STATE
OF MINNESOTA
Journal of the House
NINETY-FOURTH
SESSION - 2025
_____________________
THIRTY-EIGHTH
LEGISLATIVE DAY
Saint Paul, Minnesota, Thursday, May 15, 2025
The House of Representatives convened at
11:00 a.m. and was called to order by Bjorn Olson, Speaker pro tempore.
Prayer was offered by Iman Hassan Mohamed,
Muslim American Society of Minnesota, Rosemount, Minnesota.
The members of the House gave the pledge
of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
The roll was called and the following
members were present:
Acomb
Agbaje
Allen
Altendorf
Anderson, P. E.
Anderson, P. H.
Backer
Bahner
Bakeberg
Baker
Bennett
Berg
Bierman
Bliss
Burkel
Carroll
Cha
Clardy
Coulter
Curran
Davids
Davis
Dippel
Dotseth
Duran
Elkins
Engen
Falconer
Feist
Finke
Fischer
Fogelman
Franson
Frazier
Frederick
Freiberg
Gander
Gillman
Gomez
Gordon
Gottfried
Greene
Greenman
Hansen, R.
Hanson, J.
Harder
Heintzeman
Hemmingsen-Jaeger
Her
Hicks
Hill
Hollins
Hortman
Howard
Hudson
Huot
Hussein
Igo
Jacob
Johnson, P.
Johnson, W.
Jones
Jordan
Joy
Keeler
Klevorn
Knudsen
Koegel
Kotyza-Witthuhn
Kozlowski
Koznick
Kraft
Kresha
Lawrence
Lee, F.
Lee, K.
Liebling
Lillie
Long
Mahamoud
McDonald
Mekeland
Moller
Momanyi-Hiltsley
Mueller
Murphy
Myers
Nadeau
Nash
Nelson
Niska
Noor
Norris
Novotny
O'Driscoll
Olson
Pérez-Vega
Perryman
Pinto
Pursell
Quam
Rarick
Rehm
Rehrauer
Repinski
Reyer
Roach
Robbins
Rymer
Schomacker
Schultz
Schwartz
Scott
Sencer-Mura
Sexton
Skraba
Smith
Stephenson
Stier
Swedzinski
Tabke
Torkelson
Van Binsbergen
Vang
Virnig
Warwas
West
Wiener
Witte
Wolgamott
Xiong
Youakim
Zeleznikar
Spk. Demuth
A quorum was present.
The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the
Journal of the preceding day. There
being no objection, further reading of the Journal was dispensed with and the
Journal was approved as corrected by the Chief Clerk.
REPORTS
OF STANDING COMMITTEES AND DIVISIONS
Long and Niska from the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration to which was referred:
H. F. No. 3321, A bill for an act relating to legislative enactments; correcting miscellaneous oversights, inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 17.354.
Reported the same back with the recommendation that the bill be placed on the General Register.
The report was
adopted.
SECOND READING OF HOUSE BILLS
H. F. No. 3321 was read for
the second time.
INTRODUCTION
AND FIRST READING OF HOUSE BILLS
The following
House Files were introduced:
Howard introduced:
H. F. No. 3327, A bill for an act relating to taxation; local government aids; making class 4d(1) low-income rental property aid permanent; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 477A.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Hollins and Backer introduced:
H. F. No. 3328, A bill for an act relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to bring awareness of library services for blind and print disabled persons; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 134.31, subdivisions 4a, 6.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Education Policy.
Hudson introduced:
H. F. No. 3329, A bill for an act relating to judiciary; assigning public defender in criminal prosecution to civil forfeiture litigation; staying civil forfeiture litigation until after criminal prosecution; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.531, subdivision 6a.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law.
Niska moved that the House recess subject
to the call of the Chair. The motion
prevailed.
RECESS
RECONVENED
The House reconvened and was called to
order by the Speaker.
REPORT
FROM THE COMMITTEE ON RULES
AND
LEGISLATIVE ADMINISTRATION
Long from the Committee on Rules and
Legislative Administration, pursuant to rule 1.21, designated the following
bill to be placed on the Calendar for the Day for Friday, May 16, 2025:
H. F. No. 3321.
CALENDAR FOR THE
DAY
H. F. No. 2464 was reported
to the House.
Bierman moved to amend H. F. No. 2464, the first engrossment, as follows:
Page 7, delete section 10 and insert:
"Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 148.56, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. Optometry defined. (a) Any person shall be deemed to be practicing optometry within the meaning of sections 148.52 to 148.62 who shall in any way:
(1) advertise as an optometrist;
(2) employ any means, including the use of autorefractors or other automated testing devices, for the measurement of the powers of vision or the adaptation of lenses or prisms for the aid thereof;
(3) possess testing appliances for the purpose of the measurement of the powers of vision;
(4) diagnose any disease, optical deficiency or deformity, or visual or muscular anomaly of the visual system consisting of the human eye and its accessory or subordinate anatomical parts;
(5) prescribe lenses, including plano or cosmetic contact lenses, or prisms for the correction or the relief of same;
(6) employ or prescribe ocular exercises, orthoptics, or habilitative and rehabilitative therapeutic vision care; or
(7) prescribe or administer legend drugs to aid in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, treatment, or management of disease, deficiency, deformity, or abnormality of the human eye and adnexa included in the curricula of accredited schools or colleges of optometry, and as limited by Minnesota statute and adopted rules by the Board of Optometry, or who holds oneself out as being able to do so.
