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2023-2024 Regular Session

Tourism, unemployment appeals, Giants Ridge account covered in economic development policy law

Several policy changes, including those focusing on Explore Minnesota Tourism and filing unemployment insurance appeals, are the focus of a new law that also creates a new account supporting the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.

Rep. Hodan Hassan (DFL-Mpls) and Senate President Bobby Joe Champion (DFL-Mpls) sponsor the law that took effect May 9, 2023, unless otherwise noted.

Policy provisions in the law, many of which make only technical changes, will:

• require the Department of Employment and Economic Development to submit an annual list of its mandated reports without expiration dates along with a discussion of the usefulness or each report and whether an expiration date should be set;

• increase the Explore Minnesota Tourism Council from 28 to 35 voting members, and specifies the constituencies the new members must represent;

• effective May 5, 2024, increases from 20 to 45 days the timeframe for filing appeals on unemployment claim determinations with the Department of Employment and Economic Development;

• create the Giants Ridge Account within the state treasury for the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board to use for capital expenditures, facility operations, or routine and long-term maintenance of the commercial, state-owned assets within the Giants Ridge Recreation Area; and

• authorize the board to provide separation and retention incentive programs consistent with session laws enacted in 2009 and 2010.

The following trio of changes take effect Aug. 1, 2023:

• add federally recognized tribes to the definitions of development authority and municipality that may participate in the contamination cleanup program;

• make a technical change to the Pathways Program; and

• make a technical change to the definition of “displaced homemaker” within the state dislocated worker program.

HF1922/SF2369*/CH33


New Laws 2024

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SF2369* / HF1922 / CH33
House Chief Author: Hassan
Senate Chief Author: Champion
Effective Dates: See chapter summary in the file link above.
* The legislative bill marked with an asterisk denotes the file submitted to the governor.