,700 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 1,273,100  $ 1,500,200
Special Revenue    $   360,800  $   360,400
Public Health      $    76,100  $    76,100
 $304,300 the first year and $303,900 
the second year are to study acid rain. 
The metropolitan airports commission 
established by Minnesota Statutes, 
chapter 473 and the pollution control 
agency shall continue to consider the 
feasibility of a system of differential 
landing or user fees for aircraft using 
the Minneapolis-St. Paul International 
Airport with a rate structure based on 
the level of noise produced by 
aircraft, so that the fee imposed on an 
aircraft is in direct relation to the 
noise produced by the aircraft and 
shall report to the legislature the 
results of the study.  
     Subd. 4.  Solid Waste and Hazardous 
Waste Pollution Control
  $13,074,500   $13,350,700
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 1,828,200  $ 1,723,000
Special Revenue    $   988,300  $   951,700
Public Health      $   131,900  $   131,900
Environmental      $ 2,233,400  $ 2,233,400
Metro Landfill 
Abatement          $ 1,134,000  $ 1,134,000
Metro Landfill 
Contingency        $   662,000  $   162,000
Motor Vehicle 
Transfer           $ 1,473,200  $ 1,008,200
Water Pollution 
Control            $ 4,623,500  $ 6,006,500 
(a) All money in the environmental 
response, compensation and compliance 
fund not otherwise appropriated, is 
appropriated to the pollution control 
agency for the purposes described in 
the environmental response and 
liability act, Minnesota Statutes, 
section 115B.20, subdivision 2, clauses 
(a), (b), (c), and (d).  This 
appropriation is available until June 
30, 1989. 
(b) All money in the metropolitan 
landfill abatement fund not otherwise 
appropriated is appropriated to the 
pollution control agency for payment to 
the metropolitan council and may be 
used by the council for the purposes of 
Minnesota Statutes, section 473.844.  
The council may not spend the money 
until the legislative commission on 
waste management has made its 
recommendations on the budget and work 
program submitted by the council. 
(c) Any unencumbered balance from the 
metropolitan landfill contingency fund 
remaining in fiscal year 1988 does not 
cancel but is available for fiscal year 
1989. 
 (d) A solid and hazardous waste account 
is created as a separate fund in the 
state treasury.  The commissioner of 
finance shall transfer $919,000 from 
the motor vehicle transfer fund and 
$680,000 from the water pollution 
control fund over the biennium to the 
solid and hazardous waste fund. 
(e) $100,000 is appropriated for the 
household hazardous waste program 
created in the law styled as H.F. No. 
794 of the 1987 legislative session.  
Any unencumbered balance remaining in 
the first year does not cancel and is 
available for the second year of the 
biennium. 
 (f) $1,973,200 the first year and 
$2,008,200 the second year are from the 
motor vehicle transfer fund for use in 
cleanup of waste tire dumps, as 
prioritized by the agency.  Any 
unencumbered balance remaining in the 
first year does not cancel but is 
available for the second year.  
 $4,500,000 the first year and 
$5,900,000 the second year are 
appropriated from the water pollution 
control fund for transfer to the 
environmental response, compensation, 
and compliance fund. 
     Subd. 5.  General Support
  $2,242,000   $2,307,400 
              Summary by Fund 
General           $ 1,318,800  $ 1,392,000 
Environmental     $   345,500  $   337,700 
Metro Landfill
Contingency       $     8,000  $     8,000
Motor Vehicle 
Transfer          $     6,000  $     6,000
Water Pollution 
Control           $    20,000  $    20,000 
Special Revenue   $   533,700  $   533,700 
Public Health     $    10,000  $    10,000 
 The program permit and assessment fees 
of the pollution control agency shall 
equal as nearly as possible the amount 
appropriated from the special revenue 
fund for the biennium and may not 
include any amounts to cover the cost 
items in Minnesota Statutes, section 
16A.128, subdivision 1a, except to the 
extent that the cost items are included 
in the appropriations. 
     Subd. 6.  Balances Canceled 
 $6,235,800 the first year and 
$6,117,200 the second year of the 
balance in the water pollution control 
fund must be canceled and transferred 
to the general fund on July 1, 1987, 
and July 1, 1988, respectively.  
 $2,425,200 the first year and 
$2,925,200 the second year of the 
balance in the motor vehicle transfer 
fund must be canceled and transferred 
to the general fund on July 1, l987, 
and July 1, 1988, respectively. 
     Sec. 25.  WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD    2,162,900    2,162,900 
              Summary by Fund
General            $2,112,900  $2,112,000
Water Pollution
  Control          $   50,000  $   50,000
                           1988     1989 
Approved Complement -       43       43 
General -                   32       32 
Building -                  11       11 
The nonregulatory waste management 
programs of the pollution control 
agency are transferred to the waste 
management board under Minnesota 
Statutes, section 15.039. 
 If the appropriation for grants for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Sec. 26.  ENERGY AND ECONOMIC 
DEVELOPMENT   
     Subdivision 1.  Total                                     
Appropriation                           22,178,700   22,134,600 
Approved Complement - 177.7 
General -             159.7 
Economic Development -    4 
Federal -                14 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $17,836,700  $17,763,600 
Economic Development 4,342,000  $ 4,371,000 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Minnesota Trade Office 
  $1,830,300    $1,826,400 
 Up to $10,000 the first year and up to 
$10,000 the second year of money 
appropriated to the commissioner of 
agriculture by other law for the 
Minnesota grown promotion campaign may 
be used for promotion of cheeses made 
from goat's and sheep milk and 
specialty yogurts. 
     Subd. 3.  Economic Development  
  $ 3,057,800   $ 3,053,400
 $250,000 the first year and $250,000 
the second year are for community 
development corporations.  This 
appropriation is available for 
expenditure only to the extent that it 
is matched by a community development 
corporation with $2 of nonstate money 
for each $3 of state money. 
 Of this appropriation, up to $120,000 
each year is for the Minnesota motion 
picture board.  This appropriation is 
available only upon receipt of a 
dollar-for-dollar match by the board 
from nonstate sources. 
 All money in the business license 
revolving fund on June 30, 1987, shall 
be canceled to the special revenue fund.
     Subd. 4.  Tourism 
  $ 5,851,700   $ 5,852,800
$75,000 of this appropriation is to the 
office of tourism for promoting the 
cross country ski trails program and 
providing the public with information 
about the importance of the program to 
tourism in Minnesota and the importance 
of maintenance and development of cross 
country ski trails. 
During the biennium, the office of 
tourism may market tourism related 
publications and media promotional 
materials to businesses and 
organizations.  The proceeds from the 
marketing are to be placed in a fund to 
be used for the preparation and 
distribution of the office's 
publications and media promotional 
materials.  This fund shall not cancel 
to the general fund at the end of the 
biennium.  The director shall report to 
the legislature by January 15, 1989 on 
this fund. 
 Of the general fund appropriation, up 
to $15,000 must be made available to 
Travel America, Inc., a nonprofit 
corporation established for promoting 
and expanding education and tourism in 
Pine county.  The appropriation is to 
be made available on a dollar-to-dollar 
match for purposes of studying the 
feasibility of establishing an 
environmental learning center on county 
lands near the Kettle river.  Travel 
America, Inc., may enter into a 
contract to conduct the study with a 
private party consultant and the study 
must involve information from local and 
statewide environmental groups and 
local school district representatives 
regarding the impact of establishing an 
environmental learning center.  The 
site may include land on both sides of 
the Kettle river about one mile south 
of Sandstone and the old United States 
government road.  Travel America, Inc. 
must report to the department of 
natural resources and to the 
environment and natural resources 
committees of both the house and the 
senate on the findings of the study no 
later than June 30, 1989.  The 
appropriation is available until it is 
expended. 
In order to develop maximum private 
sector involvement in tourism marketing 
activities, $1,750,000 the first year 
and $1,750,000 the second year shall be 
placed in a separate account for 
tourism marketing activities by the 
office of tourism.  Expenditure of the 
money in the account is contingent upon 
receipt of an equal match with nonstate 
contributions that have been verified 
and documented to the commissioner of 
finance.  Up to one-third of the 
required nonstate match may be given in 
in-kind contributions. 
 $50,000 the first year and $50,000 the 
second year are to make a grant to a 
private nonprofit organization to 
develop an effort coordinated with 
other private nonprofit promotional 
groups to identify and create tourist 
attractions in northern Minnesota.  
This appropriation is available only as 
matched by $1 of nonstate money for 
each $1 of state money.  The 
organization shall report to the 
legislature by January 15, 1988, and 
January 15, 1989, on the expenditure of 
the grant. 
     Subd. 5.  Administration 
  $   901,800    $  839,500 
 The commissioner shall refund to the 
city of Hastings any remaining 
application deposit received during 
calendar year 1984 from the city of 
Hastings in connection with the 
Hastings hydroelectric project pursuant 
to Minnesota Statutes, section 474.19 
and retained by the department.  
$60,000 is appropriated from the 
general fund to the commissioner to 
refund the industrial development bond 
allocation application deposit to the 
city of Hastings.  
     Subd. 6.  Community Development 
  $ 8,642,800   $ 8,640,900
              Summary by fund
General Fund         $ 5,142,800   $ 5,140,900
Economic Development $ 3,500,000   $ 3,500,000
The commissioner, in consultation with 
the chair of the LCMR, or the chair's 
designee, shall prepare a report for 
the chairs of the environment and 
appropriations committees in the house 
and the chairs of the environment and 
finance committees in the senate by 
January 1, 1989 examining the 
feasibility of designating county parks 
in the seven county metropolitan area 
as state parks.  The report shall 
include analysis of the operation and 
maintenance costs and the extent of the 
public's use of the parks, and a 
comparison of the efficiency and cost 
effectiveness of county management 
versus state management of the parks. 
 $2,164,700 the first year and 
$2,164,700 the second year are for 
economic recovery grants. 
 $2,000,000 the first year and 
$2,000,000 the second year are for 
payment of a grant to the metropolitan 
council for metropolitan area regional 
parks maintenance and operation money. 
The approved complement for community 
development includes five positions in 
the unclassified service to administer 
outdoor recreation grants.  At the 
request of the commissioner of energy 
and economic development, the 
commissioner of employee relations 
shall transfer the incumbents of these 
positions on June 30, 1987, to 
probationary status in the same 
classification and pay step in the 
classified civil service without 
competitive examination. 
     Subd. 7.  Science and Technology 
  $  892,000    $  921,000
               Summary by fund
General              $  100,000  $  100,000
Economic Development $  792,000  $  821,000
$60,000 the first year and $60,000 the 
second year is appropriated from the 
economic development fund for a grant 
to the Minnesota High Technology 
Corridor Corporation. 
$75,000 the first year and $75,000 the 
second year is appropriated from the 
economic development fund for a grant 
to the Minnesota Inventors' Congress. 
The purposes of this grant include 
establishment of a focal point for 
development of an invention support 
system including an advisory council 
comprised of representatives from the 
public and private sectors; 
coordination of an invention support 
system, primarily in the form of 
semi-autonomous regional centers, while 
protecting, enriching, and promoting 
existing activities such as the 
Minnesota Inventors' Congress, the 
Minnesota Inventors' Hall of Fame, the 
Inventions and Technology Transfer 
Corporation, the Inventors' Club, and 
the Young Inventors' Fair; promotion of 
invention research, with resultant 
knowledge to be disseminated to 
Minnesota educational systems; and 
development of a fiscal design for the 
statewide invention support system.  
The Inventors' Congress shall report to 
the commissioner of energy and economic 
development by June 30 of each year on 
its activities in carrying out the 
purposes of this grant. 
$137,000 the first year and $166,000 
the second year is appropriated from 
the economic development fund for 
payment of dues to the Midwest 
Technology Development Institute. 
$120,000 the first year and $120,000 
the second year is appropriated from 
the economic development fund for a 
grant to Minnesota Project Innovation.  
The Minnesota project innovation shall 
report quarterly to the house committee 
on future and technology and to the 
senate finance committee.  
     Subd. 8.  Financial Management 
  $   50,000    $   50,000 
 This appropriation is from the economic 
development fund. 
 Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
section 116J.873, the city of Babbit 
may request, and the commissioner may 
approve, an economic recovery grant in 
excess of $500,000 for the purpose of 
completing a waste tire recycling plant.
$3,500,000 the first year and 
$3,500,000 the second year is 
appropriated from the economic 
development fund for economic recovery 
grants under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 116J.873. 
     Subd. 9.  Policy Analysis 
  $   852,300   $  850,600
$150,000 the first year and $150,000 
the second year is available to the 
commissioner to contract for consultant 
services for the development of a trade 
model. 
     Subd. 10.  Productivity and Quality 
  $   100,000    $   100,000 
 This appropriation is for the Minnesota 
council on productivity and quality. 
$50,000 of the appropriation is 
available immediately after the 
appointment of the council.  The 
commissioner shall place the remainder 
in a separate account and release money 
from that account to the council only 
as an equal match for nonstate gifts 
and grants verified by the 
commissioner.  Up to three-fifths of 
the required nonstate match may be the 
value, as determined by the council, of 
consulting services provided to 
businesses or labor organizations 
through the council. 
     Sec. 27.  WORLD TRADE CENTER 
BOARD  
 The unexpended balance of the 
appropriation in Laws 1985, First 
Special Session chapter 13, section 29, 
for the world trade center board is 
available until June 30, 1989. 
     Sec. 28.  HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY  
Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                          $9,526,700    $9,526,700 
Approved Complement - 129 
 Spending limit on cost of general 
administration of agency programs:  
     1988          1989 
  $ 6,235,000   $ 6,547,000
 This appropriation is for transfer to 
the housing development fund for the 
programs specified. 
 $150,000 the first year and $150,000 
the second year are for home sharing 
programs under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 462A.05, subdivision 24. 
 $990,000 the first year and $990,000 
the second year are for home ownership 
assistance under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 462A.21, subdivision 8. 
 $2,225,000 the first year and 
$2,225,000 the second year are for home 
ownership, home improvement, and 
multifamily bond leveraging interest 
rate writedowns under Minnesota 
Statutes, sections 462A.21, 
subdivisions 4b and 8a. 
 $1,885,000 the first year and 
$1,885,000 the second year are for 
tribal Indian housing programs under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 462A.07, 
subdivision 14, of which $125,000 the 
first year and $125,000 the second year 
are for a demonstration program to make 
off-reservation loans in combination 
with bond proceeds from the agency. 
 $235,000 the first year and $235,000 
the second year are for urban Indian 
housing programs under Minnesota 
Statutes, section 462A.07, subdivision 
15, to be distributed by the agency 
without regard to any allocation 
formula. 
 $3,716,700 the first year and 
$3,716,700 the second year are for 
housing rehabilitation and 
accessibility loans under Minnesota 
Statutes, sections 462A.05, 
subdivisions 14a and 15a. 
$500,000 is appropriated to the housing 
development fund created in section 
462A.20 for grants for residential 
housing for low income persons living 
alone.  The agency may pay the costs 
and expenses for the development and 
operation of this program out of this 
appropriation. 
 $75,000 the first year and $75,000 the 
second year are for temporary housing 
programs under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 462A.05, subdivision 20. 
     Sec. 29.  STATE PLANNING AGENCY     5,283,500    5,221,500 
                         1988     1989 
Approved Complement -     112      112 
General -                78.5     78.5
Special Revenue -         4.5      4.5
Motor Vehicle Transfer -    3        3
Revolving -                22       22 
Federal -                   4        4 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 4,729,800  $ 4,568,100
Special Revenue    $   357,500  $   457,200
Motor Vehicle 
  Transfer         $   196,200  $   196,200
 Two positions paid from the motor 
vehicle transfer fund are in the 
unclassified service. 
 $377,000 the first year and $377,000 
the second year are for regional 
planning grants to regional development 
commissions organized under Minnesota 
Statutes, sections 462.381 to 462.396. 
 Until June 30, 1989, for state and 
federal grants distributed by state 
agencies to regions of the state not 
having a regional development 
commission, the state agency 
administering the grant program may 
assess the program for administrative 
costs incurred by the agency that 
normally are incurred by the commission.
 $22,000 the first year and $22,000 the 
second year are for the Council of 
Great Lakes Governors. 
 The state planning director shall 
coordinate state policy related to 
children.  The director shall 
periodically issue reports related to 
the status and needs of Minnesota 
children. 
     Sec. 30.  MINNESOTA RESOURCES 
 FUND 
     Subdivision 1.  Total Appropriation   8,114,000   8,127,000 
Approved complement - 37 
 The appropriations in this section are 
from the Minnesota resources fund.  
The commissioner of finance shall 
transfer $162,300 the first year and 
$162,500 the second year of this 
appropriation to the general fund. 
The commissioner of finance, upon 
recommendation of the legislative 
commission on Minnesota resources, 
shall allocate this reduction among the 
programs and activities in this section.
As the cash flow of the Minnesota 
resources fund permits, the 
commissioner of finance shall transfer 
from the unencumbered balance in the 
Minnesota resources fund and credit it 
to the general fund. 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are 
more specifically described in the 
following subdivisions. 
 For all appropriations in this section, 
if the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
     Subd. 2.  Legislative Commission 
on Minnesota Resources                       250,000     250,000 
 For the biennium ending June 30, 1989, 
the commission shall review the work 
programs and progress reports required 
under this section and report its 
findings and recommendations to the 
committee on finance of the senate, 
committee on appropriations of the 
house of representatives, and other 
appropriate committees.  During the 
biennium, the commission shall 
establish oversight committees to 
continue review of a variety of natural 
resource subject areas as it believes 
necessary to carry out its legislative 
charge. 
     Subd. 3.  Department of Natural 
Resources                                  2,867,000   2,870,000 
Approved complement - 28 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows: 
(a) Groundwater Management 
     $300,000     $300,000 
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is to determine the 
relationship between ground and surface 
water use, flow, and quality impacts 
near rivers.  
(b) Water Allocation and Conservation 
     $200,000     $200,000 
Approved complement - 6 
 The appropriation is to develop an 
instream flow program including 
hydrologic and biologic components and 
to determine specific protected flow 
requirements for allocation and 
development decisions. 
(c) Accelerated Land Exchange 
     $125,000     $125,000 
Approved complement - 3 
 The appropriation is to accelerate land 
exchange transactions so larger amounts 
of land change hands, including 
multiple public agency exchanges and 
state park trust land title transfers.  
This includes accelerated improvement 
of land records and development of a 
submerged land management program. 
(d) Marketing Department Services 
     $135,000     $135,000 
Approved complement - 3 
 The appropriation is to examine the 
information expectations and needs of 
the public regarding natural resource 
management and outdoor recreation use, 
and to develop a marketing plan to 
insure that DNR facilities and programs 
offer services that reflect market 
interest. 
(e) Ridgeline Trail 
     $190,000     $190,000 
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is for a grant to the 
Superior hiking trail association for 
planning, development, and limited 
easement acquisition of a trail that 
follows the ridgeline overlooking Lake 
Superior.  Local contributions of 
donated perpetual easements, volunteer 
labor, materials, and ongoing 
operations and maintenance 
responsibility will supplement the 
grant.  The use of conservation corps 
resources is strongly encouraged.  Up 
to $60,000 is available to the 
department for planning and 
administrative assistance. 
(f) Mississippi River Management 
     $135,000     $136,000 
Approved complement - 4 
 The appropriation is to provide an 
interdisciplinary management team to 
better coordinate planning and 
implementation of state and federal 
initiatives on the Minnesota, St. 
Croix, and Mississippi rivers. 
(g) Brighton Beach Breakwater 
     $235,000     $235,000 
 The appropriation is for development of 
a breakwater in conjunction with a 
state public access on locally-owned 
land to meet increased recreation 
demand and provide safer fishing and 
boating opportunities. 
(h) Fish and Wildlife Comprehensive 
Planning 
     $130,000     $130,000 
Approved complement - 3 
 The appropriation is to continue 
development of the long range fish and 
wildlife comprehensive plan, develop 
and implement a cost accounting 
performance reporting process, refine 
public involvement, implement action 
planning, work planning, and budgeting 
for all work and funds of the division 
of fish and wildlife.  The commissioner 
shall pursue 75 percent reimbursement 
and deposit the receipts into the 
Minnesota resources fund federal 
reimbursement account, if permissible 
under federal law. 
(i) Forest Wildlife Habitat Intensification 
     $ 80,000     $ 80,000 
Approved complement - 2 
 The appropriation provides staff to 
assist with forestry unit planning to 
insure fish and wildlife considerations 
are fully addressed. 
(j) Swan Lake Area Wildlife Project 
     $975,000     $976,000
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is for an initial 
project to dramatically increase 
wildlife populations by focusing on 
private land cost sharing, acquisition 
and development of diverse lands, and 
application of innovative management 
techniques, thereby bolstering the 
local economy through increased 
wildlife based recreation.  All gifts, 
match reimbursements, or other receipts 
are appropriated for this purpose. 
All acquisition of land may be no 
greater than 100 percent of the 
appraised value. 
(k) County Biological Survey 
     $ 87,000     $ 88,000 
Approved complement - 2 
 The appropriation is for a survey of 
rare plants, animals, and habitats 
using combinations of existing 
forestry, soils, and habitat data on a 
county-by-county basis.  Private match 
is appropriated. 
(l) Glacial Drift Geochemistry 
     $100,000     $100,000 
Approved complement - 2 
 The appropriation is to extend 
geochemical techniques to additional 
areas in order to evaluate the 
potential existence of strategic 
minerals, using the aeromagnetic survey 
as a guide for targeting efforts. 
(m) Regeneration Growth Inventory 
     $ 25,000     $ 25,000 
 The appropriation is for a grant to 
Beltrami county to inventory young 
timber stands and develop revised 
growth models that will indicate the 
feasibility of increased or decreased 
harvesting. 
(n) Conservation Corps 
     $150,000     $150,000 
 The appropriation is for acceleration 
of the corps work with a new emphasis 
on county forest and recreation 
projects. 
The appropriation must be equally 
matched from the county and local units 
of government where the conservation 
corps work takes place. 
     Subd. 4.  Pollution Control Agency      491,000     492,000 
Approved complement - 3 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows: 
(a) Handbooks of Best Management 
Practices 
     $ 30,000     $ 30,000 
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is to develop a 
catalogue of structural and 
nonstructured nonpoint source pollution 
best management practices and training 
programs for primary users.  Federal 
match is appropriated. 
(b) Nonpoint Source Pollution Model 
     $ 40,000     $ 40,000 
 The appropriation is for additional 
development of the AGNPS model in order 
to emphasize analyses of watershed 
pollutants in the areas of off-site 
erosion impacts, pesticides, 
groundwater, economic analysis, urban 
compatibility, and annualization.  
Federal match is appropriated. 
(c) Garvin Brook Final Evaluation 
     $ 75,000     $ 75,000 
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is to conduct 
follow-up monitoring, testing, and 
evaluation and to report on the 
practices installed since the 1981 
initiation of the project.  Federal 
money available is appropriated. 
(d) Lake Runoff Management Evaluation 
     $196,000     $197,000 
 The appropriation is for a grant to the 
metropolitan council for evaluation, 
documentation, and reporting on the 
effectiveness of various runoff 
management practices on lake protection.
(e) Mercury Toxicity 
     $150,000     $150,000 
Approved complement - 1 
 The appropriation is to examine lakes, 
streams, and fish in order to determine 
the source of and mitigation measures 
for mercury contamination.  Federal 
money available is appropriated. 
     Subd. 5.  State Planning Agency         512,000     513,000
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows: 
(a) Pilot Comprehensive Local Water Planning 
     $450,000     $450,000 
 The appropriation is for the 
environmental quality board for a water 
planning project to make up to eight 
grants to local units of government 
with the required nonstate one-to-one 
match.  This includes up to $70,000 for 
information services to be provided by 
the land management information 
center.  All state agencies shall 
provide information and assist these 
county efforts as appropriate.  The 
rulemaking provisions of Minnesota 
Statutes, chapter 14, do not apply to 
the award of grants under this 
paragraph. 
