1999 Minnesota Statutes

     268.0111 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  The definitions in 
 this section apply to this chapter. 

    Subd. 2.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of economic security. 

    Subd. 3. Repealed, 1987 c 403 art 2 s 164 

    Subd. 3a.    Department.  "Department" means the 
 department of economic security. 

    Subd. 4.    Employment and training services.  
 "Employment and training services" means programs, activities, 
 and services related to job training, job placement, and job 
 creation including job service programs, Job Training 
 Partnership Act programs, wage subsidies, work readiness 
 programs, job search, counseling, case management, community 
 work experience programs, displaced homemaker programs, 
 disadvantaged job training programs, grant diversion, employment 
 experience programs, youth employment programs, conservation 
 corps, apprenticeship programs, community investment programs, 
 community development corporations, economic development 
 programs, and opportunities industrialization centers. 

    Subd. 4a.    Homeless individual.  "Homeless 
 individual," or "homeless person" means: 

    (1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate 
 nighttime residence; and 

    (2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence 
 that is:  

    (i) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter or 
 dwelling designed to provide temporary living accommodations, 

    (ii) an institution that provides a temporary residence for 
 individuals intended to be institutionalized, or 

    (iii) a public or private place not designed for, or 
 ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for humans. 

    The term "homeless individual" does not include any 
 individual imprisoned or otherwise detained pursuant to federal 
 or state law. 

    Subd. 5.    Income maintenance and support services.  
 "Income maintenance and support services" means programs through 
 which the state or its subdivisions provide direct financial or 
 in-kind support to unemployed or underemployed persons, 
 including reemployment compensation, the Minnesota family 
 investment program, general assistance, food stamps, energy 
 assistance, disability determinations, and child care.  Income 
 maintenance and support services do not include medical 
 assistance, aging services, social services, community social 
 services, mental health services, or services for the 
 emotionally disturbed, the mentally retarded, or residents of 
 nursing homes. 

    Subd. 5a.    Indian tribe.  For purposes of employment 
 and training services, "Indian tribe" means a tribe, band, 
 nation, or other organized group or community of Indians that is 
 recognized as eligible for the special programs and services 
 provided by the United States to Indians because of their status 
 as Indians, and for which a reservation exists as is consistent 
 with Public Law Number 100-485, as amended. 

    Subd. 6.    Local service unit.  "Local service unit" 
 means a county, counties operating under a joint powers 
 agreement, one or more counties and one or more cities of the 
 first class operating under a joint powers agreement, or a city 
 of the first class. 

    Subd. 7.    Public assistance.  "Public assistance" 
 means the Minnesota family investment program and general 
 assistance.  

    Subd. 8.    Service provider.  "Service provider" means 
 a public, private, or nonprofit agency that is capable of 
 providing or administrating one or more of the employment and 
 training services or income maintenance and support services. 

    Subd. 9.    Wage subsidies.  "Wage subsidies" means 
 issuing of payments to employers to offset the costs of wages, 
 fringe benefits, and training for eligible employees under the 
 limitations established in sections 268.672 to 268.682, and may 
 be referred to as Minnesota employment and economic development 
 (MEED) wage subsidies.  

    HIST: 1Sp1985 c 14 art 9 s 38; 1987 c 403 art 2 s 128; 1988 c 
 689 art 2 s 219; 1989 c 282 art 5 s 121,122; 1990 c 568 art 4 s 
 61; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1997 c 66 s 1; 1997 c 85 art 
 4 s 24,25; 1999 c 107 s 66; 1999 c 159 s 117,118