Currently Posted Meetings

HF3678 (Hicks) Diaper distribution grant program modified.
HF4165 (Pérez-Vega) SNAP outreach program future base funding increased.
HF4312 (Acomb) Notification requirements for alleged maltreatment or abuse of a child modified.
HF4150 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) - Minnesota food bank program established, and money appropriated.
HF4517 (Keeler) - SNAP eligibility for students enrolled in higher education modified, and reports required.

Agenda items may be changed or added.

ACCESSIBILITY: For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
o If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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MATERIALS: Presenters or members of the public are encouraged to provide all materials to be offered in Committee to the CA at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing. Distribution of such materials is subject to approval by the Chair; a copy will be kept by Committee staff. These materials should be in accessible (Optical Character Recognition) format for posting to the committee webpage; contact the Committee Administrator for more information about acceptable electronic formats.

TESTIMONY: Bill authors must arrange their own testifiers and provide each testifier’s name, position title, and email address to the CA 24 hours in advance of the hearing. Written testimony is also encouraged and will be posted on the committee webpage prior to the meeting.

AMENDMENTS: All amendments that are substantive must be given to the CA by 1:00 PM on the day prior to the committee hearing. This deadline may be waived at the discretion of the Chair.

1. HF 3812 (Acomb) Immunity provided for individuals assisting another to seek medical assistance for drug-related overdose.
2. HF 4048 (Tabke) Department of Corrections; various provisions modified relating to data sharing, correctional officer use of deadly force, electronic filing of detainer, disclosure to victims of city and zip codes of offender after incarceration, disqualifying medical conditions, health care peer review committee, jail inspection data, medical director designee, Supervised Release Board, probation report date, and comprehensive community supervision and probation services.
3. HF 4366 (Edelson) Civil commitment priority admission requirements modified, prisoner in a correctional facility specified to not be responsible for co-payments for mental health medications, county co-payment expense reimbursement allowed, and money appropriated.
4. HF 4210 (Reyer) Hospital behavioral health crisis intervention team requirements established, behavioral health crisis intervention grant program for hospitals established, provisions preventing violence against health care workers modified, public disclosure of emergency department wait times required, and money appropriated.
5. HF 2319 (Hollins) Admission in judicial proceeding of custodial statements prohibited.
6. HF 4400 (Stephenson) Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act created, social media platforms regulated, and private right of action and attorney general enforcement provided.

Committee discussion of all bills will be limited to the provisions within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee. Items may be taken up in any order, items may be added or removed at the chair's discretion.

HANDOUTS: Handouts in Word or PDF format should be emailed to the committee administrator by 10am the business day before the hearing. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It will be posted to the committee webpage if received by deadline.
TESTIFYING: The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair and is subject to change. If you would like to testify, please email the committee administrator by 5pm the business day before the hearing.
DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law webpage.
LIVESTREAM: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov. To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the committee administrator as soon as possible.

HF 4691 (Koegel) State required to indemnify Ramsey County and Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority for excess liability resulting from rail-related incidents occurring at Union Depot in St. Paul.
HF 4515 (Hollins) St. Paul; franchise fee rate limitations repealed.
HF 4231 (Sencer-Mura) Amortization of certain property uses authorized.
HF 4507 (Anderson, PH) Swift County; hospital district board member requirements modified, and technical changes made.
HF 4201 (Schomacker) Monetary caps for observance of Memorial Day removed.

HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT and emailed to the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 40 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 the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.
DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the State and Local Government Finance and Policy webpage.
VIEWING: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

o For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
o If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
o To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

March 12, 2024 hearing minutes

HF3858 (Rehm) Requirements related to active transportation, including regulation of electric-assisted bicycles and sales, requirements on complete streets, driver's education, and authority to issue certain citations amended.

HF4626 (Tabke) Federal pipeline inspection rules modified for individuals performing construction or maintenance work, and prevailing wage exemption for broadband workers repealed.