(b) Support for Soil and Water Management 
     $ 62,000     $ 63,000 
 The appropriation is for the 
environmental quality board to make a 
grant to the international coalition to 
provide an understandable basin-wide 
perspective on soils and waters for 
improved public knowledge and 
enhancement of local planning efforts 
in the Red River basin.  The freshwater 
foundation is requested to assist the 
project as feasible. 
     Subd. 6.  Department of Agriculture     245,000     245,000 
(a) Biological Control of Pests 
Approved complement - 5 
 The appropriation is for research to 
develop the natural enemies needed to 
control several plant and animal pests 
as an alternative to pesticides.  
Seasonal staffing as needed is 
anticipated. 
     Subd. 7.  Minnesota Historical 
Society                                      173,000     177,000 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each activity are as 
follows: 
(a) Historical Data Base 
     $ 50,000     $ 50,000 
 The appropriation is to organize and 
automate the collections, increase 
public awareness, and significantly 
improve management of these rare 
materials.  Available private money is 
appropriated. 
(b) Environmental Oral History 
     $ 22,000     $ 23,000 
 The appropriation is to complete the 
project initiated in 1985 while people 
who are important to environmental 
history are still available. 
(c) Geographic Resource Marketing 
     $ 22,000     $ 23,000 
 The appropriation is to accelerate 
marketing and interpretation of 
important geographic resources for 
purposes of preservation, tourism, and 
public use. 
(d) Heritage Trails 
     $ 22,000     $ 23,000 
 The appropriation is for a project to 
interpret and preserve historic trails 
for public use tourism. 
(e) Indian History Grants in Aid 
     $ 35,000     $ 35,000 
 The appropriation is for grants to 
preserve and develop the Battle Point 
and Kathio sites on an equal match 
basis with the reservations. 
(f) Farm Economy Record 
     $ 22,000     $ 23,000 
 The appropriation is for a project to 
record the changes in the farm economy 
and the effects on the social fabric 
and general economy. 
     Subd. 8.  University of Minnesota     3,026,000   3,030,000 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
approriation for each activity are as 
follows: 
(a) Optimize Winter Lake Aeration 
     $ 49,000     $ 49,000 
 The appropriation is for the St. 
Anthony Falls Hydraulics laboratory to 
determine optimum selection, sizing, 
and operation of lake aeration 
equipment and techniques. 
(b) Gas Permeable Membrane Water Treatment 
     $ 87,000     $ 88,000 
 The appropriation is for the civil and 
mineral engineering department to 
research and develop novel technologies 
for removal of contaminants from 
water.  If this work results in a 
patent and subsequent royalties, the 
university shall repay 50 percent of 
the royalties received, net of patent 
servicing costs, until the entire 
appropriation is repaid, into the 
Minnesota resources fund. 
(c) Dioxins in Bleached Kraft Pulp 
     $150,000     $150,000 
 The appropriation is for the natural 
resources research institute to develop 
biodegradation techniques for 
decontamination of soils and sludge 
containing dioxins produced through 
bleached kraft pulp manufacture and to 
improve the data base on dioxin 
contamination.  Federal and private 
moneys are appropriated. 
(d) Engineering Solutions to Water Problems 
     $350,000     $350,000 
 The appropriation is for the St. 
Anthony Falls Hydraulics laboratory to 
develop engineering methods for 
pollutant transport, river erosion and 
sedimentation, selection of lake 
management techniques, and evaluation 
of effects of ice on flooding. 
(e) Groundwater Quality Impacts from 
Agriculture
     $155,000     $156,000 
 The appropriation is for the soils 
department to quantify the nitrogen and 
pesticides that move through soil under 
the effects of various agricultural 
pratices and to determine the effects 
of transformation and breakdown 
products. 
(f) Simple Water Assay 
     $ 25,000     $ 25,000 
 The appropriation is for the Gray 
freshwater biological institute to 
develop a low cost and readily useable 
test to detect various water 
pollutants.  The appropriation is 
contingent upon at least an equal 
private match from the freshwater 
foundation, which is appropriated.  If 
this work results in a patent and 
subsequent royalties, the university 
shall repay 50 percent of the royalties 
received, net of patent servicing 
costs, until the entire appropriation 
is repaid, into the Minnesota resources 
fund. 
(g) Accelerated Soil Survey 
     $700,000     $700,000 
 The appropriation is for the 
agricultural experiment station for the 
sixth biennium of a seven biennium 
effort to provide the appropriate 
detailed survey based on the adopted 
federal, state, and local cost share.  
It may be spent only in counties where 
the survey was underway or the 
agreement signed and survey scheduled 
by July 1, 1988. 
(h) Biomass Cash Crop Nursery 
Establishment 
     $ 92,000     $ 92,000 
 The appropriation is for the Crookston 
campus to establish poplar nurseries 
with local growers and small 
demonstration plots at Waseca and 
Lamberton. 
(i) Undrained Peatlands for Short 
Rotation Forestry 
     $ 58,000     $ 58,000 
 The appropriation is for the natural 
resources research institute to 
determine the feasibility of using 
undrained peat for poplar and willow 
plantations as an alternative to the 
environmental impacts from conventional 
drainage land preparation techniques. 
(j) Compost and CoCompost Research 
     $ 87,000     $ 88,000 
 The appropriation is for the soils 
department to identify methods that 
optimize produce quality and to 
determine management practices and 
application rates for use of compost. 
(k) Gamefish Growth Enhancement 
     $321,000     $322,000 
 The appropriation is for the fish and 
wildlife department to produce fish 
with increased growth rates using 
genetic engineering.  If this work 
results in a patent and subsequent 
royalties, the university shall repay 
50 percent of the royalties received, 
net of patent servicing costs, until 
the entire appropriation is repaid, 
into the Minnesota resources fund. 
(l) Evaluation of Mosquito Control 
Activities on Waterfowl 
     $ 60,000     $ 60,000 
 The appropriation is for the department 
of fish and wildlife to study impacts 
on the food resources of marshes 
related to waterfowl reproduction and 
duckling survival.  The university must 
attempt to secure an equal funding 
match from the metropolitan mosquito 
control commission.  The freshwater 
foundation is requested to assist by 
coordinating this work with other 
related studies on waterfowl. 
(m) Ash as a Lime or Fertilizer Source 
     $ 35,000     $ 35,000 
 The appropriation is for the extension 
service to determine the potential of 
wood and related ash as a soil 
amendment that is environmentally safe 
and economically viable for alfalfa and 
other crops. 
(n) Aeromagnetic Mapping 
     $400,000     $400,000 
 The appropriation is to the state 
geological survey for the fifth 
biennium of a six biennium effort to 
electronically acquire and interpret 
geophysical data, including groundtruth 
drilling. 
(o) Industrial Minerals:  Clay 
     $200,000     $200,000 
 The appropriation is for the mineral 
resources research center to test known 
clay resources for potential industrial 
resources and test the feasibility of 
producing high grade kaolin products 
from Redwood Falls area clay. 
(p) Future Timber Supply Scheduling 
Techniques 
     $ 73,000     $ 73,000 
 The appropriation is for the college of 
forestry to link strategic and 
operational planning by refining growth 
projection and planning models and to 
thereby help capture greater economic 
and biologic potentials from forests. 
(q) Biotechnology Applications in Forestry
     $ 84,000     $ 84,000 
 The appropriation is for the college of 
forestry to complete the basic research 
on regeneration, emphasing tissue 
culture, and on bioprocessing of lignin.
(r) Sludge Ash Pilot Project 
     $100,000     $100,000 
 The appropriation is to the mineral 
resources research center for a pilot 
plant test of new processing techniques 
for the ash from incinerated sewage 
sludge, and to assess the potential of 
total disposal through a route to a 
commercial product.  The match from the 
metropolitan waste control commission 
is appropriated.  If this work results 
in a patent and subsequent royalties, 
the university shall repay 50 percent 
of the royalties received, net of 
patent servicing costs, until the 
entire appropriation is repaid, into 
the Minnesota resources fund. 
     Subd. 9.  State University Board         50,000      50,000
(a) Nonenergy Peat Development 
 The appropriation is for Bemidji state 
university to accelerate the 
investigation of extracting high value 
commercial products from peat. 
     Subd. 10.  Appropriation Adjustment 
 The commissioner of finance, upon 
recommendation of the legislative 
commission on Minnesota resources, 
shall reduce the appropriations for the 
projects funded by this section by 
$100,000 in fiscal year 1988 and 
$100,000 in fiscal year 1989.  This 
reduction shall be reappropriated to 
the commissioner of natural resources 
to establish a control program for the 
weed lythrun salicaria (purple 
loosestrife) in cooperation with the 
department of agriculture. 
     Subd. 11.  Appropriation Adjustment 
 The commissioner of finance, upon 
recommendation of the legislative 
commission on Minnesota resources, 
shall adjust the appropriations for the 
projects funded by this section by 
$40,000 in fiscal year 1988 and $40,000 
in fiscal year 1989.  The reduction 
shall be reappropriated to the 
commissioner of natural resources to 
fund a land and water conservation fund 
coordination position.  The 
commissioner is authorized one 
complement position. 
     Subd. 12.  Compatible Data 
 During the biennium, the data collected 
by projects funded under this section 
that has common value for natural 
resource planning must be provided and 
integrated into the Minnesota land 
management information system's 
geographic and summary data bases 
according to published data 
compatibility guidelines.  Costs 
associated with this data delivery must 
be borne by the activity receiving 
funding under this section.  This 
requirement applies to all projects 
funded under this section, including 
but not limited to projects under 
subdivision 3, clauses (a), (b), (c), 
(h), (k), (l), and (m), subdivision 4, 
clause (b), subdivison 5, clause (a), 
and subdivision 8, clauses (e), (g), 
and (n). 
     Subd. 13.  Work Programs 
 It is a condition of acceptance of the 
appropriations made by this section 
that the agency or entity receiving the 
appropriation must submit work programs 
and semi-annual progress reports in the 
form determined by the legislative 
commission on Minnesota resources.  
None of the money provided in this 
subdivision may be spent unless the 
commission has approved the pertinent 
work program.  Upon request from the 
commission, the agency head shall 
submit an evaluation by July 1, 1988, 
as to whether the program should be 
incorporated in the next agency budget. 
     Subd. 14.  Complement Temporary 
 Persons employed by a state agency and 
paid by an appropriation in this 
section are in the unclassified civil 
service, and their continued employment 
is contingent upon the availability of 
money from the appropriation.  When the 
appropriation has been spent, their 
positions must be canceled and the 
approved complement of the agency 
reduced accordingly.  Part-time 
employment of persons is authorized. 
     Subd. 15.  Federal Reimbursement 
Account                                      500,000     500,000 
 This appropriation is for the spending 
purposes in the natural resources 
federal reimbursement account in 
Minnesota Statutes, section 86.72. 
     Sec. 31.  LABOR AND INDUSTRY 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           16,673,000   16,505,500 
                          1988     1989 
Approved Complement -      373      373
General -                   69     69.0
Special Revenue -           65       65 
Federal -                 42.5     42.5
Workers' Compensation -  196.5    196.5
              Summary by Fund 
General         $ 7,491,000 $ 7,540,900
Worker's Comp.  $ 7,722,700 $ 7,619,100 
Special Revenue $ 1,459,300 $ 1,345,500 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Employment Standards 
  $  909,900    $  907,400 
     Subd. 3.  Workers' Compensation 
Regulation and Enforcement 
  $ 4,065,300   $ 4,019,900
 This appropriation is from the special 
compensation fund. 
 Until June 30, 1989, the commissioner 
of labor and industry may provide a 
workers' compensation insurer or 
self-insured employer direct computer 
access to public workers' compensation 
data on file with the commissioner, 
upon receipt of a fee in an amount 
determined by the commissioner to be 
sufficient to cover the direct and 
indirect costs of providing the 
access.  Fee receipts must be deposited 
in the state treasury and credited to a 
special account and are appropriated to 
the commissioner to pay the costs of 
providing the access. 
     Subd. 4.  Workers' Compensation 
State Claims Management 
  $1,714,600    $1,771,300 
 $310,500 the first year and $322,900 
the second year are for payment of 
peace officer survivor benefits under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 176B.04.  
If the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
     Subd. 5.  Workers' Compensation 
Special Compensation Fund 
  $3,904,800    $3,903,800 
 Of this appropriation $1,404,800 the 
first year and $1,403,800 the second 
year are from the special compensation 
fund. 
 $2,500,000 the first year and 
$2,500,000 the second year are for 
reimbursement of the special 
compensation fund under Minnesota 
Statutes, section 176.183, subdivision 
2.  
$197,000 the first year and $197,000 
the second year is from the special 
compensation fund for enforcement of 
the mandatory insurance requirements 
contained in Minnesota Statutes, 
chapter 176.  This appropriation 
includes money to pay for an 
investigator to assist the department 
in its insurance enforcement efforts. 
     Subd. 6.  Code Enforcement  
  $ 1,409,600   $ 1,295,800
 This appropriation is from the special 
revenue fund. 
     Subd. 7.  OSHA 
  $ 1,237,900   $ 1,234,700
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 1,188,200  $1,185,000
Special Revenue    $    49,700  $   49,700
 $49,700 the first year and $49,700 the 
second year are from the special 
revenue fund for passenger elevator 
inspection. 
     Subd. 8.  General Support 
  $2,234,300    $2,232,200 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $  853,000   $  852,400
Workers' Comp.     $1,381,300   $1,379,800
     Subd. 9.  Information Management 
Services 
  $  1,196,600  $  1,140,400 
              Summary by Fund
General            $  325,300   $  324,800 
Workers' Comp.     $  871,300   $  815,600 
     Sec. 32.  WORKERS' COMPENSATION 
COURT OF APPEALS                           755,200      738,500 
Approved Complement - 15 
 This appropriation is from the workers' 
compensation special compensation fund. 
     Sec. 33.  MEDIATION SERVICES        1,570,100    1,618,600 
Approved Complement - 26 
 $237,500 the first year and $287,500 
the second year are for grants to area 
labor-management committees.  The 
unencumbered balance remaining in the 
first year does not cancel but is 
available for the second year. 
     Sec. 34.  PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT 
RELATIONS BOARD                             60,600       60,500 
    Approved Complement - 1 
     Sec. 35.  MILITARY AFFAIRS  
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                            6,301,100    6,303,400 
Approved Complement - 322.8 
General -  136.8 
Federal -  186.0 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Maintenance of Training 
Facilities 
  $ 4,990,900   $ 4,981,900
 $100,000 the first year and $100,000 
the second year are for six general 
fund positions to support the federal 
construction program. 
$100,000 the first year and $100,000 
the second year is for repairs and 
renovations.  If the appropriation for 
either year is insufficient the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Subd. 3.  General Support
  $1,310,200    $1,321,500 
 $75,000 the first year and $75,000 the 
second year are for expenses of 
military forces ordered to active duty 
under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 192.  
If the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
     Sec. 36.  VETERANS AFFAIRS 
     Subdivision 1.  Total 
Appropriation                           15,554,300   15,250,800 
Approved Complement - 408.5 
    General - 41.0 
    Special - 367.5 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 7,554,300  $ 7,250,800 
Transfers to 
  Other Direct    ($ 5,068,300)($ 4,765,200) 
Special Revenue    $13,068,300  $12,765,200 
 The amounts that may be spent from this 
appropriation for each program are 
specified in the following subdivisions.
     Subd. 2.  Veterans Benefits and 
Services 
  $2,486,000    $2,485,600 
 During the biennium, in administering 
veterans benefits programs the 
commissioner shall ensure that veterans 
participate in all federally funded 
benefit programs to the maximum extent 
possible before receiving assistance 
under state funded programs.  
 $988,100 the first year and $988,100 
the second year are for emergency 
financial and medical needs of 
veterans.  For the biennium ending June 
30, 1989, the commissioner shall limit 
financial assistance to veterans and 
dependents to six months, unless 
recipients have been certified as 
ineligible for other benefit programs.  
If the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
     Subd. 3.  Veterans Homes 
  $ 13,068,300  $ 12,765,200
              Summary by Fund 
General            $ 5,068,300  $ 4,765,200 
Transfers to 
  Other Direct    ($ 5,068,300)($ 4,765,200) 
Special Revenue    $13,068,300  $12,765,200 
 The appropriation from the general fund 
is for transfer by the commissioner of 
finance to the special revenue fund to 
support appropriations from the special 
revenue fund that are not fully 
supported by income from the federal 
government and charges to residents. 
$200,000 of unencumbered balances in 
the appropriations in Laws 1985, First 
Special Session chapter 13, section 37, 
subdivision 2, specified for emergency 
financial and medical needs of veterans 
is transferred to the fiscal year 1987 
Minneapolis Veterans Home program 
budget for emergency repairs and 
equipment needed to correct cited 
deficiencies at the home. 
     Sec. 37.  HUMAN RIGHTS              2,574,700    2,593,100 
    Approved Complement - 65 
     Sec. 38.  INDIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL      329,300      308,900 
Approved Complement - 9 
    General - 7 
    Federal - 2 
$25,000 the first year and $25,000 the 
second year is for the purpose of 
enabling the council to carry out the 
tasks of identifying, relocating or 
preserving the Indian burial grounds as 
required by Minnesota Statutes, section 
307.08.  The council is to work 
cooperatively with the Minnesota state 
historical society in performing these 
tasks.  
During the biennium, the data collected 
by this activity that has common value 
for natural resource planning must be 
provided and integrated into the 
Minnesota land management information 
system's geographic and summary data 
bases according to published data 
compatibility guidelines.  Costs 
associated with this data delivery must 
be borne by this activity. 
An additional $20,000 from the general 
fund is available for allotment by the 
commissioner of finance to the council 
during the biennium upon demonstration 
of a dollar-for-dollar match with 
nonpublic contributions.  Up to 
one-quarter of the nonpublic match 
requirement may be met with in-kind 
contributions.  Nonpublic contributions 
may be raised by the council in either 
year of the biennium.  All funds not 
receiving a nonpublic match shall 
cancel to the general fund at the end 
of the biennium. 
     Sec. 39.  COUNCIL ON AFFAIRS 
OF SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE                 154,300      134,500 
Approved Complement - 3 
An additional $20,000 from the general 
fund is available for allotment by the 
commissioner of finance to the council 
during the biennium only upon 
demonstration of a dollar-for-dollar 
match with nonpublic contributions.  Up 
to one-quarter of the nonpublic match 
requirement may be met with in-kind 
contributions.  Nonpublic contributions 
may be raised by the council in either 
year of the biennium.  All funds not 
receiving a nonpublic match shall 
cancel to the general fund at the end 
of the biennium. 
     Sec. 40.  COUNCIL ON BLACK 
MINNESOTANS                                168,700      148,700 
Approved Complement - 3.5 
An additional $20,000 from the general 
fund is available for allotment by the 
commissioner of finance to the council 
during the biennium only upon 
demonstration of a dollar-for-dollar 
match with nonpublic contributions.  Up 
to one-quarter of the nonpublic match 
requirement may be met with in-kind 
contributions.  Nonpublic contributions 
may be raised by the council in either 
year of the biennium.  All funds not 
receiving a nonpublic match shall 
cancel to the general fund at the end 
of the biennium. 
     Sec. 41.  COUNCIL ON ASIAN-PACIFIC
MINNESOTANS                                 150,000      130,000
Approved Complement - 3 
An additional $20,000 from the general 
fund is available for allotment by the 
commissioner of finance to the council 
during the biennium only upon 
demonstration of a dollar-for-dollar 
match with nonpublic contributions.  Up 
to one-quarter of the nonpublic match 
requirement may be met with in-kind 
contributions.  Nonpublic contributions 
may be raised by the council in either 
year of the biennium.  All funds not 
receiving a nonpublic match shall 
cancel to the general fund at the end 
of the biennium. 
     Sec. 42.  COUNCIL FOR THE 
HANDICAPPED                                438,900      419,500 
Approved Complement - 10 
An additional $20,000 from the general 
fund is available for allotment by the 
commissioner of finance to the council 
during the biennium only upon 
demonstration of a dollar-for-dollar 
match with nonpublic contributions.  Up 
to one-quarter of the nonpublic match 
requirement may be met with in-kind 
contributions.  Nonpublic contributions 
may be raised by the council in either 
year of the biennium.  All funds not 
receiving a nonpublic match shall 
cancel to the general fund at the end 
of the biennium. 
    Sec. 43.  SALARY SUPPLEMENT         19,699,600   42,569,100 
    Subdivision 1.  Appropriations 
 Except as limited by the direct 
appropriations made in this section, 
the amounts necessary to pay 
compensation and economic benefit 
increases covered by this section are 
appropriated from the various funds in 
the state treasury from which salaries 
are paid to the commissioner of finance 
for the fiscal years ending June 30, 
1988, and June 30, 1989.  In the case 
of salaries that are paid from one 
fund, but that fund is reimbursed by 
another fund, the amounts necessary to 
make these reimbursements are also 
appropriated.  
(a) General Fund 
  $14,453,000   $30,358,000
(b) Game and Fish Fund 
  $  568,500     $1,149,200
(c) Trunk Highway Fund 
  $5,118,900    $10,348,800
(d) Highway User Tax Distribution Fund 
  $  144,300    $  291,700 
(e) Workers' Compensation 
  $   208,200   $   421,400 
     Subd. 2.  Increases Covered 
 The compensation and economic benefit 
increases covered by this section are 
those paid to classified and 
unclassified employees and officers in 
the executive, judicial, and 
legislative branches of state 
government, and to employees of the 
Minnesota historical society who are 
paid from state appropriations, if the 
increases are required by existing law 
or authorized by law during the 1987 
session of the legislature or by 
appropriate resolutions for employees 
of the legislature, or are given 
interim approval by the legislative 
commission on employee relations under 
Minnesota Statutes, sections 3.855 and 
43A.18 or 179A.22, subdivision 4.  
 The salary increases recommended by the 
compensation council on December 18, 
1986, for legislators, judges, and 
constitutional officers are modified, 
so that the rate of increase that goes 
into effect on January 1, 1989, and 
January 1, 1990, must be five percent 
each year. 
 The commissioner of finance shall 
transfer to the appropriations for 
agencies in the legislative and 
judicial branches and for the 
constitutional officers the amounts 
certified as necessary for each agency 
by its chief financial officer.  For 
the purposes of this paragraph, the 
secretary of the senate is the chief 
financial officer for the senate, the 
chairman of the legislative 
coordinating commission for legislative 
commissions, the chief justice of the 
supreme court for agencies in the 
judicial branch, and the elected 
constitutional officer for each 
constitutional office. 
 The salaries for positions listed in 
Minnesota Statutes, section 15A.081, 
subdivision 1, which were given interim 
approval by the legislative commission 
on employee relations on March 31, 
1987, are ratified, retroactive to 
January 16, 1987. 
The salary increase for a position 
listed in Minnesota Statutes, section 
15A.081, subdivision 1, must not be 
more than five percent for each year of 
the biennium ending June 30, 1989. 
 Within the provisions of the managerial 
plan approved under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 43A.18, an agency may not 
authorize aggregate performance 
increases for its managers that exceed 
an average of three percent in each 
year of the biennium ending June 30, 
1989.  A salary increase given in a 
lump sum is included within this 
limit.  If an agency has fewer than 
three managers, it may exceed this 
average by one percent. 
 By January 1, 1989, the commissioner of 
employee relations must assess 
managerial pay practices among the 
categories of agencies as grouped in 
Minnesota Statutes, section 15A.081, 
and among the metropolitan council and 
metropolitan commissions and boards.  
Managers within agencies of the 
executive branch not listed in section 
15A.081 must also be compared.  This 
assessment must be reported to the 
chairs of the committees of house 
appropriations, senate finance, and the 
legislative commission on employee 
relations. 
 The metropolitan council or a 
metropolitan commission or board may 
not authorize aggregate performance 
increases for its managers that exceed 
an average of three percent in each 
year of the biennium ending June 30, 
1989. A salary increase given in a lump 
sum is included within this limit.  If 
an agency has fewer than three 
managers, it may exceed this average by 
one percent. 
     Subd. 3.  Notice 
 During the biennium, the commissioner 
of finance shall transfer the necessary 
amounts to the proper accounts and 
shall promptly notify the committee on 
finance of the senate and the committee 
on appropriations of the house of 
representatives of the amount 
transferred to each appropriation 
account. 
