Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2223

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government
ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money for the legislative and executive
branches of state government; appropriating money to the legislature, to the
governor and lieutenant governor, to the state auditor and treasurer, to the
attorney general, to the secretary of state, to the campaign finance and public
disclosure and investment boards, to the office of administrative hearings, to
the office of strategic and long range planning for a generic environmental
impact statement on animal agriculture, for performance of program evaluations
of executive branch agencies, for administrative support to community based
planning efforts and for certain regional development commission grants, for
preparation of the GEIS on urban development and for the southwest Minnesota
wind monitoring project, to the department of administration for the office of
technology, for the intergovernmental information systems advisory council, for
the small agency infrastructure project, for the year 2000 project office, for
recurring costs of 911 emergency telephone service, for predesign of a new
building for the departments of commerce, labor and industry and trade and
economic development (DTED) on the capital square building site, for grants to
places of public accommodation to assist in achieving compliance with certain
bleacher safety requirements, for the information policy training program, for
the office of the state archaeologist, for the developmental disabilities
council, for the STAR program, for the state employees band and for Minnesota
children's museum, public television and radio and Twin Cities regional cable
channel grants, to the capitol area architectural and planning board (CAAPB) for
construction of a Hubert H. Humphrey memorial, for a grant to the National world
war II memorial fund and for installation of a plaque to correct inaccurate
historical information on the current Spanish-American war commemorative plaque,
to the department of finance for certain management services, to the department
of employee relations (DOER) for implementation of an optional participant paid
long term care insurance program for state and public employees, for the payment
of workers compensation reinsurance association premiums and for a grant to the
government training service, to the department of revenue for certain management
services and for the income tax reengineering initiative, to the department of
military affairs for asset preservation and facility repair, for the national
guard youth camp at Camp Ripley, for the reenlistment bonus program and for
active duty expenses, to the department of veterans affairs for emergency
financial and medical needs, for grants to local veterans organizations to
provide transportation services to medical facilities, for county veterans
offices for service officers training and to the Vinland national center and for
the veterans bonus program, to the veterans of foreign wars, to the military
order of the purple heart, to disabled American veterans, to the gambling
control, state arts and government innovation and cooperation boards, to the
racing commission, to the state lottery board for project turnabout in Granite
Falls, to the amateur sports commission for ice centers and amateur athletic
facilities grants, to the Minnesota humanities commission for the motheread
fatheread program, to the commissioner of finance for the payment of tort
claims, to the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) for legislators and
constitutional officers, to the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF) and
to the commissioner of revenue for police and fire amortization aid; specifying
certain commissioner of finance bond sale scheduling requirements; requiring the
governor in consultation with the commissioners of agriculture and trade and
economic development to prepare and submit an application for federal permits to
authorize the growing of experimental land demonstration plots of industrial
hemp; requiring the program evaluation division of the office of strategic and
long range planning to report to the legislature by a certain date on ways to
reduce state government expenditures by a certain percentage range; requiring a
certain amount of money credited to the special revenue account for the lease of
state building space to be used to rebuild and upgrade electronic security
systems in the capitol complex; requiring the commissioner of administration to
install a rain check device on the automatically operated landscape irrigation
system in the capitol area; designating a certain building in the capitol
complex as the Harold E. Stassen building; requiring the commissioner of
veterans affairs to study the feasibility and desirability of supplementing the
missions of the veterans homes and veterans administration hospitals by entering
into agreements with health care providers to provide free or reduced cost
comprehensive health care to veterans close to places of residences and report
to the legislature by a certain date; creating the statewide systems account in
the general fund for deposit of money received from billings for statewide
systems services, specifying commissioner of finance billing procedures;
requiring the legislature to notify recipients of journals, statutes, session
laws and other publications of the cost and availability on the Internet;
requiring the attorney general to biennially submit billing rates to the
commissioner of finance and the budget request of the attorney general to
include a consolidated listing of appropriations used to support the office,
requiring the attorney general upon entering into legal services agreements to
notify the legislature; requiring responsible authorities to annually prepare
and distribute government data public access procedures; regulating access to
data under government entity privatization contracts; requiring the commissioner
of administration to prepare model policies and procedures to assist government
entities in complying with public access to government data requirements;
modifying the boundaries of the capital area and eliminating the provision
providing for reversion of the area to a previous configuration upon failure to
begin construction on the labor interpretive center by a certain date; modifying
the deadline for governor biennial preparation of revenue targets; requiring
detailed operating budgets for executive branch agencies to include proposals
for new fees or fee increases and requiring legislative approval of new fees and
fee increases, exceptions; requiring the payment of interest on cash advances;
modifying certain outstanding warrants cancellation requirements; eliminating
certain restrictions on the use of master leases; authorizing the commissioner
of administration to appoint an additional deputy commissioner; requiring the
deposit of rent to recover depreciation costs of buildings funded from the state
bond proceeds fund in the special revenue fund; clarifying the requirement for
commissioner approval of capital improvement projects; sunsetting the shared
savings program involving energy conservation expenditures on state owned
buildings; eliminating office of technology representation on and extending the
expiration date of the intergovernmental information systems advisory council;
modifying the state information infrastructure, prohibiting state provision of
telecommunication services available through the private sector; imposing
certain bleacher safety requirements on places of public accommodation;
requiring cost benefit analyses of state agency contracts or purchases of goods
or services over a certain amount; clarifying the term of contracts for the
purchase by installment payments of energy efficiency equipment or services for
