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Thursday, March 31, 2022

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Thursday, March 31, 2022
Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 8:30 AM

Capital Investment

Chair: Rep. Fue Lee
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
NOTE:
HF 4625 replaces: Revisor’s draft coded: CG 302
HF 4703 replaces: Revisor’s draft coded: AS110

The following bills will be heard on an informational only basis. Amendments can be offered for reference.

HF3546 (Hassan) - Norway House expansion and renovation funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF3698 (Schultz) - Duluth; First Witness Child Advocacy Center funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF4188 (Lee) - Minneapolis; Avenues for Youth new facility funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF4216 (Agbaje) - Minneapolis; RS Eden Recovery Campus funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF4244 (Moran) - Irreducible Grace Foundation grant funding provided to build Black Youth Healing Arts Center, and money appropriated.
HF4353 (Schomacker) - Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System improvement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4417 (Schomacker) - Luverne; child care center funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4327 (Rasmusson) - Glendalough State Park visitor center appropriation availability extended, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4353 (Schomacker) - Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System improvement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4463 (Morrison) - Excelsior; street reconstruction funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4550 (Feist) - Columbia Heights; food relief facility funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF4280 (Schomacker) - Rock County; water tower funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF4601 (Moran) -St. Paul; YWCA redevelopment funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF 4625 (Pinto) - St. Paul; Neighborhood House - Revisor draft coded: CG302
HF 4703 (Her) - Minneapolis; Public Functionary Community Arts Center - Revisor draft coded: AS110

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

All events are closed-captioned.

Meeting documents will be posted on the committee website at:
https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/home/92002

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.


Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 8:30 AM

Early Childhood Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Dave Pinto
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF4570 (Pinto); Removing obsolete language from voluntary prekindergarten statutes.

Amendment H4570DE3 - Voluntary prekindergarten and other early childhood education programs.

This bill, as amended by the DE3, will serve as the committee's budget proposal for 4-year old pre-kindergarten programs, to be passed to the Education Finance Committee. The remainder of the committee's budget proposal, including with respect to programs overseen by the Department of Education and the Department of Human Services, will be posted and reviewed next week, to be passed to the Committee on Ways & Means.

Additional items or bills may be added to the agenda.

Meeting:
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Remote Hearing via Zoom
Held Pursuant to Rule 10.01



Any meeting documents will be posted on the Early Childhood Finance and Policy committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92005

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

*If you are interested in testifying before the committee, or are providing written testimony or a handout, please email the Committee Administrator and copy the Committee Legislative Assistant at least 24 hours before the hearing time to get instructions (8:30am on March 30).

CA: Sydney.Spreck@house.mn
CLA: Hans.Dosland@house.mn

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 8:30 AM

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Chair: Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
• HF 3605 (Rasmusson) Broadband; financial assistance program to extend service to unserved areas established, and process to allow existing easements for use of service established.
• HF 2739 (Becker-Finn) Civil legal services funding provided, and money appropriated.
• HF 2738 (Becker-Finn) Public Defense funding provided, and money appropriated
• HF1404 (Becker-Finn) Government data practices provisions modified, data classified, Legislative Commission on Data Practices reestablished, and entities required to timely process visa certification documents.

*An author’s Delete-All amendment to House File 1404 (Becker-Finn) will be posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The deadline to submit amendments to the DE is 3:00pm on Wednesday, March 30, 2022.
**All other Amendments are due by 10 am Wednesday, March 30th
***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 10am the day before the hearing. Public oral testimony may be limited.

CA: Brynn.Sias@house.mn
CLA: Mikayla.Brunner@house.mn

Any meeting documents will be posted on the House Judiciary Finance and Civil law committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92021

Remote hearings are 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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 8:30 AM

State Government Finance and Elections

Chair: Rep. Michael Nelson
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF4306 (Murphy) Minnesota State Retirement System plans, Public Employees Retirement Association plans, Teachers Retirement Association, Minnesota state higher education individual retirement account plan, and St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association provisions changed; postretirement adjustment rates increased; employee contribution rates temporarily reduced; investment rate of return actuarial assumption reduced; direct state aid increased and extended to the public employees police and fire retirement plan, the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, and the judges retirement plan; and money appropriated.
HF4017 (Nelson, M) Volunteer fire relief association working group; benefit levels simplified, service credit certification process modified, alternate payee distributions modified pursuant to domestic relations order, supplemental benefit payment clarified, and conforming changes made.
HF4036 (Klevorn) Legislative task force established to examine aging demographics and issues affecting health aging to determine necessity for a state department on aging, report required, and money appropriated.
HF4664 (Greenman) Absentee ballot drop box requirements modified.
HF3834 (Elkins) Bloomington Housing and Redevelopment Authority statutory authority clarified.
HF4141 (Elkins) Conforming industrialized or modular residential buildings added to structures that may not be prohibited by regulation.
HF4271 (Elkins) Construction-related and development-related fee collections threshold increased for municipal reporting, and commissioner of labor and industry required to establish a cost per square foot valuation of properties for the purpose of setting municipal building permit fees.
*Agenda items may be added or removed.