     Sec. 44.  GENERAL CONTINGENT 
ACCOUNTS                                1,450,000      750,000
 The appropriations in this section must 
be spent with the approval of the 
governor after consultation with the 
legislative advisory commission under 
Minnesota Statutes, section 3.30. 
 If an appropriation in this section for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
              Summary by Fund 
General            $750,000     $750,000
Special Revenue    $500,000     $      0
Workers' Comp.     $200,000     $      0
 The appropriation from the general fund 
is only available to the extent that 
the unreserved fund balance of the 
general fund on July 1, 1987, is 
greater than was estimated at the time 
this act was enacted. 
     Sec. 45.  TORT CLAIMS                318,500       318,500
 To be spent by the commissioner of 
finance.  
 If the appropriation for either year is 
insufficient, the appropriation for the 
other year is available for it.  
              Summary by Fund 
General            $  303,000   $   303,000
Game and Fish      $   15,500   $    15,500
     Sec. 46.  MINNESOTA STATE 
RETIREMENT SYSTEM                        4,970,000    5,216,000 
 The amounts estimated to be needed for 
each program are as follows: 
(a) Legislators 
  $2,155,000    $2,161,000 
 Under Minnesota Statutes, sections 
3A.03, subdivision 2; 3A.04, 
subdivisions 3 and 4; and 3A.11. 
(b) Judges 
  $2,650,000    $2,875,000 
 Under Minnesota Statutes, sections 
490.106; and 490.123, subdivision 1. 
(c) Constitutional Officers 
  $  142,000    $  157,000 
 Under Minnesota Statutes, sections 
352C.031, subdivision 5; 352C.04, 
subdivision 3; and 352C.09, subdivision 
2. 
(d) State Employee Supplemental Benefits 
  $   23,000    $   23,000 
 Under Minnesota Statutes, section 
352.73. 
 If an appropriation in this section for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Sec. 47.  PUBLIC EMPLOYEES 
RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION                      30,000       30,000 
 This appropriation is for supplemental 
benefits under Minnesota Statutes, 
section 353.83. 
 If an appropriation in this section for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Sec. 48.  MINNEAPOLIS EMPLOYEES 
RETIREMENT FUND                         10,654,000   11,375,000 
 The appropriation is to the 
commissioner of finance for payment to 
the Minneapolis employees retirement 
fund under Minnesota Statutes, section 
422A.101, subdivision 3. 
 If an appropriation in this section for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Sec. 49.  POLICE AND FIRE 
AMORTIZATION AID                         7,537,000    7,537,000 
 The appropriation is to the 
commissioner of finance for state aid 
to amortize the unfunded liability of 
local police and salaried firefighters' 
relief associations, under Minnesota 
Statutes, section 423A.02.  If an 
appropriation in this section for 
either year is insufficient, the 
appropriation for the other year is 
available for it. 
     Sec. 50.  UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA     372,900      372,400 
 This appropriation is for use by the 
St. Anthony Falls hydraulics laboratory.
 This appropriation must not be 
allocated by the commissioner of 
finance to the University of Minnesota 
until the commissioner has made an 
annual determination that the federal 
money available each fiscal year is 
less than the amount that was available 
in fiscal year 1987.  The amount of the 
allocation, when added to the federal 
money available, must not exceed the 
amount of federal money received in 
fiscal year 1987. 
     Sec. 51.  FISCAL YEAR 1987 APPROPRIATIONS 
     Subdivision 1.  Appropriations 
The sums set forth in columns 
designated "APPROPRIATIONS" are 
appropriated from the General Fund, or 
any other fund designated, to the 
agencies and for the purposes specified 
in this section, to be available for 
fiscal year 1987. 
                  Summary by Fund
                                    1987
General                         $3,325,900
Special Revenue                    395,000
Trunk Highway                      284,800
Workers' Compensation               18,300
                                     APPROPRIATION
                                          1987
     Subd. 2.  Trial Courts                 $  413,900
This appropriation is added to the 
appropriation in Laws 1985, First 
Special Session chapter 13, section 5, 
subdivision 2, for district and county 
judges. 
     Subd. 3.  Attorney General                584,800
$300,000 is added to the appropriation 
in Laws 1985, First Special Session 
chapter 13, section 14, subdivision 5, 
and remains available until the 
bankruptcy proceeding involving LTV 
Corporation and Reserve Mining is 
resolved. 
$284,800 is appropriated from the trunk 
highway fund for transfer by the 
commissioner of finance to the general 
fund on June 30, 1987, in order to 
reimburse the general fund for legal 
services to trunk highway fund purposes 
in fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987. 
     Subd.4.  Pollution Control Agency               490,000
This appropriation is for environmental 
impact statements and is available 
until June 30, 1988.  Koch Refining 
Company shall reimburse the general 
fund for the cost of conducting the 
environmental impact statement on their 
land farm project. 
     Subd. 5.  Labor and Industry            1,032,000
This appropriation is to pay the 
reinsurance premium for the workers' 
compensation state employee claims 
management program and is added to the 
appropriation in Laws 1985, First 
Special Session chapter 13, section 32. 
     Subd. 6.  Workers' Compensation
Court of Appeals                               18,300
This appropriation is from the workers' 
compensation special compensation fund 
and is added to the appropriation in 
Laws 1985, First Special Session 
chapter 13, section 33.  
     Subd. 7.  Veterans Affairs               395,000
This appropriation from the special 
revenue fund is to provide salaries for 
nursing staff, patients' food, and 
workers' compensation payments and is 
added to the appropriation in Laws 
1985, First Special Session chapter 13, 
section 37. 
     Subd. 8.  Transfer of Lands              790,000
To be disbursed by the commissioner of 
finance and to remain available until 
the transfer of lands authorized by 
Laws 1984, chapter 539, and Laws 1986, 
chapter 429 is completed. 
Of this amount, up to $650,000 is for 
condemnation awards related to 
reimbursement of the permanent school 
fund for up to 1,500 acres of school 
and other trust fund lands that must be 
condemned in order to complete the 
transfer authorized by Laws 1984, 
chapter 539 and Laws 1986, chapter 
429.  The remaining amount may be used 
for costs and other expenses associated 
with the condemnation and transfer. 
Payment or reimbursement must not be 
made from this appropriation until the 
state of Minnesota and the United 
States have entered into a land 
transfer agreement under the terms of 
the White Earth Land Settlement Act of 
1985, Public Law Number 99-264, 
Statutes at Large, volume 100, page 61. 
$50,000 is to reimburse the White Earth 
Band of Chippewa Indians for actual 
costs incurred in developing, 
supporting, and implementing the White 
Earth Land Claim Settlement Act, Public 
Law 99-264.  Payments must be made by 
the commissioner of finance upon 
submission of invoices, bills, or 
statements certified by the chairman of 
the White Earth tribal council to be 
actual costs incurred in developing, 
supporting, and implementing the 
settlement act, and upon review and 
approval of the submissions by the 
attorney general. 
     Subd. 9.  Firefighting                          
 The amount necessary to pay for 
emergency firefighting expenses is 
added to the appropriation in Laws 
1985, First Special Session chapter 13, 
section 23, subdivision 7, for the 
purposes of firefighting. 
    Subd. 10.  Superconducting Supercollider 
 $300,000 is appropriated from the 
general fund for fiscal year 1987 to a 
contingency account in the governor's 
office for the purpose of preparing an 
application to the Department of Energy 
for Minnesota to become the site of the 
superconducting supercollider.  The 
governor's office shall seek out 
private funding and shall make use of 
the full services of the state planning 
agency in preparing the application.  
This appropriation is available until 
January 1, 1988. 
    Sec. 52.  [POSTRETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT; LUMP SUM PAYMENTS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [COVERED RETIREMENT FUNDS.] The following 
retirement funds shall pay the postretirement adjustment 
provided for in this section: 
    (1) public employees retirement fund; 
    (2) public employees police and fire fund; 
    (3) teachers retirement fund; 
    (4) state patrol retirement fund; 
    (5) state employees retirement fund of the Minnesota state 
retirement system; and 
    (6) Minneapolis employees retirement fund. 
    Subd. 2.  [ENTITLEMENT.] A person receiving a retirement 
annuity, disability benefit, or surviving spouse's annuity or 
benefit from a retirement fund named in subdivision 1 is 
entitled to receive the postretirement adjustment provided for 
in this section if the annuity or benefit the person is 
receiving is: 
    (1) an annuity or benefit from the fund named in 
subdivision 1, clause (4), computed under the laws in effect 
before June 1, 1973; 
    (2) an annuity or benefit from the funds named in 
subdivision 1, clause (1), (2), (3), or (5), computed under the 
laws in effect before July 1, 1973; 
    (3) an annuity from the fund named in subdivision 1, clause 
(6), computed under the laws in effect before March 5, 1974; 
    (4) a "$2 bill and annuity" annuity from the fund named in 
subdivision 1, clause (6); or 
    (5) an annuity or benefit from the fund named in 
subdivision 1, clause (5), computed under the metropolitan 
transit commission-transit operating division employees 
retirement fund document in effect before January 1, 1978. 
    Subd. 3.  [AMOUNT OF ADJUSTMENT.] Each retirement fund 
named in subdivision 1 shall pay the postretirement adjustments 
provided for in this section to each person eligible for an 
annuity or benefit on November 30, 1987, or November 30, 1988, 
and entitled to an adjustment under subdivision 2.  An 
adjustment for an individual recipient must be a lump sum 
payment in an amount equal to $20 in 1987 and $20 in 1988 for 
each full year of allowable service credited to the recipient by 
the fund.  Adjustments are payable on December 1, 1987, to 
recipients eligible for an annuity or benefit on November 30, 
1987, and on December 1, 1988, to recipients eligible for an 
annuity or benefit on November 30, 1988.  Nothing in this 
section authorizes a fund to pay an adjustment to an estate.  
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 356.18, a fund shall 
pay the adjustments provided for in this section without being 
requested to do so unless an intended recipient files a written 
notice with the fund requesting that the adjustment not be paid. 
    Subd. 4.  [TERMINAL AUDIT.] Each retirement fund named in 
subdivision 1, as soon as practical after payment of the 
December 1, 1988, postretirement adjustment, shall calculate the 
amount of any appropriation apportioned to it in excess of the 
amount required to pay the adjustments, report its calculation 
in writing to the commissioner of finance, and return any excess 
amount to the general fund.  The commissioner of finance shall 
verify the calculation reported by each fund. 
    Subd. 5.  [APPROPRIATION.] $10,899,000 is appropriated from 
the general fund to the retirement funds named in subdivision 1, 
to pay the postretirement adjustments provided for in 
subdivision 3.  The appropriation is apportioned as follows: 
                                        Fiscal Year  Fiscal Year
                                            1988          1989
Public employees retirement fund         $1,822,000   $1,713,000
Public employees police and fire fund        78,000       73,000
Teachers retirement fund                  1,532,000    1,443,000
State patrol retirement fund                 67,000       63,000
State employees retirement fund           1,280,000    1,230,000
Minneapolis employees retirement fund       820,000      778,000
    Sec. 53.  [TRANSFERS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [GENERAL PROCEDURE.] If the appropriation 
in this act to an agency in the executive branch is specified by 
program, the agency may transfer unencumbered balances among the 
programs specified in that section after getting the approval of 
the commissioner of finance.  The commissioner shall not approve 
a transfer unless the commissioner believes that it will carry 
out the intent of the legislature.  The transfer must be 
reported immediately to the committee on finance of the senate 
and the committee on appropriations of the house of 
representatives.  If the appropriation in this act to an agency 
in the executive branch is specified by activity, the agency may 
transfer unencumbered balances among the activities specified in 
that section using the same procedure as for transfers among 
programs. 
    Subd. 2.  [CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS.] A constitutional 
officer need not get the approval of the commissioner of finance 
but must notify the committee on finance of the senate and the 
committee on appropriations of the house of representatives 
before making a transfer under subdivision 1. 
    Subd. 3.  [TRANSFER PROHIBITED.] If an amount is specified 
in this act for an item within an activity, that amount must not 
be transferred or used for any other purpose. 
    Sec. 54.  [MASTER LEASE.] 
    During the biennium ending June 30, 1989, for agencies to 
whom appropriations are made in this act, the master lease, as 
authorized in Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.85, may only be 
used to finance large equipment with a capital value of more 
than $100,000 and a useful life of more than ten years, and for 
equipment already purchased under an existing lease-purchase 
agreement.  The commissioner of finance must consult with the 
chairs of the senate finance committee and house appropriations 
committee before entering into a lease-purchase of equipment by 
a state agency in this act.  This requirement does not apply to 
purchases by the commissioner of administration made with money 
from an internal services fund. 
    Sec. 55.  [STUDY OF MANAGEMENT OF VETERANS HOMES.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [STUDY ESTABLISHED.] The commissioner of 
administration shall conduct or arrange for a study of the 
management and operation of the Minnesota Veterans Homes.  The 
purpose of the study is to provide the legislature with an 
accurate assessment of the management of the home and a 
comprehensive appraisal of any deficiencies or problems that 
need to be addressed.  It is the intent of the legislature to 
assure that the care and services provided to the veterans in 
these homes is of high quality and that the quality of life for 
the veterans is enhanced and maintained while residing in the 
home. 
    Subd. 2.  [STUDY GUIDELINES.] The study shall evaluate the 
following:  the role and responsibilities of the governing body, 
administrator, and management staff at the home; the 
relationships between the governing body, administrator and 
management staff located in each home; the span of control and 
authority delegated to the management staff at the home; the 
effectiveness of the management practices at the home; the 
direct care and other support personnel staffing patterns and 
assignments throughout all units in the home; the admission 
criteria and practices; the assessment of the care and service 
needs of the residents; the utilization of state operated 
veterans homes compared to the utilization of community based 
and operated long-term care facilities for the veteran 
population; the relationship of the home with the federal 
Veterans Administration regulatory programs; the relationship 
with the federal regulatory programs with the state regulatory 
programs; the programmatic and fiscal advantages or 
disadvantages of medical assistance certification for the 
veterans home; the utilization of a preadmission screening 
program for the home; and any other factors that are necessary 
for an accurate and complete assessment of the role, operation, 
and management of the home. 
    Subd. 3.  [REPORT.] The commissioner of administration may 
contract with a person or organization knowledgeable in 
long-term health care facility management.  The commissioners of 
health and human services shall assist the commissioner of 
administration in conducting this study.  The commissioner of 
administration shall report to the legislature with specific 
findings and recommendations by February 1, 1988. 
    Subd. 4.  [ASSESSMENTS.] The commissioner of veterans 
affairs shall complete an assessment of the care and services 
needed by all residents of all units in the homes.  These 
assessments shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures 
used by the department of health for the assignment of resident 
case mix reimbursement classifications.  These assessments shall 
be completed for all residents by September 1, 1987, and for all 
residents admitted after that date or the date of completion of 
the assessments whichever comes first.  The commissioner of 
health shall provide the commissioner of veterans affairs with 
any necessary assistance required to train staff to perform 
these assessments.  The assessments shall be available to the 
commissioners of health, human services, and administration for 
the purpose of completing the management study of the veterans 
home. 
    Sec. 56.  [INCREASED RENTAL COSTS OR SPACE.] 
    An agency or department head must consult with the chairs 
of the house appropriations and senate finance committees before 
entering into any agreement that would cause an agency's rental 
costs to increase by ten percent or more per square foot or 
would increase the number of square feet of office space rented 
by the agency by 25 percent or more in any fiscal year. 
    Sec. 57.  [BUILDING FUND APPROPRIATION; TRANSFER.] 
    Subdivision 1.  Notwithstanding any other law, the 
commissioner of administration may transfer unencumbered 
balances existing on May 15, 1987, in a project account for the 
building fund appropriations listed in subdivision 2 to the 
project enumerated in Laws 1983, chapter 344, section 2(j).  The 
money transferred under this section is appropriated for the 
purposes for which it is transferred and may be used for the 
retention of outside technical and legal expertise in the matter 
of the resolution of any claims that arose out of the project to 
which the original appropriation was made.  The commissioner 
must report to the chairs of the house appropriations committee 
and the senate finance committee on any transfer made under this 
section. 
    Subd. 2.  Subdivision 1 applies to appropriations made by 
the following laws:  Laws 1973, chapter 777, section 14(c); Laws 
1973, chapter 778, section 5(1); Laws 1976, chapter 348, section 
2, subdivision 2; Laws 1978, chapter 791, section 2(k); Laws 
1978, chapter 791, section 2(t); Laws 1978, chapter 792, section 
4(a) and 4(f) and 15(a); Laws 1979, chapter 338, section 6; and 
Laws 1981, chapter 4, section 2, subdivision 8 and section 6; 
and Laws 1981, chapter 361, section 2(a); and Laws 1981, chapter 
362, section 3; and Laws 1982, chapter 639, section 7. 
    Sec. 58.  [INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES.] 
    A six-member joint legislative committee shall investigate 
the investigative activities of the department of natural 
resources and the bureau of criminal apprehension.  The 
committee consists of three house members, including one member 
of the minority caucus, appointed by the speaker of the house, 
and three senate members, including one member of the minority 
caucus, appointed pursuant to the rules of the senate.  The 
committee shall review the manner in which the investigative 
activities are carried out and the budget for the activities.  
The committee shall conclude its work by December 31, 1988. 
    Sec. 59.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 2.722, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [DESCRIPTION.] Effective July 1, 1959, the 
state is divided into ten judicial districts composed of the 
following named counties, respectively, in each of which 
districts judges shall be chosen as hereinafter specified: 
    1.  Goodhue, Dakota, Carver, LeSueur, McLeod, Scott, and 
Sibley; nine 13 judges; and four permanent chambers shall be 
maintained in Red Wing, Hastings, Shakopee, and Glencoe and one 
other shall be maintained at the place designated by the chief 
judge of the district; 
    2.  Ramsey; 13 judges; 
    3.  Wabasha, Winona, Houston, Rice, Olmsted, Dodge, Steele, 
Waseca, Freeborn, Mower, and Fillmore; 22 judges; and permanent 
chambers shall be maintained in Faribault, Albert Lea, Austin, 
Rochester, and Winona; 
    4.  Hennepin; 24 53 judges; 
    5.  Blue Earth, Watonwan, Lyon, Redwood, Brown, Nicollet, 
Lincoln, Cottonwood, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock, Faribault, 
Martin, and Jackson; five judges; and permanent chambers shall 
be maintained in Marshall, Windom, Fairmont, New Ulm, and 
Mankato; 
    6.  Carlton, St. Louis, Lake, and Cook; six 15 judges; 
    7.  Benton, Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Otter Tail, 
Stearns, Todd, Clay, Becker, and Wadena; 19 20 judges; and 
permanent chambers shall be maintained in Moorhead, Fergus 
Falls, Little Falls, and St. Cloud; 
    8.  Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Renville, 
Swift, Yellow Medicine, Big Stone, Grant, Pope, Stevens, 
Traverse, and Wilkin; three judges; and permanent chambers shall 
be maintained in Morris, Montevideo, and Willmar; 
    9.  Norman, Polk, Marshall, Kittson, Red Lake, Roseau, 
Mahnomen, Pennington, Aitkin, Itasca, Crow Wing, Hubbard, 
Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Clearwater, Cass and Koochiching; 
six judges; and permanent chambers shall be maintained in 
Crookston, Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, 
and International Falls; 
    10.  Anoka, Isanti, Wright, Sherburne, Kanabec, Pine, 
Chisago, and Washington; 24 30 judges; and permanent chambers 
shall be maintained in Anoka, Stillwater, and other places 
designated by the chief judge of the district. 
    Sec. 60.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3.30, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [MEMBERS; DUTIES.] The chair of the senate 
committee on taxes and tax laws, the chair of the senate 
committee on finance, the chair of the house committee on taxes 
and tax laws, and the chair of the house committee on 
appropriations shall constitute the legislative advisory 
commission.  The governor shall preside over the meetings of the 
commission but shall not be a member thereof.  The majority 
leader of the senate or a designee, the chair of the senate 
committee on finance, and the chair of the senate division of 
finance responsible for overseeing the items being considered by 
the commission, the speaker of the house of representatives or a 
designee, the chair of the house committee on appropriations, 
and the chair of the division of the house appropriations 
committee responsible for overseeing the items being considered 
by the commissioner constitute the legislative advisory 
commission.  The division chair of the finance committee in the 
senate and the division chair of the appropriations committee in 
the house shall rotate according to the items being considered 
by the commission.  If any of the legislative members elect not 
to serve on the commission, the house of which they are members, 
if in session, shall select some other member for such vacancy.  
If the legislature is not in session, vacancies in the 
legislative membership of the commission shall be filled by the 
last speaker of the house or, if the speaker be not available, 
by the last chair of the house rules committee, in case of a 
house vacancy, and by the last senate committee on committees or 
other appointing authority designated by the senate rules in 
case of a senate vacancy.  The commissioner of finance shall act 
as secretary of the commission and shall keep a permanent record 
and minutes of its proceedings, which shall be public records.  
The commissioner of finance shall transmit, under the provisions 
of section 3.195, a report to the next legislature of all 
actions of said commission.  The members of the commission shall 
receive traveling and subsistence expenses in attending meetings 
of the commission.  The commission shall meet from time to time 
upon the call of the governor or upon the call of the secretary 
at the request of three or more of its members. 
    Sec. 61.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3.303, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 5.  The commission shall represent the legislature 
and assist state agencies in making arrangements for the 
accommodation and appropriate recognition of individuals or 
groups visiting Minnesota as direct or indirect representatives 
of foreign governments, other states, or any of the subdivisions 
or agencies of foreign governments or other states; and provide 
other services determined by the commission.  The commission may 
make grants, employ staff and obtain office space, equipment, 
and supplies necessary to perform the designated duties. 
    Sec. 62.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3.85, 
subdivision 12, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 12.  [VALUATIONS AND REPORTS TO LEGISLATURE.] (a) The 
commission shall contract with an established actuarial 
consulting firm to conduct annual valuations and financial 
adequacy studies for the funds specified in (b).  The contract 
shall also include provisions for performing cost analyses of 
proposals for changes in benefit and funding policies.  
    (b) The plans which shall be included in the contract for 
valuation and analysis are:  
    (1) the Statewide Teachers Retirement Association;  
    (2) the General Plan, Minnesota State Retirement System;  
    (3) the Correctional Plan, Minnesota State Retirement 
System;  
    (4) the State Patrol Plan, Minnesota State Retirement 
System;  
    (5) the Judges Plan, Minnesota State Retirement System;  
    (6) the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund;  
    (7) the General Plan, Public Employees Retirement 
Association;  
    (8) the Police and Fire Plan, Public Employees Retirement 
Association;  
    (9) the Duluth Teachers Retirement Association;  
    (10) the Minneapolis Teachers Retirement Association;  
    (11) the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Association; and 
    (12) the Legislator's Retirement Plan; and 
    (13) the Elective State Officers Retirement Plan.  
    (c) The contract shall include the following:  
    (1) Every year beginning in fiscal year 1986, the contract 
shall specify completion of standard valuations for the 
preceding fiscal year with contents as described in section 
356.215, subdivisions 4 to 4k; and cash flow forecasts through 
the amortization target date.  For funds using a calendar year 
valuation period the first valuation shall be for the period 
ending December 31, 1985. 
    (2) Every four years, beginning in fiscal year 1988, the 
contract shall specify completion of an experience study for the 
four-year period ending June 30 of the preceding fiscal year. 
The experience study shall evaluate the appropriateness of 
continuing to use for future valuations the assumptions relating 
to:  individual salary progression; rate of return on 
investments; payroll growth; mortality; withdrawal; disability; 
retirement; and any other experience-related factor that could 
impact the future financial condition of the retirement funds.  
    (d) The commission shall annually prepare a report to the 
legislature summarizing the results of the valuations and cash 
flow projections and shall include with its report 
recommendations concerning the appropriateness of the support 
rates to achieve proper funding of the retirement funds by the 
required funding dates.  It shall also, within two months of the 
completion of the quadrennial experience studies, prepare a 
report to the legislature on the appropriateness of the 
valuation assumptions listed in paragraph (c), clause (2). 
