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COMMUNICATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED
SUBSEQUENT
TO ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE OF THE 2005 SPECIAL SESSION
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS
The following communications were received:
STATE
OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE
OF THE GOVERNOR
SAINT
PAUL 55155
July
9, 2005
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The State of Minnesota
Dear Speaker Sviggum:
Please be advised that I have received, approved, signed, and
deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State the following House File:
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 111,
relating to the state budget; providing for transitional financing for certain
governmental functions under certain conditions.
Sincerely,
Tim
Pawlenty
Governor
STATE
OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
ST.
PAUL 55155
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The Honorable James P.
Metzen
President of the Senate
I have the honor to inform you that the following enrolled Act
of the 2005 Special Session of the State Legislature has been received from the
Office of the Governor and is deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State
for preservation, pursuant to the State Constitution, Article IV, Section 23:
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Time and Date Approved 2005 |
Date Filed 2005 |
111 2 3:40
a.m. July 9 July
9
Sincerely,
Mary
Kiffmeyer
Secretary
of State
STATE
OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE
OF THE GOVERNOR
SAINT
PAUL 55155
July
13, 2005
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The State of Minnesota
Dear Speaker Sviggum:
Please be advised that I have received, approved, signed, and
deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State the following House File:
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 138,
relating to financing and operation of government in this state; changing
income, corporate franchise, withholding, property, sales and use, deed, health
care gross revenues, fuels, cigarette and tobacco products, occupation, net
proceeds, production, liquor, insurance, rented vehicles, and other taxes and tax-related
provisions; making technical, clarifying, collection, enforcement, refund, and
administrative changes to certain taxes and tax-related provisions; changing
fiscal disparities provisions, business subsidy provisions, and payments in
lieu of taxes; changing local government and property tax aids and credits;
updating references to the Internal Revenue Code; changing property tax
exemptions, homesteads, assessment, valuation, classification, class rates,
levies, exclusions, review and equalization, appeals, notices and statements,
and other property tax-related provisions; requiring state contracts be with
vendors registered to collect use taxes; modifying and authorizing local sales
and lodging taxes; changing the taxation of liquor and cigarettes and tobacco
products; imposing tobacco product delivery sales requirements; requiring
registration of tax shelters and providing for a voluntary compliance
initiative; providing for an international economic development zone; conveying
certain powers and providing tax incentives in the zone; changing job
opportunity building zones, border city development zones, and biotechnology
and health sciences industry zone provisions; changing provisions relating to
economic development and housing and redevelopment authorities; providing for
training and conduct of assessors; changing and imposing powers and duties on
the commissioner of revenue and other state agencies and departments and on
certain political subdivisions and certain officials; imposing certain duties
on tax preparers; changing provisions relating to certificates of title on
manufactured homes; changing electronic filing requirements; authorizing the
issuance of certain state bonds; specifying the status of certain trusts;
changing and imposing civil and criminal penalties; requiring studies and
reports; allocating and transferring funds; appropriating money.
Sincerely,
Tim
Pawlenty
Governor
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STATE OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE
OF THE GOVERNOR
SAINT
PAUL 55155
July
14, 2005
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The State of Minnesota
Dear Speaker Sviggum:
Please be advised that I have received, approved, signed, and
deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State the following House Files:
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 139,
relating to the operation of state government; making changes to health and
human services programs; modifying human services policy; modifying health
policy; changing licensing provisions; changing provisions for mental and
chemical health; establishing treatment foster care and transitional youth
intensive rehab mental health services; enhancing family support; providing
training for child care providers and hospitals on dangers of shaking infants
and children; establishing long-term homeless supportive services; establishing
the tobacco health impact fee; establishing a cancer drug repository program;
establishing a health information technology and infrastructure advisory
committee and a rural pharmacy planning and transition grant program;
establishing a statewide trauma system and trauma registry; changing long-term
care provisions and establishing a partnership; establishing a nursing facility
reimbursement system; modifying health care programs; changing certain fees;
appropriating money.
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 141,
relating to the operation and financing of government; providing for early
childhood, adult, family, and kindergarten through grade 12 education including
general education, education excellence, special programs, facilities and
technology, nutrition and accounting, libraries, early childhood education,
prevention, self-sufficiency and lifelong learning, state agencies, and
technical and conforming amendments; reestablishing statutory authority for the
Humanities Commission; authorizing certain nonprofit contracts; reimbursing
local governments; authorizing certain state agencies and constitutional
officers to carry forward unencumbered balances for fiscal year 2005; appropriating
money for lets go fishing to promote opportunities for fishing in the state;
authorizing rulemaking; providing for reports; appropriating money.