HF2717 (Kraft) Excavation notice system governing provisions modified.

HF3697 (Koegel) Requirement to participate in ignition interlock program limited to individuals whose driver's license is revoked, canceled, or denied for an incident involving alcohol; intensive testing program established for individuals whose license was revoked, canceled, or denied for a controlled substance or intoxicating substance related incident.

HF4005 (Koegel) Limited drivers' licenses established for participants in treatment court, treatment court coordinators required to provide certain information, notification of termination from treatment court provided, and data classified.






Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
• To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access. If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the Committee Administrator.
• For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Matt Baumann, at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov or 651-296-3208.

Public Testimony:
Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator matt.baumann@house.mn.gov by 2:00 PM the day before each hearing. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record, and it may be posted to the committee webpage if received by the deadline. If bringing hard copies to the hearing, please bring 40 copies for members, staff, and the public.

This hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page. All events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions



For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

Presentation of the key findings and recommendations of the OLA evaluation report, Worker Misclassification.

• Agenda
• Worker Misclassification Presentation

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PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION:  This meeting will also be live-streamed via YouTube.

TESTIFYING:  The Legislative Audit Commission and its subcommittees typically do not take public testimony. 

ACCESSIBILITY/ACCOMMODATION: 

• For information on or to request an accommodation, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov. 
• To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers, please contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator as soon as possible. 
• If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form.

MEETING DOCUMENTS will be posted here and on the Office of the Legislative Auditor website as soon as they are available.

1. Welcome and Call to Order
2. Approval of the Minutes – Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
3. Calendar for the Day – Monday, March 18th, 2024
4. Adjournment

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF 4117 (Norris) Local optional revenue modified, revenue for unemployment costs and family paid medical leave included in local optional revenue, referendum revenue simplified, equalization aid increased, and money appropriated.
HF 3780 (Hicks) Special education; developmental adapted physical education assessment requirements modified, and report required.
HF 4788 (Virnig) Culturally responsive assessment of certain students provided.

Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.
For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Polly Cerkvenik, at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov or 651-296-5524.

Public Testimony:
If you are interested in providing testimony on the scheduled please contact the committee administrator at: polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov no later than 2pm on Wednesday, March 13th. Written testimony is encouraged. Testimony may be limited.

NOTE on HF3992 (Lislegard): this bill has been removed from today's agenda and will be rescheduled for Tuesday, March 19.

HF4605 (Bierman): Medication repository program requirements modified.

HF1814 (Reyer): Commissioner of human services required to establish dental home pilot project, project criteria specified, report required, and money appropriated.

HF4758 (Reyer): Medical record fee charging existing prohibition clarified.

HF4801 (Liebling): MNsure reporting requirements changed.

HF4802 (Liebling): Provisions for public review process in rulemaking, case mix review, and Minnesota One Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative changed; definition modified; procurement contractor waiver created; independent informal dispute resolution process aligned; and licensure requirements for certain professions modified.

Bills may be added or removed at the discretion of the Chair.

If you would like to submit written testimony or sign up to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator at Josh.Sande@house.mn.gov. Testifiers must sign up to testify by contacting the Committee Administrator by 5pm the day prior to the hearing. Public testimony may be limited as time allows. Written testimony is encouraged, and should also be submitted by 5pm the day prior, in Word or PDF format. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It may be posted to the committee webpage.

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF4024 (Pelowski) Policy and technical changes made to higher education provisions including student sexual misconduct, student aid, and institutional licensure provisions; reports required; and rulemaking required.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF 3650 (Kozlowski) Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal coast guard services funding provided, and money appropriated.

HF 4641 (Long) Reckless driving resulting in great bodily harm or death excluded from list of offenses eligible for automatic expungement, waiting period for petition for expungement reduced in certain cases, and offering forged check offenses clarified to be eligible for expungement.

* HF 4326 (Curran) Personal information of justices, judges, and judicial staff designated as private data on individuals; dissemination of personal information restricted; and penalty provided.