TESTIFYING AND HANDOUTS: To testify, submit written testimony, or submit handouts, please email Amanda Rudolph, the committee administrator, at amanda.rudolph@house.mn no later than 5 p.m. the business day before the hearing. Written testimony and handouts must be in PDF format with Optical Character Recognition ability. Testimony will be limited and as time permits, therefore written testimony is encouraged. Please plan accordingly.
VIEW HEARING: House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp and all events are closed-captioned.
ACCESSIBILITY: To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.
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.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 10:10 AM

Rules and Legislative Administration

Chair: Rep. Ryan Winkler
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
I. Calendar for the Day - April 4, 2022

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Attachments:

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 10:30 AM

Climate and Energy Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Jamie Long
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Update on Met Council's Zero Emission Bus Transition Plan
HF4631 (Lee) - Weather trend integration research funding provided for designing and operating public buildings for operational cost reduction and damage prevention from extreme weather events, report required, and money appropriated.
HF3759 (Acomb) - Weather resiliency program funding provided to the University of Minnesota Extension Service, and money appropriated
HF3985 (Christensen) - Community energy transition grant program modified, and money appropriated.
HF4653 (Hollins) - Public utility allowed to file program with public utilities commission for electric school bus deployment program.
HF1978 (Lislegard) - Mountain Iron Economic Development Authority grant funding provided to expand city-owned building housing solar panel manufacturer, and money appropriated.
*Bills may be added to the agenda

Bills removed:
HF4506 (Lee) - Weather trend impact analysis research on agriculture, forests, and infrastructure funding provided; report required; and money appropriated.

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01.

If you wish to submit written testimony or testify via Zoom, please send the written testimony or the request to testify to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn by noon the day before the meeting.

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

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added
Bills Removed
Attachments:

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 10:30 AM

Education Finance

Chair: Rep. Jim Davnie
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 3401 (Richardson) Education; prekindergarten through grade 12 including general education, education excellence, inclusive and welcoming schools, health and wellness, teachers, charter schools, nutrition and libraries, early childhood, career and technical education, postsecondary enrollment options, and graduation provisions modified; administrative updates and technical corrections made; and reports required.
HF 3937 (Bennett) School board and nonpublic school allowed to enter into nonpublic school student transportation agreement.
*Agenda items may be added or removed

**If a member of the public would like to testify on any of these bills please reach out to the CA, Sarah Burt, at the email address below by 6pm on Wednesday, March 30 to sign up. Please indicate in the subject line of your email which bill you will be testifying on. Written testimony is also accepted, please submit it by 6pm on Tuesday, March 30 to the CA email address. Direct your attention to the written testimony template that has been posted under committee documents.

CA: sarah.burt@house.mn
CLA: wilson.lee@house.mn

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 10:30 AM

Housing Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Alice Hausman
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 4448 (Noor) Housing Finance Agency grant program for residential building sprinkler system grant program established, and money appropriated.
HF 4508 (Howard) Rental property; corporate entities, developers, and contractors prohibited from converting single-family homes into rental property units.
HF3287 (Agbaje) Stable housing mediation grant program requirement established, funding provided for the stable housing mediation grant program, and money appropriated.
HF 3244 (Hausman) Housing infrastructure bond eligible use added, housing infrastructure bond issuance regulated, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

No public testimony will be taken on HF 3287 and HF 3244. These bills have been heard previously by the Housing Committee and will have procedural motions to advance them out of committee.

Additional items may be added to the agenda.

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 12:00PM the day before the hearing.

CA: Owen.Wirth@house.mn
CLA: Katie.Hirsch@house.mn

Meeting documents will be posted on the Housing Finance & Policy committee webpage: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/home/92016

This remote hearing is taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01 and may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 10:30 AM
Time Note: Hearing time: 10:30am - 12:30pm This hearing has been extended an additional 30 minutes.

Human Services Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Jennifer Schultz
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
1. HF4367 (Berg) Short- and long-term shelter nonprofit organization grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

2. HF3274 (Fischer) Children's residential treatment modified, psychiatric residential treatment facility requirements modified, qualified residential treatment program requirements modified, commissioner of human services directed to provide psychiatric residential treatment facility reimbursement report, and money appropriated.

3. HF4307 (Schultz) Child care assistance, economic assistance, behavioral health, health care, and health insurance access governing provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; reports required; money transferred; technical and conforming changes made; funds allocated for a specific purpose; grants established; and money appropriated.
Please use this link to follow along with the Updated Budget Change Pages: https://mn.gov/dhs/assets/2022-03-17-dhs-revised-supplemental-budget-recommendations_tcm1053-521738.pdf

4. HF4071 (Ecklund) Task Force on Subminimum Wages membership and duties modified.

5. HF4447 (Schultz) Human services; frontline workforce strategies to retain, revitalize, and recruit provided; systemic critical incident review team established; ICF/DD operating payment rates increased; CFSS payment rates modified; various other provisions modified including disability and elder waiver, mental health, SNAP employment, and income tax purposes; and money appropriated.
Additional agenda items may be added.



