Currently Posted Meetings

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF 2335 (Elkins) Preexisting condition limitations in Medicare supplement insurance policies modified.

IV. HF 2400 (Huot) Real estate appraisers; disciplinary sanction matrix established.

V. HF 2401 (Huot) Real estate appraisers; out-of-state continuing education credit requirements modified.

VI. HF 2522 (O’Driscoll) Commissioner of commerce designated to oversee the Commerce Fraud Bureau and automobile theft prevention program.

VII. Adjournment

Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 26th (Co-Chair Her will have the gavel)

I. Call To Order

II. Approval of Meeting Minutes 3/20/2025

III. HF 2196 (Fischer) Mental health terminology updated.

a. Sue Abderholden, Executive Director, NAMI

IV. Priority Admissions to State-Operated Treatment Programs – Presentation from DCT
*Testimony will not be taken on presentation
a. KyleeAnn Stevens, MD, Executive Medical Director, DCT

V. HF 2586 (Frederick) Cost of care exemption for committed persons and 48-hour rule for admissions extended, Priority Admission Review Panel established, creation of Direct Care and Treatment admissions dashboard and a limited exemption for admissions from hospital settings required, and report required
a. Sue Abderholden, Executive Director, NAMI
b. Danny Ackert, Director of State Government Relations, Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA)
c. Jin Lee Palen, Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs

VI. HF 2187 (Frederick) Crisis services and criteria availability modified for community-based program locations, 48-hour admission requirement removed, and conforming and technical changes made to effectuate creation of Direct Care and Treatment agency.

VII. HF 2037 (Frederick) Department of Direct Care and Treatment established, commissioner established to oversee department, and direct care and treatment executive board repealed

VIII. Adjournment



TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must email the committee administrator, Megan Rossbach (megan.rossbach@house.mn.gov) by 12 p.m. (noon) the day prior to the hearing. Required testimony information includes name, organization and title (if applicable), email, phone number, and position on the bill. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

*Bills may be added or removed at the chair's discretion

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of the Previous Meeting Minutes
III. HF1151 (Nash) Compensation council provisions changed.
IV. HF1239 (Quam) Violations of law related to misuse of public funds required to be reported to law enforcement.
V. HF1240 (Quam) Policy related to the legislative auditor modified.
VI. HF2020 (Howard) Group insurance program eligibility for spouses of retired state employees added.
VII. HF2514 (Klevorn) Joint legislative studies governing provision modified.
VIII. HF2515 (Klevorn) Legislature; definition of joint offices modified.
IX. HF2451 (Klevorn) Office of Administrative Hearings renamed Court of Administrative Hearings, and opportunity for remand provided.
X. Office of Administrative Hearings Presentation
XI. Office of the Secretary of State Presentation
XII. Adjournment
*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

I. H.F. 1007 (Norris) - World Junior Hockey Championships funding provided

II. H.F. 1152 (Johnson, P) - Explore Minnesota duties and missions modified

III. H.F. 2258 (Johnson, W) - 2026 Special Olympics USA Games funding provided

IV. H.F. 1671 (Pinto) – Department of Labor policy and technical changes

Items 1-3 will be laid over.

To testify, please submit materials to spencer.johnson@house.mn.gov by 1pm on Monday, March 24th.

I. Welcome and Call to Order
II. Approval of the Minutes – Thursday, March 20th
III. Calendar for the Day – Thursday, March 27th
IV. Adjournment

NOTE: Bill Removed: HF 2148 (Agbaje) Locally controlled housing fund established, report required, and money appropriated. HF 2148 (Agbaje) has been replaced with Added Bill: HF 2693 (Agbaje) Locally controlled housing fund established, allowable uses of housing infrastructure bonds modified, report required, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Bill Added for informational-only hearing: HF 2542 (Pursell) Bridgewater Affordable Housing Community public infrastructure funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Update on Housing Infrastructure Bonds (HIBS)

