Welcome to Minnesota House Live Webcast and Mobile Streaming

I. Welcome and Call to Order
II. Approval of the Minutes – Tuesday, May 5th
III. Calendar for the Day – Monday, May 11th
IV. Deadline Waiver for HF4598 (Baker)
V. Adjournment

Note: HF4598 (Baker) is before the committee only for consideration to waive the deadlines for further action and to recommend a re-referral to the General Register. We will not be accepting amendments or public testimony at this time.

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of May 6, 2026, Committee Minutes

3. SF4282 (Youakim)
SF4282 will be amended by a DE Amendment (to be posted). SF4282 will be the K12 Education Forecast Adjustments bill.

4. HF4074 (Lillie) Retirement; expense apportionment modified among funds managed by the State Board of Investment, administrative changes made to statutes governing the retirement plans administered by the Minnesota State Retirement System, correctional employees clarified to remain in the correctional employees retirement plan while working for a labor organization, conforming changes made, enrollment procedures modified, correctional plan membership committee clarified to no be subject to open meeting law and agency appointment and registration requirements, and deputy fire marshals allowed to elect coverage by the state fire marshals subplan.
HF4074 will be amended by the DE2 Amendment (with A8 Author Amendment).

Agenda items may be added or removed.

DOCUMENTS: There will not be public testimony in Ways and Means. Individuals wishing to submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must e-mail the committee administrator (harry.kennedy@house.mn.gov) and the committee legislative assistant (allie.spellman@house.mn.gov) by 8:00 AM on Thursday, May 7. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Review background information about the preliminary topics under consideration for evaluation and select semifinalists for the legislative survey. 

(1) LAC Policy on Topic Selection; 
(2) Topics by Policy Requirement, Spring 2026; 
(3) Topics by Subject, Spring 2026;
(4) Most to Least Promising, Spring 2026; and
(5) Background Papers, Spring 2026. 

Office of the Legislative Auditor:
Jodi Munson Rodriguez, Deputy Legislative Auditor, Program Evaluation Division

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PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION:  This meeting will also be livestreamed via YouTube, which will be closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

TESTIFYING:  The Legislative Audit Commission and its subcommittees typically do not take public testimony.

MEETING DOCUMENTS:  Materials will be posted on the Office of the Legislative Auditor website in the Notices section as soon as they are available, and posted to our Minutes page soon after.

Note: Senate Conference Committee Chair Ron Latz has the gavel.

Senate conferees: Latz, Oumou Verbeten, Limmer
House conferees: Novotny, Moller, Witte, Feist

The public safety policy conference committee will convene to review and adopt provisions from SF4760 / HF3990, and policy only provisions from HF1082, via a side-by-side comparison document which will be posted once available.

Please submit documents to be posted for committee members by Thursday, May 7th, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Late submissions may not be posted in advance of the hearing or included in prepared materials for committee members.

Document Requirements: One page PDF only documents may be submitted to judiciary@senate.mn by Thursday, May 7 at 7:00 p.m. Documents must be saved as “name, title, organization, page where the language can be found in the side by side, House or Senate side of page, and indicating a pro or con position (example: Sam Person, Director of Policy, Workplace, R12, House side, pro).

Testimony Requests: Limited testimony may be taken. Please email requests to judiciary@senate.mn by Thursday, May 7 at 7 p.m. with your name, organization, title, page where the language can be found in the side by side, House or Senate side of page, and indicating a pro or con position. Testimony is limited. The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the joint House and Senate chairs. Confirmation of testimony will be sent via email after the elapsed deadline and may include a time allocation based on the volume of requests.