Currently Posted Meetings

This is the only Commerce hearing this week.

HF1646 (Reyer); Definition of debt buyer modified, Undue Medical Debt grant funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.

HF2443 (Her); Biennial budget for commerce and energy established, various energy provisions modified, provisions governing consumer small loans and lending modified, Minnesota premium security plan modified, state innovation waiver submission required, provisions governing cannabis licenses modified, and money appropriated.
-This is the vehicle for the commerce and cannabis budget bill.
-Presentation from the Minnesota Department of Commerce and Office of Cannabis Management
-Testimony on DE amendment
-Adoption of DE amendment, markup, and passage

The DE will be posted by Tuesday at 5:00pm.

*Deadline for any amendments to the DE on HF2434 are due by 5:00PM, Wednesday, April 9th.


1. Call To Order

2. Approval of Meeting Minutes 4/9/2025

3. HF 2434 (Schomacker) Human Services Budget Bill
a. Continuation Non-Partisan House Research Department & House Fiscal Staff Walkthrough of Budget Bill DE and Spreadsheet

4. Adjournment

*Public testimony will not be taken

HF2783 (Klevorn) Finance Bill. Markup and passage.

*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT, have OCR capability, and emailed to the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 20 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 at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.

AMENDMENTS: Amendments must be emailed to the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the State 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.

INTERPRETATION SERVICES, ACCESSIBILITY, AND ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS:
To request legislative services for live language interpretation in Hmong, Somali, or Spanish, please contact the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov 72 hours in advance of when the service is needed.
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--To request legislative services for Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, please contact the Committee Administrator at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.gov a minimum of two weeks before the services are needed.
--For information on accommodations please visit Accessibility Frequently Asked Questions.
--If you have accessibility or usability comments to share on any Minnesota Legislature website, please submit your comments using the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form.

HF2440: Department of Employment and Economic Development agency budget request

I. Welcome and Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes – Tuesday, April 8th

III. Calendar for the Day – Monday, April 21st

IV. Adjournment

17 bills will be heard on an informational basis only.
5 minutes maximum presentations.
two bills have been removed and one bill HF1569 has been added.

1. HF460 – Harder (Sibley County)
2. HF850 – O’Driscoll (Benton County)
3. HF707 – Davis (Crosby Street)
4. HF798 – Joy (Lake Park)
5. HF852 – Baker (Spicer)
6. HF366 – Jacob (Winona County)
7. HF365 – Altendorf (Wabasha)
8. HF836 – Dotseth (Sturgeon Lake)
9. HF866 – Schomacker (Slayton)
10. HF885 – Fogelman (Butterfield)
11. HF959 – Anderson PH (Freeport)
12. HF1196 – Johnson W (Washington County)
13. HF1569 - West (Columbus)
14. HF1788 – Rymer (North Branch)
15. HF1349 – Koznick (Dakota County)
16. HF2272 – Quam (Byron)
17. HF2652 – Franson (Richfield)

Bills removed HF1251 (West)
HF607 (Rymer)

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. HF 2300 (Scott) Judiciary Finance Bill. Markup and passage.
V. Adjournment

HF 2300 will be used as the vehicle for the House Judiciary budget bill. A delete-everything amendment labeled "A25-0061" and a corresponding spreadsheet have been posted.

Please note that public testimony was taken on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY & HANDOUTS: Please send electronically in accessible .pdf format to the Committee Administrator, marissa.manteufel@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

I. Call to Order
II. HF2048 (Davids) - Individual income tax; correction of errors regarding the taxable year to which a deductible contribution is attributed required.
III. HF2360 (Swedzinski) - New markets tax credit established, report required, and money appropriated.
IV. HF2006 (Joy) - Tax increment financing; use of unobligated increment clarified, and expiration extended.
V. HF950 (Davids) - Individual income tax exemption provided for income earned by certain nonresident employees.
VI. HF912 (Quam) - Private letter ruling program established, and reports required.
VII.HF3140 (Swedzinski) - Marshall TIF
VIII. Adjourn

*Bill Removed* HF2931 (Keeler) - Allocation to the border city enterprise zones increased, tax reduction authority modified, and restrictions removed.

