Currently Posted Meetings

Chairs: Sen. Tou Xiong, Sen. Jim Carlson, Rep. Ginny Klevorn, Rep. Jim Nash, Rep. Mike Freiberg
Senate Conferees: Tou Xiong, Bonnie Westlin, Andrew Lang, Jim Carlson, Erin Maye Quade
House Conferees: Ginny Klevorn, Jim Nash, Mike Freiberg, Pam Altendorf
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Capitol room 123

Chair Klevorn has the gavel.

--Adoption of agreed upon State Government provisions and amendments.
--Public testimony regarding opposition on the State Government portion of the bill.

Public testimony is limited to 2 minutes. The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair, and is subject to change. Please plan accordingly. If you would like to testify, please email the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) on Sunday, May 11, 2025. YOU MUSY SPECIFY THE OPPOSED PROVISION(S).

Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT, have OCR capability, and emailed to the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) on Sunday, May 11, 2025. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 25 copies. Note: submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It may be posted to the committee webpage if received by deadline.

Please see the conference committee page for all documents: https://www.leg.mn.gov/leg/cc/Default?type=bill&year=2025-94&bill=SF-3045

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

I. Call To Order
II. Approval of the Minutes: May 9, 2025
III. Calendar for the Day: May 14, 2025
IV. Adjournment

Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee
Chairs: Sen. Fateh, Rep. Rarick, and Rep. Wolgamott
Senate Conferees: Sen. Duckworth and Sen. Putnam
House Conferees: Rep. Coulter and Rep. Robbins

Chair: Rep. Wolgamott holds the gavel.
Date: May 12th, 2025
Location: Capitol G3
Time: 1:00pm

I. Call to order

II. Discussion of policy provisions

TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must email the three Committee Administrators, Lorie Cousineau, Sean Herring, and Sam Parmekar by 5pm the day prior to the hearing. Testimony information must include name, organization, and title (if applicable), email, phone number, and position on the bill. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

The House will have the gavel.

House Conferees: Novotny, Moller, Liebling, Scott
Senate Conferees: Latz, Oumou Verbeten, Westlin, Clark, Seeberger

Agenda:
HF 2432 (Novotny) Judiciary and Public Safety Budget Bill

I. Discussion and adoption of policy items.
II. Testimony by request on several policy provisions in HF 2432 side-by-side:

SF 1909 (Oumou Verbeten) County attorneys authorization to use administrative subpoenas in wage theft investigations.

SF 1665 (Westlin) and HF 1396 (Witte) Use authorization of unmanned aerial vehicles expanded.

SF 281 (Lang) Coercion crime that causes great bodily harm or death of the victim criminal penalty enhancement provision.

SF 3051 (Latz) Access to unredacted portable recording system data related to collision investigations authorization.

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

Senate Conferees: Dibble; Carlson; Jasinski; Johnson Stewart; Clark
House Conferees: Koznick; Koegel; Tabke; Olson

The House (Rep. Koegel) has the gavel.

AGENDA*
1. Call to order
2. Discussion of Same and Similar Policy Provisions
3. Discussion of Select Different Provisions
- Washington Ave Bridge Funding Source
- Met Council Loan to MnDOT
- Asset ratio/pavement resiliency
- Traffic Safety Advisory Council
4. Adjournment

Next Meeting: TBD


*Agenda items may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

• HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT, have OCR capability, and emailed to both House committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov AND joe.marble@house.mn.gov, and Senate committee administrator beth.ethier@mnsenate.gov by 3:00 p.m. the business day before the hearing. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 20 copies. Note: submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It may be posted to the committee webpage if received by deadline.
• TESTIFYING: 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. If you would like to testify, please email both committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov AND joe.marble@house.mn.gov by 3:00 p.m. the business day before the hearing.
• DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Transportation Finance and Policy webpage.
• VIEWING: This hearing may be viewed on the Senate webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
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