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The following bills will be heard on an informational only basis:

HF3700 (Johnson, P) Duluth; Lake Superior Zoo capital improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF3982 (Johnson) Grant caps for port development assistance modified.
HF3927(Reyer) Dakota County park buildings and facilities replacement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF3933 (Cha) Woodbury; intersection improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF3949 (Howard) Richfield; water main construction funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4238 (Clardy) Inver Grove Heights; Minnesota Hockey Hall of Fame funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4275 (Quam) History Center of Olmsted County Museum facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4476 (Hanson) Marked Trunk Highway 13 and associated local road improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4504 (Fogelman) Nobles County; wastewater system infrastructure funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Overview on Department of Corrections Minnesota Regional and County Jails Consolidation or Merger Report

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HF4261 (Heintzeman) - Motorboat operator provisions modified; game and fish license, reporting, and penalty provisions modified; penalties for false statements and alterations of applications, licenses, permits, and registrations created; invasive species provisions modified; and other natural resources provisions modified.
HF4263 (Heintzeman) - Natural resources; reporting requirements modified to improve efficiency.
HF4264 (Heintzeman) - Permitting efficiency provisions modified.
HF4787 (Heintzeman) - Crow Wing County easement required to be granted.

*Bills may be added, removed, or taken up in any order at the Chair's discretion.

TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must e-mail the committee administrator (amy.zipko@house.mn.gov) by 1 p.m. the day prior to the hearing. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints. Written testimony is preferred.

AMENDMENT DEADLINE: Amendments must be e-mailed to the committee administrator by 3 p.m. the day prior to the hearing.

1. Approval of the March 24, 2026, meeting minutes.
    
2. SF4765 (Rasmusson); HF4429 (Nadeau): TRA and SPTRFA; lowering the age at which a TRA member may enter into a return-to-work agreement; extending the suspension of the earnings limitation for retired teachers who return to teaching.
   • SF4765-HF4429 Summary
      
3. SF4588 (Frentz); HF4517 (Lillie): MSRS, PERA, TRA; moving investment return assumption for calculating joint and survivor annuities from statute to the Standards' Appendix.
   • SF4588-HF4517 Summary
      
4. SF4587 (Westlin); HF4694 (O'Driscoll): Eliminating the requirement that 403(b) and 457(b) vendors and administrators annually file investment fees and rates of return with the LCPR.
   • SF4587-HF4694 Summary
      
3. HF4402 (Jordan): PERA General; special legislation authorizing purchase of service credit for periods of omitted service.
   • HF4402 Summary
      
4. SF4721 (Frentz); HF4514 (Lillie): PERA Correctional; reducing the employee and employer contribution rates and increasing the postretirement adjustments.
   • SF4721-HF4514 Summary
      
7. SF3828 (Limmer); HF3512 (Robbins): Special Legislation for the Maple Plain Fire Department; revising the allocation of surplus assets to firefighters upon termination from the Statewide Volunteer Firefighter Plan.
   • Amendment S3828-1A - adopted by Commission on March 3
   • SF3828-HF3512 Summary
      
8. If time permits:
    
8. SF4860 (Pappas): SPTRFA; decreasing employee contributions; increasing employer contributions and postretirement adjustments; appropriating money.

HF 4477 (Xiong) Minnesota business recovery loan program established, report required, and money appropriated.

The Committee will take up DE Author’s Amendment prior to bill presentation

If you would like to testify or provide materials to the committee, please contact Travis Reese at travis.reese@house.mn.gov by Noon on Tuesday, April 7, 2026

1. Green House Gas (GHG) Impact Assessment Law passed in 2023/2024 and impacts to highway construction projects and costs.
A link to MNDOT page regarding this GHG Impact Assessment law passed in the 2023/2024 biennium:
https://www.dot.state.mn.us/sustainability/ghg-assessment.html

2. Approaching Exhaustion of Rock, Sand, and Crushed Stone in the Twin Cities Metro Area
Presentation by Aggregate Ready-Mix industry and response from MNDOT

Additional items may be added at Co-Chair Koznick's discretion.

Local Bonding Projects will be heard.
Each project/bill will be allowed a maximum of two (2) testifiers and will be given a maximum of five (5) minutes to present including all bill author comments and testifier testimony. These will be informational hearings on the bills, and no formal actions will be taken. Testifiers may submit a one-page handout for members on the project. These are projects which have not been heard yet by the committee or visited during the fall bonding tours.
Agenda:
HF4710 (Zeleznikar) Rice Lake; sewer and water infrastructure funding provided
HF4055 (Warwas) Eveleth; wastewater treatment facility improvements funding provided
HF3848 (Warwas) Virginia; road and infrastructure improvements funding provided
HF3989 (Johnson W) Lake Elmo; intersection improvements funding provided
HF3400 (Johnson W) Washington County; new interchange at marked Trunk Highway 36 and Lake Elmo Avenue funding
HF4599 (Perryman) St. Joseph; infrastructure improvements funding provided
HF3767 (Perryman) Town roads and bridges funding provided
HF3592 (McDonald) Rockford; wastewater treatment facility improvements funding
HF3575 (Harder) Norwood Young America; new wastewater treatment plant design funding
HF3574 (Harder) Watertown; local road improvements funding provided
HF3543 (Roach) Dennison; water and sewer infrastructure improvements and street reconstruction funding
HF4606 (Koznick) Credit River; municipal sanitary sewer and water infrastructure funding
HF4489 (Myers) Marked Trunk Highway 7 improvements funding
HF3891 (Skraba) Clean water funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF3438 (Allen) University of Minnesota funding provided for capital improvements on the Saint Paul campus

To be determined.