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 140, relating to appropriations; appropriating money
for transportation, Metropolitan Council, and public safety activities;
providing for general contingent accounts and tort claims; providing for
various fees and accounts; allocating county state-aid highway funds; modifying
provisions related to state mail, state highways and bridges, county state-aid
highways, town road signs, railroad grade crossings and operations, traffic
fine allocations, commercial motor vehicles, day activity center buses, vehicle
registration plates and other motor vehicle provisions, driver and vehicle data
practices, deputy motor vehicle registrars, state aviation, bridges in smaller
cities, weight limits on highways and other traffic regulations, drivers'
licenses and permits, the Commuter Rail Corridor Coordinating Committee,
Roussain Cemetery, wetland replacement near the city of Cologne, the employment
status of public safety radio communications operators, the insurance
verification sampling program, maximum train speeds in the city of Orr, a
restriction on ethanol requirements, and bicycle programs; requiring studies
and reports; making technical and clarifying revisions.
Sincerely,
Tim
Pawlenty
Governor
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STATE OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF
STATE
ST. PAUL 55155
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Honorable James P. Metzen
President of the Senate
I have the honor to inform you that the following enrolled Acts
of the 2005 Special Session of the State Legislature have been received from
the Office of the Governor and are deposited in the Office of the Secretary of
State for preservation, pursuant to the State Constitution, Article IV, Section
23:
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S. F. No. |
H. F. No. |
Special Session Laws Chapter No. |
Time and Date Approved 2005 |
Date Filed 2005 |
138 3 9:33
p.m. July 13 July
14
139 4 1:05
p.m. July 14 July
14
141 5 11:45
a.m. July 14 July
14
140 6 1:00
p.m. July 14 July
14
Sincerely,
Mary
Kiffmeyer
Secretary
of State
STATE OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
SAINT PAUL 55155
July 25, 2005
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The State of Minnesota
Dear Speaker Sviggum:
Please be advised that I have received, approved, signed, and
deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State the following House Files:
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 53,
relating to legislative enactments; correcting miscellaneous oversights,
inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors.
Special Session - 2005, H. F. No. 44,
relating to retirement; various public pension plans; clarifying and revising
various plan provisions; eliminating obsolete provisions; defining average
salary; modifying the definition of allowable service to include time on
strike; defining covered salary to include certain employer contributions to
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supplemental
retirement plans; specifying itemized detail of plan administrative expenses in
annual financial reporting; excluding police officers of the University of
Minnesota from the public employees police and fire fund; clarifying collection
procedures relating to charter schools; adding a uniform nonassignment and
legal process exemption provision; providing for various member and employer
contribution rate increases; adding employees of Bridges Medical Services,
Hutchinson Area Health Care, and Northfield Hospital to privatization coverage;
extending date for filing special law approval with the secretary of state for
the RenVilla Nursing Home; requiring the privatization periodic filing of
updated copies of articles of incorporation and bylaws; modifying a higher
education individual retirement account plan investment option provision;
implementing the recommendations of the Volunteer Firefighter Relief
Association working group of the state auditor; modifying the trigger date for
filing financial reports; revising the per firefighter financing requirements
for monthly benefit service pensions; modifying the options for crediting
interest on deferred service pensions; clarifying the deferred service pension
options available to defined contribution plans; providing for the crediting of
service during military service leaves; requiring the amortization of experience
losses; clarifying the compliance requirements for the qualification for fire
state aid; modifying a limit on mutual fund investments; clarifying corporate
stock and exchange traded funds investment authority; modifying the municipal
representation requirements on relief association governing boards; clarifying
exemptions from process and taxation; providing that certain laws do not apply
to the consolidation of specified volunteer firefighter relief associations;
providing an ad hoc postretirement adjustment to Eveleth police and fire trust
fund benefit recipients; authorizing the Maplewood Firefighters Relief
Association to transfer assets to the Oakdale Firefighters Relief Association
to cover service credits earned by certain individuals; appropriating money.
Sincerely,
Tim
Pawlenty
Governor
STATE
OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
ST.
PAUL 55155
The Honorable Steve Sviggum
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
The Honorable James P.
Metzen
President of the Senate
I have the honor to inform you that the following enrolled Acts
of the 2005 Special Session of the State Legislature have been received from
the Office of the Governor and are deposited in the Office of the Secretary of
State for preservation, pursuant to the State Constitution, Article IV, Section
23:
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S. F. No. |
H. F. No. |
Special Session Laws Chapter No. |
Time and Date Approved 2005 |
Date Filed 2005 |
53 7 2:00
p.m. July 25 July
25
44 8 2:05
p.m. July 25 July
25
Sincerely,
Mary
Kiffmeyer
Secretary
of State
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