(1) legend drugs to be administered
intravenously, intramuscularly, or by injection, except for treatment of
anaphylaxis; by intraocular or sub-Tenon injection; by injection
posterior to the orbital septum; or by intramuscular injection, except as
permitted under paragraph (d) ;
(2) invasive surgery including, but not limited to, surgery using lasers;
(3) Schedule II and III oral legend drugs and
oral steroids to be administered or prescribed; or
(4) oral antivirals to be prescribed or
administered for more than ten days; or steroids to be administered or
prescribed for more than 14 days without consultation with a physician.
(5) oral carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
to be prescribed or administered for more than seven days.
(c) Nothing in this section shall allow
anesthetics to be administered by injection, except that an optometrist may
administer local anesthesia by injection:
(1) for excision of chalazia, except
that recurrent chalazia must be referred to a physician; and
(2) for excision of a single epidermal
lesion that: (i) is without
characteristics of malignancy; (ii) is no larger than five millimeters in size;
(iii) is no deeper than the dermal layer of the skin; and (iv) is not a lesion
involving the eyelid margin.
(d) An optometrist may inject Botulinum
toxin, limited to the periocular muscles of facial expression innervated by the
first two branches of the facial nerve, including for cosmetic purposes.
Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 148.56, is amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 1a. Injections. In order to perform injections permitted under subdivision 1, an optometrist must receive approval from the board after demonstrating to the board that the optometrist has sufficient educational or clinical training to perform injections. This subdivision does not apply to injections for treatment of anaphylaxis."
Amend the title accordingly
A roll call was requested and properly
seconded.
The question was taken on the Bierman
amendment and the roll was called. There
were 133 yeas and 0 nays as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Acomb
Agbaje
Allen
Altendorf
Anderson, P. E.
Anderson, P. H.
Backer
Bahner
Bakeberg
Baker
Bennett
Berg
Bierman
Bliss
Burkel
Carroll
Cha
Clardy
Coulter
Curran
Davids
Davis
Dippel
Dotseth
Duran
Elkins
Engen
Falconer
Feist
Finke
Fischer
Fogelman
Franson
Frazier
Frederick
Freiberg
Gander
Gillman
Gomez
Gordon
Gottfried
Greene
Greenman
Hansen, R.
Hanson, J.
Harder
Heintzeman
Hemmingsen-Jaeger
Her
Hicks
Hill
Hollins
Hortman
Howard
Hudson
Huot
Hussein
Igo
Jacob
Johnson, P.
Johnson, W.
Jones
Jordan
Joy
Keeler
Klevorn
Knudsen
Koegel
Kotyza-Witthuhn
Kozlowski
Koznick
Kraft
Kresha
Lawrence
Lee, K.
Liebling
Lillie
Long
Mahamoud
McDonald
Mekeland
Moller
Momanyi-Hiltsley
Mueller
Murphy
Myers
Nadeau
Nash
Nelson
Niska
Noor
Norris
Novotny
O'Driscoll
Olson
Pérez-Vega
Perryman
Pinto
Pursell
Quam
Rarick
Rehm
Rehrauer
Repinski
Reyer
Roach
Robbins
Rymer
Schomacker
Schultz
Schwartz
Scott
Sencer-Mura
Sexton
Skraba
Smith
Stephenson
Stier
Swedzinski
Tabke
Torkelson
Van Binsbergen
Vang
Virnig
Warwas
West
Wiener
Witte
Wolgamott
Xiong
Youakim
Zeleznikar
Spk. Demuth
The
motion prevailed and the amendment was adopted.
Bahner moved to amend H. F. No. 2464, the first engrossment, as amended, as follows:
Page 16, line 14, strike everything after the period
Page 16, strike line 15
Page 16, line 16, delete the new language and strike the old language
Page 16, line 17, delete "3," and strike "participate."
A roll call was requested and properly
seconded.
The question was taken on the Bahner
amendment and the roll was called. There
were 133 yeas and 0 nays as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Acomb
Agbaje
Allen
Altendorf
Anderson, P. E.
Anderson, P. H.
Backer
Bahner
Bakeberg
Baker
Bennett
Berg
Bierman
Bliss
Burkel
Carroll
Cha
Clardy
Coulter
Curran
Davids
Davis
Dippel
Dotseth
Duran
Elkins
Engen
Falconer
Feist
Finke
Fischer
Fogelman
Franson
Frazier
Frederick
Freiberg
Gander
Gillman
Gomez
Gordon
Gottfried
Greene
Greenman
Hansen, R.
Hanson, J.
