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S.F. No. 1298 - Geospatial Information Office
 
Author: Senator Chris A. Eaton
 
Prepared By: Stephanie James, Senate Counsel (651/296-0103)
 
Date: March 13, 2013



 

Section 1 [Discretionary Powers] deletes certain discretionary powers of the Minnesota Geospatial Information Office. 

Section 2 [Geospatial Advisory Council Created] limits the authority of the chief information officer to use a single advisory council. (Under current law, the CIO is allowed to establish multiple advisory councils.)  This section removes a limit that no more than 20 percent of members of the advisory council may be employees of a state agency and eliminates a requirement that the council be statewide.  This section eliminates duties and parameters for the operation of a State Government Geospatial Advisory Council and eliminates provisions for the appointment of members of the State Government Geospatial Advisory Council.  This section deletes an expiration date for the Geospatial Advisory Council of June 30, 2015.

Section 3 [Electronic Geospatial Data Defined] defines "electronic geospatial data."

Section 4 [Government Sharing of Electronic Geospatial Data] requires the sharing at no cost of electronic geospatial government data with government entities, higher education, and federal and tribal government agencies.  This section allows reproduction and redistribution of all data received by a government entity.  Government entities sharing and receiving electronic geospatial data are immune from civil liability for their use of electronic geospatial data shared at no cost.

Section 5 [Repealer] repeals a portion of the Geospatial Information Office section of statute that set duties for a chief information officer in the Geospatial Information Office to establish fees that reflected the actual cost of providing information products and services, and provided for deposit of those fees into a revolving account and removes a standing appropriation of those fees to the office.

 

 
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