state buildings; providing for the collection of debts owed to state agencies by
the commissioner of revenue; eliminating the position of executive director of
the office of technology, office to be under the supervision of the commissioner
of administration; requiring online access to the business license information
system for license and permit application purposes; modifying the procedure for
state agency reporting of contracted services; authorizing the commissioner of
employee relations to self insure hospital and medical plans offered to state
employees to promote stable and predictable premiums and affordable ongoing
relationships between employees and dependents and medical providers; requiring
self insured hospital and medical service products to comply with coverage
mandates, data reporting and consumer protection requirements applicable to the
licensed carrier administering the product; requiring the commissioner to
maintain a contingency reserve within the employee insurance trust fund to
increase the controls over medical plan provisions and insurance costs for state
employees; requiring the commissioner biennial report to the legislative
commission on employee relations (LCER) to include a study of local and
statewide market trends relating to provider concentration, costs and other
factors relating to the state health benefits purchasing strategy and requiring
the commissioner to employ staff to assist state employees and dependents in
understanding benefits and coverage levels, in obtaining certain information and
in using grievance and complaint resolution processes; authorizing and providing
for an optional public employees group long term care insurance program to be
administered by the commissioner; requiring assistance from the director of the
historical society in the administration of the records management and
preservation programs; modifying a certain provision providing for allowances
for military expenses; extending the deadline for application for the Persian
Gulf war veterans bonus program; requiring and providing for a presidential or
gubernatorial preference ballot at precinct caucuses; requiring election
training for county auditors and local election officials, specifying certain
duties of the secretary of state; making higher education institutions
ineligible for ice center grants and imposing certain grant limits, authorizing
the use of grant money to upgrade existing facilities to comply with bleacher
safety requirements; authorizing and providing for amateur sports commission
grants to local government units for community facilities primarily for amateur
athletics; creating a heat applied cigarette tax stamp revolving account to
purchase heat applied stamps for resale by the commissioner of revenue;
modifying certain provisions under the electronic authentication act; providing
for ongoing funding for inspection of gambling equipment manufacturers;
eliminating the match requirement for the Hubert H. Humphrey memorial;
increasing the membership of the library and information services planning task
force; replacing the director of the office of technology on the Minnesota
education telecommunications council with the commissioner of administration;
extending the voluntary unpaid leave of absence program for state employees and
the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the legislative
coordinating commission (LCC) for meetings between legislators and members of
the Manitoba and Ontario parliaments; requiring and providing for environmental
quality board (EQB) preparation of an urban development generic environmental
impact statement; requiring the commissioner of administration to study the
feasibility and advantages of establishing a state travel office in the
executive branch to manage arrangements for air and surface travel by state
employees and officials and report to the legislature by a certain date;
requiring and providing for the legislative commission on planning and fiscal
policy (LCPFP) to establish principals and standards to simplify the budgeting
process and report to the legislature by a certain date; prohibiting the use of
public funds to repay a certain loan made by the Minneapolis community
development agency (MCDA) to the Minneapolis park and recreation board;
transferring the responsibility for the state employee assistance program from
the commissioner of administration to the commissioner of employee relations;
specifying certain renumbering and term change instructions to the revisor of
statutes; repealing the requirements for the commissioner of finance to
separately report the amount of departmental earnings and the commissioner of
revenue to separately estimate local government revenues similar to departmental
earnings in the forecasting of revenues and expenditures and for the office of
technology to create a trade point and the Internet center, the provision
creating the information and telecommunications technology (IT) community
resource development initiative, the requirement for department of finance
review and comment on departmental charges, the presidential primary election
and certain rules ARTICLE 2 - YEAR 2000 Relating to year 2000 computer problems;
expanding the authority of the governor to declare peacetime emergencies to
technological failures or malfunctions and terrorist incidents and providing for
gubernatorial emergency declarations without declaring a peacetime emergency;
authorizing local government units to address the year 2000 computer problem;
providing immunity against actions for trade, professional governmental
associations, state agencies or governmental units for damages or harm resulting
from the collection or publication of year 2000 solution information, exception,
no implied liability provision; requiring electric utilities and telephone
companies to file periodic status reports on year 2000 computer problems with
the public utilities commission and the department of public service, requiring
copies to the division of emergency management in the department of public
safety and specifying certain report content requirements; providing a temporary
exception from the uniform municipal contracting law for the purchase or rental
of supplies, materials and equipment and the construction, alteration, repair
and maintenance of real or personal property to correct public infrastructure or
municipal service failures or malfunctions due to year problems, reporting
requirement; granting local government units temporary authority to borrow money
and incur debt for year 2000 problem remediation; requiring the department of
health to survey hospitals, nursing homes and certain water supply systems for
year 2000 problems and solutions relating to operations, requiring dissemination
of the information to hospitals, nursing homes and water supply system
operators, requiring entity periodic status reports to the department with
copies to the emergency management division; prohibiting the use of status
reports as evidence in damage or relief actions; requiring the commissioner of
human services to continue to pay health care providers paid under state
government programs or counties by manual warrant or other measures under
certain infrastructure or systems failure or malfunction conditions;
appropriating money to the commissioner of finance to capitalize a fund to be
used for loans to school districts, counties, joint powers boards, cities and
towns for costs incurred in addressing year 2000 problems; requiring
commissioner of administration review of the use of emergency authority and
funds and state agency and local government unit reports ARTICLE 3 - CONFORMING
CHANGES Making conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to
state agency rules or procedures for setting, adjusting or establishing certain
fees and charges and comments and recommendations of the commissioner of finance
(ja) (Ch. 242, 1999 - VETO)