     (e) The commission shall assess the retirement plans 
specified in paragraph (b) other than clauses (12) and (13) the 
cost of their actuarial valuations and of their experience 
studies.  The assessment shall be that part of the amount of 
contract compensation with the actuarial consulting firm 
retained by the commission specified for these functions that 
bears the same relationship that the total active, deferred, 
inactive, and benefit recipient membership of the retirement 
plan bears to the total action, deferred, inactive, and benefit 
recipient membership of all retirement plans specified in 
paragraph (b).  The assessment shall be made upon the completion 
of the actuarial valuations and the experience studies.  The 
amount of the assessment is appropriated from the retirement 
fund applicable to the retirement plan.  Receipts from 
assessments shall be deposited in the state treasury and 
credited to the general fund. 
    Sec. 63.  [3.885] [LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING AND 
FISCAL POLICY.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [MEMBERSHIP.] The legislative committee on 
planning and fiscal policy consists of 18 members of the senate 
and the house of representatives appointed by the legislative 
coordinating commission.  Vacancies on the committee are filled 
in the same manner as original appointments.  The committee 
shall elect a chair and a vice-chair from among its members.  
The chair alternates between a member of the senate and a member 
of the house in January of each odd-numbered year. 
    Subd. 2.  [COMPENSATION.] Members of the committee are 
compensated in the manner provided by section 3.101. 
    Subd. 3.  [STAFF.] The committee may hire staff necessary 
to carry out its duties and may also use other legislative 
staff.  The legislative coordinating commission shall provide 
office space and administrative support to the committee.  The 
commissioners of finance and revenue shall supply the committee 
with information upon request of the chair.  The state planning 
agency shall report to the committee, and the committee may make 
recommendations to the state planning agency.  
    Subd. 4.  [DUTIES.] The committee shall study and evaluate 
the actual and projected expenditures by state government, the 
actual and projected sources of revenue that support these 
expenditures, and the various options available to meet the 
state's future fiscal needs.  In performing this duty the 
committee shall consider, among other things: 
    (1) the relative dependence on state tax revenues, federal 
funds, and user fees to support state-funded programs, and 
whether the existing mix of revenue sources is appropriate, 
given the purposes of the programs; 
    (2) the relative percentages of state expenditures that are 
devoted to major programs such as education, assistance to local 
government, aid to individuals, state agencies and institutions, 
and debt service; and 
    (3) the role of the legislature in overseeing state 
government expenditures, including legislative appropriation of 
money from the general fund, legislative appropriation of money 
from funds other than the general fund, state agency receipt of 
money into revolving and other dedicated funds and expenditure 
of money from these funds, and state agency expenditure of 
federal funds. 
    As necessary, the committee shall recommend to the 
legislature changes in the mix of revenue sources for programs, 
in the percentage of state expenditures devoted to major 
programs, and in the role of the legislature in overseeing state 
government expenditures.  The committee may also make 
recommendations for changes in the design or continuing 
operation of programs.  The committee's recommendations must 
consider the long-term needs of the state.  The recommendations 
must not duplicate work done by standing committees of the 
senate and house of representatives. 
    The committee shall report to the legislature on its 
activities and recommendations by January 15 of each 
odd-numbered year. 
    Sec. 64.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3C.035, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [DEADLINES.] A department or agency 
intending to urge the legislature to adopt a bill shall deliver 
the drafting request for the bill to the revisor of statutes 
by December November 1 before the regular session of the 
legislature at which adoption will be urged.  A commissioner or 
agency head, however, may deliver a drafting request later by 
certifying to the revisor, with supporting facts, that the 
request is an emergency, relates to a matter that could not 
reasonably have been foreseen before December November 1, or for 
which there is other reasonable justification for delay.  The 
completed bill draft, in a form ready for introduction, must be 
delivered by the revisor to a senator or representative as 
directed by the department or agency.  If the draft was 
requested after December November 1, it must be accompanied by a 
copy of the commissioner's certification to the revisor.  
    Sec. 65.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3C.035, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [COSTS.] Agencies shall include in their budgets 
amounts to pay for bill drafting services provided by the 
revisor of statutes.  The revisor shall assess agencies for the 
actual cost of bill drafting services rendered to them on 
requests delivered to the revisor by December November 1.  The 
revisor shall assess agencies for 120 percent of double the 
actual cost of bill drafting services rendered to them on 
requests delivered to the revisor after December November 1.  
The revisor shall also assess an agency for the actual cost 
or 120 percent of double the actual cost, as appropriate, for 
drafting a request that a senator or representative submits to 
the revisor's office on behalf of the agency.  The revisor may 
not assess a department or agency for the costs related to 
drafting affecting an agency if the request for drafting 
originated from within the legislature.  Receipts from the 
assessment must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
to the revisor's account.  
    Sec. 66.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3C.11, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [PAMPHLETS.] The revisor's office shall compose, 
print, and deliver pamphlets containing parts of Minnesota 
Statutes, parts of Minnesota Rules, or combinations of parts of 
the statutes and rules as may be necessary for the use of public 
officers and departments.  The revisor's office shall use a 
standard form for the pamphlets.  The cost of composition, 
printing, and delivery of the pamphlets, together with a 
reasonable fee for the revisor's services, is to be borne by the 
office or department requesting them.  The printing must be 
limited to actual needs as shown by experience or other 
competent proof.  Revenue from the revisor's fee must be 
deposited in the revisor's account. 
    Sec. 67.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 3C.12, 
subdivision 7, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 7.  [SALE PRICE.] The revisor shall fix the a 
reasonable sale price of an edition of Minnesota Statutes, 
supplement to Minnesota Statutes, or edition of Laws of 
Minnesota according to the limits of this subdivision.  The sale 
price for a newly published edition of Minnesota Statutes is the 
actual cost of composition, printing, binding, and distribution 
of all books ordered, but not less than $75.  The sale prices of 
each newly published edition of the Laws of Minnesota and 
supplement to Minnesota Statutes are not less than the actual 
cost of composition, printing, binding, and distribution of all 
books ordered, but not less than $10.  Revenue from the sale of 
the Minnesota Statutes, supplements to Minnesota Statutes, and 
Laws of Minnesota must be deposited in the revisor's account. 
    Sec. 68. [5.14] [TRANSACTION SURCHARGE.] 
    The secretary of state may impose a surcharge of $5 on each 
transaction involving over-the-counter expedited service, other 
than simple copying requests, that takes place at the office of 
the secretary of state. 
    Sec. 69.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 8.15, is amended 
to read:  
    8.15 [ATTORNEY GENERAL COSTS.] 
    The attorney general in consultation with the commissioner 
of finance shall assess executive branch agencies the cost of a 
fee for legal services rendered to them.  The assessment against 
appropriations from other than the general fund must be the full 
amount of the cost fee.  The assessment against appropriations 
supported by fees must be included in the fee calculation.  
Unless appropriations are made for these fee supported costs, no 
payment by the agency is required.  The assessment against 
appropriations from the general fund not supported by fees must 
be one-fourth one-half of the cost fee.  Receipts from 
assessments must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
to the general fund. 
    Sec. 70.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 14.08, is 
amended to read:  
    14.08 [REVISOR OF STATUTE'S APPROVAL OF RULE FORM.] 
    (a) Two copies of a rule adopted pursuant to the provisions 
of section 14.26 or 14.32 shall be submitted by the agency to 
the attorney general.  The attorney general shall send one copy 
of the rule to the revisor on the same day as it is submitted by 
the agency under section 14.26 or 14.32.  Within five days after 
receipt of the rule, excluding weekends and holidays, the 
revisor shall either return the rule with a certificate of 
approval of the form of the rule to the attorney general or 
notify the attorney general and the agency that the form of the 
rule will not be approved.  
    If the attorney general disapproves a rule, the agency may 
modify it and the agency shall submit two copies of the modified 
rule to the attorney general who shall send a copy to the 
revisor for approval as to form as described in this paragraph. 
    (b) One copy of a rule adopted after a public hearing shall 
be submitted by the agency to the revisor for approval of the 
form of the rule.  Within five working days after receipt of the 
rule, the revisor shall either return the rule with a 
certificate of approval to the agency or notify the agency that 
the form of the rule will not be approved.  
    (c) If the revisor refuses to approve the form of the rule, 
the revisor's notice shall revise the rule so it is in the 
correct form.  
    (d) The attorney general and the revisor of statutes shall 
assess an agency for the actual cost of processing rules under 
this section.  The agency shall pay the revisor's assessments 
using the procedures of section 3C.056.  The agency shall pay 
the attorney general's assessments using the procedures of 
section 8.15.  Each agency shall include in its budget money to 
pay the revisor's and the attorney general's assessments.  
Receipts from the assessment must be deposited in the state 
treasury and credited to the revisor's account or the general 
fund as appropriate. 
    Sec. 71.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 14.26, is 
amended to read:  
    14.26 [ADOPTION OF PROPOSED RULE; SUBMISSION TO ATTORNEY 
GENERAL.] 
    If no hearing is required, the agency shall submit to the 
attorney general the proposed rule and notice as published, the 
rule as proposed for adoption, any written comments received by 
the agency, and a statement of need and reasonableness for the 
rule.  The agency shall give notice to all persons who requested 
to be informed that these materials have been submitted to the 
attorney general.  This notice shall be given on the same day 
that the record is submitted.  If the proposed rule has been 
modified, the notice shall state that fact, and shall state that 
a free copy of the proposed rule, as modified, is available upon 
request from the agency.  The rule and these materials shall be 
submitted to the attorney general within 180 days of the day 
that the comment period for the rule is over or the rule is 
automatically withdrawn.  The agency shall report its failure to 
adopt the rules and the reasons for that failure to the 
legislative commission to review administrative rules, other 
appropriate legislative committees, and the governor.  
    Even if the 180-day period expires while the attorney 
general reviews the rule, if the attorney general rejects the 
rule, the agency may resubmit it after taking corrective 
action.  The resubmission must occur within 30 days of when the 
agency receives written notice of the disapproval.  If the rule 
is again disapproved, the rule is withdrawn.  An agency may 
resubmit at any time before the expiration of the 180-day 
period.  If the agency withholds some of the proposed rule, it 
may not adopt the withheld portion without again following the 
procedures of sections 14.14 to 14.28, or 14.29 to 14.36.  
    The attorney general shall approve or disapprove the rule 
as to its legality and its form to the extent the form relates 
to legality, including the issue of substantial change, and 
determine whether the agency has the authority to adopt the rule 
and whether the record demonstrates a rational basis for the 
need for and reasonableness of the proposed rule within 14 
days.  If the rule is approved, the attorney general shall 
promptly file two copies of it in the office of the secretary of 
state.  The secretary of state shall forward one copy of each 
rule to the revisor of statutes.  If the rule is disapproved, 
the attorney general shall state in writing the reasons and make 
recommendations to overcome the deficiencies, and the rule shall 
not be filed in the office of the secretary of state, nor 
published until the deficiencies have been overcome.  The 
attorney general shall send a statement of reasons for 
disapproval of the rule to the agency, the chief administrative 
law judge, the legislative commission to review administrative 
rules, and to the revisor of statutes.  
    The attorney general shall assess an agency for the actual 
cost of processing rules under this section.  The agency shall 
pay the attorney general's assessments using the procedures of 
section 8.15.  Each agency shall include in its budget money to 
pay the attorney general's assessment.  Receipts from the 
assessment must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
to the general fund. 
    Sec. 72.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 15A.081, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  The governor shall set the salary rate 
within the ranges listed below for positions specified in this 
subdivision, upon approval of the legislative commission on 
employee relations and the legislature as provided by section 
43A.18, subdivisions 2 and 5: 
                                                Salary Range 
                                                  Effective 
                                                July 1, 1983 
                                                        1987 
Commissioner of education;                   $57,500-$70,000 
Commissioner of finance;                     $57,500-$78,500
Commissioner of finance education; 
Commissioner of transportation; 
Commissioner of human services; 
Commissioner of revenue; 
Executive director, state board of 
  investment; 
Commissioner of administration;   $50,000-$60,000 $67,500
Commissioner of agriculture; 
Commissioner of commerce;
Commissioner of corrections;  
Commissioner of jobs and training;  
Commissioner of employee relations;  
Commissioner of energy and economic 
  development;  
Commissioner of health;  
Commissioner of labor and industry;  
Commissioner of natural resources;  
Commissioner of revenue;
Commissioner of public safety;  
Chair, waste management board; 
Chief administrative law judge; office of
  administrative hearings;
Director, pollution control agency;
Director, state planning agency;
Executive director, housing finance 
  agency;  
Executive director, public employees
  retirement association; 
Executive director, teacher's 
  retirement association;  
Executive director, state retirement  
  system;
Chair, metropolitan council; 
Chair, regional transit board; 
Coordinator of full productivity and 
  opportunity; 
Commissioner of human rights; $40,000-$52,500 $42,500-$60,000
Director, department of public service; 
Commissioner of veterans' affairs; 
Director, bureau of mediation services; 
Commissioner, public utilities commission; 
Member, transportation regulation board. 
    Sec. 73.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 15A.081, 
subdivision 7, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 7.  [PART-TIME METROPOLITAN OFFICERS.] The governor 
shall set the salary rate within the range set forth below for 
the following part-time positions, upon approval of the 
legislative commission on employee relations and the legislature 
as provided by section 43A.18, subdivisions 2 and 5: 
                                                  Effective 
                                                July 1, 1985 
                                                        1987 
Chair, metropolitan airports 
   commission                                $15,000-$25,000 
Chair, metropolitan waste control 
   commission                                $25,000-$35,000 
    Fringe benefits for unclassified employees of the 
metropolitan waste control commission shall not exceed those 
fringe benefits received by unclassified employees of the 
metropolitan council. 
    Sec. 74.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 15A.081, 
subdivision 7b, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 7b.  [HIGHER EDUCATION OFFICERS.] The state 
university board, the state board for community colleges, the 
state board of vocational technical education, and the higher 
education coordinating board shall set the salary rates for, 
respectively, the chancellor of the state universities, the 
chancellor of the community colleges, the state director of 
vocational technical education, and the executive director of 
the higher education coordinating board.  At least 30 days 
before the respective board adopts a salary increase according 
to this subdivision, the board shall submit the proposed salary 
increase to the legislative commission on employee relations for 
its review approval, modification, or rejection in the manner 
provided in section 43A.18, subdivision 2.  Salary rates for the 
positions specified in this subdivision may not exceed 95 
percent of the salary set for the governor under subdivision 6. 
    Sec. 75.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 15A.083, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 4.  [RANGES FOR OTHER JUDICIAL POSITIONS.] Salaries 
or salary ranges are provided for the following positions in the 
judicial branch of government.  The appointing authority of any 
position for which a salary range has been provided shall fix 
the individual salary within the prescribed range, considering 
the qualifications and overall performance of the employee.  The 
supreme court shall set the salary of the state court 
administrator and the salaries of district court 
administrators.  The salary of the state court administrator or 
a district court administrator may not exceed the salary of a 
district court judge.  If district court administrators die, the 
amounts of their unpaid salaries for the months in which their 
deaths occur must be paid to their estates.  The salaries of the 
district administrators of the second, fourth, and sixth 
judicial districts may be supplemented by the appropriate county 
board in an amount not to exceed $10,000 per year.  The salary 
supplement may be made effective only until January 1, 1988.  
The salary of the state public defender shall be 95 percent of 
the salary of the attorney general.  
                                        Salary or Range
                                           Effective 
                                             July 1, 
                                              1983 
                                              1987 
Board on judicial
 standards
  executive director       32,000-44,000 $34,000-$48,000
    Sec. 76.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 16A.127, 
subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 8.  [EXEMPTION.] This section does not apply to the 
community college system, state universities, or the state board 
of vocational technical education.  Except for federal funds, 
this section does not apply to the department of natural 
resources for agency indirect costs. 
    Sec. 77.  [16A.284] [APPROPRIATIONS TO CONSTITUTIONAL 
OFFICERS.] 
    If an appropriation for a constitutional officer for either 
fiscal year of a biennium is insufficient, the appropriation for 
the other fiscal year of the biennium is available for it. 
    Sec. 78.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 16A.85, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [BUDGET OFFSET.] The commissioner of finance 
shall reduce the operating budgets of state agencies that use 
the master lease program.  The amount of the reduction is the 
difference between the budgeted purchase price of the equipment 
and the actual master lease payments. 
    Sec. 79.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 16B.20, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2.  [ADVISORY COUNCIL.] A small business procurement 
advisory council is created.  The council consists of 13 members 
appointed by the commissioner of administration.  A chair of the 
advisory council shall be elected from among the members.  The 
appointments are subject to the appointments program provided by 
section 15.0597.  The terms and removal of members are as 
provided in section 15.059, but members do not receive per 
diem or expenses. 
    Sec. 80.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 16B.41, is 
amended to read:  
    16B.41 [STATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ADVISORY TASK FORCE 
MANAGEMENT OFFICE.] 
    The commissioner may appoint a state information systems 
advisory task force to help the department develop and 
coordinate a state information services master plan and make 
recommendations to the commissioner concerning the progress, 
direction, and needs of the state's computerization effort.  The 
task force expires and the terms, compensation, and removal of 
members are as provided in section 15.059.  
    Subdivision 1.  [ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.] An office of 
information systems management is created.  The office shall 
develop and establish a policy and standards for state agencies 
to follow for the development, purchase, and training for 
information systems.  The purpose of the office is to develop, 
promote, and coordinate a state technology, architecture, 
standards and guidelines, information needs analysis techniques, 
contracts for the purchase of equipment and services, and 
training of state agency personnel on these issues.  
    Subd. 2.  [RESPONSIBILITIES.] The office has the following 
duties: 
    (a) The office must develop and establish a state 
information architecture to ensure that further state agency 
development and purchase of information systems equipment and 
software is directed in such a manner that individual agency 
information systems complement and do not needlessly duplicate 
or needlessly conflict with the systems of other agencies.  The 
development of this information architecture must include the 
establishment of standards and guidelines to be followed by 
state agencies.  The commissioner of administration must 
establish interim standards and guidelines by August 1, 1987.  
The office must establish permanent standards and guidelines by 
July 1, 1988.  On January 1, 1988, and every six months 
thereafter, any state agency that has purchased information 
systems equipment or software in the past six months, or that is 
contemplating purchasing this equipment or software in the next 
six months, must report to the office and to the chairs of the 
house appropriations committee and the senate finance committee 
on how the purchases or proposed purchases comply with the 
applicable standards and guidelines.  
    (b) The office shall assist state agencies in the planning 
and management of information systems so that an individual 
information system reflects and supports the state agency's and 
the state's mission, requirements, and functions.  
    (c) Beginning July 1, 1988, the office must review and 
approve all agency requests for legislative appropriations for 
the development or purchase of information systems equipment or 
software.  Requests may not be included in the governor's budget 
submitted to the legislature, beginning with the budget 
submitted in January 1989, unless the office has approved the 
request. 
    (d) Each biennium the office must rank in order of priority 
agency requests for new appropriations for development or 
purchase of information systems equipment or software.  The 
office must submit this ranking to the legislature at the same 
time, or no later than 14 days after, the governor submits the 
budget message to the legislature. 
    (e) Beginning July 1, 1989, the office must define, review, 
and approve major purchases of information systems equipment to 
(1) ensure that the equipment follows the standards and 
guidelines of the state information architecture; (2) ensure 
that the equipment is consistent with the information management 
principles adopted by the information policy council; (3) 
evaluate whether or not the agency's proposed purchase reflects 
a cost-effective policy regarding volume purchasing; and (4) 
ensure the equipment is consistent with other systems in other 
state agencies so that data can be shared among agencies, unless 
the office determines that the agency purchasing the equipment 
has special needs justifying the inconsistency.  The 
commissioner of finance may not allot funds appropriated for 
major purchases of information systems equipment until the 
office reviews and approves the proposed purchase. 
    (f) The office shall review the operation of information 
systems by state agencies and provide advice and assistance so 
that these systems are operated efficiently and continually meet 
the standards and guidelines established by the office. 
    Subd. 3.  The office shall function as a division of the 
department of administration.  The commissioner of 
administration shall appoint an interim office director and 
other interim staff and provide the necessary administrative 
support to the office.  The employees and director shall serve 
in the unclassified service through June 30, 1988.  On July 1, 
1988, the employee positions established by this section, except 
the position of director, shall be placed in the classified 
service.  The position of director shall remain in the 
unclassified service. 
    Subd. 4.  [ADVISORY TASK FORCE.] The commissioner may must 
appoint a state information systems advisory task force to help 
the department develop and coordinate a state 
information services master plan architecture that is consistent 
with the information management direction developed by the 
information policy council, and make recommendations to the 
commissioner concerning the progress, direction, and needs of 
the state's computerization effort information systems.  The 
task force must include representatives of state agencies, the 
supreme court, higher education systems, librarians, and private 
industry.  The task force must also have two members of the 
house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house 
and two members of the senate appointed by the senate committee 
on committees.  No more than one member from the house of 
representatives and one from the senate shall be chosen from the 
same political party.  The task force expires and the terms, 
compensation, and removal of nonlegislative members are as 
provided in section 15.059. 
    Sec. 81.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 16B.42, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 4.  [FUNDING.] Appropriations and other funds made 
available to the council for staff, operational expenses, and 
grants must be administered through the department of 
administration.  Fees charged to local units of government for 
the administrative costs of the council and revenues derived 
from royalties, reimbursements, or other fees from software 
programs, systems, or technical services arising out of 
activities funded by current or prior state appropriations must 
be credited to an account in the special revenue fund and are 
appropriated to the council for the purposes enumerated in 
subdivision 2.  General fund appropriations for the council may 
also be credited by the commissioner of administration to the 
account in the special revenue fund.  The unencumbered balance 
of an appropriation for grants in the first year of a biennium 
does not cancel but is available for the second year of the 
biennium. 
    Sec. 82.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.171, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [TERMS.] For the purposes of sections 
18.181 to 18.271 and 18.281 to 18.311 18.315 the terms defined 
in subdivisions 2 to 7 and section 3, have the meanings given to 
them.  
    Sec. 83.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.171, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 5.  [NOXIOUS WEEDS.] "Noxious weeds" means the 
annual, biennial, and perennial plants which are deemed by the 
commissioner, by commissioner's order, to be injurious to public 
health, public roads, crops, livestock and other property.  The 
commissioner's orders under this subdivision are not subject to 
chapter 14.  
    Sec. 84.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.171, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 8.  [LAND.] "Land" includes wetlands and public 
waters. 
    Sec. 85.  [18.182] [PENALTY FOR SALE OF PURPLE 
LOOSESTRIFE.] 
    A person who sells purple loosestrife, lythrum salicaria, 
is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
    Sec. 86.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.241, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [RULES REGARDING TRANSPORTATION.] Except as 
provided in section 21.74, when any person desires to transport 
along a public highway materials containing seeds or other 
propagating parts of leafy spurge, horse nettle, Austrian field 
cress, field bindweed, perennial pepper grass, wild radish, sow 
thistle, Canada thistle, hoary alyssum, purple loosestrife, or 
any other noxious weed designated by the commissioner, the 
person shall secure from a local or state weed inspector, or 
county agricultural inspector, a written permit for the 
transportation of such material.  All duly constituted weed 
inspectors may issue such permits to persons residing or 
operating within their respective weed jurisdictions to regulate 
the transportation of such material and to require proper 
treatment, cleaning, sterilization or destruction of any such 
material which has been or is about to be transported or 
deposited to prevent the growing or scattering of any weed seeds 
or other propagating parts contained therein.  Copies of all 
permits issued under this section shall be immediately sent to 
the commissioner.  
    Except as provided in section 21.74, no grain seed, 
screenings, hay forage, straw, soil, gravel, sand, or refuse and 
other materials containing seeds and other propagating parts of 
leafy spurge, horse nettle, Austrian field cress, field 
bindweed, perennial pepper grass, wild radish, sow thistle, 
Canada thistle, hoary alyssum, purple loosestrife, or any other 
noxious weeds designated by the commissioner shall be 
transported upon any public highway unless it be in sacks, 
bales, boxes or other containers sufficiently tight and closed 
or covered with canvas or otherwise to prevent seeds and other 
propagating parts of such weeds from blowing or scattering along 
the highway or on other lands or water. 
