2. Legislative Agenda
From: AMM To: Scott Botcher
AMM FAX
NEWS
March 13- 1 7, 2000
Date: 3/15/00 lime: 9:19:14 PM
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Second legislative deadline passes
Tax and appropriation bills are being developed
The legislature's second dead-
line that requires bills to pass
from all policy committees in both
the House and Senate was March
10. Being aware of the deadline,
the status of several bills of interest
to AMM members follows:
MET COUNCIL STUDY
TASK FORCE (SF 2827/HF 3694)
The House Local Government
Committee amended the task force
language to the Metropolitan
Council's housekeeping bill. HF
3694 was approved and sent to the
House floor. The chief author of the
bill also was changed. Rep. Mary
Liz Holberg (R-Lakeville) is now the
chief author. The Senate file has
passed off the Senate floor. Both
bills amend the Livable Communi-
ties Act (LCA) so that a city does
not annually need to pass a resolu-
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tion to continue to participate in the
LCA. The city would need to pass
a resolution to drop out of the LCA.
EMINENT DOMAIN CHANGES
(HF 591/SF 45)
The bill was not heard or
amended to another bill.
TIF REPORTING (SF2610/HF
3116)
The Senate File should be part
of the property tax section of the
Senate Tax Bill which will be heard
on Wednesday. The House file will
be heard on Wednesday and could
be part of the House Tax Bill that
could also be heard also on
Wednesday.
TIF TECHNICAL &
MINOR CHANGES (HF 4099)
The bill makes several changes
to the TIF Act. The bill repeals the
mined underground space district
authority, changes dates for several
actions related to county road and
county comments, modifies the
duration limit for economic develop-
ment districts and attempts to clarify
the relationship between a housing
district and housing project area.
The bill has various effective dates.
It is probable that the bill will be
amended and be part of the House
Omnibus Tax Bill.
PUBLIC FINANCE BILL
The Senate file has been ap-
proved as amended by the Senate
Tax Committee. The bill extends the
sunset for housing improvement
districts by four years but does not
contain the provisions to permit a
city to have a capital improvements
program with bonding authority. The
capital improvements program was
deleted from the bill.
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Transportation, property tax bills in progress
The House and Senate Trans-
portation Policy committees
and finance divisions are in the
process of marking up their funding
bills.
The Senate version appropriates
$400.0 million for highway and
transit projects, including $12.5
million for Municipal State Aid and
$7.5 million for Metro Transit. The
Senate bill also authorizes trans-
portation bonds.
The House bill spends $400.0
million for interregional corridors and
metro area bottlenecks. More detail
on the transportation funding bills
will appear in tomorrow's fax.
PROPERTY TAX BILLS
The House bill would continue
levy limits for one additional year
and further compress rates. A more
detailed analysis of the House bill
and its Senate counterpart will also
be in tomorrow's fax.
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