Written testimony or requests to testify in person are due via e-mail to the GOP Committee Administrator sam.moyer@house.mn.gov by 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 9th, 2025

I. Approval of Minutes

II. HF2433 (Youakim) Kindergarten through grade 12 education changes made; prekindergarten through grade 12 education funding provided; general education, education excellence, American Indian education, teachers, special education, facilities, school nutrition, libraries, early childhood, community education, and state agencies provisions modified; and money appropriated.
***This is the Governor’s education budget bill, which will serve as a vehicle for the committee’s budget agreement.
The Committee Delete-All Amendment will be posted when it is available.

Testimony: Instructions on public testimony will be posted with the amendment.

HF2442 (Acomb) - Energy Finance Bill

Committee walkthrough, public testimony, mark-up, and passage of the Energy Finance bill (HF 2442). A DE amendment will be posted before the meeting.

If you wish to submit written testimony or testify, please send the written testimony or the request to testify to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 6 p.m. the day before the meeting. Written testimony is preferred and will be accepted after the deadline. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

Amendments must be e-mailed to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 6 p.m. the day before the meeting.

Walk-through, Public Testimony and Markup of Delete-All amendment to HF2439 (Heintzeman) Environment and Natural Resources Budget Bill.

*An author’s delete-all amendment and fiscal spreadsheet to HF2439 (Heintzeman) are posted below. The deadline to submit amendments to the DE electronically to the Committee Administrator (Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov) is 3:00pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

Written Testimony must be submitted to Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 3:00pm, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Submitted written testimony is public and will be posted on the committee website and included in the committee record. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

If you would like to sign up to testify, please email Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 3:00pm, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee

Chair: Rep. Marion Rarick
Date: April 10, 2025
Location: Capitol G23
Time: 1-2:45


I. Call to Order
II. Approval of the Minutes
III. HF2431 (Wolgamott) Office of Higher Education, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, University of Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic funding and policy-related changes provided; scholarship and student aid programs modified; student financial aid, institution eligibility, institutional
licensure provisions, student loan programs, and institutional grant programs provided; and money appropriated.
IV. Adjournment


TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: No testimony will be taken.

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

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

Election Contest Oral Arguments: per the scheduling order issued on March 27th, 2025.

Below are links to the committee materials related to the election contest in District 54A:
2024 Election Contest District 54A - Filings
https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2024/other/240947/54A_Filings.pdf

2024 Election Contest District 54A - Exhibits
https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2024/other/240947/54A_Exhibits.pdf

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF 2435 (Bierman); Health Omnibus Finance Vehicle Bill

IV. Adjournment

This hearing is to move a vehicle bill to Ways and Means. No public testimony will be taken. No walkthrough of the bill will take place. Please contact Jonathan.Cotter@house.mn.gov with any questions.

Markup and final passage of DE1 Amendment to HF2436 (West) Children and Families Budget Bill
An author's delete all amendment and fiscal spreadsheet to HF2436 (West) are posted below.

Bill Added: HF2929 Kotyza-Witthuhn) may be taken and re-referred

All agenda items subject to change at the discretion of the Co-Chairs.

TESTIMONY AND AMENDMENTS: No further testimony or amendments will be in order at this hearing.

Colie Colburn, DFL Committee Administrator, colie.colburn@house.mn.gov
Lauren Hayward, GOP Committee Administrator, Lauren.Hayward@house.mn.gov

HF2438 (Koznick) House Transportation Finance and Policy Bill
HF2438 the current governor transportation finance bill will be substituted
with a delete all amendment.

This hearing will be an overview of the agreed to language in the delete all amendment.
House Research and House Fiscal Staff will walk through the amendment and the spreadsheet.


Language for the delete all amendment will be posted on this site and sent out to the listserv sometime on Thursday April 10th. Agency and public testimony will be heard as well as the markup and passing out the amended HF2438 out of committee will occur on Friday April 11th starting in a hearing in Capitol G3 hearing room from 9am to noon.

Any amendments are due by 8am on Friday March 11th so they can copied and processed for the hearing. Send any amendments or requests to testify to Matt.Baumann@house.mn.gov and joe.marble@house.mn.gov Testimony will be limited.