    Scattering and dumping on land or in water of grain, seed, 
and screenings containing seeds and other propagating parts of 
noxious weeds in excess of legal limits of weed seeds per pound 
in agricultural seed, and of soil, gravel, rubbish, trash, and 
other materials containing seeds or other propagating parts of 
noxious weeds in harmful amounts as determined by rule of the 
commissioner is prohibited unless such material is processed, 
treated, or buried sufficiently deep to destroy viable seeds and 
other propagating parts which they contain down to the limits 
provided by this section. 
    Sec. 87.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.291, is 
amended to read: 
    18.291 [COMMISSIONER MAY QUARANTINE AND DESTROY WEEDS.] 
    When from investigation or otherwise, it appears to the 
commissioner that upon any tract of agricultural land there is 
an infestation of noxious weeds beyond the ability of the land 
occupant or owner to eradicate, upon request of the owner, or 
upon the commissioner's own motion, the commissioner shall take 
such steps as are necessary to prevent further spread of such 
weed growths.  To this end, the commissioner shall quarantine 
such portion of each tract of land as may be so infested and put 
into immediate operation the necessary means for the eradication 
of such weed growths.  
    Sec. 88.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 18.311, is 
amended to read: 
    18.311 [EXPENSES.] 
    The expenses of field operations, including cost of 
chemicals and other materials employed in weed eradication, 
except machinery and other equipment, shall be paid from the 
fund provided for this purpose.  This fund shall be reimbursed 
not later than January first, of each year, 20 percent thereof 
by the county and, ten percent thereof by the town in which the 
land so quarantined and improved is situated, and ten percent 
thereof by the landowner involved.  
    When the infestations of noxious weeds, against which the 
activities of the commissioner are directed, are found located 
on the sides of public highways, the expenses of eradication 
shall be paid, 50 percent by the state from the fund provided 
for this purpose, 50 percent from the funds provided for the 
maintenance of the state highway department, if the infestation 
is on a state highway, 50 percent by the county, if the 
infestation is on a county or state aid road, and 50 percent by 
the town, if the infestation is on a town road or cartway.  
    When infestations of noxious weeds, against which the 
activities of the commissioner are directed, are found located 
within the corporate limits of a municipality or on property 
used by a municipality, the expense of the eradication of such 
weeds shall be paid as follows:  50 percent thereof by the state 
from the funds provided for this purpose and 50 percent by the 
municipality from its general revenue fund.  
    Sec. 89.  [43A.316] [PUBLIC EMPLOYEES INSURANCE PLAN.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [INTENT.] The legislature finds that the 
creation of a statewide plan to provide public employees and 
other eligible persons with life insurance and hospital, 
medical, and dental benefit coverage through provider 
organizations would result in a greater utilization of 
government resources and would advance the health and welfare of 
the citizens of the state.  
    Subd. 2.  [DEFINITIONS.] For the purpose of this section, 
the terms defined in this subdivision have the meaning given 
them.  
    (a) [COMMISSIONER.] "Commissioner" means the commissioner 
of employee relations.  
    (b) [EMPLOYEE.] "Employee" means (1) a person who is a 
public employee within the definition of section 179A.03, 
subdivision 14, and is employed by an eligible employer or (2) a 
person employed by a labor organization or employee association 
certified as an exclusive representative of employees of an 
eligible employer or by another public employer approved by the 
commissioner.  
    (c) [ELIGIBLE EMPLOYER.] "Eligible employer" means 
    (1) a public employer within the definition of section 
179A.03, subdivision 15, that is a town, county, city, school 
district as defined in section 120.02, educational cooperative 
service unit as defined in section 123.58, intermediate district 
as defined in section 136C.02, subdivision 7, cooperative center 
for vocational education as defined in section 123.351, regional 
management information center as defined in section 121.935, or 
an education unit organized under the joint powers action, 
section 471.59; or 
    (2) an exclusive representative of employees, as defined in 
paragraph (b); or 
    (3) another public employer approved by the commissioner. 
    (d) [EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE.] "Exclusive representative" 
means an exclusive representative as defined in section 179A.03, 
subdivision 8.  
    (e) [LABOR-MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.] "Labor-management 
committee" means the committee established by subdivision 4.  
    (f) [PLAN.] "Plan" means the statewide public employees 
insurance plan created by subdivision 3.  
    Subd. 3.  [PUBLIC EMPLOYEE INSURANCE PLAN.] There is 
created the "public employee insurance plan."  The commissioner 
shall be the administrator of the plan.  The commissioner shall 
model the plan after the plan established in section 43A.18, 
subdivision 2, but may modify that plan, in consultation with 
the labor management committee.  
    Subd. 4.  [LABOR-MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.] There is created a 
labor-management committee of ten members appointed by the 
commissioner.  The labor-management committee shall consist of 
five members who represent employees, including at least one 
retired employee, and five members who represent eligible 
employers.  The commissioner shall consult with the 
labor-management committee in major decisions that affect the 
plan.  The committee shall study issues relating to the 
insurance plan including, but not limited to, flexible benefits, 
utilization review, quality assessment, and cost efficiency.  
    Subd. 5.  [PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION.] Participation in 
the plan is subject to the conditions in this subdivision.  
    (a) Each exclusive representative for an eligible employer 
determines whether the employees it represents shall participate 
in the plan.  The exclusive representative must give the 
employer notice of intent to participate at least 90 days before 
the expiration date of the collective bargaining agreement 
preceding the collective bargaining agreement that covers the 
date of entry into the plan.  The exclusive representative and 
the eligible employer shall give notice to the commissioner of 
the determination to participate in the plan at least 90 days 
prior to entry into the plan.  Entry into the plan shall be 
according to a schedule established by the commissioner. 
    (b) Employees not represented by exclusive representatives 
may become members of the plan upon a determination of an 
eligible employer to include these employees in the plan.  
Either all or none of the employer's unrepresented employees 
must participate.  The eligible employer shall give at least 90 
days' notice to the commissioner prior to entering the plan.  
Entry into the plan shall be according to a schedule established 
by the commissioner.  
    (c) Participation in the plan shall be for a three-year 
term if coverage begins in an even-numbered year and a four-year 
term if coverage begins in an odd-numbered year.  Participation 
is automatically renewed for an additional four-year term unless 
the exclusive representative, or the employer for unrepresented 
employees, gives the commissioner notice of withdrawal at least 
90 days prior to expiration of the participation period.  A 
group that withdraws must wait two years before rejoining.  An 
exclusive representative, or employer for unrepresented 
employees, may also withdraw if premiums increase 50 percent or 
more from one insurance year to the next. 
    (d) The exclusive representative shall give the employer 
notice of intent to withdraw to the commissioner at least 90 
days before the expiration date of a collective bargaining 
agreement that includes the date on which the term of 
participation expires. 
    (e) Each participating eligible employer shall notify the 
commissioner of names of individuals who will be participating 
within two weeks of the commissioner receiving notice of the 
parties' intent to participate.  The employer must also submit 
other information as required by the commissioner for 
administration of the plan.  
    Subd. 6.  [COVERAGE.] By January 1, 1989, the commissioner 
shall announce the benefits of the plan.  The plan shall include 
employee hospital, medical, dental, and life insurance for 
employees and hospital and medical benefits for dependents.  
Health maintenance organization options and other delivery 
system options shall be provided if they are available, cost 
effective, and capable of servicing the number of people covered 
in the plan.  Participation in optional coverages may be 
provided by collective bargaining agreements.  For employees not 
represented by an exclusive representative, the employer may 
offer the optional coverages to eligible employees and their 
dependents provided in the plan. 
    Subd. 7.  [PREMIUMS.] The proportion of premium paid by the 
employer and employee is subject to collective bargaining.  If, 
at the beginning of the coverage period, no collective 
bargaining agreement has been finalized, the increased dollar 
costs, if any, from the previous year is the sole responsibility 
of the individual participant until a collective bargaining 
agreement states otherwise.  Premiums, including an 
administration fee, shall be established by the commissioner.  
Each eligible employer shall pay monthly the amounts due for 
employee benefits including the amounts under subdivision 8 to 
the commissioner on or before the dates established by the 
commissioner.  Failure to pay may result in cancellation of the 
benefits.  
    Subd. 8.  [CONTINUATION OF COVERAGE.] (a) A participating 
employee who is laid off or is on unrequested leave may elect to 
continue the plan coverage.  This coverage is at the expense of 
the employee unless otherwise provided by a collective 
bargaining agreement.  Premiums for these employees shall be 
established by the commissioner.  Coverage continues until one 
of the following occurs: 
    (1) the employee is reemployed and eligible for health care 
coverage under a group policy; or 
    (2) the insurance continuation periods required by state 
and federal laws expire. 
    (b) A participating employee who retires and is receiving 
an annuity or is eligible for and has applied for an annuity 
under chapter 352, 352B, 352C, 352D, 353, 354, 354A, 356, 422A, 
423, 423A, 424, or 490 is eligible to continue participation in 
the plan.  Any employer's contribution must cease when the 
retiree reaches age 65.  These employees, and employees who have 
already retired prior to the group from which they retired 
entering the plan, are eligible to participate as long as their 
group continues to participate.  This participation is at the 
retiree's expense unless a collective bargaining agreement 
provides otherwise.  An employer shall notify an employee of 
this option no later than the effective date of retirement.  The 
retired employee shall notify the employer within 30 days of the 
effective date of retirement of intent to exercise this option. 
    The spouse of a deceased retired employee may purchase the 
benefits provided at premiums established by the commissioner if 
the deceased retired employee received an annuity under chapter 
352, 353, 354, 354A, 356, 422A, 423, 423A, or 424 and if the 
spouse was a dependent under the retired employee's coverage 
under this section at the time of the death of the retired 
employee.  Coverage under this clause shall be coordinated with 
relevant insurance benefits provided through the federally 
sponsored Medicare program.  
    (c) The plan benefits shall continue in the event of strike 
permitted by section 179A.18, if the exclusive representative 
chooses to have coverage continue and the employee pays the 
total monthly premiums when due.  
    (d) A person who desires to participate under paragraphs 
(a) to (c) shall notify the eligible employer or former employer 
of intent to participate according to rules established by the 
commissioner.  The eligible employer shall notify the 
commissioner, and coverage shall begin as soon as the 
commissioner permits. 
    Persons participating under these paragraphs shall make 
appropriate premium payments in the time and manner established 
by the commissioner. 
    Subd. 9.  [INSURANCE TRUST FUND.] An insurance trust fund 
is established in the state treasury.  The deposits consist of 
the premiums received from employers participating in the plan.  
All money in the fund is appropriated to the commissioner to pay 
insurance premiums, approved claims, refunds, administrative 
costs, and other related service costs.  The commissioner shall 
reserve an amount of money to cover the estimated costs of 
claims incurred but unpaid.  The state board of investment shall 
invest the money according to section 11A.24.  Investment income 
and losses attributable to the fund shall be credited to the 
fund.  
    Sec. 90.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 69.021, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [CALCULATION OF STATE AID.] The amount of state 
aid available for apportionment shall be two percent of the 
fire, lightning, sprinkler leakage and extended coverage 
premiums reported to the commissioner by insurers on the 
Minnesota Firetown Premium Report and two percent of the 
premiums reported to the commissioner by insurers on the 
Minnesota Aid to Police Premium Report.  The amount for 
apportionment in respect to firefighter's state aid shall not be 
greater or lesser than the amount of premium taxes paid to the 
state upon the premiums reported to the commissioner by insurers 
on the Minnesota Firetown Premium Report after subtracting the 
amount required to pay the state auditor's costs and expenses of 
the audits or exams of the firefighters relief associations.  
The total amount for apportionment in respect to police state 
aid shall not be greater or lesser than the amount of premium 
taxes paid to the state upon the premiums reported to the 
commissioner by insurers on the Minnesota Aid to Police Premium 
Report after subtracting the amount required to pay the state 
auditor's costs and expenses of the audits or exams of the 
police relief associations.  The amount for apportionment in 
respect to police state aid shall be distributed to the 
municipalities maintaining police departments and to the county 
on the basis of the number of active peace officers, as 
certified pursuant to section 69.011, subdivision 2, clause 
(b).  The commissioner shall calculate the percentage of 
increase or decrease reflected in the apportionment over or 
under the previous year's available state aid using the same 
premiums as a basis for comparison. 
    Sec. 91.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 84.01, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  Subject to the provisions of Laws 1969, chapter 
1129, and to other applicable laws the commissioner shall 
organize the department and employ two three assistant 
commissioners, both each of whom shall serve at the pleasure of 
the commissioner in the unclassified service, one of whom shall 
have responsibility for coordinating and directing the planning 
of every division within the agency, and such other officers, 
employees, and agents as the commissioner may deem necessary to 
discharge the functions of the department, define the duties of 
such officers, employees, and agents and to delegate to them any 
of the commissioner's powers, duties, and responsibilities 
subject to the control of, and under the conditions prescribed 
by, the commissioner.  Appointments to exercise delegated power 
shall be by written order filed with the secretary of state. 
     Sec. 92.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 84.0272, is 
amended to read: 
    84.0272 [PROCEDURE IN ACQUIRING LANDS.] 
    When the commissioner of natural resources is authorized to 
acquire lands or interests in lands the procedure set forth in 
this section shall apply.  The commissioner of natural resources 
shall first prepare a fact sheet showing the lands to be 
acquired, the legal authority for their acquisition, and the 
qualities of the land that make it a desirable acquisition.  The 
commissioner of natural resources shall cause the lands to be 
appraised.  An appraiser shall before entering upon the duties 
of office take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and 
impartially discharge the duties as appraiser according to the 
best of the appraiser's ability and that the appraiser is not 
interested directly or indirectly in any of the lands to be 
appraised or the timber or improvements thereon or in the sale 
thereof and has entered into no agreement or combination to 
purchase the same or any part thereof, which oath shall be 
attached to the report of the appraisal.  The commissioner of 
natural resources shall not agree to pay more than ten percent 
above the appraised value.  New appraisals may be made at the 
discretion of the commissioner of natural resources. 
    Sec. 93.  [84.0855] [SPECIAL RECEIPTS; APPROPRIATION.] 
    Money received by the commissioner of natural resources as 
fees for seminars or workshops, for the sale of publications, 
maps, or to buy supplies for the use of volunteers, may be 
credited to one or more special accounts in the state treasury 
and is appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes for 
which the money was received. 
    Sec. 94.  [84.0856] [FLEET MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT.] 
    The commissioner of natural resources may bill 
organizational units within the department of natural resources 
for the costs of providing them with equipment.  Costs billed 
may include acquisition, licensing, insurance, maintenance, 
repair, and other direct costs as determined by the 
commissioner.  Receipts and interest earned on the receipts 
shall be credited to a special account in the state treasury and 
are appropriated to the commissioner to pay the costs for which 
the billings were made. 
    Sec. 95.  [TRANSFER OF TRANSACTIONS.] 
    All transactions related to the equipment purchased by the 
commissioner of natural resources under the installment plan for 
fiscal year 1987 may be transferred to the fleet management 
account. 
    Sec. 96.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 84.091, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [LICENSE FEES.] (a) The fees for the following 
licenses, to be issued to residents only, are: 
    (1) for harvesting wild rice, $10 $12.50;  
    (2) for buying and selling wild ginseng, $5;  
    (3) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell 50,000 
pounds or less, $70; and 
    (4) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell more 
than 50,000 pounds, $250.  
    (b) The weight of the wild rice shall be determined in its 
raw state.  
    Sec. 97.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 84.83, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  [PURPOSES FOR THE ACCOUNT.] The money deposited 
in the account and interest earned on that money may be expended 
only as appropriated by law for the following purposes:  
    (1) For a grant-in-aid program to counties and 
municipalities for construction and maintenance of snowmobile 
trails;  
    (2) For acquisition, development and maintenance of state 
recreational snowmobile trails;  
    (3) For snowmobile safety programs; and 
    (4) For the administration and enforcement of sections 
84.81 to 84.90.  
    Sec. 98.  [84.961] [PRAIRIE LAND MANAGEMENT.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [NATIVE PRAIRIE VALUES.] The commissioner 
of natural resources must recognize the value of native prairie 
land by taking into consideration the wildlife, scientific, 
erosion control, educational, and recreational benefits of 
native prairie. 
    Subd. 2.  [PLANNING.] The commissioner must plan for 
management, development, and restoration of: 
    (1) prairie land under the commissioner's jurisdiction; and 
    (2) prairie landscape reserves, comprised of an integrated 
network of protected prairie lands, prairie restoration sites, 
and private prairie lands.  
    Subd. 3.  [PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE RESERVES.] The commissioner 
must develop and manage permanent prairie landscape reserves to 
maintain the native plant and animal populations, landscape 
features, and habitat types that are characteristic of intact 
native prairie ecosystems.  Management practices may include 
haying and grazing. 
    Subd. 4.  [PRAIRIE BIOLOGIST.] The position of prairie 
biologist is established in the department of natural resources 
to plan, develop, and manage native prairie reserves and prairie 
land under this section.  The prairie biologist shall be located 
within the central part of the prairie region and be under the 
supervision of the scientific and natural areas program.  
    Sec. 99.  [84.963] [PRAIRIE PLANT SEED PRODUCTION AREAS.] 
    The commissioner of natural resources shall study the 
feasibility of establishing private or public prairie plant seed 
production areas within prairie land locations.  If prairie 
plant seed production is feasible, the commissioner may aid the 
establishment of production areas.  The commissioner may enter 
cost-share or sharecrop agreements with landowners having 
easements for conservation purposes of ten or more years on 
their land to commercially produce prairie plant seed of 
Minnesota origin.  The commissioner may only aid prairie plant 
seed production areas on agricultural land used to produce crops 
before December 23, 1985, and cropped three out of five years 
between 1981 and 1985. 
    Sec. 100.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85.30, is 
amended to read: 
    85.30 [STATE PARK MAINTENANCE FUND.] 
    Any balance remaining in the state park finance fund after 
all the obligations and appropriations hereinbefore made payable 
therefrom have been met shall be transferred to the state park 
maintenance fund.  Interest earned on money in the state park 
maintenance fund accrues to the fund and is available for 
expenditure upon appropriation. 
    Sec. 101.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85.41, is 
amended to read: 
    85.41 [USER FEES.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [ON PERSON.] While skiing on cross country 
ski trails, a person between the ages of 16 and 64 years shall 
carry in immediate possession a valid cross country ski 
license pass.  A landowner who grants an easement for a 
grant-in-aid ski trail is not required to have a license pass 
when skiing on the landowner's property.  
    Subd. 2.  [LICENSE AGENTS.] County auditors are appointed 
agents of the commissioner for the sale of annual cross country 
ski licenses and daily permits passes.  A county auditor may 
appoint subagents within the county or within adjacent counties 
to sell licenses and permits passes.  Upon appointment the 
auditor shall notify the commissioner of the name and address of 
the subagent.  The auditor may revoke the appointment of a 
subagent at any time.  Upon demand of the commissioner, the 
auditor shall revoke a subagent's appointment.  The auditor 
shall furnish license and permit pass blanks on consignment to 
any subagent who furnishes a surety bond in favor of the county 
in an amount at least equal to the value of the blanks to be 
consigned to that subagent.  The county auditor shall be 
responsible for all blanks issued to, and user fees received by 
agents, except in St. Louis county or in a county where the 
county auditor does not retain fees paid for license purposes.  
In these counties, the responsibilities imposed upon the county 
auditor are imposed upon the county.  The commissioner may 
promulgate additional rules pursuant to section 98.50 97A.485, 
subdivision 2 11.  
    Any resident desiring to sell annual cross country ski 
licenses and daily permits passes may either purchase for cash 
or obtain on consignment license and permit pass blanks from a 
county auditor in groups of not less than ten individual 
blanks.  In selling licenses passes, the resident shall be 
deemed a subagent of the county auditor and the commissioner, 
and shall observe all rules promulgated by the commissioner for 
the accounting and handling of licenses pursuant to 
section 98.50 97A.485, subdivision 10 11.  
    The county auditor shall promptly deposit all monies 
received from the sale of licenses and permits passes with the 
county treasurer, and shall promptly transmit any reports 
required by the commissioner, plus 96 percent of the price to 
each annual licensee pass holder, exclusive of the issuing fee, 
for each annual license pass sold or consigned by the auditor 
and subsequently sold to a licensee pass holder during the 
accounting period.  The county auditor shall retain as a 
commission four percent of all annual license pass fees, 
excluding the issuing fee for licenses passes consigned to 
subagents and the issuing fee on passes sold by the auditor to 
pass holders.  
    Unsold blanks in the hands of any subagent shall be 
redeemed by the commissioner if presented for redemption within 
the time prescribed by the commissioner.  Any blanks not 
presented for redemption within the period prescribed shall be 
conclusively presumed to have been sold, and the subagent 
possessing the same or to whom they are charged shall be 
accountable.  
    Subd. 3.  [EXEMPTIONS.] Participants in cross country ski 
races and official school activities and residents of a state or 
local government operated correctional facility are exempt from 
the license pass requirement in subdivision 1 if a special use 
permit has been obtained by the organizers of the event or those 
in an official capacity in advance from the agency with 
jurisdiction over the cross country ski trail.  Permits shall 
require that permit holders return the trail and any associated 
facility to its original condition if any damage is done by the 
permittee.  Limited permits for special events may be issued and 
shall require the removal of any trail markers, banners, and 
other material used in connection with the special event.  
    Subd. 4.  [FORM.] The department shall provide forms and 
blanks to all agents authorized to issue licenses and daily 
permits passes by the commissioner.  The daily permit shall 
attach to the skier's clothing to visibly identify the holder as 
a licensed skier, and be easily transferable from garment to 
garment by means of a device prescribed by the commissioner in 
consultation with the advisory task force.  The annual license 
pass shall be with the skier and a sticker shall be placed on 
the skier's ski poles to identify the holder as a licensed skier 
available for inspection by any peace or conservation officer.  
The license and permit pass shall include the applicant's name 
and other information deemed necessary by the commissioner. 
    Subd. 5.  [AGENT'S FEE.] The fee for an annual a cross 
country ski license and a daily permit pass shall be increased 
by the amount of an issuing fee of 50 cents per license pass.  
The issuing fee may be retained by the seller of the license or 
permit pass.  A license or permit pass shall indicate the amount 
of the fee that is retained by the seller.  This subdivision 
does not apply to any license or permit pass sold by the state.  
    Sec. 102.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85.42, is 
amended to read: 
    85.42 [USER FEE.] 
    The fee for an annual cross country ski license pass is $5 
for an individual license pass, or $7.50 for a combination 
husband and wife license pass.  The fee for a three-year pass is 
$14 for an individual pass or $21 for a combination husband and 
wife pass.  This fee shall be collected at the time the license 
pass is purchased.  Three-year passes are valid for three years 
beginning the previous July 1.  Annual licenses passes are valid 
from for one year beginning the previous July 1 through June 30 
of the following year.  Licenses Passes are not transferable.  
    The cost for a daily cross country skier permit pass is $1. 
This fee shall be collected at the time the permit pass is 
purchased.  The daily permit pass is valid only for the date 
designated on the permit pass form. 
    Sec. 103.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85.43, is 
amended to read: 
    85.43 [DISPOSITION OF RECEIPTS; PURPOSE.] 
    Fees from cross country ski licenses and permits passes 
shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to a cross 
country ski account and may be expended only as are appropriated 
by law to the commissioner of natural resources for: 
    (a) grants-in-aid for cross country ski trails sponsored by 
local units of government and special park districts as provided 
in section 85.44; and 
    (b) maintenance, winter grooming, and associated 
administrative costs for cross country ski trails under the 
jurisdiction of the commissioner. 
    Sec. 104.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85.45, is 
amended to read: 
    85.45 [PENALTY.] 
    No person may ski on a public cross country ski trail, 
including a grant-in-aid cross country ski trail, without a 
valid annual cross country ski license or daily permit pass. 
Effective July 1, l984, any person who violates the provision of 
this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.  Any person who 
violates the provisions of this section before July, 1984, shall 
be issued a warning statement. 
    Sec. 105.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85A.02, 
subdivision 5a, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 5a.  [EMPLOYEES.] (a) The board shall appoint an 
administrator who shall serve as the executive secretary and 
principal administrative officer of the board and, subject to 
its approval, the administrator shall operate the Minnesota 
zoological garden and enforce all rules and policy decisions of 
the board.  The administrator must be chosen solely on the basis 
of training, experience, and other qualifications appropriate to 
the field of zoo management and development.  The board shall 
set the compensation for the administrator within the limits 
established for the commissioner of human rights agriculture in 
section 15A.081, subdivision 1.  The administrator shall perform 
duties assigned by the board and shall serve in the unclassified 
service at the pleasure of the board.  The board, with the 
participation of the private sector, shall appoint a development 
director in the unclassified service or contract with a 
development consultant to establish mechanisms to foster 
community participation in and community support for the 
Minnesota zoological garden.  The board may employ other 
necessary professional, technical, and clerical personnel.  
    (b) The board may contract with individuals to perform 
professional services and may contract for the purchases of 
necessary species exhibits, supplies, services, and equipment. 
    Sec. 106.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 85A.04, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [DEPOSIT.] All receipts from the operation 
of the Minnesota zoological garden shall be deposited in the 
state treasury and credited to a zoo fund, and are.  Investment 
income and investment losses attributable to investment of the 
zoo fund must be credited to the zoo fund.  Money in the zoo 
fund is appropriated to the board for the operation of the 
Minnesota zoological garden. 
    Sec. 107.  [86.78] [CONTROL OF PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITION.] For the purpose of this 
section, "purple loosestrife" means lythrum salicaria. 
    Subd. 2.  [ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTROL PROGRAM.] The 
commissioner of natural resources shall coordinate a control 
program to curb the growth of purple loosestrife.  The 
commissioners of agriculture and transportation must aid and 
cooperate with the commissioner of natural resources to 
establish, implement, and enforce the control program. 
    Sec. 108.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 88.065, is 
amended to read:  
    88.065 [EQUIPMENT FURNISHED.] 
    Subject to applicable provisions of state laws respecting 
purchases, the commissioner of natural resources may purchase 
for and furnish to any governmental subdivisions of the state 
authorized to engage in forest fire prevention or suppression 
materials or equipment therefor, and may transport, repair and 
renovate forest fire prevention and suppression materials and 
equipment for governmental subdivisions of the state.  The 
commissioner may use any funds available for the purchase of 
forest fire prevention or suppression equipment or for its 
repair, transportation and renovation under federal grants, if 
permitted by the terms thereof, or under state appropriations, 
unless otherwise expressly provided.  Except as otherwise 
authorized or permitted by federal or state laws or regulations, 
the governmental subdivision receiving any such materials 
or equipment or repair or renovation services shall reimburse 
the state for the cost.  All moneys received in reimbursement 
shall be credited to the fund from which the 
purchase, transportation, repair, or renovation was made, and 
are hereby reappropriated annually and shall be available for 
the same purpose as the original appropriation.  
    Sec. 109.  [89.016] [FOREST CAMPGROUNDS.] 
    The commissioner must hold a public meeting before closing 
a campground in a state forest for a camping season.  The public 
meeting must be held near the state forest where the campground 
is to be closed. 
    Sec. 110.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 92.46, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    92.46 [LANDS AS CAMPGROUNDS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [PUBLIC CAMPGROUNDS.] (a) The director may 
designate suitable portions of the state lands withdrawn from 
sale and not reserved, as provided in section 92.45, as 
permanent state public campgrounds.  The director may have the 
land surveyed and platted into lots of convenient size, and 
lease them for cottage and camp purposes under terms and 
conditions the director prescribes, subject to the provisions of 
this section.  
     (b) A lease may not be made for a term more than 20 years.  
The lease may allow renewal, from time to time, for additional 
terms of no longer than 20 years each.  The lease may be 
canceled by the commissioner 90 days after giving the person 
leasing the land written notice of violation of lease 
conditions.  The lease rate shall be based on the appraised 
value of leased land as determined by the commissioner of 
natural resources.  The appraised value shall be the value of 
the leased land without any private improvements and must be 
comparable to similar land without any improvements within the 
same county.  
     (c) By July 1, 1986, the commissioner of natural resources 
shall adopt rules under chapter 14 to establish procedures for 
leasing land under this section.  The rules shall be subject to 
review and approval by the commissioners of revenue and 
administration prior to the initial publication pursuant to 
chapter 14 and prior to their final adoption.  The rules must 
address at least the following: 
    (1) method of appraising the property; 
    (2) determination of lease rates; and 
    (3) an appeal procedure for both the appraised values and 
lease rates. 
    (d) All money received from these leases must be credited 
to the fund to which the proceeds of the land belong.  
    Notwithstanding section 16A.125 or any other law to the 
contrary, 50 percent of the money received from the lease of 
permanent school fund lands leased pursuant to this subdivision 
shall be deposited into the permanent school trust fund.  
However, in fiscal years 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 up to 50 
percent of, 1990, 1991, and 1992, the money received from the 
lease of permanent school fund lands that would otherwise be 
deposited into the permanent school trust fund may be used is 
hereby appropriated to survey, appraise, and pay associated 
selling costs of lots as required in section 92.67, subdivision 
3.  The money appropriated may not be used to pay the cost of 
surveying lots not scheduled for sale.  Any money designated for 
deposit in the permanent school fund that is not needed to 
survey, appraise, and pay associated selling costs of lots, as 
required in section 92.67, shall be deposited in the permanent 
school trust fund.  The commissioner shall add to the appraised 
value of any lot offered for sale the costs of surveying, 
appraising, and selling the lot, and shall deposit the costs 
recovered in the permanent school fund and any other 
contributing funds in proportion to the contribution from each 
fund.  In no case may the commissioner add to the appraised 
value of any lot offered for sale an amount more than $700 for 
the costs of surveying and appraising the lot.  Notwithstanding 
section 92.67, subdivision 4, as to requests for sale of 
lakeshore lots received before January 1, 1987, the commissioner 
shall hold the sale before October 31, 1987, if possible, and, 
if not possible, the lots shall be offered for sale at the next 
sale in the succeeding year.  
    Sec. 111.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 92.67, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [SALE REQUIREMENT.] Notwithstanding section 
92.45 or any other law, at the request of a lessee the 
commissioner of natural resources shall sell state property 
bordering public waters that is leased for the purpose of a 
private cabin under section 92.46 and recommended to be sold 
under the inventory prepared pursuant to Laws 1985, First 
Special Session chapter 14, article 17, section 4.  Requests for 
sale must be made prior to July 1, 1991, and the commissioner 
shall complete all requested sales by July 1, 1992.  The lessee 
making the request may designate the lesser of $500 or the lease 
payment in the year the request is made to be used as part of 
the down payment.  The sale shall be made in accordance with 
laws providing for the sale of trust fund land except as 
modified by the provisions of this section.  
    Sec. 112.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 92.67, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  [APPOINTMENT OF APPRAISERS; ALLOCATION OF 
APPRAISAL AND SURVEY COSTS.] (a) The commissioner of natural 
resources shall provide the lessee requesting the sale with a 
list of all appraisers approved by the commissioner of 
administration for the appraisal of property for the state.  The 
lessee requesting the sale may select a person from the list who 
meets the minimum appraisal standards established by the federal 
farmers home administration or the federal veterans 
administration to appraise the property to be sold.  If more 
than one lessee of a cabin site lot leased by the commissioner 
under section 92.46 within a platted area requests the sale of a 
leased lot, all requesting lessees may jointly agree upon an 
appraiser from the list.If the lessee or lessees do not select 
an appraiser, the commissioner of natural resources shall select 
the appraiser.  
    (b) The costs of appraisal shall be allocated by the 
commissioner to the lots offered for sale and the successful 
bidder on each lot shall reimburse the commissioner for the 
appraisal costs allocated to the lot bid upon up to $700 for 
each lot appraised.  If there are no successful bidders on a 
lot, the commissioner is responsible for the appraisal cost 
allocated to that lot.  
    (c) The commissioner shall survey a lot prior to offering 
it for sale.  The commissioner is responsible for the survey 
cost. 
    (d) The lessee may stop the sale process after the 
appraisal but before the sale.  The lessee must reimburse the 
commissioner for the cost of the appraisal if the sale is 
stopped. 
    Sec. 113.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 92.67, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 4.  [TIMING OF SALES.] (a) The commissioner shall 
offer lakeshore cabin site lots for sale pursuant to written 
request and in accordance with the following schedule:  
    (1) as to requests received before January 1, 1987, the 
sale shall be held in June, July, or August 1987; 
    (2) as to requests received each calendar year after 
December 31, 1986, the sale shall be held in June, July, or 
August of the year after the request is received.; 
    (3) notwithstanding clause (2), the commissioner may offer 
a lot for sale in the year the request is received if the 
commissioner will offer for sale in that year other lots platted 
with the late requested lot.  
    (b) The last sales shall be held in 1992.  Lots not sold 
the first year offered may be reoffered in a succeeding year, 
following reappraisal if it is determined necessary by the 
commissioner.  
    (c) If a person other than the lessee purchases the leased 
lakeshore cabin site, the purchaser must make payment in full to 
the lessee at the time of the sale for the appraised value of 
any improvements.  Failure of a successful bidder to comply with 
this provision voids the sale and the property must be rebid, if 
possible, at the same sale.  
    Sec. 114.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 92.67, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 5a.  [ADDING LANDS; ZONING CONFORMANCE.] Whenever 
possible, the commissioner may add trust fund lands to the lots 
offered for sale to provide conformance with zoning requirements.
The added lands must be included in the appraised value of the 
lot. 
    Sec. 115.  [93.221] [MINERAL LEASE ACCOUNT.] 
    The mineral lease account is created as an account in the 
state treasury for disposal of certain mineral lease money.  
Interest accruing from investment of the account remains with 
the account.  Money in the mineral lease account is appropriated 
to the commissioner of natural resources for mineral 
diversification. 
    Sec. 116.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 93.335, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 4.  [RENTAL AND ROYALTIES, ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION; 
APPROPRIATION.] If the lands or minerals and mineral rights 
covered by any such permit or lease are held by the state in 
trust for the taxing districts, the rentals and royalties paid 
under any such permit or lease shall be distributed annually by 
the commissioner of finance on the first day of September as 
follows:  20 percent to the general fund of the state mineral 
lease account established in the state treasury under section 
93.221, and 80 percent to the respective counties in which the 
lands lie, to be apportioned among the taxing districts 
interested therein as follows:  county, three-ninths; town, or 
city, two-ninths; and school district, four-ninths.  
    There is hereby appropriated from such moneys in the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated to such persons or political 
subdivisions as are entitled to payment herein, an amount 
sufficient to make the payment.  
    Sec. 117.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.061, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [APPLICABILITY; AMOUNT.] (a) The 
commissioner shall annually make a payment from the general game 
and fish fund to each county having public hunting areas and 
game refuges.  This section does not apply to state trust fund 
land and other state land not purchased for game refuge or 
public hunting purposes.  The payment shall be the greatest of: 
    (1) 35 percent of the gross receipts from all special use 
permits and leases of land acquired for public hunting and game 
refuges; 
    (2) 50 cents per acre on land purchased actually used for 
public hunting or game refuges; or 
    (3) three-fourths of one percent of the appraised value of 
purchased land actually used for public hunting and game refuges.
    (b) The payment must be reduced by the amount paid under 
subdivision 3 for croplands managed for wild geese.  
    (c) The appraised value is the purchase price for five 
years after acquisition.  The appraised value shall be 
determined by the county assessor every five years after 
acquisition. 
    Sec. 118.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.065, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [FINES AND FORFEITED BAIL.] (a) Fines and 
forfeited bail collected from prosecutions of violations of the 
game and fish laws, sections 84.09 to 84.15, and 84.81 to 84.88, 
chapter 34B, and any other law relating to wild animals, and 
aquatic vegetation must be paid to the treasurer of the county 
where the violation is prosecuted.  The county treasurer shall 
submit one-half of the receipts to the commissioner and credit 
the balance to the county general revenue fund except as 
provided in paragraph paragraphs (b) and (c).  
    (b) The commissioner must reimburse a county, from the game 
and fish fund, for the cost of keeping prisoners prosecuted for 
violations under this section if the county board, by 
resolution, directs:  (1) the county treasurer to submit all 
fines and forfeited bail to the commissioner; and (2) the county 
auditor to certify and submit monthly itemized statements to the 
commissioner.  
    (c)  The county treasurer shall indicate the amount of the 
receipts that are assessments or surcharges imposed under 
section 609.101 and shall submit all of those receipts to the 
commissioner.  The receipts must be credited to the game and 
fish fund to provide peace officer training for persons employed 
by the commissioner who are licensed under section 626.84, 
subdivision 1, clause (c), and who possess peace officer 
authority for the purpose of enforcing game and fish laws. 
    Sec. 119.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.105, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [LICENSE REQUIREMENTS.] A person may breed 
and propagate fur-bearing animals, game birds, bear, moose, elk, 
caribou, or deer only on privately owned or leased land and 
after obtaining a license.  Any of the permitted animals on a 
game farm may be sold to other licensed game farms.  "Privately 
owned or leased land" includes waters that are shallow or 
marshy, are not actually navigable, and are not of substantial 
beneficial public use.  Before an application for a license is 
considered, the applicant must enclose the area to sufficiently 
confine the animals to be raised in a manner approved by the 
commissioner.  A license may be granted only if the commissioner 
finds the application is made in good faith with intention to 
actually carry on the business described in the application and 
the commissioner determines that the facilities are adequate for 
the business.  
    Sec. 120.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.445, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [ANGLING; TAKE A KID FISHING WEEKEND.] A 
resident over age 18 may take fish by angling without a license 
during the second one Saturday and Sunday of the angling 
season designated by order of the commissioner if accompanied by 
a child who is under age 16.  The commissioner shall publicize 
the Saturday and Sunday as "Take a Kid Fishing Weekend."  
    Sec. 121.  [97A.472] [PLACE OF SALE OF NONRESIDENT LICENSES;
RESTRICTION.] 
    The commissioner shall not sell or issue in any place 
outside this state a nonresident license to take fish in this 
state. 
    Sec. 122.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [RESIDENT HUNTING.] Fees for the following 
licenses, to be issued to residents only, are: 
    (1) for persons under age 65 to take small game, $7 $9; 
    (2) for persons age 65 or over, $3.50 $4.50; 
    (3) to take turkey, $10 $12.50; 
    (4) to take deer with firearms, $15 $20; 
    (5) to take deer by archery, $15 $20;  
    (6) to take moose, for a party of not more than four 
persons, $200 $250; and 
    (7) to take bear, $25 $30.  
    Sec. 123.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [NONRESIDENT HUNTING.] Fees for the following 
licenses, to be issued to nonresidents, are: 
    (1) to take small game, $46 $51; 
    (2) to take deer with firearms, $100; 
    (3) to take deer by archery, $100;  
    (4) to take bear, $150; 
    (5) to take turkey, $30; and 
    (6) to take raccoon, bobcat, fox, coyote, or 
lynx, $100 $125.  
    Sec. 124.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 6, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 6.  [RESIDENT FISHING.] Fees for the following 
licenses, to be issued to residents only, are: 
    (1) to take fish by angling, for persons under age 
65, $6.50 $9.50; 
    (2) to take fish by angling, for persons age 65 and over, 
$4; 
    (3) to take fish by angling, for a combined license for a 
married couple, $10.50 $13.50; and 
    (3) (4) to take fish by spearing from a dark house, 
$7.50 $12; and 
    (5) to take fish by angling for a period of 24 hours from 
the time of issuance, $4.50.  No trout stamp is required when 
angling for trout or salmon under this 24-hour angling license. 
    Sec. 125.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 7, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 7.  [NONRESIDENT FISHING.] Fees for the following 
licenses, to be issued to nonresidents, shall be are: 
    (1) to take fish by angling, $16 $18; 
    (2) to take fish by angling limited to seven consecutive 
days, $13 $15; 
    (3) to take fish by angling for three days, $10 $12; and 
    (4) to take fish by angling for a combined license for a 
family, $27.50 $30.50; 
    (5) to take fish by angling for a period of 24 hours from 
the time of issuance, $4.50.  No trout stamp is required when 
angling for trout or salmon under this 24-hour angling license; 
and 
    (6) to take fish by angling for a combined license for a 
married couple, limited to 14 consecutive days, $22.50. 
    Sec. 126.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 8, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 8.  [MINNESOTA SPORTING.] The commissioner shall 
issue Minnesota sporting licenses to residents only.  The 
licensee may take fish by angling and small game.  The fee for 
the license is:  
    (1) for an individual, $12 $13.50; and 
    (2) for a combined license for a married couple to take 
fish and for one spouse to take small game, $16 $19.50.  
    Sec. 127.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 9, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 9.  [FISHING SURCHARGE.] The fees for the following 
licenses must be increased by a surcharge of $2.50: 
    (1) resident angling, under subdivision 6, clauses (1) and 
(2), (3), and (5); 
    (2) nonresident angling, under subdivision 7; 
    (3) Minnesota sporting, under subdivision 8;  
    (4) nonresident fish houses, under subdivision 12; and 
    (5) to net fish for domestic use, under subdivision 13. 
    Sec. 128.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 11, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 11.  [FISH HOUSES AND DARK HOUSES; RESIDENTS.] Fees 
for the following licenses are: 
    (1) for a fish house or dark house that is not 
rented, $5 $8; and 
    (2) for a fish house or dark house that is rented, $15 $18. 
    Sec. 129.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 12, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 12.  [FISH HOUSES; NONRESIDENT.] The fee for a fish 
house license for a nonresident is $15 $19.50.  
    Sec. 130.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 13, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 13.  [NETTING WHITEFISH AND CISCOES FOR PERSONAL 
CONSUMPTION.] The fee for a license to net whitefish and ciscoes 
in inland lakes and international waters for personal 
consumption is, for each net, $3 $5. 
    Sec. 131.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.475, 
subdivision 20, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 20.  [TRAPPING LICENSE.] The fee for a license to 
trap fur-bearing animals is: 
    (1) for persons over age 13 and under age 18, $3.50 $5; and 
    (2) for persons age 18 and older, $13 $16.  
    Sec. 132.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97A.485, 
subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [LICENSES TO BE SOLD AND ISSUING FEES.] (a) 
Persons authorized to sell licenses under this section must sell 
the following licenses for the license fee and the following 
issuing fees:  
    (1) to take deer with firearms and by archery, the issuing 
fee is $1; 
    (2) Minnesota sporting, the issuing fee is $1; and 
    (3) to take bear and small game, for a person under age 65 
to take fish by angling or for a person of any age to take fish 
by spearing, and to trap furbearing animals, the issuing fee is 
75 cents $1. 
    (b) An issuing fee for a stamp may not be collected when 
for a stamp is issued simultaneously with the related small 
game, fishing, or sporting license.  Only one issuing fee may be 
collected when selling more than one stamp in the same 
transaction after the end of the season for which the stamp was 
issued.  
    (c) The auditor or subagent shall keep the issuing fee as a 
commission for selling the licenses.  
    (d) The commissioner shall collect the issuing fee on 
licenses sold by the commissioner. 
    (e) A license, except stamps, must state the amount of the 
issuing fee and that the issuing fee is kept by the seller as a 
commission for selling the licenses. 
    (f) The fee for an angling license paid by a resident 65 
years of age or over must be refunded to the licensee upon 
request to the commissioner, if the request is made within 30 
days of the sale.  The commissioner shall design a system on the 
license for this purpose. 
    Sec. 133.  [97A.502] [DEER KILLED BY MOTOR VEHICLES.] 
    Notwithstanding section 97A.055, any deer killed by a motor 
vehicle on a public road must be removed by the road authority, 
as defined by section 160.02, subdivision 9.  The commissioner 
of natural resources must provide to all road authorities 
standard forms for statistical purposes and the tracking of wild 
animals. 
    Sec. 134.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 97C.211, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [PRICE OF WALLEYE FRY.] The commissioner may not 
sell walleye fry for less than fair market value, defined as the 
average price charged by private walleye fry wholesalers located 
in Minnesota. 
    Sec. 135.  [97C.402] [RAINY RIVER SEASON.] 
    The fishing season on the Minnesota side of the Rainy River 
ends on February 28. 
    Sec. 136.  [115A.41] [PURPOSE.] 
    The legislature recognizes the importance of maintaining 
the regulatory functions of the Minnesota pollution control 
agency in regard to solid waste management.  The legislature 
also recognizes that in order to achieve the maximum benefit of 
state funding and funding from other sources that the technical 
and financial assistance involved in managing solid waste, 
including programs involving waste tires, including landfills 
and other methods of recycling, disposing, and storing solid 
wastes, should properly be transferred to the waste management 
board. 
    Sec. 137.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.42, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.42 [ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION.] 
    There is established a planning assistance program to 
provide technical and financial assistance to political 
subdivisions of the state for the purposes of encouraging and 
improving regional and local solid waste management planning 
activities and efforts and of furthering the state policies and 
purposes expressed in section 115A.02.  The program shall be 
administered by the agency board pursuant to rules promulgated 
under chapter 14, except in the metropolitan area where the 
program shall be administered by the metropolitan council 
pursuant to chapter 473.  The agency board and the metropolitan 
council shall ensure conformance with federal requirements and 
programs established pursuant to the Resource Conservation and 
Recovery Act of 1976 and amendments thereto. 
    Sec. 138.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.44, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.44 [FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.] 
    Eligible recipients may receive grants for up to 50 percent 
of the cost of the planning activity, except that planning by a 
regional development commission and joint planning by two or 
more contiguous counties or political subdivisions located in 
two or more contiguous counties may receive grants for up to 100 
percent of the cost of the planning activity.  Financial 
assistance provided under the program may be used to employ 
staff, contract with other units of government or qualified 
consultants, and pay such other planning expenses as the 
agency board or metropolitan council may allow.  
    Sec. 139.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.45, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.45 [TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.] 
    The agency board and metropolitan council shall provide for 
technical assistance for eligible recipients.  The agency board 
and metropolitan council shall provide model plans for regional 
and local solid waste management.  The agency board and 
metropolitan council may contract for the delivery of technical 
assistance by a regional development commission, any state or 
federal agency, or private consultants.  The agency board shall 
prepare and publish an inventory of sources of technical 
assistance for solid waste planning, including studies, 
publications, agencies, and persons available.  
    Sec. 140.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.46, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [GENERAL.] Plans shall address the state 
policies and purposes expressed in section 115A.02.  Plans for 
the location, establishment, operation, maintenance, and 
postclosure use of facilities and facility sites, for 
ordinances, and for licensing, permit, and enforcement 
activities shall be consistent with the rules adopted by the 
agency pursuant to chapter 116.  Plans shall address the 
resolution of conflicting, duplicative, or overlapping local 
management efforts.  Plans shall address the establishment of 
joint powers management programs or waste management districts 
where appropriate.  Plans shall address other matters as the 
rules of the agency board may require consistent with the 
purposes of sections 115A.42 to 115A.46.  Political subdivisions 
preparing plans under sections 115A.42 to 115A.46 shall consult 
with persons presently providing solid waste collection, 
processing, and disposal services.  Plans shall be approved by 
the agency board, or the metropolitan council pursuant to 
section 473.803.  After initial approval, each plan shall be 
updated every five years and revised as necessary for further 
approval. 
    Sec. 141.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.49, is 
amended to read: 
    115A.49 [ESTABLISHMENT; PURPOSES AND PRIORITIES.] 
    There is established a program to encourage and assist 
cities, counties, and solid waste management districts in the 
development and implementation of solid waste management 
projects and to transfer the knowledge and experience gained 
from such projects to other communities in the state.  The 
program must be administered to encourage local communities to 
develop feasible and prudent alternatives to disposal, including 
waste reduction; waste separation by generators, collectors, and 
other persons; and waste processing.  The program must be 
administered by the agency and the board in accordance with the 
requirements of sections 115A.49 to 115A.54 and rules 
promulgated by the agency and the board pursuant to chapter 14.  