The following bills will be heard on informational only basis. No formal action will be taken.
HF 1141 (Howard) Issuance of housing infrastructure bonds authorized, and money appropriated.
HF 1770 (Howard) Cooperative manufactured housing infrastructure grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 1489 (Howard) Public housing rehabilitation funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 1709 (Frederick) Greater Minnesota Housing Infrastructure program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 244 (Jones) Minneapolis child and family services facility renovation bond issue and appropriation.
HF 1266 (Keeler) Clay County; nonsecure juvenile detention facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 807 (Youakim) Hopkins; two community hubs funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 2619 (Lee, K.) Issuance of housing infrastructure bonds to finance a grant to Face to Face Health and Counseling Services, Inc. authorized; and money appropriated.
HF 1340 (Lee, F.) Use of housing infrastructure bonds allowed on adaptive reuse to develop supportive housing and permanent housing for households at or below 50 percent of the area median income.
HF2693 (Agbaje) - Locally controlled housing fund established, allowable uses of housing infrastructure bonds modified, report required, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. HF 1855 (Greenman) Veterans benefit services federal accreditation required, service providers guarantees of benefits prohibited, and remedies and civil penalties provided.
IV. HF 102 (Curran) Circumstances under which the public authority must direct support to an obligee modified.
V. HF 1082 (Moller) Grant funding provided to organizations providing direct services and advocacy for crime victims, and money appropriated.
VI. HF 1354 (Moller) Scope of video made available by Bureau of Criminal Apprehension limited for officer-involved death investigations.
VII. HF 2184 (Feist) Office of Ombudsperson for American Indian Families exempted from court fee requirements.
VIII. HF 1792 (Mahamoud) Contracts for deed; definition of investor seller modified, and technical changes made.
IX. HF 2296 (Howard) Clarifying prohibition on landlord disclosure of victim information.
X. HF 2429 (Elkins) Sharing of governmental data authorized in certain circumstances.
XI. HF 2543 (Reyer) Various statutory forms pertaining to garnishment modified.
XII. HF 2566 (Reyer) Process for removing fraudulent business filings established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
XIII. Adjournment

Committee discussion of all bills will be limited to the provisions within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee. Items may be taken up in any order, items may be added or removed at the chair's discretion.

TESTIMONY: If you would like to testify on a bill, please email the Committee Administrator, anna.borgerding@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM the business day before the hearing. Include the bill number, your name, title, and/or organization where applicable, and whether your testimony will be in support of or opposition to the bill.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY & HANDOUTS: Please send electronically in accessible .pdf format to the Committee Administrator, anna.borgerding@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM the business day before the hearing.

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

ACCOMODATIONS:
- 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.
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I. Call to Order.
II. HF1698 (Anderson, P.H.) - Property tax exemption allowed for certain leased land.
III. HF632 (Nadeau) - Property with conservation restrictions or easements allowed valuation reductions, and technical corrections made.
IV. HF1352 (Witte) - Solid waste management; definition of residential generator modified.
V. HF2197 (Robbins) - Individual income tax; child credit marriage penalty eliminated and credit phaseout increased, and working family credit limited based on earned income to taxpayers with qualifying children.
VI. HF618 (Swedzinksi) - Exemption provisions modified for construction materials by contractors, and refund provision added.
VII. HF1248 (Norris) - Sales and use tax exemption provisions modified for construction materials purchased by certain contractors.
VIII. HF1697 (Elkins) - Individual income and corporate franchise tax; transfer and certification provisions modified
IX. Adjourn

Written testimony or requests to testify in person are due via e-mail to the GOP Committee Administrator sam.moyer@house.mn.gov by 1:00 PM on Monday, March 24th, 2025.

