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Government Operations and Elections Policy

3/11/2015
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Bills Added:
HF777 (Hamilton) - Spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury research grant program created, spinal cord and traumatic brain injury advisory council established, and money appropriated.
HF779 (Hamilton) - Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, and Technology Transfer Board established; and money appropriated.
HF278 (Kiel) - Alzheimer's disease and other dementias research grant program and public awareness campaign grant program established, Alzheimer's Research Advisory Council established, reports required, and money appropriated.
HF921 (Schomacker) - Long-term care savings plan provided, and income tax subtraction for contributions made to long-term care savings plan provided.
HF899 (Runbeck) - Transitway development and finance governed, legislative authorization requirements established, and permissible use specified and uses of revenue from a metropolitan transportation area sales tax prioritized.
Attachments:
H0777A1.pdf (3/9/2015)
H0777A2.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0779A3.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0278A3.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0899A1.pdf (3/10/2015)

Health and Human Services Finance

3/11/2015
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If you would like to testify, please contact the Committee Legislative Assistant, Chris Stolarzyk, at Chris.Stolarzyk@house.mn

Additional bills may be added.
Bills Added:
HF525 (Freiberg) - Integrated health care delivery network pilot program established.
HF352 (Anderson) - Healthy eating here at home program established, and money appropriated.
HF1258 (Franson) - Organ donation grant program established to increase donation among underserved communities, and money appropriated.
Attachments:

Transportation Policy and Finance

3/11/2015
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Note: HF1167 will be rescheduled for a later date
Bills Added:
HF293 (Sanders) - Golf license plate contribution collection by public safety commissioner start date modified.
HF533 (Nash) - Start Seeing Motorcycles special license plates established, and money appropriated.
HF610 (Davnie) - Towed recreational vehicles provided three-year registration cycle.
HF901 (Hancock) - Lake of the Woods County; weather transmitter funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1159 (Nash) - Aerodynamic device exclusion for motor vehicle length limits provided.
HF1160 (Sanders) - Motor vehicle inspection report governing regulations amended.
HF1350 (Norton) - Nonemergency medical transportation providers regulated, and nonemergency medical transportation service payment rates modified.
Attachments:

Education Finance

3/11/2015
Minnesota School Boards Association & Minnesota School Administrators Technology Presentation

Bills Listed for information hearing.
Bills Added:
HF838 (Christensen) - Telecommunication access equity funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF854 (Christensen) - School district operating capital revenue increased.
HF856 (Christensen) - Special technology revenue established; revenue authority provided to school districts, charter schools, intermediate districts, and other cooperative units.
HF718 (Loon) - General education revenue technical corrections provided, and obsolete language eliminated.

Commerce and Regulatory Reform

3/11/2015
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Bills Added:
HF294 (Loonan) - Health plan contracts and stop loss coverage regulated.
HF1290 (Loonan) - Insurance fraud prevention account funding provided, and annual money transfer from the automobile theft prevention program to the general fund ended.
HF5 (Mack) - MNsure; commerce commissioner required to seek federal approval, salary limit imposed, health plan approval rates specified, notification of enrollment information required, individual coverage option provided, product lines prohibited, small business health care tax credit expansion proposal required, MNsure organizational changes made, background checks required, and exemptions removed.
HF1127 (Loon) - Savings promotion raffles provided.
Attachments:

Health and Human Services Reform

3/11/2015
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Bills Added:
HF975 (Hamilton) - State Quality Council and regional quality council requirements modified, and money appropriated.
HF877 (Anderson) - Stearns County; group residential housing modified by requiring supplementary service rate.
HF1088 (O'Neill) - Crimes committed in a patient care zone penalties increased, and assaults by inmates in public institutions sentencing provisions amended.
HF575 (Gruenhagen) - Medical assistance payments to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics modified.
HF1277 (Gruenhagen) - International Medical Graduates Council created, and money appropriated.
HF1314 (Schomacker) - Faculty members and resident dentists permitted to enroll as medical assistance providers.
HF236 (Zerwas) - Investigational drug, biological product, or device use permitted by eligible patients.
HF439 (Lohmer) - Health care practitioners required to deliver information relating to trisomy 13, 18, and 21; and duties imposed on the health commissioner.
HF1122 (Zerwas) - Intensive pediatric care category established for home care nursing services, payment rate increased for home care nursing services, and additional revenue required to be spent on patient-specific training.
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Higher Education Policy and Finance

3/11/2015
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Bills Added:
HF1150 (Urdahl) - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; process for determining whether a student requires remedial education regulated.
HF982 (Urdahl) - Public postsecondary institutions directed to give full credit to students for completed Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) courses, and report required.
HF647 (McDonald) - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees required to establish supplemental academic instruction, and money appropriated.
HF1517 (Norton) - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota college degree completion plan required, and reports required.
Attachments:
H0982A1.pdf (3/10/2015)

Mining and Outdoor Recreation Policy

3/11/2015
The Mining and Outdoor Recreation Policy Committee will consider HF1429 in light of the recommendations of the Lands Subcommittee during the afternoon session of the meeting (2:45-4:30pm).