In administering the program, the agency and the board shall 
give priority to areas where natural geologic and soil 
conditions are unsuitable for land disposal of solid waste; 
areas where the capacity of existing solid waste disposal 
facilities is determined by the agency or the board to be less 
than five years; and projects serving more than one local 
government unit.  
    Sec. 142.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.51, is 
amended to read: 
    115A.51 [APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.] 
    Applications for assistance under the program shall 
demonstrate:  (a) that the project is conceptually and 
technically feasible;  (b) that affected political subdivisions 
are committed to implement the project, to provide necessary 
local financing, and to accept and exercise the government 
powers necessary to the project; (c) that operating revenues 
from the project, considering the availability and security of 
sources of solid waste and of markets for recovered resources, 
together with any proposed federal, state, or local financial 
assistance, will be sufficient to pay all costs over the 
projected life of the project; (d) that the applicant has 
evaluated the feasible and prudent alternatives to disposal and 
has compared and evaluated the costs of the alternatives, 
including capital and operating costs, and the effects of the 
alternatives on the cost to generators.  The agency or the board 
may require completion of a comprehensive solid waste management 
plan conforming to the requirements of section 115A.46, before 
accepting an application.  
    Sec. 143.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.52, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.52 [TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROJECTS.] 
    The agency and the board shall ensure the delivery of the 
technical assistance necessary for proper implementation of each 
project funded under the program.  The agency and the board may 
contract for the delivery of technical assistance by any state 
or federal agency, a regional development commission, the 
metropolitan council, or private consultants and may use program 
funds to reimburse the agency, commission, council, or 
consultants.  The agency and the board shall prepare and publish 
an inventory of sources of technical assistance, including 
studies, publications, agencies, and persons available.  The 
agency and the board shall ensure statewide benefit from 
projects assisted under the program by developing exchange and 
training programs for local officials and employees and by using 
the experience gained in projects to provide technical 
assistance and education for other solid waste management 
projects in the state. 
    Sec. 144.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.53, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.53 [WASTE REDUCTION AND SEPARATION PROJECTS.] 
    The agency board shall provide technical assistance and 
grants to projects which demonstrate waste reduction; waste 
separation by generators, collectors, and other persons; and 
collection systems for separated waste.  Activities eligible for 
assistance under this section include legal, financial, 
economic, educational, marketing, social, governmental, and 
administrative activities related to the implementation of the 
project.  Preliminary planning and development, feasibility 
study, and conceptual design costs shall also be eligible 
activities, but no more than 20 percent of program funds shall 
be used to fund those activities.  The rules of the agency board 
shall prescribe the level or levels of local funding required 
for grants under this section.  
    Sec. 145.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 115A.917, is 
amended to read:  
    115A.917 [CERTIFICATE OF NEED.] 
    No new capacity for disposal of mixed municipal solid waste 
may be permitted in counties outside the metropolitan area 
without a certificate of need issued by the agency board 
indicating the agency's board's determination that the 
additional disposal capacity is needed in the county.  A 
certificate of need may not be issued until the county has a 
plan approved under section 115A.46.  If the original plan was 
approved more than five years before, the agency board may 
require the plan to be revised before a certificate of need is 
issued under this section.  The agency board shall certify need 
only to the extent that there are no feasible and prudent 
alternatives to the additional disposal capacity, including 
waste reduction, source separation, and resource recovery, that 
would minimize adverse impact upon natural resources.  
Alternatives that are speculative or conjectural are not 
feasible and prudent.  Economic considerations alone do not 
justify the certification of need or the rejection of 
alternatives. 
    Sec. 146.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 116.41, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2.  [TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS.] The agency 
shall develop standards of competence for persons operating and 
inspecting various classes of disposal facilities.  The agency 
shall conduct training programs for persons operating facilities 
for the disposal of waste and for inspectors of such facilities, 
and may charge such fees as are necessary to cover the actual 
costs of the training programs.  All fees received shall be paid 
into the state treasury and credited to the account created in 
section 115.03, subdivision 1, clause (j), for training water 
pollution control personnel, a separate waste disposal training 
account and are appropriated to the agency to pay expenses 
relating to the training of disposal facility personnel.  
    The agency shall require operators and inspectors of such 
facilities to obtain from the agency a certificate of 
competence.  The agency shall conduct examinations to test the 
competence of applicants for certification, and shall require 
that certificates be renewed at reasonable intervals.  The 
agency may charge such fees as are necessary to cover the actual 
costs of receiving and processing applications, conducting 
examinations, and issuing and renewing certificates.  
Certificates shall not be required for a private individual for 
landspreading and associated interim and temporary storage of 
sewage sludge on property owned or farmed by that individual. 
    Sec. 147.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 116C.712, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [ASSESSMENT.] (a) A person, firm, corporation, or 
association in the business of owning or operating a nuclear 
fission electrical generating plant in this state shall pay an 
assessment to cover the cost of: 
    (1) monitoring the federal high-level radioactive waste 
program under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, United States Code, 
title 42, sections 10101 to 10226; 
    (2) advising the governor and the legislature on policy 
issues relating to the federal high-level radioactive waste 
disposal program; and 
    (3) other general studies necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this subdivision.  
    The assessment must not be more than the appropriation to 
the state planning agency for these purposes.  
     (b) The state planning agency shall bill the owner or 
operator of the plant for the assessment at least 30 days before 
the start of each quarter.  The assessment for the second 
quarter of each fiscal year must be adjusted to compensate for 
the amount by which actual expenditures by the state planning 
agency for the preceding year were more or less than the 
estimated expenditures previously assessed.  The billing may be 
made as an addition to the assessments made under section 
116C.69.  The owner or operator of the plant must pay the 
assessment within 30 days after receipt of the bill.  The 
assessment must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
to the special revenue fund. 
    (c) The authority for this assessment terminates when the 
department of energy eliminates Minnesota from further siting 
consideration for high-level radioactive waste.  The assessment 
required for any quarter must be reduced by the amount of 
federal grant money received by the state planning agency for 
the purposes listed in this section.  
    Sec. 148.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 161.1419, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 4.  Members of the commission shall serve without 
Compensation but shall be allowed and paid their actual 
traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the 
performance of their duties of legislative members of the 
commission is as provided in section 3.101.  Compensation of the 
remaining members is as provided in section 15.0575.  The 
commission may purchase supplies, employ part-time or full-time 
employees, and do all things reasonably necessary and convenient 
in carrying out the purposes of this section.  Reimbursement for 
expenses incurred shall be made pursuant to the rules governing 
state employees. 
    Sec. 149.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 168.012, 
subdivision 1c, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 1c.  (a) The annual administrative fee for a 
tax-exempt vehicle under this section is $5.  The license plate 
fee for a tax-exempt vehicle, except a trailer, is $10 for two 
plates per vehicle, payable only on the first tax-exempt 
registration of the vehicle.  The registration period for a 
tax-exempt vehicle is biennial.  The administrative fee is due 
on March 1 biennially and payable the preceding January 1, with 
validating stickers issued at time of payment.  
    (b) The owner of a tax-exempt vehicle shall apply for 
tax-exempt license plates, and pay the administrative and plate 
fees, and the filing fee under section 168.33, subdivision 7, 
only to a deputy registrar in the county in which the vehicle is 
domiciled. 
    Sec. 150.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 175A.07, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [PERSONNEL.] The judges of the workers' 
compensation court of appeals shall appoint in the manner 
provided by law all personnel required by the workers' 
compensation court of appeals.  Law clerks are in the 
unclassified service.  The commissioner of administration shall 
provide the court with necessary additional staff and 
administrative services, and the court shall reimburse the 
commissioner for the cost of these services. 
    Sec. 151.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 176.611, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [STATE DEPARTMENTS.] Every department of the 
state, including the University of Minnesota, shall reimburse 
the fund for money paid for the administration of its claims and 
the costs of administering the revolving fund at such times and 
in such amounts as the commissioner of the department of labor 
and industry shall certify has been paid out of the fund on its 
behalf.  The heads of the departments shall anticipate these 
payments by including them in their budgets.  In addition, the 
commissioner of labor and industry, with the approval of the 
commissioner of finance, may require an agency to make advance 
payments to the fund sufficient to cover the agency's estimated 
obligation for a period of at least 60 days.  Reimbursements and 
other money received by the commissioner of labor and industry 
under this subdivision must be credited to the state 
compensation revolving fund. 
    Sec. 152.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 176.611, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 3a.  [LOANS.] To maintain an ongoing balance 
sufficient to pay sums currently due for benefits and 
administrative costs, the commissioner of finance, upon request 
of the commissioner of labor and industry, may transfer money 
from the general fund to the state compensation revolving fund.  
Before requesting the transfer, the commissioner of labor and 
industry must decide there is not enough money in the fund for 
an immediate, necessary expenditure.  The amount necessary to 
make the transfer is appropriated from the general fund to the 
commissioner of finance.  The commissioner of labor and industry 
shall make schedules to repay the transferred money to the 
general fund.  The repayment may not extend beyond five years. 
    Sec. 153.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 176.611, 
subdivision 6a, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 6a.  [APPROPRIATIONS CONSTITUTING FUND.] There is 
hereby appropriated from the general fund in the state treasury 
to the state compensation revolving fund the sum of $967,690 to 
be used to pay claims of employees of the state.  This 
appropriation together with the sum of $74,013.12 heretofore 
appropriated from the trunk highway fund and $2,395,986.88 
heretofore appropriated from the general fund totals $3,437,690 
and constitutes The revolving fund consists of $3,437,690 
appropriated from the general fund and other funds. 
    Sec. 154.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 197.481, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [PERSONNEL.] The commissioner may appoint a 
hearing officer to act in the commissioner's place and to employ 
such other personnel as are necessary to investigate facts in 
cases brought under this section.  The affected political 
subdivision must bear all costs incurred by the commissioner 
under this section. 
    Sec. 155.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 204B.11, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [AMOUNT.] Except as provided by subdivision 
2, a filing fee shall be paid by each candidate who files an 
affidavit of candidacy.  The fee shall be paid at the time the 
affidavit is filed.  The amount of the filing fee shall vary 
with the office sought as follows: 
    (a) for the office of governor, lieutenant governor, 
attorney general, state auditor, state treasurer, secretary of 
state, representative in congress, judge of the supreme court, 
judge of the court of appeals, judge of the district court, or 
judge of the county municipal court of Hennepin 
county, $150 $200; 
    (b) for the office of senator in congress, $200 $300; 
    (c) for office of senator or representative in the 
legislature, $50 $75;  
    (d) for a county office, $50; and 
    (e) for the office of soil and water conservation district 
supervisor, $20. 
    For the office of presidential elector, and for those 
offices for which no compensation is provided, no filing fee is 
required. 
    The filing fees received by the county auditor shall 
immediately be paid to the county treasurer.  The filing fees 
received by the secretary of state shall immediately be paid to 
the state treasurer. 
    When an affidavit of candidacy has been filed with the 
appropriate filing officer and the requisite filing fee has been 
paid, the filing fee shall not be refunded. 
    Sec. 156.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 214.04, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  The executive secretary of each health-related 
and non-health-related board shall be the chief administrative 
officer for the board but shall not be a member of the board.  
The executive secretary shall maintain the records of the board, 
account for all fees received by it, supervise and direct 
employees servicing the board, and perform other services as 
directed by the board.  The executive secretaries and other 
employees of the following boards shall be hired by the board, 
and the executive secretaries shall be in the unclassified civil 
service, except as provided in this subdivision:  
    (1) dentistry;  
    (2) medical examiners;  
    (3) nursing;  
    (4) pharmacy;  
    (5) accountancy; 
    (6) architecture, engineering, land surveying and landscape 
architecture;  
    (7) barber examiners;  
    (8) cosmetology;  
    (9) electricity;  
    (10) teaching; and 
    (11) peace officer standards and training.  
    The board of medical examiners shall set the salary of its 
executive director, which may not exceed 95 percent of the top 
of the salary range set for the commissioner of health in 
section 15A.081, subdivision 1.  In June of the year in which a 
salary increase is to be adopted, and at least 30 days before 
the board of medical examiners adopts a salary increase for its 
executive director, the board shall submit the proposed salary 
increase to the legislative commission on employee relations for 
its review approval, modification, or rejection in the manner 
provided in section 43A.18, subdivision 2.  
    The executive secretaries serving the remaining boards 
shall be hired by those boards, and shall be in the unclassified 
civil service except for part-time executive secretaries, who 
are not required to be in the unclassified service.  Boards not 
requiring a full-time executive secretary may employ such 
services on a part-time basis.  To the extent practicable the 
sharing of part-time executive secretaries by boards being 
serviced by the same department is encouraged.  Persons 
providing services to those boards not listed in this 
subdivision, except executive secretaries of the boards and 
employees of the attorney general, shall be classified civil 
service employees of the department servicing the board.  To the 
extent practicable the commissioner shall insure that staff 
services are shared by the boards being serviced by the 
department.  If necessary, a board may hire part-time, temporary 
employees to administer and grade examinations. 
    Sec. 157.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 221.67, is 
amended to read:  
    221.67 [SERVICE OF PROCESS.] 
    The use of any of the public highways of this state for the 
transportation of persons or property for compensation by a 
motor carrier in interstate commerce shall be deemed an 
irrevocable appointment by the carrier of the secretary of state 
to be the carrier's true and lawful attorney upon whom may be 
served all legal process in any action or proceeding brought 
under this chapter against the carrier or the carrier's 
executor, administrator, personal representative, heirs, 
successors or assigns.  This use is a signification of agreement 
by the interstate motor carrier that any process in any action 
against the carrier or the carrier's executor, administrator, 
personal representative, heirs, successors, or assigns which is 
so served shall be of the same legal force and validity as if 
served upon the carrier personally.  Service shall be made by 
serving a copy thereof upon the secretary of state or by filing 
a copy in the office of the secretary of state, together with 
payment of a fee of $15 $25, and the service shall be sufficient 
service upon the absent motor carrier if notice of the service 
and a copy of the process are within ten days thereafter sent by 
mail by the plaintiff to the defendant at the defendant's last 
known address and the plaintiff's affidavit of compliance with 
the provisions of this section and sections 221.60, 221.65, and 
221.68 is attached to the summons. 
    Sec. 158.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 271.01, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 1a.  [RETIRED JUDGES.] Upon the retirement of a judge 
of the tax court or the district court, the chief judge of the 
tax court may, with the retired judge's consent, assign the 
retired judge to hear any case properly assignable to a judge of 
the tax court and to act on it with the full powers of a judge 
of the tax court.  A retired judge performing this service shall 
receive pay and expenses in the amount and manner provided by 
law for judges serving on the court, less the amount of 
retirement pay the judge is receiving under chapter 352 or 490. 
    Sec. 159.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 273.1314, 
subdivision 16a, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 16a.  [ZONE BOUNDARY REALIGNMENT.] The commissioner 
may approve specific applications by a municipality to amend the 
boundaries of a zone or of an area or areas designated pursuant 
to subdivision 9, paragraph (e) at any time.  Boundaries of a 
zone may not be amended to create noncontiguous subdivisions.  
If the commissioner approves the amended boundaries, the change 
is effective on the date of approval.  Notwithstanding the area 
limitation under section 273.1312, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), 
the commissioner may approve a specific application to amend the 
boundaries of an enterprise zone which is located within five 
municipalities and was designated in 1984, to increase its area 
to not more than 800 acres, and may approve an additional 
specific application to amend the boundaries of that enterprise 
zone to include a sixth municipality or to further increase its 
area to include all or part of the territory of a town that 
surrounds one of the five municipalities, or both. 
    Notwithstanding the area limitation under section 273.1312, 
subdivision 4, paragraph (b), the commissioner may approve a 
specific application to amend the boundaries of an enterprise 
zone that is located within four municipalities to include a 
fifth municipality.  The addition of the fifth municipality may 
only be approved after the existing municipalities, by adoption 
of a resolution by each municipality's governing board, agree to 
the addition of the fifth municipality. 
    Sec. 160.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 296.16, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [INTENT.] All gasoline received in this 
state and all gasoline produced in or brought into this state 
except aviation gasoline and marine gasoline shall be determined 
to be intended for use in motor vehicles in this state. 
    Approximately three-fourths of one and one-half percent of 
all gasoline received in this state and three-fourths of one and 
one-half percent of all gasoline produced or brought into this 
state, except gasoline used for aviation purposes, is being used 
as fuel for the operation of motorboats on the waters of this 
state and of the total revenue derived from the imposition of 
the gasoline fuel tax for uses other than for aviation purposes, 
three-fourths of one and one-half percent of such revenues is 
the amount of tax on fuel used in motorboats operated on the 
waters of this state.  
    Approximately three-fourths of one percent of all gasoline 
received in and produced or brought into this state, except 
gasoline used for aviation purposes, is being used as fuel for 
the operation of snowmobiles in this state, and of the total 
revenue derived from the imposition of the gasoline fuel tax for 
uses other than for aviation purposes, three-fourths of one 
percent of such revenues is the amount of tax on fuel used in 
snowmobiles operated in this state. 
    Approximately 0.15 of one percent of all gasoline received 
in or produced or brought into this state, except gasoline used 
for aviation purposes, is being used for the operation of 
all-terrain vehicles in this state, and of the total revenue 
derived from the imposition of the gasoline fuel tax, 0.15 of 
one percent is the amount of tax on fuel used in all-terrain 
vehicles operated in this state. 
    Sec. 161.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 296.421, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [COMPUTATION OF UNREFUNDED TAX.] The amount of 
unrefunded tax shall be a sum equal to three-fourths of one 
percent one and one-half percent of all revenues derived from 
the excise taxes on gasoline, except on gasoline used for 
aviation purposes, together with interest thereon and penalties 
for delinquency in payment, paid or collected pursuant to the 
provisions of sections 296.02 to 296.17.  The amount of such tax 
shall be computed for each six-month period commencing January 
1, 1961, and shall be paid into the state treasury on November 1 
and June 1 following each six-month period. 
    Sec. 162.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 298.22, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  (1) The office of commissioner of iron 
range resources and rehabilitation is created.  The commissioner 
shall be appointed by the governor under the provisions of 
section 15.06. 
    (2) The commissioner may hold such other positions or 
appointments as are not incompatible with duties as commissioner 
of iron range resources and rehabilitation.  The commissioner 
may appoint a deputy commissioner.  All expenses of the 
commissioner, including the payment of such assistance as may be 
necessary, shall be paid out of the amounts appropriated by 
section 298.28.  The compensation of the commissioner shall be 
set by the governor legislative coordinating commission and may 
not exceed the maximum salary set for the commissioner of 
administration under section 15A.081, subdivision 1.  
    (3) When the commissioner shall determine that distress and 
unemployment exists or may exist in the future in any county by 
reason of the removal of natural resources or a possibly limited 
use thereof in the future and the decrease in employment 
resulting therefrom, now or hereafter, the commissioner may use 
such amounts of the appropriation made to the commissioner of 
revenue in section 298.28 as are determined to be necessary and 
proper in the development of the remaining resources of said 
county and in the vocational training and rehabilitation of its 
residents.  For the purposes of this section, "development of 
remaining resources" includes, but is not limited to, the 
promotion of tourism. 
    Sec. 163.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 302A.011, 
subdivision 11, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 11.  [FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE.] "Filed with 
the secretary of state" means that an original of a document 
meeting the applicable requirements of this chapter, signed, and 
acknowledged or verified in the manner provided in chapter 358, 
and accompanied by a filing fee of $15 $25, has been delivered 
to the secretary of state of this state.  The secretary of state 
shall endorse on the original the word "Filed" and the month, 
day, year, and time of filing, record the document in the office 
of the secretary of state, and return the document to the person 
who delivered it for filing. 
    Sec. 164.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 302A.153, is 
amended to read:  
    302A.153 [EFFECTIVE DATE OF ARTICLES.] 
    Articles of incorporation are effective and corporate 
existence begins when the articles of incorporation are filed 
with the secretary of state accompanied by a payment 
of $85 $125, which includes a $70 $100 incorporation fee in 
addition to the $15 $25 filing fee required by section 302A.011, 
subdivision 11.  Articles of amendment and articles of merger 
are effective when filed with the secretary of state or at 
another time within 30 days after filing if the articles of 
amendment so provide.  Articles of merger must be accompanied by 
a fee of $50, which includes a $25 merger fee in addition to the 
$25 filing fee required by section 302A.011, subdivision 11. 
    Sec. 165.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 303.07, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [ANNUAL FEE.] The secretary of state shall 
collect an annual license fee from each foreign corporation 
holding a certificate of authority to transact business in this 
state.  A foreign corporation shall pay $15 $20 per $100,000 or 
fraction thereof of its Minnesota taxable net income for the 
last taxable year ending prior to the payment of the fee.  If 
the taxable year ended less than 75 days before the date the fee 
is received by the secretary of state, the taxable net income 
from the preceding taxable year shall determine the fee.  In no 
event shall the annual license fee be less than $30 $40.  The 
corporation shall pay this fee by April 1 of each year.  
    Sec. 166.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 303.13, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [FOREIGN CORPORATION.] A foreign 
corporation shall be subject to service of process, as follows: 
    (1) By service on its registered agent; 
    (2) When any foreign corporation authorized to transact 
business in this state fails to appoint or maintain in this 
state a registered agent upon whom service of process may be 
had, or whenever any registered agent cannot be found at its 
registered office in this state, as shown by the return of the 
sheriff of the county in which the registered office is 
situated, or by an affidavit of attempted service by any person 
not a party, or whenever any corporation withdraws from the 
state, or whenever the certificate of authority of any foreign 
corporation is revoked or canceled, service may be made by 
delivering to and leaving with the secretary of state, or with 
any deputy or clerk in the corporation department of the 
secretary of state's office, three copies thereof and a fee 
of $15 $25; provided, that after a foreign corporation withdraws 
from the state, pursuant to section 303.16, service upon the 
corporation may be made pursuant to the provisions of this 
section only when based upon a liability or obligation of the 
corporation incurred within this state or arising out of any 
business done in this state by the corporation prior to the 
issuance of a certificate of withdrawal. 
    (3) If a foreign corporation makes a contract with a 
resident of Minnesota to be performed in whole or in part by 
either party in Minnesota, or if a foreign corporation commits a 
tort in whole or in part in Minnesota against a resident of 
Minnesota, such acts shall be deemed to be doing business in 
Minnesota by the foreign corporation and shall be deemed 
equivalent to the appointment by the foreign corporation of the 
secretary of the state of Minnesota and successors to be its 
true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all lawful 
process in any actions or proceedings against the foreign 
corporation arising from or growing out of the contract or 
tort.  Process shall be served in duplicate upon the secretary 
of state, together with a fee of $15 $25 and the secretary of 
state shall mail one copy thereof to the corporation at its last 
known address, and the corporation shall have 30 days within 
which to answer from the date of the mailing, notwithstanding 
any other provision of the law.  The making of the contract or 
the committing of the tort shall be deemed to be the agreement 
of the foreign corporation that any process against it which is 
so served upon the secretary of state shall be of the same legal 
force and effect as if served personally on it within the state 
of Minnesota.  
    Sec. 167.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 303.21, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [OTHER INSTRUMENTS.] A fee of $20 $25 shall be 
paid to the secretary of state for filing any instrument, other 
than the annual report required by section 303.14, required or 
permitted to be filed under the provisions of this chapter.  For 
filing the annual report a fee of $20 must be paid to the 
secretary of state.  The fee fees shall be paid at the time of 
the filing of the instrument.  
    Sec. 168.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 317.67, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  The secretary of state shall collect a fee of 
$15 $25 for filing any instrument that is required to be filed 
under this chapter.  
    Sec. 169.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 317.67, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [FILING FEE.] The secretary of state shall 
collect a fee of $25 $35 from each new nonprofit corporation at 
the time of incorporation.  
    Sec. 170.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 322A.16, is 
amended to read:  
    322A.16 [FILING IN OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.] 
