Bill > SF1426

This bill appropriates funds for the operation of state government and elections for the fiscal years 2024 and 2025. * **Legislature:** $151,676,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $122,984,000 in fiscal year 2025. This includes funding for the Senate, House of Representatives, Legislative Coordinating Commission, Legislative Auditor, Revisor of Statutes, Legislative Reference Library, and Legislative Budget Office. Specific allocations include funds for the legislators' forum, the Office on the Economic Status of Women, the Legislative Task Force on Aging, and costs related to establishing a collective bargaining process for legislative employees. The appropriation for the Revisor of Statutes includes funds to replace the drafting, rules, and law publication system. * **Governor and Lieutenant Governor:** $9,258,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $9,216,000 in fiscal year 2025. This funding is for the operation of their offices. * **State Auditor:** $14,965,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $14,254,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Attorney General:** $53,796,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $43,825,000 in fiscal year 2025, funded from the General Fund, State Government Special Revenue Fund, and Environmental Remediation Fund. * **Secretary of State:** $11,267,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $10,379,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **State Board of Investment:** $139,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $139,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Administrative Hearings:** $12,278,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $10,260,000 in fiscal year 2025, funded from the General Fund and the Workers' Compensation Fund. A portion is allocated for municipal boundary adjustments. * **Information Technology Services:** $73,515,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $82,640,000 in fiscal year 2025. This includes significant one-time appropriations for a Cybersecurity Grant Program, Statewide Cybersecurity Enhancements, Executive Branch Cloud Transformation, Targeted Application Modernization, Children's Cabinet IT Innovation, expanding data-driven decision making with GIS data, supporting accessible technology, digital media services, and a grant program for the Public Land Survey System. These funds are available until June 30, 2027. * **Administration:** $71,995,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $46,243,000 in fiscal year 2025. This includes funding for Government and Citizen Services, Strategic Management Services, and Fiscal Agent. Specific appropriations include funds for space consolidation and hybrid work environment transition, grants for public television and radio, real estate and construction services, and transfers to the risk management fund. * **Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board:** $2,070,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $510,000 in fiscal year 2025, with specific allocations for commemorative artwork activities, mandatory zoning and design rules, and updating the Capitol Campus Design Framework. * **Minnesota Management and Budget:** $54,249,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $59,500,000 in fiscal year 2025, including funds for enterprise resource planning systems, continuity of operations planning, establishment of a statewide internal audit office, an enterprise planning, strategy, and performance unit, and administration of the Children's Cabinet. * **Revenue:** $194,566,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $203,778,000 in fiscal year 2025, primarily from the General Fund, with additional funding from the Health Care Access Fund, Highway User Tax Distribution Fund, and Environmental Fund. This includes appropriations for Tax System Management and Debt Collection Management, with funds for taxpayer assistance grants. * **Gambling Control Board:** $6,365,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $6,334,000 in fiscal year 2025, from the lawful gambling regulation account. * **Racing Commission:** $1,933,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $954,000 in fiscal year 2025, funded from the General Fund and Special Revenue Fund. A portion is for Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act compliance. * **State Lottery:** Operating budgets are capped at $40,000,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $40,000,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Amateur Sports Commission:** $379,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $391,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Councils for Minnesotans of African Heritage, Latino Affairs, Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, LGBTQIA Minnesotans, and Youth Advisory Council:** Various amounts are appropriated to these councils for their operations. * **Indian Affairs Council:** $1,337,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $1,360,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Minnesota Historical Society:** $44,923,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $26,932,000 in fiscal year 2025, including funds for operations, programs, and capital improvements at historic sites. * **Board of the Arts:** $7,774,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $7,787,000 in fiscal year 2025, for operations, services, grants, and regional arts councils. Grant funds must be spent on projects located in Minnesota, with restrictions on travel outside the state. * **Minnesota Humanities Center:** $1,145,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $1,145,000 in fiscal year 2025, with a portion for grants. * **Professional Licensing Boards:** Various amounts are appropriated to the Boards of Accountancy, Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design, Cosmetologist Examiners, and Barber Examiners. * **General Contingent Accounts:** $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2025, from the General Fund, State Government Special Revenue Fund, and Workers' Compensation Fund, requiring approval from the governor and consultation with the Legislative Advisory Commission. * **Tort Claims:** $161,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $161,000 in fiscal year 2025, to be spent by the commissioner of management and budget. * **Retirement Systems:** Appropriations are made to the Minnesota State Retirement System ($14,543,000 in FY24, $14,372,000 in FY25) for the Combined Legislators and Constitutional Officers Retirement Plan and the Judges Retirement Plan. The Judges Retirement Plan appropriation continues until the plan reaches 100 percent funding. * **Public Employees Retirement Association:** $25,000,000 each year for direct state aid to the police and fire retirement plan and state payments for the former MERF division account. * **Teachers Retirement Association:** $29,831,000 each year for special direct state aid and special direct state matching aid. * **St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund:** $14,827,000 each year for special direct state aid. * **Elections Appropriations:** * **Legislature:** $244,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $245,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the Legislative Coordinating Commission to support the Ranked Choice Voting and Voter Engagement Advisory Task Force. * **Secretary of State:** $1,698,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $549,000 in fiscal year 2025. This includes grants to counties and municipalities to improve polling place accessibility for individuals with disabilities and for an educational campaign on restoring voting rights for formerly incarcerated individuals. * **Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board:** $1,743,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $1,731,000 in fiscal year 2025. * **Corrections:** $165,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $33,000 in fiscal year 2025 for changes to a report required under Minnesota Statutes, section 201.145. * **Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Account:** $461,000 in fiscal year 2023 is transferred from the General Fund to the HAVA account for state matching funds. * **Court Ordered Attorney Fees:** $495,000 in fiscal year 2023 is appropriated from the General Fund to the Secretary of State for attorney fees and costs in redistricting cases. * **State Elections Campaign Account:** $3,899,000 in fiscal year 2025 is transferred from the General Fund to the state elections campaign account. * **Policy Changes:** The bill includes numerous policy changes related to state government operations, elections, information technology, state employees with disabilities, and miscellaneous finance. These include changes to the state seal and flag, fiscal note requirements, establishment of new councils and task forces, modifications to licensing requirements, processes for assessing cemeteries, grant management oversight, a pilot program for construction materials, lobbying provisions, and election administration. It also sets salaries for constitutional officers and requires financial reviews of grant and business subsidy recipients.