Currently Posted Meetings

All bills will be heard on an informational only basis.

HF414 (Olson) Greater Minnesota child care facility program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF430 (Wolgamott) Greater Minnesota infrastructure grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF1634 (Hausman) Housing infrastructure bond eligible use added, public housing rehabilitation funding provided, bond issued, and money appropriated.
HF1389 (Hassan) Shelter facility appropriation bond issuance authorized.
HF1071 (Hassan) Housing infrastructure bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF1118 (Agbaje) Naturally occurring affordable housing rehabilitation added to housing infrastructure bonds allowable uses.
HF1138 (Agbaje) Burn victims and their families housing during treatment funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF160 (Stephenson) Coon Rapids Boulevard trail and pedestrian bridge construction funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF241 (Morrison) Shorewood; Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail safe crossing route funding provided, bond issued, and money appropriated.
HF1567 (Bernardy) New Brighton; quiet zone implementation funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF869 (Bernardy) Fridley; BNSF Northtown Yard road extension and overpass funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF1599 (Reyer) Dakota County; railway and highway safety improvement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122.

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01, which you may view here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp

House File 1293 (Kotyza-Witthuhn): Early childhood learning scholarship funding provided, and money appropriated.
House File 911 (Kotyza-Witthuhn): Head Start appropriation distribution modified, and money appropriated.
House File 1568 (Kotyza-Witthuhn): Kindergarten readiness assessment modified, report required, and money appropriated.

Additional bills may be added.



Public Viewing:
This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp


Notes:
This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01, which may be viewed here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp
NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.
If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation to view, participate in, or otherwise access a remote hearing, please contact Jenny Nash by emailing her at jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact Jenny Nash with questions about the agenda.
For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Polly Cerkvenik, at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn or 651-296-1921.

Public Testimony:
Members of the public who are interested in testifying must email polly.cerkvenik@house.mn by 3:00 p.m. the day before the meeting to ensure consideration. Testimony may be limited due to time constraints.
If you plan to submit written testimony, please send it to polly.cerkvenik@house.mn by 3:00 p.m. the day before the meeting. Written testimony is encouraged and may be submitted for the record up to 24 hours after the hearing ends.

This meeting is held in accordance to House Rule 10.01
https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp

1). HF 257 (Wazlawik): Utility requirements modified, and restrictions on the use of residential solar energy systems prohibited
2). HF 707 (Moller): Criminal Sexual Conduct provisions modified
3). HF 1404 (Becker-Finn): Legislative Commission on Data Practices and Personal Data Privacy [THE DE AMENDMENT HAS BEEN POSTED]*.
4). HF 1007 (Becker-Finn): Court filing fees provided not applicable to federal recognized Indian tribe actions
5). HF 1942 (Pinto): Birth record access authorized by an entity administering a children's savings program
6). HF 1869 (Becker-Finn): Secretary of state governing provisions modified
7). HF 2010 (Reyer): Interactive process required when interacting with individuals with disabilities under chapter 363A

*The DE amendment to HF 1404 has been posted to the committee webpage. Amendments to the DE-1 amendment must be submitted by 3 pm on 3/10/21. The DE amendment sections contain the following language:
Section 1 & 10: HF 1488
Section 2: HF 1407
Sections 3 & 7: HF 696
Sections 4, 5: HF 1404
Sec. 6: Ombuds for Corrections language
Sec. 8: HF 526
Sec. 9: HF 321

**PLEASE NOTE: If we are unable to complete the entire agenda by 10 am, the committee will recess and reconvene @ 5 pm to finish the agenda.**

**Agenda items may be added, deleted and/or taken in any order.

**If you are interested in providing written testimony, oral testimony, or a handout, please email the Committee Administrator and copy the Committee Legislative Assistant by 5 pm the day before the hearing to get instructions.

CA: Rachel.Ganani@house.mn
CLA: Anna.Borgerding@house.mn

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact Jenny with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. If you have questions regarding the substance of the agenda, please contact the Committee Administrator, Rachel Ganani.

HF1439 (Carlson) Health insurance benefit plan contracting provisions modified.

HF1440 (Carlson) Employee gainsharing system repealed.

HF1441 (Carlson) Interagency agreement and intra-agency transfer section repealed.

HF2032 (Nelson, M) Legislative Coordinating Commission provisions changed.

HF687 (Lucero) Security service payments added to list of allowable noncampaign disbursements.