    (a) A signed copy of the certificate of limited 
partnership, of any certificates of amendment or cancellation or 
of any judicial decree of amendment or cancellation shall be 
delivered to the secretary of state.  A person who executes a 
certificate as an agent or fiduciary need not exhibit evidence 
of the executor's authority as a prerequisite to filing.  Unless 
the secretary of state finds that any certificate does not 
conform to law, upon receipt of a $10 $25 filing fee and, in the 
case of a certificate of limited partnership, a $50 $60 initial 
fee, the secretary shall: 
    (1) endorse on the original the word "Filed" and the day, 
month and year of the filing; and 
    (2) return the original to the person who filed it or a 
representative. 
    (b) Upon the filing of a certificate of amendment or 
judicial decree of amendment in the office of the secretary of 
state, the certificate of limited partnership shall be amended 
as set forth in the amendment, and upon the effective date of a 
certificate of cancellation or a judicial decree of it, the 
certificate of limited partnership is canceled. 
    Sec. 171.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 322A.71, is 
amended to read:  
    322A.71 [ISSUANCE OF REGISTRATION.] 
    (a) If the secretary of state finds that an application for 
registration conforms to law and a $10 $25 filing fee and a 
$50 $60 initial registration fee has been paid, the secretary 
shall: 
    (1) endorse on the application the word "Filed," and the 
month, day and year of the filing thereof; 
    (2) file a duplicate original of the application; and 
    (3) issue a certificate of registration to transact 
business in this state. 
    (b) The certificate of registration, together with a 
duplicate original of the application, shall be returned to the 
person who filed the application or a representative of that 
person. 
    Sec. 172.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 330.11, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  Every nonresident applicant shall file an 
irrevocable consent that suits and actions may be commenced 
against such applicant in any court of competent jurisdiction in 
this state by the service on the secretary of state of any 
summons, process, or pleadings authorized by the laws of the 
state of Minnesota.  This consent shall stipulate that the 
service of such process or pleadings on the secretary of state 
shall be taken and held in all courts to be as valid and binding 
as if due service had been made upon the applicant in the state 
of Minnesota.  In case any summons, process, or pleadings are 
served upon the secretary of state, it shall be by duplicate 
copies, one of which shall be retained in the office of the 
secretary of state, and the other to be forwarded immediately by 
certified mail to the address of the applicant, as shown by the 
records of the secretary of state, against whom the summons, 
process, or pleadings may be divested.  A fee of $25 must be 
paid to the secretary of state for each service. 
    Sec. 173.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 333.055, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  The secretary of state shall charge and collect:  
    (a) For the filing of each certificate or amended 
certificate of an assumed name - $15 
    (b) Certificate renewal fee - $6 $15. 
    Sec. 174.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 403.11, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SERVICE FEE.] (a) Each 
customer of a local exchange company is assessed a fee to cover 
the costs of ongoing maintenance and related improvements for 
trunking and central office switching equipment for minimum 911 
emergency telephone service, plus administrative and staffing 
costs of the department of administration related to managing 
the 911 emergency telephone service program.  
    (b) The fee may not be less than eight cents nor more than 
30 cents a month for each customer access line, including trunk 
equivalents as designated by the public utilities commission for 
access charge purposes.  The fee must be the same for all 
customers.  
    (c) The fee must be collected by each utility providing 
local exchange telephone service.  Fees are payable to and must 
be submitted to the commissioner of administration monthly 
before the 25th of each month following the month of collection, 
except that fees may be submitted quarterly if less than $250 a 
month is due, or annually if less than $25 a month is due.  
Receipts must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to 
a 911 emergency telephone service account in the special revenue 
fund.  
    (d) The commissioner of administration, with the approval 
of the commissioner of finance, shall establish the amount of 
the fee within the limits specified and inform the utilities of 
the amount to be collected.  Utilities must be given a minimum 
of 45 days notice of fee changes. 
    Sec. 175.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 462A.05, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 28.  [GRANTS FOR HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME PERSONS 
LIVING ALONE.] The agency may make grants for residential 
housing to be used by low income persons living alone whose 
annual gross income does not exceed 150 percent of the poverty 
line as updated by the United States Office of Management and 
Budget.  The grants may be made to cities, joint powers boards 
established by two or more cities, housing and redevelopment 
authorities created under sections 462.415 to 462.705, or 
nonprofit entities as defined by the agency.  The occupants of 
the residential housing must be offered a written lease that 
complies with section 325G.31, offers the occupants the option 
to renew, and prohibits eviction of an occupant without good 
cause.  Grants under this subdivision must not exceed 50 percent 
of the development costs for the residential housing, and must 
not be made for any residential housing that requires the 
occupants to accept board as well as lodging.  In making grants, 
the agency shall determine the circumstances, terms, and 
conditions under which all or part of the grant will be repaid 
and the appropriate security if repayment is required. 
    Sec. 176.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 462A.21, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 4k.  [HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND.] The agency may make 
grants for residential housing for low income persons under 
section 176 from funds specifically appropriated by the 
legislature for that purpose and may pay the costs and expenses 
for the development and operation of the program. 
    Sec. 177.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 473.351, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [RESTRICTION.] A metropolitan area regional park 
receiving grant money for maintenance and operation costs must 
agree: 
    (1) to sell or promote licenses, passes, or registrations 
required to engage in recreational activities appropriate to the 
park or the site of the park when a building on the park site is 
staffed and open to the public; and 
    (2) to provide drinking water supplies adequate for the 
recreational uses of the park.  Each implementing agency must 
consult with groups representing users of its parks to determine 
the adequacy of drinking water supplies. 
    Sec. 178.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 480.15, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 12.  The court administrator shall review plans 
submitted by a judicial district for office equipment under 
section 484.68, subdivision 3, clause (e), and shall determine 
eligibility for state funding or reimbursement for the equipment.
    Sec. 179.  [480.236] [SOFTWARE SALES.] 
    The supreme court may sell or license self-developed or 
vendor custom-developed computer software products or systems 
through whatever sales method the supreme court, in its 
discretion, deems appropriate, in order to offset its software 
development costs.  Prices for the software products or systems 
may be based on market considerations.  Proceeds of the sale or 
licensing of software products or systems by the supreme court 
must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to a 
software sales account.  Investment income and investment losses 
attributable to investment of the software sales account must be 
credited to the account.  Money in the account is appropriated 
to the supreme court to operate and improve the trial court 
information system and other court information systems. 
    Sec. 180.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 480.241, is 
amended to read: 
    480.241 [FILING FEE SURCHARGE IN CIVIL ACTIONS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [AMOUNT OF SURCHARGE; COLLECTION BY COURT 
ADMINISTRATORS.] A plaintiff, petitioner, defendant, respondent, 
intervenor or moving party in any district, county or municipal 
court civil action or civil proceeding in which an initial 
filing fee is payable by that party, except a marriage 
dissolution or conciliation court action, shall pay to the court 
administrator of district or county court or court administrator 
of the municipal courts of Hennepin county or Ramsey county a 
surcharge of $10 in addition to the initial filing fee otherwise 
prescribed.  For such a civil action or civil proceeding 
commenced on and after July 1, 1987, the surcharge is $20.  A 
plaintiff, defendant or moving party in any conciliation court 
action in which an initial filing fee is payable shall pay to 
the court administrator of conciliation court a surcharge 
of $1 $2 in addition to the initial filing fee otherwise 
prescribed.  Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the 
contrary, no surcharge shall be paid by any governmental unit of 
the state of Minnesota, any local unit of government, or agency 
thereof, when the governmental unit, local government, or agency 
thereof is a party to any civil action or civil proceeding in 
the municipal courts of Hennepin or Ramsey counties, or in any 
county court.  
    Subd. 2.  [TRANSMITTAL OF SURCHARGE TO SUPREME COURT.] 
Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, all 
surcharges collected pursuant to subdivision 1 shall be 
transmitted monthly by the district, county and conciliation 
court court administrators and municipal court administrators to 
the supreme court for deposit in a legal services account in the 
special revenue fund.  After June 30, 1989, two-thirds of the 
surcharge must be deposited in the legal services account in the 
special revenue fund and one-third must be deposited in the 
software sales account under section 480.236. 
    Sec. 181.  [480.245] [JUDICIAL FEE IN CIVIL ACTIONS AND 
CONCILIATION COURTS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [AMOUNT OF FEE; COLLECTION BY COURT 
ADMINISTRATORS.] A plaintiff, petitioner, defendant, respondent, 
intervenor, or moving party in a civil action or civil 
proceeding in which an initial filing fee is payable by that 
party, except a marriage dissolution or conciliation court 
action, shall pay to the court administrator a judicial fee of 
$5 in addition to the civil surcharge and the initial filing fee 
otherwise prescribed under section 480.241.  A plaintiff, 
defendant, or moving party in a conciliation court action in 
which an initial filing fee is payable shall pay to the court 
administrator a judicial fee of $1 in addition to the civil 
surcharge and the initial filing fee otherwise prescribed.  A 
fee need not be paid by a governmental unit of the state of 
Minnesota, a local unit of government, or an agency of those 
units, when the governmental unit, local government, or agency 
is a party to a civil action or civil proceeding. 
    Subd. 2.  [TRANSMITTAL OF RECEIPTS.] Fees collected under 
subdivision 1 must be paid to the state treasurer, deposited in 
the state treasury, and credited to the general fund. 
    Sec. 182.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 480A.08, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [DECISIONS.] A decision shall be rendered in 
every case within 90 days after oral argument or after the final 
submission of briefs or memoranda by the parties, whichever is 
later.  The chief justice or the chief judge may waive the 
90-day limitation for any proceeding before the court of appeals 
for good cause shown.  In every case, the decision of the court, 
including any written opinion containing a summary of the case 
and a statement of the reasons for its decision, shall be 
indexed and made readily available.  The court of appeals may 
publish only those decisions that: 
    (1) establish a new rule of law; 
    (2) overrule a previous court of appeals' decision not 
reviewed by the supreme court; 
    (3) provide important procedural guidelines in interpreting 
statutes or administrative rules; 
    (4) involve a significant legal issue; or 
    (5) would significantly aid in the administration of 
justice. 
    Unpublished opinions of the court of appeals are not 
precedential.  Unpublished opinions must not be cited unless the 
party citing the unpublished opinion provides a full and correct 
copy to all other counsel at least 48 hours before its use in 
any pretrial conference, hearing, or trial.  If cited in a brief 
or memorandum of law, a copy of the unpublished opinion must be 
provided to all other counsel at the time the brief or 
memorandum is served, and other counsel may respond. 
    Sec. 183.  [481.20] [CLIENT SECURITY ACCOUNT.] 
    Fees received under rules or orders adopted by the supreme 
court governing a client security fund or account must be 
deposited in the state treasury and credited to a client 
security account.  Investment income and investment losses 
attributable to investment of the client security account must 
be credited to the account.  Money in the account is 
appropriated to the supreme court to pay the expenses of the 
client security board and claims approved by the board. 
    Sec. 184.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 484.68, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  [DUTIES.] The district administrator shall: 
    (a) Assist the chief judge in the performance of 
administrative duties; 
    (b) Manage the administrative affairs of the courts of the 
judicial district; 
    (c) Supervise the court administrators and other support 
personnel, except court reporters, who serve in the courts of 
the judicial district; 
    (d) Comply with the requests of the state court 
administrator for statistical or other information relating to 
the courts of the judicial district; and 
    (e) With the approval of the chief judge, determine the 
needs of the judges of the district for office equipment 
necessary for the effective administration of justice and 
develop a plan to make the equipment available to the judges of 
the district; the plan must be submitted to the state court 
administrator for approval and determination of eligibility for 
state funding under section 480.15, subdivision 12; and 
    (f) Perform any additional duties that are assigned by law 
or by the rules of court. 
    Sec. 185.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 484.68, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 5.  [BUDGET FOR OFFICE.] The office budget of the 
district administrator shall be set by the chief judge of the 
judicial district and apportioned among the counties of the 
district.  The budget must include sufficient money for the 
staff authorized by this section and other staff and expenses 
authorized under law. 
    Sec. 186.  [484.74] [ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [AUTHORIZATION.] In litigation involving an 
amount in excess of $50,000 in controversy, the presiding judge 
may, by order, direct the parties to enter nonbinding 
alternative dispute resolution.  Alternatives may include 
private trials, neutral expert fact-finding, mediation, 
mini-trials, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.  
The guidelines for the various alternatives must be established 
by the presiding judge and must emphasize early and inexpensive 
exchange of information and case evaluation in order to 
facilitate settlement. 
    Subd. 2.  [NEUTRAL; APPOINTMENT; REMOVAL.] The judge shall 
appoint an impartial third-party neutral to conduct all 
proceedings held under subdivision 1.  A party may file with the 
judge within five days of the notice of appointment of a neutral 
and serve on all other parties to the action a notice to remove 
the neutral.  Upon receipt of the notice to remove, the judge 
shall assign another neutral.  After a party has once 
disqualified a neutral as a matter of right, a substitute 
neutral may be disqualified by the party only by making an 
affirmative showing of prejudice to the judge. 
    Subd. 3.  [FEES.] Subject to chapter 563, the neutral's 
fees and expenses must be borne by the parties on a basis 
determined to be fair and equitable by the presiding judge. 
    Subd. 4.  [APPLICATION.] This section applies only to the 
fourth judicial district, which will serve as a pilot project to 
evaluate the effectiveness of alternative forms of resolving 
commercial and personal injury disputes.  The state court 
administrator shall evaluate the pilot project and report the 
findings to the chairs of the house and senate judiciary 
committees by January 15, 1989. 
    Sec. 187.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 540.152, is 
amended to read:  
    540.152 [SERVICE OF PROCESS ON UNIONS, GROUPS OR 
ASSOCIATIONS.] 
    The transaction of any acts, business or activities within 
the state of Minnesota by any officer, agent, representative, 
employee or member of any union or other groups or associations 
having officers, agents, members or property without the state 
on behalf of the union or other groups or associations or any of 
its members or affiliated local unions shall be deemed an 
appointment by the union or other groups or associations of the 
secretary of state of the state of Minnesota to be the true and 
lawful attorney of the union or other groups or associations, 
upon whom may be served all legal processes or notices in any 
action or proceeding against or involving the union or other 
groups or associations growing out of any acts, business or 
activities within the state of Minnesota resulting in damage or 
loss to person or property or giving rise to any cause of action 
under the laws of the state of Minnesota or to any matters or 
proceedings arising under the Minnesota Labor Relations Act. 
Such acts, business or activities shall be a signification of 
the agreement of the union or other groups or associations and 
its members that any process or notice in any action, matter or 
proceeding against or involving it, which is so served, shall be 
of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the union 
or other groups or associations and its members personally.  
Service of process or notice shall be made by filing a copy 
thereof in the office of the secretary of state, together with 
payment of a fee of $15 $25 and together with an affidavit 
stating that no officer or managing agent of the union or other 
group or association has been found in this state and setting 
forth an address to which the service shall be forwarded.  The 
service shall be sufficient service upon the union or other 
groups or associations and its members.  Notice of service and a 
copy of the process or notice shall, within ten days thereafter, 
be sent by mail by the person who caused it to be served on the 
union or other groups or associations at its last known address 
and an affidavit of compliance with the provisions of this 
chapter shall be filed with the court or other state agency or 
department before which the action, matter, or proceeding is 
pending.  
    Sec. 188.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 543.08, is 
amended to read:  
    543.08 [SUMMONS, SERVICE UPON CERTAIN CORPORATIONS.] 
    If a private domestic corporation has no officer at the 
registered office of the corporation within the state upon whom 
service can be made, of which fact the return of the sheriff of 
the county in which that office is located, or the affidavit of 
a private person not a party, that none can be found in that 
county shall be conclusive evidence, service of the summons upon 
it may be made by depositing two copies, together with a fee 
of $15 $25 with the secretary of state, which shall be deemed 
personal service upon the corporation.  One of the copies shall 
be filed by the secretary, and the other forthwith mailed by the 
secretary to the corporation by certified mail, if the place of 
its main office is known to the secretary or is disclosed by the 
files in the office. 
    If the defendant is a foreign insurance corporation, the 
summons may be served by two copies delivered to the 
commissioner of commerce, who shall file one in the 
commissioner's office and forthwith mail the other postage 
prepaid to the defendant at its home office. 
    Sec. 189.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 609.101, is 
amended to read:  
    609.101 [SURCHARGE ON FINES, ASSESSMENTS; MINIMUM FINES.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [SURCHARGES AND ASSESSMENTS.] When a court 
sentences a person convicted of a felony, gross misdemeanor, or 
misdemeanor, other than a petty misdemeanor such as a traffic or 
parking violation, and if the sentence does not include payment 
of a fine, the court shall impose an assessment of not less than 
$25 nor more than $50.  If the sentence for the felony, gross 
misdemeanor, or misdemeanor includes payment of a fine of any 
amount, including a fine of less than $100, the court shall 
impose a surcharge on the fine of ten percent of the fine.  This 
section applies whether or not the person is sentenced to 
imprisonment and when the sentence is suspended.  The court may, 
upon a showing of indigency or undue hardship upon the convicted 
person or the person's immediate family, not waive payment or 
authorize payment of the assessment or surcharge in installments 
unless it makes written findings on the record that the 
convicted person is indigent or that the assessment or surcharge 
would create undue hardship for the convicted person or that 
person's immediate family; however, if the court waives payment 
or authorizes payment in installments, it shall state in writing 
on the record the reasons for its action.  If the court fails to 
waive or impose an assessment required by this section, the 
court administrator shall correct the record to show imposition 
of an assessment of $25 if the sentence does not include payment 
of a fine, or if the sentence includes a fine, to show an 
imposition of a surcharge of 10 percent of the fine. 
    Except for assessments and surcharges imposed on persons 
convicted of violations described in section 97A.065, 
subdivision 2, the court shall collect and forward to the 
commissioner of finance the total amount of the assessment or 
surcharge and the commissioner shall credit all money so 
forwarded to a crime victim and witness account, which is 
established as a special account in the state treasury. 
    Money credited to the crime victim and witness account may 
be appropriated for but is not limited to the following purposes:
    (1) use for crime victim reparations under sections 611A.51 
to 611A.68; 
    (2) use by the crime victim and witness advisory council 
established under section 611A.71; and 
    (3) to supplement the federally funded activities of the 
crime victim ombudsman under section 611A.74.  
    If the convicted person is sentenced to imprisonment, the 
chief executive officer of the correctional facility in which 
the convicted person is incarcerated may collect the assessment 
or surcharge from any earnings the inmate accrues for work 
performed in the correctional facility and forward the amount to 
the commissioner of finance, indicating the part that was 
imposed for violations described in section 97A.065, subdivision 
2, which must be credited to the game and fish fund. 
    Subd. 2.  [MINIMUM FINES.] Notwithstanding any other law:  
    (1) when a court sentences a person convicted of violating 
section 609.221, 609.267, or 609.342, it must impose a fine of 
not less than $500 nor more than the maximum fine authorized by 
law; 
    (2) when a court sentences a person convicted of violating 
section 609.222, 609.223, 609.2671, 609.343, 609.344, or 
609.345, it must impose a fine of not less than $300 nor more 
than the maximum fine authorized by law; and 
    (3) when a court sentences a person convicted of violating 
section 609.2231, 609.224, or 609.2672, it must impose a fine of 
not less than $100 nor more than the maximum fine authorized by 
law.  
    The court may not waive payment of the fine or authorize 
payment of it in installments unless the court makes written 
findings on the record that the convicted person is indigent or 
that the fine would create undue hardship for the convicted 
person or that person's immediate family. 
    The court shall collect the minimum fine mandated by this 
subdivision and forward 70 percent of it to a local victim 
assistance program that provides services locally in the county 
in which the crime was committed.  The court shall forward the 
remaining 30 percent to the commissioner of finance to be 
credited to the crime victim and witness account established in 
subdivision 1.  If more than one victim assistance program 
serves the county in which the crime was committed, the court 
may designate on a case-by-case basis which program will receive 
the fine proceeds, giving consideration to the nature of the 
crime committed, the types of victims served by the program, and 
the funding needs of the program.  If no victim assistance 
program serves that county, the court shall forward 100 percent 
of the fine proceeds to the commissioner of finance to be 
credited to the crime victim and witness account.  Fine proceeds 
received by a local victim assistance program must be used to 
provide direct services to crime victims.  Fine proceeds 
credited to the crime victim and witness account may be 
appropriated to the crime victim and witness advisory council, 
and the council may use all or part of the proceeds for the 
purpose of providing grants to establish new victim assistance 
programs. 
    The minimum fine required by this subdivision is in 
addition to the surcharge or assessment required by subdivision 
1, and is in addition to any term of imprisonment or restitution 
imposed or ordered by the court. 
    As used in this subdivision, "victim assistance program" 
means victim witness programs within county attorney offices or 
any of the following programs approved by the department of 
corrections:  crime victim crisis centers, victim-witness 
programs, battered women shelters and nonshelter programs, and 
sexual assault programs. 
    Sec. 190. Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 626.861, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 4.  [PEACE OFFICERS TRAINING ACCOUNT.] Receipts from 
penalty assessments must be credited to a peace officers 
training account in the special revenue fund.  Money credited to 
the peace officers training account may be appropriated for but 
not limited to the following purposes, among others: 
    (a) Up to ten percent may be provided for reimbursement to 
board approved skills courses in proportion to the number of 
students successfully completing the board's skills licensing 
examination. 
    (b) Assessments related to violations described in section 
97.49, subdivision 5, are appropriated to provide peace officer 
training for persons employed by the commissioner of natural 
resources who are licensed under section 626.84, subdivision 1, 
clause (c), and who possess peace officer authority for the 
purpose of enforcing game and fish laws.  
    (c) The balance may be used to pay each local unit of 
government an amount in proportion to the number of licensed 
peace officers and constables employed, at a rate to be 
determined by the board.  The disbursed amount must be used 
exclusively for reimbursement of the cost of in-service training 
required under this chapter and chapter 214. 
    Sec. 191.  [REPEALERS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, sections 3.099, 
subdivision 2; 3.9226, subdivision 8; 6.495, subdivision 2; 
15A.081, subdivision 6; 15A.082, subdivision 5; 15A.083, 
subdivision 1; 92.67, subdivision 6; 116J.87; and 296.421, 
subdivision 5a are repealed. 
    Subd. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 473.351, 
subdivision 5, is repealed effective the day following final 
enactment. 
    Sec. 192.  [EFFECTIVE DATES.] 
    Subdivision 1.  Section 89 is effective July 1, 1987, 
provided the commissioner shall not implement the program until 
the legislature appropriates the necessary funds. 
    Subd. 2.  (a) The additional judgeships authorized for 
judicial districts in section 59 are established as follows: 
    (1) one judgeship in the first judicial district, three 
judgeships in the fourth judicial district, and one judgeship in 
the tenth judicial district are effective on July 1, 1987; 
    (2) one judgeship in the first judicial district, three 
judgeships in the fourth judicial district, and one judgeship in 
the tenth judicial district are effective on July 1, 1988; 
    (3) one judgeship in the sixth judicial district is 
effective on January 1, 1989, and one judicial officer position 
in the sixth judicial district is terminated upon the 
appointment of a judge to fill this judgeship; 
    (4) one judgeship in the first judicial district, three 
judgeships in the fourth judicial district, one judgeship in the 
seventh judicial district, and one judgeship in the tenth 
judicial district are effective on July 1, 1989, if an 
appropriation is made; and 
    (5) one judgeship in the first judicial district, two 
judgeships in the fourth judicial district, and one judgeship in 
the tenth judicial district is effective on July 1, 1990, if an 
appropriation is made. 
    (b) Section 180 is effective on July 1, 1987. 
    Subd. 3.  Except as provided in this section, sections 96, 
and 120 to 132 are effective for the licensing year beginning 
March 1, 1988, and for each licensing year after that date.  The 
24 hour resident and nonresident angling licenses and the 
nonresident married couple license are effective beginning June 
1, 1987, and for each licensing year after that date. 
    Subd. 4.  Sections 51, 63, 149, 178, 185, and 186 are 
effective the day following final enactment.  The repeal of 
Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 473.351, subdivision 5, is 
effective the day following final enactment.  Section 147 is 
effective June 1, 1988. 
    Approved June 12, 1987

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