STATE OF MINNESOTA 9th MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION
PROPERTY AND LOCAL SALES TAX DIVISION
MINUTES
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, called meeting to order at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in Room 10 of the State Office Building.
Committee Legislative Assistant Paul Cumings noted the roll.
Members Present:
MARQUART, Paul (Chair)
DITTRICH, Denise (Vice-Chair)
LANNING, Morrie (Lead GOP)
DETTMER, Bob
GAROFALO, Pat
KOENEN, Lyle
LENCZEWSKI, Ann
LOEFFLER, Diane
MULLERY, Joe
SCOTT, Peggy
TILLBERRY, Tom
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, made announcements about the 2009 Property Tax Working Groups.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, due to lack of a quorum recessed the committee at 1:02 PM.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, called the meeting back to order at 1:15 PM. A quorum was present.
HF541 (Juhnke) Eligibility time frame extended for the surviving spouses of disabled veterans to receive the residential homestead market value exclusion.
Representative Koenen moved that HF541 be heard and laid over for possible inclusion in the Property Tax and Local Sales Tax Division Report.
Representative Juhnke testified in favor of the bill. Steve Kuha, Cass County Assessing and a representative of the Minnesota Association of Assessing Officers, testified in opposition to the bill.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, laid over HF541 for possible inclusion in the Property Tax Division Report.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, left the Chair in order to present his bill. Representative Dettmer assumed the Chair at 1:29 PM.
HF511 (Marquart) Seasonal Recreational property tax deferral program provided, and money appropriated.
Representative Marquart moved that HF511 be heard and laid over for possible inclusion in the Property Tax and Local Sales Tax Division Report.
Representative Marquart testified in favor of the bill. Jeff Forester, Executive Director of the Minnesota Seasonal Recreation Property Owner, testified in favor of the bill.
Representative Dettmer laid over HF511 for possible inclusion in the Property Tax Division Report.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, re-assumed the Chair at 1:46 PM.
Representative Garofalo moved approval of the minutes for Wednesday, March 4, 2009. THE MOTION PREVAILED.
Representative Marquart led a general discussion of budgeting as it relates to the property tax aids and credits budgets portion of the state budget.
Representative Marquart, Chair of the Division, adjourned the meeting at 2:23 PM.
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Representative Paul Marquart, Chair
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Paul Cumings, Committee Legislative Assistant