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Subcommittee on Legislative Process Reform

SIXTH MEETING

2021-2022 Regular Session - Friday, February 19, 2021

STATE OF MINNESOTA SIXTH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SECOND SESSION



SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE PROCESS REFORM MINUTES

Representative Gene Pelowski, Chair of the Subcommittee on Legislative Process Reform, called the virtual meeting to order at 1:00 PM on February 19, 2021 pursuant to House rule 10.01. The meeting was conducted over Zoom and broadcast via House Public Information Services.

The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.

Members present:
Pelowski, Gene, Chair
Wolgamott, Dan, Vice Chair
Daudt, Kurt, Republican Lead
Freiberg, Mike
Garofalo, Pat
Lislegard, Dave
Moran, Rena
O’Neill, Marion
Pinto, Dave
Sandstede, Julie

Members excused:
Haley, Barb

A quorum was present.

Representative Wolgamott moved that the minutes of February 16, 2021, be adopted. THE MOTION PREVAILED.

Representative Sandstede presented CS044, a bill for an act relating to state government; easing restrictions on bars, restaurants, and certain other places of public accommodation in greater Minnesota.

Testifying:
• Dan Huff, Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health

The meeting was adjourned at 1:59 PM.






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Representative Gene Pelowski, Chair


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Tara Schaefle, Committee Legislative Assistant
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01:43 - House Research Document: CS043 (Sandstede) Defining public health emergency; clarifying governor's authority to declare a peacetime emergency for a public health emergency; terminating executive orders issued during a peacetime emergency lasting more than 30 days unless ratified by the legislature.
02:11 - House Research Document:CS044 (Sandstede) Easing restrictions on bars, restaurants, and certain other places of public accommodation in greater Minnesota.
Runs 58 minutes.

House Research Document CS043 (Sandstede); Terminating executive orders issued during a peacetime emergency lasting more than 30 days unless ratified by the legislature; modifying vote and quorum requirements during a peacetime emergency.

House Research Document CS044 (Sandstede); Easing restrictions on bars, restaurants, and certain other places of public accommodation in greater Minnesota.

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

NOTE: This meeting is held in accordance to House Rule 10.01 https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/permrule/permrule.asp

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