During the evening session starting at 6:15pm, the Committee will consider HF1406 (Hackbarth) (Game and Fish Bill) and HF1070 (McNamara).
Bills Added:
HF1429 (Dill) - Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Hubbard, Lake, Martin, Pine, St. Louis, Todd, Washington, and Winona Counties; public and private sales and conveyances of state lands provided, and prior sale authority modified.
HF1186 (Lueck) - Mining companies exempted from electrical licensing.
HF1329 (McNamara) - Invasive species provisions, state parks and trails provisions, fire training requirements, auxiliary forest provisions, forest bough account, and recreational vehicle provisions modified; review of grant-in-aid applications provided; and water use permit authority modified.
HF1406 (Hackbarth) - Life jacket requirements modified; wake surfing regulated; compliance with federal law provided; wild animal taking, possessing, and transporting provisions modified; criminal penalties provided; and rulemaking and reports required.
HF1070 (McNamara) - Body-gripping trap use restricted near public roads and trails.
Attachments:
H1070-A1.pdf (3/11/2015)
H1429-DE2.pdf (3/11/2015)
Amendment to the DE.pdf (3/11/2015)
H1329-DE1.pdf (3/11/2015)
H1406-DE2.pdf (3/11/2015)

Civil Law and Data Practices

3/11/2015
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We will hear HF 953 at a later date.
Bills Added:
HF307 (Fabian) - Proof of insurance in electronic format provided.
HF1472 (O'Driscoll) - Foreclosure sale provisions clarified.
HF744 (Gunther) - Accountancy examinations and peer review standards modified, and rulemaking authorized.
SF337 (Pinto) - Directory information definition changed to conform with federal law.
SF337 (Pinto) - Directory information definition changed to conform with federal law.
SF337 (Pinto) - Directory information definition changed to conform with federal law.
HF424 (Pinto) - Directory information definition changed to conform with federal law.
Attachments:

Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance

3/11/2015
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Overview from the Minnesota State Demographic Center presented by Susan Brower, Minnesota State Demographer.

***Additional bills may be added. Bills may be taken up in any order.
Bills Added:
HF751 (Kiel) - Job training tax credit provided, report required, and money appropriated.
HF894 (Kiel) - Permanent tax reduction authority provided to border city enterprise zones.
HF1262 (Hackbarth) - Upriver business grant program created for businesses affected by the closure of the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, transportation economic development program modified, and money appropriated.
HF1416 (Smith) - Unemployment insurance employer tax rate reduced.
HF593 (Kresha) - Broadband development grant program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF519 (Gunther) - Small business investment tax credit modified.
HF335 (Clark) - Rental subsidies grant program for exploited women and children established, and money appropriated.
HF484 (Urdahl) - Eligible utility cooperatives authorized to receive state grants to match federal disaster assistance.
HF872 (Albright) - Technology corporate franchise tax certificate transfer program established.
HF402 (Davnie) - Wage deductions for credit card charges modified.
Attachments:
H1262DE3.pdf (3/10/2015)
A15-0167.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0402A1.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0593A5_2.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0593A6_1.pdf (3/10/2015)
H0593A7_1.pdf (3/10/2015)

Education Innovation Policy

3/10/2015
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Bills may be added.

Bills may be taken up in any order.

HF1075 has already been heard. The committee will only be acting on the bill.
Bills Added:
HF1075 (Erickson) - Language excluding retired principals who serve as a substitute principal removed from continuing education requirements.
HF1392 (Bennett) - Student assessment provisions modified, and number of required state tests reduced.
HF645 (Kiel) - Minnesota teaching license issuance to out-of-state applicants requirements clarified.
HF475 (Quam) - Sponsored agriculture education community experts allowed.
HF1220 (Kresha) - Early learning scholarship parameters clarified, and money appropriated.
HF1384 (Erickson) - Charter school statutes recodified, technical corrections made, and obsolete and duplicative provisions removed.
HF1485 (Erickson) - Charter schools allowed to give enrollment preference to children who are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch.
Attachments:
H1485A2-1.pdf (3/9/2015)

State Government Finance

3/10/2015
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Continued presentation of the Governor's Budget:

Office of Administrative Hearings
Chief Judge Tammy L Pust
Bills Added:
HF794 (O'Driscoll) - Land surveying statutory sections streamlined and simplified, and technical and conforming changes made.
HF385 (Hortman) - Business conversion provisions modified.
Attachments:
A15-0113.pdf (3/6/2015)