*Agenda items may be added or removed.
**Amendment deadline has been extended to 5 pm, the business day before the hearing.**

TESTIFYING: If you would like to testify or submit written testimony, please email the committee administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn no later than 5 p.m. the business day before the hearing. Testimony will be limited and as time permits, therefore written testimony is encouraged. Please plan accordingly.

HANDOUTS: Handouts must be in PDF format with Optical Character Recognition ability and emailed to the committee administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn no later than 5 p.m. the business day before the hearing.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the State Government Finance and Elections Committee webpage https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/committees/home/92009

VIEW HEARING: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

ACCESSIBILITY: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact her with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda.

RULE 10.01: Meetings are held in accordance with House Rule 10.01 https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/1001.htm

Rules and Legislative Administration
Chair: Rep. Ryan Winkler

Meeting:
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Time: 10:10am to 10:25am
Remote Hearing
This meeting held in accordance with House Rule 10.01

Agenda:

I. Call To Order

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Minutes for March 9, 2021

IV. HF1514 (Sandstede)

V. House Resolution 2021-R12C: Resolution on Mask Enforcement

VI. Adjournment

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

Members of the public who are interested in testifying at this meeting may email committee staff at will.blauvelt@house.mn. Please contact committee staff at least one hour prior to the start of the remote hearing.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122.

HF1987 (Long) - Emission goals for existing buildings modified.
HF XXX (Lippert) Establishing a standard to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels
HF XXX (Hollins) requiring public utilities to deploy energy storage systems
HF1647 (Hollins) - Department of Commerce required to assist any tribal advocacy council on energy established by the 11 federally recognized Indian tribes in Minnesota.
*Bills may be added to the agenda

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01.

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

Note: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Do not contact Jenny about the content of this meeting.

Public Testimony:
• Members of the public who are interested in testifying must email Mike.Molzahn@house.mn by 3:00 p.m. the day before the meeting to ensure consideration. Testimony may be limited due to time constraints.
• If you plan to submit written testimony, please send it to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn by 3:00 p.m. the day before the meeting.

Meeting documents will be posted on the committee website: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92008

HF 1092 (Hollins) Girl Scouts River Valley ConnectZ program grant funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
*More items may be added*

Instructions to the public on testimony:
• If you wish to testify on a bill, please contact brittney.sunderland@house.mn and copy sarah.burt@house.mn by close of business (COB) the day prior to the hearing to get instructions. Clearly indicate the House File number you will be speaking to in the subject of your email. Due to technology constraints testifying on multiple bills is not possible.
• Written testimony is welcome, please see the template saved under permanent committee documents and submit your comments by COB the day prior to the committee by emailing them to: sarah.burt@house.mn

This meeting will be held in accordance with House Rule 10.01, which may be viewed here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/1001.htm

Public Viewing Information:
This remote hearing will be live-streamed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

NOTE: Channels HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice. If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122.

HF 12 (Hausman) COVID-19; eviction procedure amended during and after public health emergency amended, eviction action expungement allowed, home foreclosure prevented during public health emergency, emergency housing assistance grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF 1417 (Hassan) Minnesota Housing Finance Agency workforce homeownership program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF 1870 (Hassan) Open Access Connection voice mail service funding provided, and money appropriated.

If you are interested in providing written testimony, oral testimony, or a handout, please email the Committee Administrator and copy the Committee Legislative Assistant by 5 pm the day before the hearing to get instructions.

CA: Owen.Wirth@house.mn
CLA: Blake.Wilcox@house.mn

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

NOTE: This meeting is held in accordance to House Rule 10.01 https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp

HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact Jenny with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. If you have questions regarding the substance of the agenda, please contact the Committee Administrator, Owen Wirth.

Thursday, March 11, 2021
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Remote Hearing
This meeting is held in accordance with House Rule 10.01


Agenda:

1. HF780 (Reyer) Housing support bed moratorium modified.

2. HF945 (Youakim) Special education social work service third-party reimbursement modified.

3. HF1685 (Nelson) Service Employees International Union (SEIU) healthcare agreement ratified.

4. HF1532 (Frederick) Human services community supports provisions modified.

5. HF1102 (Hanson, J) Home and community-based waiver assessment requirements modified for people temporarily entering health care facilities.

6. HF335 (Frazier) Nursing home licensing and certification moratorium exception established.

Agenda items may be added or removed.

Public Viewing:

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp.

Notes:

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01, which may be viewed here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/1001.htm

Members of the public with questions about this process may contact committee staff at Yingya.Vang@House.mn

If you wish to testify, please contact Committee Administrator Yingya Vang at Yingya.Vang@House.mn by 10:30AM on Wednesday, March 10 and you will be provided with further instructions. Written testimony is encouraged and may be submitted for the record up to 24 hours after the hearing ends.

