Currently Posted Meetings

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of March 3, 2025, Meeting Minutes

3. HF25 (Zeleznikar) Women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes grant program established, appropriations reduced, and money appropriated.

4. HF4 (Johnson, W.) Portion of projected budget surplus required to be returned to state taxpayers, and constitutional amendment proposed.

5. Presentation: County and state budget relationship, overview and priorities with focus on systems modernization
• Matt Hilgart, Association of Minnesota Counties
• Nathan Jesson, Minnesota Inter-County Association

6. Adjournment

The Committee convenes at 8:15 AM on March 10. The Committee has Room 120 available until Noon. Committee business may extend beyond 10:00 AM.

*MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: There will not be public testimony in the Ways and Means Committee. Individuals wishing to submit letters, written testimony, or handouts for the hearing must email the committee administrator harry.kennedy@house.mn.gov and the committee legislative assistant allie.spellman@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day prior to the hearing (March 7, 2025). Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability. The Chair may waive the noon deadline for handouts, but handouts received after noon on the business day before the committee meeting might not be printed for committee members and the public.

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the March 3, 2025, meeting minutes

III. Overview of the Minnesota Fraud Problem
• Bill Glahn, Policy Fellow – Center of the American Experiment

IV. Adjournment

- An author's delete-all amendment to HF 1704 will be posted by 1:00 Friday, March 7, 2025.
- This hearing is for walk-through of the author's delete-all amendment, and for public testimony.
- No official action will be taken on HF 1704 in the March 10th meeting.
- Amendments to the author's delete-all amendment will be due to committee staff by 1:00 Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
- On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the committee will consider amendments and a vote on HF1704 as amended.

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of Minutes

III. HF 1345 (Rarick) Allowable number of statutory city public utility commission members increased.

IV. HF 71 (Coulter) Working group on local candidate campaign finance reporting established, report required, and money appropriated.

V. HF 993 (Gordon) Publication of temporary polling locations required.

VI. HF 1943 (Freiberg) Money transferred from the general fund to the Help America Vote Act account.

VII. Adjournment

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF 696 (Backer) Rural EMS uncompensated care pool payment program established, and money appropriated.

IV. Presentation on Opioids and Substance Use Disorder
a. Jeremy Drucker, Director, Office of Addiction and Recovery

V. HF 1429 (Liebling) Emergency medical services overdose data modified.

VI. HF 1379 (Baker) Use of nonopioid directives authorized, and immunity for certain acts or failures to act established.

VII. Adjournment

Two bills will be heard plus a MNDOT Presentation

Presentation by Minnesota Department of Transportation on recently released report: Revenue Options for the HUTD (Highway User Tax Distribution) Funding Gap.

HF1167 (Anderson PE) Northern Lights Express passenger rail project expenditures prohibited.

HF1242 (Joy) Commercial transportation provided, commercial driver training assistance program established, and money appropriated.


Note: If you would like to testify for or against a bill, please contact Committee Legislative Assistant Cyndy Wallin by 3pm on Friday Mar 7, 2025 . Email contact: cyndy.Wallin@house.mn.gov Testimony will be limited to 2 minutes maximum per testifier and the Chair reserves the right to limit testimony to no more than 15 minutes each for and against on a bill. Also, no more than one testifier per organization. Any handouts or letters should be emailed to the legislative committee assistant by 3 pm on Friday March 7, 2025.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

Calendar for the Day: March 12, 2025

Calendar for the Day: March 13, 2025

HF 550 (Torkelson) - Bipartisan Redistricting Commission established, principles to be used in adopting legislative and congressional districts established, and constitutional amendment proposed.

Agenda items may be taken up in any order.

If you are interested in testifying on this bill or submitting written testimony, please contact the Committee Administrator Kacie Petersen at Kacie.Petersen@house.mn.gov.