Rules and Legislative Administration

3/10/2015
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I. Call To Order

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Minutes

IV. Calendar for the Day: March 12, 2015

V. Adjournment

Agriculture Policy

3/10/2015
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Informational hearing on the Minnesota Ag Interpretive Center
Bills Added:
HF1130 (Cornish) - Farmamerica, the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF532 (Petersburg) - Nonprofit ticket or admission sales tax exemption clarified.
HF1187 (Franson) - Equity-stripping law protection extended to owners of agricultural property.
HF287 (Quam) - Agricultural homestead classification for property allowed.
HF1212 (Quam) - Agricultural property taxation changes made, and valuation exclusion for homeowners over age 65 created.
HF1230 (Marquart) - Agricultural purposes definition modified for class 2 properties.
Attachments:

Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance

3/10/2015
Report from the Legislative Advisory Committee on the Care of Pregnant Incarcerated Women.
Bills Added:
HF1432 (Green) - Bureau of Criminal Apprehension required to do background checks at the request of Indian tribes.
HF1247 (Laine) - Needs of incarcerated women related to pregnancy and childbirth addressed, and report on use of restraints required.
HF742 (O'Neill) - Campus sexual harassment and sexual violence; various provisions modified relating to campus sexual assault policies, good faith reporting, postsecondary institution and law enforcement coordination, online reporting systems, data access, data classifications, security officer and administrator training, and student health services.
HF1180 (O'Neill) - Trial courts funding provided for expansion of specialty courts, and money appropriated.
Attachments:
H1247A1.pdf (3/6/2015)
H0742DE5.pdf (3/9/2015)
H1247A2.pdf (3/9/2015)
A15-0147.pdf (3/9/2015)

Taxes

3/10/2015
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Bills Added:
HF245 (Urdahl) - K-12 teachers who complete master's degree in a content area directly related to their licensure field allowed tax credit, and money appropriated.
HF359 (Runbeck) - Reading tax credit modified.
HF72 (Anderson) - Education expense credit and deduction provided to apply to expenditures for prekindergarten expenses.
HF667 (Anderson) - K-12 education expense credit modified, credit amount and income phaseout for the credit increased, and credit phaseout threshold adjusted for inflation.
HF798 (Knoblach) - K-12 education expense subtraction and credit modified; credit extended to tuition; subtraction and credit amounts increased; income phaseout for the credit increased; and credit, subtraction amount, and credit phaseout threshold adjusted for inflation.

Education Finance

3/10/2015
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Other bills may be added to the agenda.
Bills Added:
HF718 (Loon) - General education revenue technical corrections provided, and obsolete language eliminated.
HF719 (Loon) - General education basic formula allowance clarified.
HF858 (Pierson) - Collaborative urban educator grants authorized for recruitment and training programs, and money appropriated.
HF1209 (Barrett) - Suicide prevention training required, report required, and money appropriated.
HF1391 (Urdahl) - College Possible funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
HF643 (Fenton) - Principals' Leadership Academy provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Attachments:

Greater Minnesota Economic and Workforce Development Policy

3/10/2015
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Bills Added:
HF807 (Gunther) - Redevelopment grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1125 (Simonson) - Small business development center program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1136 (Dean) - Performance based grants provided, and money appropriated.
HF1149 (Gunther) - Enterprise Minnesota, Inc. grant provided, and money appropriated.
HF1175 (Mahoney) - Brownfield remediation loans and grants modified, and money appropriated.
HF1386 (Johnson) - Center for Rural Policy and Development funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1515 (Theis) - Ka Joog job skills and workforce development pilot program grant funding provided, Takeoff 4-H STEAM funding provided for Somali youth, and money appropriated.
Attachments:
H1175DE2.pdf (3/9/2015)

Health and Human Services Finance

3/10/2015
Presentation of Managed Care Organizations' Administrative Expenses Evaluation by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA).

The full evaluation report will be available on the OLA website at 11:45 AM on Tuesday, March 10th.
The link to the OLA website is http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us

Mining and Outdoor Recreation Policy

3/10/2015
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The Lands Subcommittee as appointed by Chair Hackbarth (Rep. David Dill-Chair, Rep. Dale Lueck, Rep. Deb Kiel, Rep. Brian Johnson, and Rep. Tom Anzelc) will meet during the regular Mining & Outdoor Recreation Policy Committee meeting time to consider the DNR Lands Bill (HF1429) and individual land sale bills for possible inclusion in the Lands Omnibus Bill. The recommendations of the Lands Subcommittee will be taken up by the Mining & Outdoor Recreation Policy Committee on Wednesday, March 11th.
Bills Added:
HF1429 (Dill) - Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Hubbard, Lake, Martin, Pine, St. Louis, Todd, Washington, and Winona Counties; public and private sales and conveyances of state lands provided, and prior sale authority modified.
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