Currently Posted Meetings

HF4068 (Kraft); Voter registration application and reporting requirements amended for school districts.

HF4679 (Coulter); Certain activities exempted from definition of lobbyist, and Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board required to conduct study.

HF4243 (Freiberg); Local election provisions modified, and absentee voting provisions modified.

HF4772 (Freiberg); Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board authority to impose civil penalty and late fees modified, electioneering communication definition expanded to include communications disseminated digitally online or by electronic means to a recipient's telephone or other personal device, and major political party definition modified.

This bill will be the vehicle for the elections policy bill. The bill will be laid over during our morning hearing. When the committee reconvenes at 6:00pm, a DE will be adopted with the policy bill.

The committee will recess at this point and will reconvene at 6:00pm in Room 5.

HF4772 (Freiberg); Elections policy bill
DE to be posted

Bills may be taken up in any order, added, or removed at the Chair’s discretion

If you would like to testify or provide handouts to the committee please email simon.brown@house.mn.gov no later than 5pm the night before. Anything sent to the CA will be posted publicly unless specifically asked otherwise.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov

If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form

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.

HF4412 (Greenman) - Veterans home provisions modified.

Walkthrough and public testimony on Scope of Practice & Licensing policy omnibus.

HF4247 (Liebling) is the base vehicle for the omnibus. A DE "Delete Everything" amendment to HF4247 will be circulated and posted to the committee page on Monday, March 18. To receive consideration, amendments to the DE must be received by the Committee Administrator by 5:00PM Tuesday, March 19. Markup and passage of the omnibus will take place on Thursday, March 21.

HF4993 (Liebling) - Human services forecast adjustments made, and money appropriated.

HF4391 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger): Department of Human Services disability services and substance use disorder services policy bill.

HF4393 (Fischer): Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General policy bill; and provisions relating to human services licensing, background studies, provider notifications, substance use disorder medications, and electronic signatures modified.

Bills may be added or removed at the discretion of the Chair.

If you would like to submit written testimony or sign up to testify, please contact the Committee Administrator at Josh.Sande@house.mn.gov. Testifiers must sign up to testify by contacting the Committee Administrator by 5pm the day prior to the hearing. Public testimony may be limited as time allows. Written testimony is encouraged, and should also be submitted by 5pm the day prior, in Word or PDF format. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record. It may be posted to the committee webpage.

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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.

HF 4170 (Hassan) Inspire Change Clinic grant funding provided, and money appropriated
Nasra Ali, high school student in currently in program
Ahlaam Abdirahman, program graduate
Shukri Jumale, Co-Chair, Inspire Change

HF 3849 (Frazier) Jobs Foundation funding provided, and money appropriated
Heather Walch, CEO Repowered
Ellis Simmons, Work Readiness Participant

HF 3850 (Frazier) Hired funding provided for employment assistance training
Julie Brekke, Executive Director, Hired
Jamin Cook, Manager, Medtronic

HF 4131 (Sencer-Mura) Grant program funding provided for employment support services to persons with mental illness, and money appropriated
Robert Reedy, Senior Director Vocational Services, Rise
Sam Monson, Employment Consultant, Rise
Samantha “Sam” Manthe, Client, Rise
Mary Kay Delvo, ACC, MLS, LSW

HF 3708 (Sencer-Mura) Equaspace grant funding provided, and money appropriated
Sarah Clyne, Executive Director, Equaspace
Anne Leland, Executive Director, Exodus Lending

HF 4080 (Olson, B) Child care program capacity expansion funding provided

If you would like to testify or provide materials to the committee, please do so by Noon on Tuesday, March 19 and send them to travis.reese@house.mn.gov

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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.