I. Call To Order
II. Roll Call
III. Approval of Minutes
IV. Bills May Be Taken in Any Order

• HF827 (Dotseth) - Consolidation transition aid increased for school districts.
• HF1258 (Dotseth) - School districts authorized to cooperate and share expenses to operate and maintain an ice arena.
• HF2387 (Allen) - School food waste reduced, free school milk provided without the need to take full school lunch, and money appropriated.
• HF2388 (Bakeberg) - Local optional aid and levy replaced with basic supplemental revenue, basic supplemental aid amount increased, and money appropriated.
• HF2534 (Bennett) - Minimum share of general education funding transferred to an area learning center increased.
Bill Added to the Agenda:
• HF2016 (Greene) - General education revenue modified to include safe schools aid for charter schools.

V. Adjournment

Testimony: Individuals wishing to testify and/or submit written testimony, including handouts on the scheduled bills should contact both Polly Cerkvenik, via email at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov and Jody Withers via email at jody.withers@house.mn.gov by 2:00 PM on Monday, March 24, 2025.

Amendments: Bill Authors or Committee Members wishing to present an amendment must submit amendments via email to both Polly Cerkvenik, via email at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov and Jody Withers, via email at jody.withers@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM (Noon) on Monday, March 24, 2025.

HF771 (Kraft) - Supplemental energy assistance funding provided, annual report required, and money appropriated.
HF2498 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) - Geothermal heat exchange system rebate program established, and money appropriated.
HF2366 (Wolgamott) - Green Hydrogen Project funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2423 (Tabke) - Emerald ash borer-infested tree disposal funding provided, and money appropriated.

Items may be added or removed from the agenda.

If you wish to submit written testimony or testify, please send the written testimony or the request to testify to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 1 p.m. the day before the meeting. Written testimony is preferred and will be accepted after the deadline. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

DNR Budget Overview

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF2454 (Wolgamott) - Law enforcement grant program established to help recruit and retain law enforcement officers, and money appropriated.

IV. HF1603 (Coulter) - Paramedic scholarship program made permanent, and money appropriated.

V. HF1751 (Hanson) - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities funding provided for hospital, medical, and dental benefits coverage to part-time or adjunct faculty; report required; and money appropriated.

VI. Minnesota State HEAPR Request

VII. University of Minnesota HEAPR Request

VII. Adjournment

*Agenda items may be added or removed.

HANDOUTS: All handouts must be provided electronically to the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov by 3pm the day prior to the hearing. Handouts should be in PDF format with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability.

TESTIFYING: In-person public testimony will be taken as time allows. Requests to testify must be submitted electronically to the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov by 3pm the day prior to the hearing. Testimony information must include name, organization, and title (if applicable), email, phone number, and position on the bill. Written testimony is encouraged and will be posted on the committee webpage.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Higher Education Finance & Policy webpage.

HF1660 (Frazier) Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to conduct a statewide needs assessment for out-of-school and youth programming, report required, and money appropriated.
HF1824 (Rehrauer) Commissioner of children, youth, and families funding provided to create and implement technology portals to connect individuals with support systems; and money appropriated.
HF1926 (Mahamoud) Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches grant funding provided for food shelves, and money appropriated.
HF1002 (Hicks) Head Start funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF994 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) ParentChild+ program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1915 (West) Child care centers required to use video security cameras to monitor infants and toddlers, and money appropriated.


TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony for the hearing must email the committee administrator, Colie Colburn, colie.colburn@house.mn.gov by 8:00 AM on the day of the hearing. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.


AMENDMENTS: Amendments must be emailed to the committee administrators by 3:00 PM the day before the committee hearing
Colie Colburn, DFL Committee Administrator, colie.colburn@house.mn.gov; and Lauren Hayward, GOP Committee Administrator, Lauren.Hayward@house.mn.gov

I. Call To Order

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Minutes

IV. Bills May Be Taken in Any Order

• HF62 (Keeler) - References to statutes governing student attendance provided.
• HF69 (Quam) - City, town, and school district general elections required to be conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year; cities of the first class permitted to choose between even-numbered or odd-numbered year; and orderly transition plans required.
• HF2372 (Mueller) - Civic seal designation for high school students provided.
• HF2067 (Keeler) - Education; attendance defined.
• HF1053 (Bakeberg) - Reenrollment after student withdrawal from school encouraged, and notification and resources required for the family of an unenrolled child.

