Skip to main content Skip to office menu Skip to footer
Capital IconMinnesota Legislature
Minnesota House of Representatives

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

FORTIETH MEETING

2023-2024 Regular Session - Thursday, April 18, 2024

STATE OF MINNESOTA FORTIETH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-THIRD SESSION


JUDICIARY FINANCE AND CIVIL LAW COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

Representative Jamie Becker-Finn, Chair of the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law, called the meeting to order at 8:30 A.M. on April 18, 2024, in Room 5 of the State Office Building.

The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.

Members Present:
BECKER-FINN, Jamie (Chair)
FRAZIER, Cedrick (Vice-Chair)
SCOTT, Peggy (Republican Lead)
CARROLL, Ned
CURRAN, Brion
FEIST, Sandra
FINKE, Leigh
FREDERICK, Luke
GROSSELL, Matt
JOHNSON, Brian
MOLLER, Kelly
NISKA, Harry
WIENS, Mark

A quorum was present.

Representative Curran moved that the minutes of April 16, 2024, be adopted. THE MOTION PREVAILED.

HF 5245 (Becker-Finn) Judiciary budget bill.

Chair Becker-Finn moved that HF 5245 be recommended to be re-referred to the Ways and Means Committee.

Chair Becker-Finn moved the H5245DE3 amendment.

Chair Becker-Finn moved the H5245A1 amendment to the H5245DE3 amendment. THE MOTION PREVAILED. THE AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED.

Representative Feist moved the H5245A3 amendment to the H5245DE3 amendment. THE MOTION PREVAILED. THE AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED.

Chair Becker-Finn presented H5245DE3 as amended.

Testifying on H5245DE3 as amended:
• Dan Morris, Executive Director, Central Minnesota Legal Services

Chair Becker-Finn renewed the motion to adopt the H5245DE3 amendment as amended. THE MOTION PREVAILED. THE AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED.

Chair Becker-Finn renewed the motion that HF 5245, as amended, be recommended to be re-referred to the Ways and Means Committee. THE MOTION PREVAILED.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:46 A.M.






__________________________________________
Representative Jamie Becker-Finn, Chair

________________________________________
Ella Schultz, Committee Legislative Assistant
More Info On This Meeting..
Bills Added:
  • HF5245 (Becker-Finn) - Supreme Court and district courts funding and related policy changes provided, State Board of Civil Legal Aid established, Safe at Home program certification modified, restorative process provided for certain acts, and money appropriated.
Documents:
Audio:
Listen Now
House TV Video:
View Archive

01:40 - HF5245 (Becker-Finn) Judiciary supplemental budget bill.
Runs 16 minutes.

1. HF 5245 (Becker-Finn) Judiciary budget bill.*

*A delete-everything amendment to HF 5245 has been posted.

Items may be taken up in any order, items may be added or removed at the chair's discretion.

HANDOUTS: Handouts in Word or PDF format should be emailed to the committee administrator by 10am the business day before the hearing. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It will be posted to the committee webpage if received by deadline.
TESTIFYING: The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair and is subject to change. If you would like to testify, please email the committee administrator by 5pm the business day before the hearing.
DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law webpage.
LIVESTREAM: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov. To request legislative services for American Sign Language (ASL), Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, or live language interpretation services for Hmong, Somali, or Spanish speakers to testify, please contact the committee administrator as soon as possible.