Harder
Heintzeman
Hemmingsen-Jaeger
Her
Hicks
Hill
Hollins
Hortman
Howard
Hudson
Huot
Hussein
Igo
Jacob
Johnson, P.
Johnson, W.
Jones
Jordan
Joy
Keeler
Klevorn
Knudsen
Koegel
Kotyza-Witthuhn
Kozlowski
Koznick
Kraft
Kresha
Lawrence
Lee, F.
Lee, K.
Liebling
Lillie
Long
Mahamoud
McDonald
Mekeland
Moller
Momanyi-Hiltsley
Mueller
Murphy
Myers
Nadeau
Nash
Nelson
Niska
Noor
Norris
Novotny
O'Driscoll
Olson
Pérez-Vega
Perryman
Pinto
Pursell
Rarick
Rehm
Rehrauer
Repinski
Reyer
Roach
Robbins
Rymer
Schomacker
Schultz
Schwartz
Scott
Sencer-Mura
Sexton
Skraba
Smith
Stephenson
Stier
Swedzinski
Tabke
Torkelson
Van Binsbergen
Vang
Virnig
Warwas
West
Wiener
Witte
Wolgamott
Xiong
Youakim
Zeleznikar
Spk. Demuth
The
motion prevailed and the amendment was adopted.
H. F. No. 2464, A bill for an act relating
to state government; modifying certain health and licensing provisions;
restructuring and renaming the Higher Education Facilities Authority to include
Health and increasing the bonding capacity; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024,
sections 3.732, subdivision 1; 10A.01, subdivision 35; 136A.25; 136A.26;
136A.27; 136A.28; 136A.29, subdivisions 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, by
adding a subdivision; 136A.32, subdivisions 1, 4, by adding a subdivision;
136A.33; 136A.34, subdivisions 3, 4; 136A.36; 136A.38; 136A.41; 136A.42;
136F.67, subdivision 1; 144.98, subdivisions 8, 9; 144E.123, subdivision 3;
145.4718; 145.901, subdivision 1; 145.902, subdivisions 1, 3; 147A.02; 148.56,
subdivision 1; 354B.20, subdivision 7; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 144; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 136A.29,
subdivision 4.
The bill was read for the third time, as
amended, and placed upon its final passage.
The question was taken on the passage of
the bill and the roll was called. There
were 134 yeas and 0 nays as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Acomb
Agbaje
Allen
Altendorf
Anderson, P. E.
Anderson, P. H.
Backer
Bahner
Bakeberg
Baker
Bennett
Berg
Bierman
Bliss
Burkel
Carroll
Cha
Clardy
Coulter
Curran
Davids
Davis
Dippel
Dotseth
Duran
Elkins
Engen
Falconer
Feist
Finke
Fischer
Fogelman
Franson
Frazier
Frederick
Freiberg
Gander
Gillman
Gomez
Gordon
Gottfried
Greene
Greenman
Hansen, R.
Hanson, J.
Harder
Heintzeman
Hemmingsen-Jaeger
Her
Hicks
Hill
Hollins
Hortman
Howard
Hudson
Huot
Hussein
Igo
Jacob
Johnson, P.
Johnson, W.
Jones
Jordan
Joy
Keeler
Klevorn
Knudsen
Koegel
Kotyza-Witthuhn
Kozlowski
Koznick
Kraft
Kresha
Lawrence
Lee, F.
Lee, K.
Liebling
Lillie
Long
Mahamoud
McDonald
Mekeland
Moller
Momanyi-Hiltsley
Mueller
Murphy
Myers
Nadeau
Nash
Nelson
Niska
Noor
Norris
Novotny
O'Driscoll
Olson
Pérez-Vega
Perryman
Pinto
Pursell
Quam
Rarick
Rehm
Rehrauer
Repinski
Reyer
Roach
Robbins
Rymer
Schomacker
Schultz
Schwartz
Scott
Sencer-Mura
Sexton
Skraba
Smith
Stephenson
Stier
Swedzinski
Tabke
Torkelson
Van Binsbergen
Vang
Virnig
Warwas
West
Wiener
Witte
Wolgamott
Xiong
Youakim
Zeleznikar
Spk. Demuth
The
bill was passed, as amended, and its title agreed to.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
Roach moved that the name of Gomez be
added as an author on H. F. No. 1782. The motion prevailed.
Dippel moved that the name of Roach be
added as an author on H. F. No. 3319. The motion prevailed.
Franson moved that the name of Rehrauer be
added as an author on H. F. No. 3322. The motion prevailed.
Greenman moved that the name of Jones be
added as an author on H. F. No. 3326. The motion prevailed.
Niska
introduced:
House Concurrent
Resolution No. 2, A house concurrent resolution relating to adjournment of the
House of Representatives and Senate until 2026.
The concurrent resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration
ADJOURNMENT
Niska moved that when the House adjourns
today it adjourn until 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 16, 2025. The motion prevailed.
Niska moved that the House adjourn. The motion prevailed, and the Speaker
declared the House stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 16, 2025.
Patrick
Duffy Murphy, Chief
Clerk, House of Representatives