Bills Added
Attachments:

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 12:10 PM

Reinsurance conference committee (SF3472/HF3717)

Chair: Sen. Gary Dahms
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Conference Committee Meeting on SF3472/HF3717, reinsurance

Gavel: House
Chair: Rep. Zack Stephenson

House Conferees: Rep. Stephenson, Rep. Schultz, Rep. Liebling, Rep. Kotyza-Witthuhn, Rep. O'Driscoll
Senate Conferees: Sen. Dahms, Sen. Utke, Sen. Draheim, Sen. Dornink, Sen. Klein


Agenda:

Walk through of conference committee report by non-partisan staff

Adoption of the conference committee report

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 1:00 PM

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Rick Hansen
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Governor’s Environment and Natural Resources Supplemental Budget Recommendations Presentation

HF4407 (Hansen) Natural resources reports due date modified; snowmobile registration, state trail, state park reservation policies, timber permit due date, walk-in access program enrolled land use, special permit issuance to use motorized vehicles in wildlife management areas, resident license requirements, and firearm provisions modified; blaze orange or blaze pink requirements for ground blinds established; nonlethal hazing of deer and elk causing damage to crops authorized; angling allowed with two lines; and rulemaking required.

HF766 (Hansen) Additional seed label information required, certain seed uses prohibited, and product stewardship required for corn and soybean seed coated or treated with neonicotinoid pesticide.
*Amendments are due for all bills by 1:00pm, Wednesday, March 30, 2022.

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

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 Scotland.Kraker@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 30, 2022.

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added

Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Independent Agency Report Day

I. Informational Hearing on 4609 (Moran) Corrections supervision standards committee created; probation, supervised release, and community corrections modified; rulemaking provided; report required; and money appropriated’
II. Presentation of Wilder’s External Review of the State’s Response to last summer’s civil unrest

*Bills may be added to the agenda

**This remote hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/schedule.asp. Remote hearings are taking place pursuant to Rule 10.01, which you may view here: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp.

***If you are interested in testifying before the committee, or are providing written testimony or a handout, please email the Committee Administrator at least 24 hours before the hearing time to get instructions.

CA: Jamael.Lundy@house.mn

****Any meeting documents will be posted on the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/Home/92023

****All events are closed-captioned. To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 1:00 PM

Taxes

Chair: Rep. Paul Marquart
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Approval of the Minutes from March 30th, 2022
HF 3944 (Sandstede) Polar Vortex of February 2021; refundable tax credit for excess energy cost due to extreme cold weather allowed, utilities required to disclose information, and money appropriated.
HF 4422 (Sandstede) Fiber and conduit used in broadband and Internet access services provided and exemption, and money appropriated.
HF 4400 (Becker-Finn) Indian tribe-owned property tax exemption extended.
HF 778 (Stephenson) Sports betting provided for and authorized, licenses established, local restrictions prohibited, sports betting taxation provided, civil and criminal penalties provided, amateur sports grants provided, and reports required.

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. Please do not contact him with questions about the substance of the meeting agenda. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Polly Cerkvenik, at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn or 651-296-5524.

Public Testimony:
If you are interested in providing testimony on the posted bills, please contact the committee administrator at: polly.cerkvenik@house.mn no later than 5pm the day before the hearing. Written testimony is encouraged.

Bills Added

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 1:00 PM

Transportation Finance and Policy

Chair: Rep. Frank Hornstein
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
*The committee will reconvene 30 minutes after floor session to complete the agenda.*

HF3931 (Huot) - Motor vehicle repair and replacement parts state general tax revenue allocated exclusively to fund roads.

HF4313 (Hansen) - Highways for habitat program established, report required, and money appropriated.

HF4571 (Pinto) - Reintegration license established for individuals released from custody.

HF2904 (Lippert) - Accelerated conservation planting, living snow fences, and ash tree replacement funding provided, and money appropriated.

HF523 (Elkins) - Road usage charge imposed, report required, and money appropriated.

HF3833 (Elkins) - Motor vehicle sales and lease maximum documentary fees charged by dealers increased.

**Bills and agenda items may be added or removed**

Meeting documents will be posted on the Transportation Finance & Policy committee website at https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Committees/home/92028

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

All events are closed-captioned.

To provide feedback on digital accessibility of meeting information, please submit comments through the Minnesota Legislature Accessibility & Usability Comment Form. If you require an accommodation, please contact John Howe at: John.Howe@house.mn or by leaving a message at 651-296-3208. To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access.

Bills Added
Attachments:

Thursday, March 31, 2022 , 3:30 PM

Floor Session

Location: House Floor
Agenda:
THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION