2003 Minnesota Statutes

     268.95 Individual enterprise. 

    Subdivision 1.    Coordination.  The commissioner may 
 coordinate state activities related to self-employment 
 enterprises, including home-based businesses, individual 
 self-employment initiatives, and collective and cooperative 
 efforts involving individual entrepreneurs. 

    Subd. 2.    Marketing.  The commissioner may undertake 
 activities to expand the marketing of goods or services produced 
 by the state's independent entrepreneurs.  

    Subd. 3.    Technical assistance.  The commissioner may 
 provide or arrange for the provision of information, technical 
 assistance, and support as necessary to help individuals 
 determine whether they wish to become self-employed, to obtain 
 needed training, to develop business plans and financing, and to 
 sustain the initiatives. 

    Subd. 4.    Pilot program.  The commissioner shall 
 develop a pilot program, in cooperation with the commissioners 
 of employment and economic development and human services, to 
 enable low-income persons to start or expand self-employment 
 opportunities or home-based businesses that are designed to make 
 the individual entrepreneurs economically independent.  The 
 commissioner of human services shall seek necessary waivers from 
 federal regulations to allow recipients of the Minnesota Family 
 Investment Program assistance to participate and retain 
 eligibility while establishing a business. 

    Subd. 5.    Study.  The commissioner shall study the 
 needs of individual entrepreneurs and beginning businesses and 
 recommend to the governor how state programs and resources can 
 provide further assistance. 

    HIST: 1Sp1985 c 14 art 9 s 73; 1987 c 312 art 1 s 26 subd 2; 
 1997 c 85 art 4 s 34; 1999 c 159 s 125; 1Sp2003 c 4 s 1