HF 4249 (Lee, K) Explore Minnesota Film established
Melodie Bahan, MN Film and TV
Hannah Alstead, Teamsters Joint Council #32
Brian Simpson, IATSE Local 490

HF 2821 (Sencer-Mura) Economic development equity; process for requesting racial equity impact note for legislation established, and money appropriated
Vayong Moua, MPA, Director of Racial and Health Equity Advocacy
Michael Aylward, M.D., Program Director, Med-Peds Residency Program, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Nicole Donoso, Policy Organizer, Voices for Racial Justice
Antonia Wilcoxon
Faith Jackson

HF 3847 (Hassan) Small business assistance partnerships grant program, Minnesota expanding opportunity fund program, Minnesota emerging entrepreneur program, and community wealth-building grant program pilot project technical changes made.
Trish DeAnda, Chief Financial Officer, MCCD
Zamzam Mohammed, Business Advisor, MCCD
Ger Thao, Economic Prosperity Director, Hmong American Partnership

HF 3448 (Hassan) Energy transition advisory committee membership modified
Kevin McKinnon, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Employment and Economic Development

Presentation on Governor's Bonding Requests from DEED

If you would like to testify or provide materials to the committee, please send them to travis.reese@house.mn.gov by Noon on Tuesday, March 19

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Presentations
*Items may be added to the agenda

If you wish to submit written testimony or testify in person, please send the written testimony or the request to testify to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 10:30 a.m. the day before the meeting. Written testimony is preferred and will be accepted after the deadline. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

This hearing may be viewed in person or via the House webcast schedule page

-To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or email the LCC Accessibility Coordinator
-If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
-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.

HF4990 (Davids) Modifying tier limits for homestead resort properties
HF4973 (Pinto) St. Paul; tax increment financing district five-year rule extension provided.
HF2436 (R. Hansen) Property tax provisions modified, redevelopment area homestead credit established, and money appropriated.
HF4942 (Youakim) Edina; tax increment financing districts five-year rule extensions and duration extensions provided.

Items may be added/removed from the agenda. Materials will be posted to the Committee website when they are available. Public testifiers should email their full name, organization (if applicable) and preferred title to the Committee Administrator (Patrick.McQuillan@house.mn.gov) and the CLA (Carl Kaase Carl.Kaase@house.mn.gov) by 1 PM on Tuesday, March 19th. Materials to be distributed to the Committee members are also due by 1 PM on on Tuesday, March 19th. Please 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. Testimony may be limited to two minutes per testifier.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

MN Historical Society 2024 bonding request
State Auditor Report on Infrastructure Stress Transparency Tool
HF 3584 (Lee) Debt capacity reporting by political subdivisions required in capital budget submissions – Informational only
HF 3582 (Lee) Local governments required to establish replacement fund to maintain and replace capital projects that receive state funding – Informational only
HF 3870 (Olson B) Armory provisions modified – Formal action will be taken.

AMENDMENTS
For HF 3870 amendments are due to the CA jenny.nash@house.mn.gov by 1:00 pm on Tuesday, March 19.

For HF 3584 and HF 3582: amendments are for reference only and due to the CA jenny.nash@house.mn.gov by 1:00 pm on Tuesday, March 19. HF 3484 and HF 3582 will be heard on an informational only basis - no formal action will be taken.

TESTIMONY To testify on any bill, please contact the CA at jenny.nash@house.mn.gov to sign up to testify by 2 pm on Tuesday, March 19.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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HF3566 (Hollins); Electronic waste collection and recycling program established, accounts created, report required, and money appropriated.

HF3858 (Rehm); Requirements related to active transportation, including regulation of electric-assisted bicycles and sales, requirements on complete streets, driver's education, and authority to issue certain citations amended.

HF3529 (Reyer); Health maintenance organizations required to be nonprofit corporations organized under chapter 317A.

HF3989 (Coulter); Flame resistant public assembly tents and sleeping bags changes made.

HF3836 (Kraft); Disability income coverage required to apply the same standards and provide the same benefits for disability due to mental illness and substance use disorders as for other medical disabilities.