V. Adjournment

Testimony: Individuals wishing to testify and/or provide written testimony/handouts on HF 69, HF 2067, and HF 2372 should contact both Wilson Lee via email at wilson.lee@house.mn.gov and Jody Withers via email at jody.withers@house.mn.gov by 3:00 PM on Monday, March 24, 2025.
- Testimony will be limited for HF 62 and HF 1053 as these bills were heard previously on February 25, 2025.

Amendments: Bill Authors and Committee Members wishing to present an amendment must submit amendments via email to both Wilson Lee via email at wilson.lee@house.mn.gov and Jody Withers at jody.withers@house.mn.gov by 2:00 PM on Monday, March 24, 2025.

Items may be added/removed
- Amendment deadline will be 1:00PM on Monday, March 24th
- The DFL holds the gavel for this hearing


I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF2144 (Momanyi-Hiltsley) A bill for an act relating to housing; appropriating money for the family homeless prevention and assistance program.

IV. HF1141 (Howard) A bill for an act relating to housing; authorizing the issuance of housing infrastructure bonds; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.37, subdivision 5, by adding a subdivision.

V. HF2480 (Howard) A bill for an act relating to housing; authorizing housing and redevelopment authorities to create public corporations for the purpose of purchasing, owning, and operating properties converted under the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration program; permitting corporations of authorities to receive certain funding through the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 15.082; 462A.202, subdivision 3a; 462C.02, subdivision 6; 469.012, subdivision 2j; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 469.

VI. HF2148 (Agbaje) A bill for an act relating to housing; establishing a locally controlled housing fund; requiring a report; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 462A.

VII. HF999 (Agbaje) A bill for an act relating to housing; modifying the community-based first-generation homebuyers assistance program; appropriating money; amending Laws 2023, chapter 37, article 1, section 2, subdivision 20; article 2, section 9.

VIII. Adjourn
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Testimony: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator Benjamin.Brinks@house.mn.gov and Committee Legislative Assistant Sowmya.Kannan@house.mn.gov by 3:00pm the day before each hearing. Public testifiers should email their full name, organization (if applicable) and preferred title. Testifiers may participate remotely at the Chair’s discretion. Testimony may be limited to two minutes per testifier. 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.

Chair Moller will have the gavel.

HF 1265 (Keeler) American Indian cultural programming services revised.

*HF 2354 (Norris) Medicaid fraud provisions expanded and modified, subpoena and enforcement authority specified, penalties imposed, and money appropriated.

*Testimony and discussion on HF 2354 will be confined to section 3 of the bill related to penalties.

HF 264 (Hanson, J) Improved medical care in licensed correctional facilities provided.

HF 686 (Frazier) Development of a model policy for safe traffic stops required, best practices and areas for development prescribed, preservice curriculum aligned with model policy, continuing education requirements established for law enforcement officers, and money appropriated.

HF 1659 (Curran) Reporting requirements related to community supervisions clarified, federal law enforcement agents who transport persons exempted from definition of protective agent, and obsolete civil commitment law regarding incarcerated individuals with mental illness repealed.

HF 1094 (Hollins) Expungements or resentencings involving past cannabis crimes clarified.

HF 1083 (Moller) Domestic abuse advocates prohibited from disclosing information.

Items may be added or removed at the Chair’s discretion.

TESTIMONY: Requests for in-person testimony must be submitted to the Committee Administrator of this hearing, Ellen.McDaniel@house.mn.gov, by 3:00 PM, March 24th, 2025. Testimony is limited. The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair, and is subject to change. Please plan accordingly.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: Requests to submit written testimony must be submitted to the Committee Administrator of this hearing, Ellen.McDaniel@house.mn.gov, by 3:00 PM, March 24th, 2025. All written testimony must be submitted in PDF format and not include hyperlinks.

