Ways and Means will convene at 1:00 PM (or 30 minutes after Legislative Session ends) in Capitol Room 120.
Agenda:
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of April 7, 2025, Meeting Minutes
3. HF2446 (Anderson, P.H.) Agriculture Finance Bill
4. HF2563 (Vang) Legacy Finance Bill
5. HF2444 (Bliss) Veterans and Military Affairs Finance Bill
6. Adjournment
DOCUMENTS: There will not be public testimony in Ways and Means. Individuals wishing to submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must e-mail the committee administrator (harry.kennedy@house.mn.gov) and the committee legislative assistant (allie.spellman@house.mn.gov) by 3:00PM on Friday, April 18, 2025. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.
I. Call to Order.
II. Approval of the Minutes.
III. HF2300 (Scott) - Judiciary Finance Bill. ***
IV. HF2432 (Novotnoy) - Public Safety Finance Bill.
*** Note: The language from HF2300 will be added by motion to HF2432 during the hearing.
V. HF2445 (Igo) - Housing Finance Bill.
VI. HF2443 (Her) - Commerce Finance Bill.
VII. HF2439 (Heintzman) - Environment & Natural Resources Finance Bill.
VIII. HF3023 (Johnson, P.) - Iron ore mining employees additional benefits adopted.*
IX. HF1615 (Stephenson) - Cannabis policy bill.*
X. Adjournment
*Agenda items added. Agenda items may be added or removed.
DOCUMENTS: There will not be public testimony in Ways and Means. Individuals wishing to submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must e-mail the committee administrator (sean.herring@house.mn.gov) by Noon on Monday, April 21, 2025. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability. Meeting documents may be found on the Ways & Means Committee webpage.
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of April 22, 2025, Meeting Minutes
3. HF2431 (Wolgamott) Omnibus Higher Education Budget Bill
4. HF2438 (Koznick) Omnibus Transportation Budget Bill
5. HF2442 (Acomb) Omnibus Energy Budget Bill
6. HF2783 (Klevorn) Omnibus State Government Budget Bill
7. HF1943 (Freiberg) Omnibus Elections Budget Bill
8. Adjournment
All Bills are Pending Referral to the Ways and Means Committee.
Agenda items may be added or removed.
DOCUMENTS: There will not be public testimony in Ways and Means. Individuals wishing to submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must e-mail the committee administrator (harry.kennedy@house.mn.gov) and the committee legislative assistant (allie.spellman@house.mn.gov) by Noon on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.