Currently Posted Meetings

Member and staff introductions

HF3447 (Pursell); relating to polling places on college campuses
Language posted on website.

HF3435 (Virnig); relating to census access to apartment buildings
Language posted on website.

HF1064 (Hollins); Citizens United; a resolution memorializing Congress to overturn the United States Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC; requesting that Congress clarify that the rights protected under the Constitution are the rights of natural persons and not the rights of artificial entities and that spending money to influence elections is not speech under the First Amendment; asking that Congress propose a constitutional amendment to provide such clarification.

Adjournment

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

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1. Presentation on the Minnesota Infrastructure Resilience Advisory Task Force report
2. HF XXX (Koegel) establishing the Minnesota Advisory Council on Infrastructure; specifying office powers and duties; providing for implementation; requiring reports; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16F.*

*Informational hearing, no testimony or action will be taken on the bill at this hearing.

Items may be taken up in any order, items may be added or removed at the Chairs' discretion.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Sustainable Infrastructure webpage.
LIVESTREAM: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov. To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

Matt Varilek, Commissioner, Department of Employment and Econmic Development
Introduction and Interim Overview

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Working Group on Youth Interventions

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

10:00 a.m.

Capitol 123 and Hybrid

Agenda

1. Call to order
2. Adoption of previous and future meeting minutes
3. Review and approve report
4. Reflections on our time together
5. Adjourn

Matt Varilek, Commissioner, Department of Employment and Econmic Development
Introduction and Interim Overview

Tawanna A. Black, Founder & CEO, Center for Economic Inclusion

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Approval of the Minutes from March 30th, 2023
Presentation from the Minnesota Department of Education on Implementation of the 2023 Education Finance Budget

Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
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No public testimony will be taken at this hearing as no bills are being heard.

Legacy Fund Balances
Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council Funding Recommendations
*Items may be added to the agenda

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Overview of the Property Tax Division Items in the 2023 Tax Bill

Due to no bills before the Division, no public testimony will be taken at the hearing.

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THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

Overview of Governor's 2024 bonding recommendations, MMB
Debt Capacity Forecast, MMB
2024 Capital Projects Cancellation Report, MMB
2023 Asset Preservation Summary Report, Department of Administration

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Member and staff introductions

Discussion of the property and casualty insurance market
Testimony from the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Commerce, American Reinsurance Association, Insurance Federation of Minnesota, and the Association of Independent Agents.

HF3526 (Tabke); Strengthening consumer protections in the wake of severe weather event.
Language posted on website.

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*Items may be added*

- HF 3495 (Fischer) Mental Health Policy Bill
a. Anni Simons, Mental Health Providers Association of Minnesota
b. Kirsten Anderson, Executive Director, AspireMN
c. Pahoua Yang, Vice President of Community Health and Wellness, Wilder Foundation
d. James Neas, Director of Compliance, Volunteers of America – MN & WI

- Department of Human Services Presentation on Incoming Departmental Policy Bills
a. Carrie Briones, Legislative Director for Direct Care and Treatment, Minnesota Department of Human Services
b. Kristy Graume; Legislative Director for Behavioral Health, Housing, Deaf-Hard-of-Hearing and Disability Services; Minnesota Department of Human Services

- Department of Human Services Presentation on Transition of Direct Care and Treatment
a. Dan Storkamp; Operations Services Executive Director, Direct Care and Treatment; Minnesota Department of Human Services
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Testimony: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator Nick.Stumo-Langer@house.mn.gov by 8:30am the day of each hearing. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record, and it may be posted to the committee webpage if received by the deadline. If bringing hard copies to the hearing, please bring 40 copies for members, staff, and the public.

This hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page. All events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

Accommodations:
- To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov.
- If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send you comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
- To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF3556 (Rep. Jordan) - A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a minimum time for school lunch.

HF3484 (Rep. Feist) - Charter school provisions modified.

HF2537 (Rep. Hassan) - Postsecondary enrollment options provisions modified.

Notes:
AMENDMENTS: Amendments must be emailed to the committee administrator by 4pm Tuesday, February 13th.

HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT and emailed to the committee administrator before 4p.m., Tuesday, February 13th. If you are bringing hard copies to the committee, please bring 40 copies and check-in with the committee administrator before distribution.

TESTIFYING: The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair, and is subject to change. Remote testimony is available upon request. Written testimony is encouraged and is accounted as official committee record - to be distributed to committee members and public. If you would like to testify or submit written testimony (PDF format), please email the committee administrator before 4p.m., Tuesday, February 13th.

To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access. If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the Committee Administrator.

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page . All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

For any other questions or concerns, please reach out to the Committee Administrator at wilson.lee@house.mn.gov or 651-296-1913.

HF3466 (Rehm) Opportunities to protect native prairie expanded.
HF3376 (Greenman) Digital image use as proof of possession of game and fish licenses allowed.
HF3377 (Hansen) Environment and natural resources trust fund; previous appropriations modified, and money appropriated.

If you would like to sign up to testify or submit written testimony, please email Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 5:00pm, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Submitted written testimony is public and will be posted on the committee website and included in the committee record.

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Presentations on the implementation of the 2023 Housing Finance budget and the state of housing in Minnesota

All agenda items subject to change at the discretion of the Chair.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Housing Finance and Policy Committee webpage.

ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access. If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the Committee Administrator, Jack Dockendorf (jack.dockendorf@house.mn.gov).

LIVESTREAM: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

HF2757 (Gomez) 2023 Tax Bill Technical Corrections Bill

Bill Removed:
HF3489 (Frazier) Education; public safety provided, grounds for use of reasonable force in schools modified, school resource officer duties defined and minimum training requirements established, and money appropriated.

If you would like to submit written testimony please send to Owen.Wirth@house.mn.gov and Leah.Killian@house.mn.gov by 12pm Wednesday, February 14.

To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access. If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov

To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.