6.06 COMMITTEE RECORDS. The chair of a standing committee shall cause a record to be kept, in the form prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, which shall include the record of each bill referred to the committee and the minutes of the committee. The minutes shall include:
a. The time and place of each hearing or meeting of the committee;
b. Committee members present;
c. The name and address of each person appearing before the committee, together with the
name and address of the person, association, firm or corporation in whose behalf the appearance
is made;
d. The language of each motion, the name of the committee member making the motion, and
the result of any vote taken upon the motion, including the yeas and nays whenever a roll call is
demanded;
e. The date on which any subcommittee is created, the names of its members and the bills
referred to it;
f. The record of each subcommittee meeting, including the time and place of the meeting;
members present; the name of each person appearing before the subcommittee, together with the
name of the person, association, firm or corporation in whose behalf the appearance is made; and
the language of each motion, together with the name of the member making the motion, and the
result of any vote taken upon the motion, including the yeas and nays whenever a roll call is
demanded;
g. Other important matters related to the work of the committee.
The minutes shall be approved at the next regular meeting of the committee.
Copies of the minutes, after approval by the committee, shall be filed with the Chief Clerk and shall be open to public inspection in the Chief Clerk's office. At the end of the biennium they shall be delivered, together with the other committee records, to the Director of the Legislative Reference Library, where they shall remain open for public inspection during regular office hours. A copy of any page of any committee minutes may be obtained upon payment of a fee determined by the Chief Clerk to be adequate to cover the cost of preparing the copy.
The magnetic tape recording of any committee meetings shall be retained by the chair until the minutes of that meeting have been approved by the committee. The recording shall then be filed with the Director of the Legislative Reference Library. A copy of the committee recording shall be filed within 24 hours if written request is made to the committee. Tapes filed with the Legislative Reference Library shall be kept by the library for eight years after which they shall be delivered to the Director of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Any person may obtain a copy of such tape during the period in which it is maintained in the Legislative Reference Library upon payment of a fee determined by the Chief Clerk to be sufficient to cover the cost of the copy. Testimony and discussion preserved under this rule is not intended to be admissible in any court or administrative proceeding on an issue of legislative intent.