| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to taxation; local government aid; establishing state fairgrounds public |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 safety and municipal services aid with an annual inflation adjustment; appropriating |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 477A. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Section 1. [477A.41] STATE FAIRGROUNDS PUBLIC SAFETY AND MUNICIPAL |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7SERVICES AID. |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8 Subdivision 1.Public safety and municipal services aid; purpose.(a) The commissioner |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9of revenue must make aid payments to the city of Falcon Heights and the city of St. Paul. |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10The purpose of the aid is to compensate the cities for costs that are attributable to events |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11occurring at the State Fairgrounds, such as public safety services including police, fire, and |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12emergency medical response; public works expenses for traffic management and sanitation; |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13and neighborhood cleanup and restoration efforts. |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14 (b) For aids payable in 2026, the aid amount for the city of Falcon Heights equals $75,000 |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15and the aid amount for the city of St. Paul equals $500,000. For aids payable in 2027 and |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16thereafter, the aid amount for each city equals the aid payable to each city in the previous |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17year multiplied by the inflation adjustment under subdivision 2. |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18 Subd. 2.Inflation adjustment.In January of the year in which the aid amounts are |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19certified, the commissioner of revenue must calculate the inflation adjustment. For purposes |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20of this section, the "inflation adjustment" equals the sum of one plus the rate of change in |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21inflation according to the implicit price deflator for government consumption and |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22expenditures and gross investment for state and local governments prepared by the Bureau |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 24 | 24 | | REVISOR MS/HL 25-0525803/27/25 |
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| 25 | 25 | | State of Minnesota |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Document can be made available |
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| 27 | 27 | | in alternative formats upon request |
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| 28 | 28 | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 29 | 29 | | H. F. No. 3097 |
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| 30 | 30 | | NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 31 | 31 | | Authored by Finke04/03/2025 |
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| 32 | 32 | | The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes 2.1of Economic Analysis of the United States Department of Commerce for the 12-month |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.2period ending March 31 of the previous calendar year. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.3 Subd. 3.Certification and payment.By August 1 of each year, the commissioner of |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.4revenue must certify the amount to be paid to each city in the following year. The |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.5commissioner of revenue must make aid payments to the city of Falcon Heights and to the |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.6city of St. Paul annually on July 20. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.7 Subd. 4.Appropriation.An amount sufficient to pay aid under this section is |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.8appropriated annually from the general fund to the commissioner of revenue. |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.9 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective beginning with aids payable in 2026. |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 42 | 42 | | REVISOR MS/HL 25-0525803/27/25 |
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