*Discussion to HF 4326 will be limited to the provisions of the bill that within the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee’s jurisdiction, Section 4 of the bill related to criminal penalties.

HF 4387 (Pinto) Personal service of orders for protection, restraining orders, and related notices provided; law enforcement officers required to make reasonable efforts to locate respondents; certain orders for protection and harassment restraining orders allowed to be served by mail; and other protection order provisions modified.

HF 2400 (Frazier) Standard for petition amended for postconviction relief based on newly discovered evidence.

HF 1718 (Huot) Appointment, licensing, and compensation of railroad peace officers provided; civil liability issues addressed; and rulemaking required.

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

Written Testimony: The deadline to submit written testimony for all bills on the agenda will be 10:30 AM, March 13th. All written testimony must be submitted in a PDF document without clickable links. All testimony should be sent to the committee administrator, ellen.mcdaniel@house.mn.gov.

Testimony: The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair and is subject to change. If you would like to testify, please email the committee administrator by 10:30 AM, March 13th.

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov

If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form

To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF 4110 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) Commercial applicator license core examination materials required to be provided in Spanish.
HF 4625 (Hansen, R) Report on state agency nitrogen fertilizer purchases required and reduction goal established.
HF 3512 (Hansen, R) Minnesota State Fair transportation plan required, and money appropriated.

HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT and emailed to the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.  If you are bringing hard copies, bring 40 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 the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.
DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Agriculture Finance and Policy webpage.
VIEWING: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page.  All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.  If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the Committee Administrator.
*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

o For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
o If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
o To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

I. HF4422 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) - Assisted living director qualifications and ongoing training requirements modified.

II. HF4158 (Hicks) - Medical assistance modified for employed persons with disabilities.

III. HF3642 (Noor) - Short-term medical assistance enrollment assistance established, and medical assistance coverage for prerelease care transition services to incarcerated individuals established.

*Item Removed: HF3639 (Noor) - Commissioner of human services required to apply for federal waiver to provide nutrition supports as a covered service under medical assistance.

*Agenda items may be added or removed. Agenda items may be taken up in any order.

HANDOUTS: All handouts must be provided electronically to the Committee Administrator and Committee Legislative Assistant at least 12 hours prior to the start of a committee meeting. Handouts should be in accessible (Optical Character Recognition) format for posting to the committee webpage. Contact the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov to submit handouts or for more information about acceptable electronic formats.

TESTIFYING: In-person public testimony will be taken as time allows. Testifiers must contact the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov by 5pm the day prior to the hearing in order to sign up to testify. Written testimony is encouraged and will be posted on the committee webpage.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Human Services Finance webpage.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF 4050 (Kozlowski) Minimum wage provisions modified
Josiah Moore, Legislative Coordinator, Department of Labor and Industry

HF 3980 (Wolgamott) Apprenticeship program policy and technical changes made
Erin Larsen, Director of Apprenticeship Minnesota, Department of Labor and Industry

If you would like to testify or submit materials to the committee, please contact travis.reese@house.mn.gov by 4pm on Wednesday, March 13

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

HF4823 (Norris) Individual income tax provisions modified, and 18-year-old children allowed to qualify for Minnesota child credit.
HF4831 (Gomez) Department of Revenue required to make taxpayer assistance and outreach grants, and money appropriated.
HF3788 (Hanson) Illegal cannabis and controlled substances tax repealed, and technical changes made.

Items may be added/removed from the agenda. Materials will be posted to the Committee website when they are available. Public testifiers should email their full name, organization (if applicable) and preferred title to the Committee Administrator (Patrick.McQuillan@house.mn.gov) and the CLA (Lauren Sabes Lauren.Sabes@house.mn.gov) by 1 PM on Wednesday, March 13th. Materials to be distributed to the Committee members are also due by 1 PM on on Wednesday, March 13th. Please 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. Testimony may be limited to two minutes per testifier.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator as soon as possible.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business