Bills may be added, removed, or taken up in any order at the Chair's discretion

If you would like to testify or provide handouts to the committee please email simon.brown@house.mn.gov, preferably 24 hours prior to the hearing.

The hearing will be broadcast through House Information Services, for more information visit: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/hinfo.asp

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov

If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form

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.

Items may be added
- Primary amendment deadline will be 1:00PM on Tuesday, March 19th
- Secondary amendment deadline will be 9:00AM on Wednesday, March 20th

- HF4949 (Fischer) Long-term care consultation services modified.
a. Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, Equity and Justice Director, The Arc Minnesota

- HF4392 (Fischer) Human Services Policy Bill
a. Matt Burdick, Director of State Government Relations, Minnesota Department of Human Services
b. Sara Grafstrom, Senior Director of State and Federal Policy, Association of Residential Resources in Minnesota
c. Josh Berg, Director, Accessible Space, Inc.
d. Tim Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, NorthStar Regional Health
e. Beth Davis, Parent

- HF3495 (Fischer) Comprehensive Solutions to Mental Health Act
a. Pahoua Yang, Vice President of Wilder Community Mental Health & Wellness, Wilder Foundation
b. Sue Abderholden, Executive Director, NAMI Minnesota
c. Todd Archbold, Chief Executive Officer, PrairieCare
d. Abby Morgan, Clinical Supervisor, Nexus Family Healing
e. Ann Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Resources

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Testimony: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator Nick.Stumo-Langer@house.mn.gov by 8:30am the day of each hearing. Submitted written testimony is public and will be included in the official committee record, and it may be posted to the committee webpage if received by the deadline. If bringing hard copies to the hearing, please bring 40 copies for members, staff, and the public.

This hearing may be viewed via the House webcast schedule page. All events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

Accommodations:
- 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.
- If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send you comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
- 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.

Working session to narrow the list of possible program evaluation topics from 16 to 10; the selected 10 topics will be placed on a survey to gauge legislative interest.

• Agenda
• Background Papers for the 16 Semifinalists
• Criteria Comparison Matrix
• Most to Least Promising
• Topic Selection Schedule

A quorum is needed for this meeting to occur; therefore, this will be a hybrid meeting.

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PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION:  This meeting will also be live-streamed via YouTube.

TESTIFYING:  The Legislative Audit Commission and its subcommittees typically do not take public testimony. 

ACCESSIBILITY/ACCOMMODATION:

• For information on or to request an accommodation, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov. 
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MEETING DOCUMENTS will be posted here and on the Office of the Legislative Auditor website as soon as they are available.

HF4700 (Long) - Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Act established, certificates of need governing provisions modified, conforming and technical changes made, and administrative rulemaking authorized.
HF4423 (Stephenson) - Pilot thermal energy network projects provided and governed, administrative rulemaking authorized, and report required.
*Items may be added to the agenda

If you wish to submit written testimony or testify in person, please send the written testimony or the request to testify to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 1 p.m. the day before the meeting. Written testimony is preferred and will be accepted after the deadline. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

This hearing may be viewed in person or via the House webcast schedule page

-To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access or email the LCC Accessibility Coordinator
-If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
-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.

**INFORMATIONAL ONLY** HF3782 (Rep. Pryor) - Provisions related to prekindergarten through grade 12 education including general education, education excellence, teachers, literacy, charter schools, nutrition, health and safety, early learning, and education partnerships and compacts modified; and reports required.
-Public Testimony

Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT and emailed to the committee administrator before 4p.m., Tuesday. If you are bringing hard copies to the committee, please bring 40 copies and check-in with the committee administrator before distribution.

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. Remote testimony is available. Written testimony is encouraged and is accounted as official committee record - to be distributed to committee members and public. If you would like to testify or submit written testimony (in PDF format), please email the committee administrator by 4pm, Tuesday.

For any other questions or concerns, please reach out to the Committee Administrator at wilson.lee@house.mn.gov or 651-296-1913.
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o For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
o If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
o 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.
o This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page . All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

*Agenda Change: Bill Added.