1. Approval of the March 18, 2025, meeting minutes.
    
2. SF xxxx; HF 2237 (O'Driscoll): MSRS; Increasing the formula multiplier for the MSRS General Plan; increasing the postretirement adjustment for the General, Legislators, and Unclassified Plans (laid over from last meeting).
   • Amendment H2237-1A
   • Amendment H2237-2A
   • Amendment H2237-3A
   • SFxxxx-HF2237 Summary from March 18 meeting
   • Commission Actuary, VIA Actuarial Solutions
     • Mark Schulte, President, Consulting Actuary
   • Testifiers: 
     • Erin Leonard, Executive Director, MSRS
       • HF2237 Benefit Enhancement Summary and Cost
     • Dr. Michael J. Landers, Legislative Chair, Minnesota Retired State Employee Association (MRSEA)
        
3. SF xxxx; HF 2386 (O'Driscoll): Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA); Administrative bill.
   • Amendment HF2386-1A
   • SFxxxx-HF2386 Summary
   • Testifier: Amy Strenge, Policy Coordinator, PERA
      
4. SF 1556 (Bahr); HF 708 (Scott): PERA; Adding a correctional plan member to the PERA board of trustees.
   • SF1556-HF0708 Summary
   • Testifiers:
     • Doug Anderson, Executive Director, PERA (PERA SF1556-HF0708 handout)
     • Wade Laszlo, President, Minnesota Correctional Officer Retirement Association (MNCORA Letter of Support)
        
5. SF1986 (Kupec); HF1779 (Wolgamott): PERA General and MSRS General plans; Authorizing an unreduced early retirement annuity for probation agency employees; adding a definition for probation agency employee; increasing employee contributions for probation agency employees.
   • Amendment S1986-1A
   • Amendment S1986-2A
   • SF1986-HF1779 Summary
   • Testifiers:
     • Doug Anderson, Executive Director, PERA
     • Amy Strenge, Policy Coordinator, PERA
       • PERA SF1986-HF1779 handout
     • Erin Leonard, Executive Director, MSRS
     • Sheri Christensen, Actuary, Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company (GRS Actuarial Analysis)
     • Robert Wenthe, Probation Officer, Hennepin County, AFSCME Local 552, Council 5
     • Janene Altman, Probation Officer, Ramsey County
     • Jim Hawkins, Probation Officer, Ramsey County Probation
   • Submitted Testimony:
     • Katie Marek, ISR/CIP Agent, Department of Corrections, MAPE
     • Joint Document in Support from MACPO, MCA, MAPE, Teamsters Local 320, AFSCME Co. 5
     • Combined Messages of Support for SF1986 AFSME Council 5 Local 522
        
6. SFxxxx; HFxxxx, Revisor #25-04680: Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program; Administrative bill.
   • Amendment 25-04680-1A
   • Revisor #25-04680 Summary
   • Testifier: David Bergstrom, Interim Executive Director, Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program (Presentation)
   • Submitted Testimony:
     • Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Brian Cook, Director of Tax, Fiscal Policy, and Elections
     • AARP, Thomas Elness, State Advocacy Director
        
7. SFxxxx; HFxxxx, Revisor # 25-04681: Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program; Adding penalties for noncompliance.
   • Amendment 25-04681-1A
   • Revisor #25-04681 Summary
   • Testifier: David Bergstrom, Interim Executive Director, Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program (Presentation)
   • Submitted Testimony:
     • Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Brian Cook, Director of Tax, Fiscal Policy, and Elections
     • AARP, Thomas Elness, State Advocacy Director
        
8. SF 2379 (Rasmusson); HF 2022 (Berg): Minnesota State; Higher education supplemental retirement plan; Increasing the supplemental plan employer match maximum from $2,700 to $4,300.
   • SF2379-HF2022 Summary
   • Testifier: Mark Grant, MSCF Governmental Relations/Lobbyist
      

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