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp. NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122.

*Agenda Change: Bills Added.

HF214 (Lippert) Minnesota forests for future program, state nursery operations, and Minnesota Forest Resource Council, and Sustainable Forest Incentive Act purpose and provisions modified.
*HF248 (Wazlawik) Pollution Control Agency required to hold public hearing on alleged violations.
*HF1037 (Wazlawik) Air emission physical measurement and emission-related statistic reporting required.
*Amendments are due by 1:00pm, Wednesday, March 10, 2021.

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01, which you may view here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact her with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda.

Any meeting documents will be posted on the House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92007

Public Testimony:
• Members of the public with questions about this process or who are interested in testifying at this meeting may email committee staff at Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn
• If you wish to testify, please contact Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn and copy Adam.Kopel@house.mn at least one hour prior to the start of the remote hearing to get instructions.
• If you plan to submit written testimony, please send to Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn by 1:00pm, Wednesday, March 10, 2021.

I. HF 1614 (Keeler) Moorhead local sales tax authorized
II. HF 1485 (Sundin) Carlton County local sales tax authorized
III. HF 1709 (Wolgamott) St. Cloud local sales tax modified
IV. HF 1751 (Poston) Staples local sales tax authorized
V. HF 1490 (Lueck) Crosslake local sales tax authorized
VI. HF 1300 (Theis) Waite Park local sales tax authorized
VII. HF 1239 (Kresha) Little Falls local sales tax authorized
VIII. HF 1321 (Erickson) Mille Lacs County local sales tax authorized

If you are interested in providing testimony on any of these bills, please contact the committee administrator at nathan.jesson@house.mn no later than 5pm the day before the hearing.

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp NOTE: HTV1 and HTV2 will have live closed captioning. Video archives of HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact her with questions about the substance of the agenda.

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01.

Police Governance Reform Day

I. HF 1374 (Frazier) Chief law enforcement officers required to report peace officer misconduct data to Peace Officer Standards and Training Board.
II. HF 1368 (Mariani) Department of Corrections Fugitive Apprehension Unit authorized to exercise general law enforcement duties during course of official duties.
III. HF 1442 (Xiong. T) Minnesota Code of Military Justice modified, data provision changes made, requirements and qualifications modified, jurisdictional and appellate changes made, punitive article updates provided, and punishable offenses provided.
IV. HF 1562 (Hansan) Mining permit financial assurance money investment account established, submission deadline modified, state park permit provisions modified, decoy shooting from motor vehicles prohibited, blaze orange or blaze pink requirements established for ground blinds, motorized decoy restrictions modified, turtle taking provisions modified, and money appropriated.

Bills may still be added to this agenda.

If you would like to sign up to testify, please email Jamael.Lundy@house.mn one hour before the committee start time. Public Testimony may be taken at the end of the hearing if time is available. If there is not time, members of the public will be asked to submit their testimony in writing.

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/live/1 NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact her with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda.

Meeting documents will be posted on the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92023

HF1318 (Hansen) - Driver's license and Minnesota identification card holders dissemination authorized for replacement Social Security card applications.
HF1058 (Burkel) - State residency requirement for county highway engineers eliminated.
HF1908 (Lillie) - Bicycle traffic regulations, powers, and duties modified.
HF553 (Koegel) - ID cards provided to offenders released from incarcerations.

Agenda items may be added or removed.

*PLEASE NOTE: If the committee is unable to complete the entire agenda by 2:30 PM, the committee may recess and reconvene at 5:00PM to finish the agenda. If the committee adjourns prior to completing the full agenda, bills may be added to the agenda on Friday, March 12*

This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp NOTE: HTV 1 and HTV 2 will provide live closed captioning. Video archives of meetings streamed on HTV 3, 4, and 5 will have closed captions added. Other reasonable accessibility accommodations may be made with advance notice.

If you are interested in providing oral testimony on a scheduled bill, please contact the committee administrator at john.howe@house.mn by 5:00 p.m. the day before the hearing. Written testimony is encouraged and will be accepted by emailing john.howe@house.mn. Written testimony is entered into the committee’s record, shared with committee members, and posted to the committee’s webpage.

Materials related to this meeting are available online: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/home/92028

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to House Rule 10.01, which you may view here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/1001.htm

If you have questions about the accessibility of remote hearings or require an accommodation, please contact Jenny Nash at: jenny.nash@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-4122. Please do not contact her with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business