HF4214 (Hansen) Water quality monitoring at state fish hatcheries required, and previous appropriations modified.
HF3624 (Hansen) Planting corn on state lands prohibited, and use of prior appropriations authorized.
HF4625 (Hansen) Report on state agency nitrogen fertilizer purchases required and reduction goal established.
HF4420 (Hansen) Provisions for aquatic farm licenses, taxidermy, taking and possessing game and fish, designating certain waters, and elk management modified.
HF3418 (Hansen) Investment accounts provided, transfer or sale of bison provided, enhanced restitution values for mistreatment of wild animals provided, protection of threatened species clarified, releaf program modified, water use general permit fee corrected, Mineral Coordinating Committee extended, and money appropriated.
*HF4698 (Pursell) Rulemaking to require environmental impact statement for large animal projects required.

If you would like to sign up to testify or submit written testimony, please email Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 5:00pm, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Submitted written testimony is public and will be posted on the committee website and included in the committee record.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov
If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form
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.

HF4613 (Pursell) Landlords required to test for radon and provide disclosures, and remedies and penalties provided.

HF4010 (Kozlowski) Multifamily residential developments in cities requirements established.

HF4735 (Howard) Housing provisions modified.

HF3800 (Norris) Organization and operation of housing cooperatives for seniors, low and moderate income people, limited equity cooperatives and leasing cooperatives for designated members provided.

All agenda items subject to change at the discretion of the Chair.

TESTIMONY: If you would like to testify or provide handouts to the committee please email jack.dockendorf@house.mn.gov no later than 5pm the day before the hearing. Written testimony received after this time may not be included in members' packets.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Housing Finance and Policy Committee webpage.

ACCESSIBILITY: To learn more about requesting an accommodation, please visit the FAQs for Disability Access. If you have further questions on accommodations or accessibility, please contact the Committee Administrator, Jack Dockendorf (jack.dockendorf@house.mn.gov).

LIVESTREAM: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

HF 3966 (Wolgamott) Public safety telecommunicator training and continuing education requirements established, Public Safety Telecommunicator Training and Standards Board established, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.

HF 3697 (Koegel) Requirement to participate in ignition interlock program limited to individuals whose driver's license is revoked, canceled, or denied for an incident involving alcohol; intensive testing program established for individuals whose license was revoked, canceled, or denied for a controlled substance or intoxicating substance related incident. *Pending referral from Transportation Committee

HF 2319 (Hollins) Admission in judicial proceeding of custodial statements prohibited. *Pending referral from Judiciary Committee

HF 4657 (Curran) Criminal defenses and authorization for the use of force relating to a victim's sexual orientation or identity limited.

HF 3991 (Feist) Restorative practices restitution program created, ability of court to order fine in delinquency proceeding or juvenile major water or traffic offender proceeding eliminated, and conforming and technical changes made. *Pending referral from Judiciary Committee

HF 1832 (Frazier) Authority limited for peace officers to stop or detain drivers for motor vehicle equipment violations.* See DE Author’s Amendment (posted)

HF 1829 (Newton) Silver Alert system created to aid in locating missing persons who are senior citizens with cognitive impairments, and criminal penalty provided.

Items may be added or removed at the Chair’s discretion.

Written Testimony: The deadline to submit written testimony for all bills on the agenda will be 10:30 AM, March 19th. All written testimony must be submitted in a PDF document without clickable links. All testimony should be sent to the committee administrator, ellen.mcdaniel@house.mn.gov.

Testimony: 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 10:30 AM, March 19th.

The amendment deadline for all bills will be 12PM, March 19th

This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

For further information on accommodations, please visit FAQs for Disability Access or contact the LCC Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility.coordinator@lcc.mn.gov

If you are having accessibility or usability problems with any Minnesota Legislative website or software, please send your comments to the Accessibility & Usability Comment Form

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.