Welcome to Minnesota House Live Webcast and Mobile Streaming

The Senate has the gavel.

Senate Members: Dibble; Carlson; Jasinski; Johnson Stewart; Clark
House Members: Koznick; Koegel; Tabke; Olson

AGENDA*
1. Walkthrough of the Transportation Budget Agreement
2. Public Testimony

Next Meeting: TBD


*Agenda items may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

• HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT, have OCR capability, and emailed to both House committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov AND joe.marble@house.mn.gov, and Senate committee administrator beth.ethier@mnsenate.gov by 10:00 a.m. the day of the hearing. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 20 copies. Note: submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It may be posted to the committee webpage if received by deadline.
• TESTIFYING: Testimony is limited. The number of testifiers and length of time permitted is at the discretion of the chair, and is subject to change. Please plan accordingly. If you would like to testify, please email all committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov , joe.marble@house.mn.gov, and beth.ethier@mnsenate.gov by 10:00 a.m. the business day the hearing.
• DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Transportation Finance and Policy webpage.
• VIEWING: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page . All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
• ACCESSIBILITY: To request legislative services for live language interpretation in Hmong, Somali, or Spanish, please contact the Committee Administrator at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov 72 hours in advance of when the service is needed.
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o To request legislative services for Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) closed captioning services, please contact the Committee Administrator at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov a minimum of two weeks before the services are needed.
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Walkthrough of the Energy Finance Bill Working Group Agreement

House Working Group Members: Acomb; Igo; Sexton; Kraft; Swedzinski
Senate Working Group Members: Frentz; Xiong; Mathews

A link to view this meeting can be found on the House schedule website: https://www.house.mn.gov/Schedules/

Documents will be posted to the House Energy website by 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.

To submit written testimony, please email it to mike.molzahn@house.mn.gov by 5 p.m. on Saturday.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Public viewing is available on YouTube.

1. Roll call attendance

2. Approve minutes for April 28, 2025
     - Minutes for April 28, 2025

3. Members report potential conflicts of interest regarding today's business
     - COI Policy
     - Members COIs reported for RFP 2026

4. Thank you to past commission members

5. Director's report

6. Information and possible discussion: 2025 Session Report
     - M.L. 2025 Session Report
     - M.L. 2025 Appropriations Spreadsheet
     - M.L. 2025 Appropriations and Process Summary
     - M.L. 2025, Chp. XX, Art. XX Bill Language

7. Action: Emerging Issues presentations and funding recommendations
     - Emerging Issues Memo
     - Emerging Issues requests for June 11, 2025

    a. U of MN, Targeted Outreach for New MN CWD Management Zones, $185,996, Michael Osterholm
     - Osterholm EI Request
    b. U of MN, Accelerating the Revegetation of Peatland Restoration Projects to Enhance Success, $117,056, Chris Lenhart
     - Lenhart EI Request
    c. St. Louis County, Scandinavian Cemetery, $2,550,000, Rachel Gregg, Carol Andrews and Jim Foldesi
     - Gregg EI Request

8. Action: Continuation of proposal evaluation and recommendation process for 2026 RFP: Presentations time and format
     - Memo- Part 2 on 2026 RFP evaluation and decision-making process

9. Action: Discuss and approve selection of 2026 (FY27) Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund proposals for further consideration and presentation
     - Memo on discussing and selecting 2026 RFP proposals for further consideration and presentation
     - Member Compiled Evaluation #1: 2026 RFP (FY27) as of June 0X, 2025

    a. The top 91 (rounded for any ties) proposals determined by tallying individual member selections

    b. 9 additional proposals selected: 3 each by House, Senate, and Citizens

    c. Possible additional adjustments

10. Action: Continuation of proposal evaluation and recommendation process for 2026 RFP: Evaluation #2
     - Memo- Part 2 on 2026 RFP evaluation and decision-making process
     - Example of Last Year's Compiled Results from Evaluation #2

11. LCCMR other business

12. Public testimony
The public is asked to keep their comments brief. If you would like to testify, please contact Diana Griffith at diana.griffith@lccmr.mn.gov by 4:00 pm the day before the meeting. Please specify to which agenda item your testimony relates and the form of your testimony (oral or written). The chair will accommodate testimony at the requested agenda item as time allows.
     - Proposal support letters received since March 20, 2025
     - Proposal letters of concern

13. Adjourn

TBD