Currently Posted Meetings

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF 1545 (O’Driscoll) Persons 17 years of age permitted to serve alcoholic beverages.

IV. HF 2426 (West) Plant canopy that medical cannabis combination business may use to cultivate cannabis that will be sold as medical cannabis flower or medical cannabinoid products increased.

V. Public Testimony on HF 1615 (Stephenson) Omnibus Cannabis Policy Bill

VI. Public Testimony on HF 2403 (O’Driscoll) Omnibus Commerce Policy Bill

VII. Adjournment

If you would like to testify or provide handouts to the committee please email jonathan.cotter@house.mn.gov and simon.brown@house.mn.gov no later than April 1, at 1:00pm.

1. Call To Order

2. Approval of Meeting Minutes 4/1/2025

3. HF 2963 (Anderson, P.E) Office of Inspector General established, powers and duties provided, enhanced grant oversight provided, retaliation prohibited, existing executive Offices of Inspector General transferred or repealed, detection and prevention of fraud provided, penalties provided, and money appropriated.

4. HF 2040 (Nadeau) Commissioner of human services directed to provide updates and seek federal approval for children's mental health projects, gaps in children's residential facilities funded, crisis stabilization facility established, legislative task force established, and money appropriated
a. Jeffrey Lunde, Hennepin County Commissioner
b. Suwana Kirkland, Community Corrections Director, Dakota County
c. Suzanne Arntson, Health and Human Services Deputy Director, Scott County

5. HF2416 (Nadeau) County cost of care provisions modified, required admission timelines modified, report required, and money appropriated
a. Tarryl Clark, Stearns County Commissioner
b. Angela Youngerberg, Blue Earth County Human Services Director of Business Operations
c. County Attorney Kevin Magnuson, Washington County Attorney, Minnesota County Attorney’s Association
d. Sheriff Bryan Welk, Cass County Sheriff, Minnesota Sheriff’s Association – zoom

6. HF 1502 (Reyer) Presumptive disability determination process established for medical assistance eligibility.

7. HF2421 (Noor) Council on direct support professionals established, report required, and money appropriated

8. HF 2212 (Fischer) Senior nutrition programs funding provided, and money appropriated

9. HF 1914 (Curran) Emergency service grant funding provided for innovative homelessness response grants, innovative homelessness response grants, and provider capacity building, and money appropriated
a. Rena Moran – Ramsey County Commissioner
b. Reed Olson – Executive Director of the Nameless Coalition for the Homeless - zoom
c. Rico Morales

10. HF 2799 (Schomaker) Minnesota Age in Place Network funding provided, and money appropriated
a. Patrick Lund, Executive Director, Age Well at Home


11. HF 2647 (Schomaker) Changes made to assisted living facilities and services
a. Nicole Mattson, LTC Imperative
b. Erin Huppert, LTC Imperative

12. HF 2646 (Schomaker) Governor's Council on an Age-Friendly Minnesota converted into the Age-Friendly Minnesota Council, existing grants codified, and money appropriated
a. Sherrie Pugh, Chair of the Age-Friendly Minnesota Council

13. Adjournment



TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must email the committee administrator, Megan Rossbach (megan.rossbach@house.mn.gov) by 12 p.m. (noon) the day prior to the hearing. Required testimony information includes name, organization and title (if applicable), email, phone number, and position on the bill. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

*Bills may be added or removed at the chair's discretion

1. Call to order
2. Approval of Minutes from March 26, 2025
3. HF2773 (Clardy) Lutheran Social Services CORE program funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
4. HF3005 (Gottfried) Metro Meals on Wheels funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
5. HF982 (Clardy) Education benefit established for dependents of disabled veterans
6. HF1845 (Cha) Veterans definition expanded to include units operating from Laos and or naturalized under the federal Hmong Veterans'
Naturalization Act.
7. HF1511 (Clardy) Commissioner of veterans affairs funding provided for a veteran mentorship program for Black youth, and money
appropriated.
8. HF1514 (Clardy) Veterans resilience project funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
9. HF1516 (Clardy) Commissioner of veterans affairs funding provided for a grant to an organization to establish a Black veterans support
program, and money appropriated.
10. Adjournment

*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

• HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT, have OCR capability, and emailed to both committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov AND john.hultquist@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before 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 both committee administrators at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov AND john.hultquist@house.mn.gov by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.
• DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Veterans and Military Affairs Division webpage.
• VIEWING: This hearing may be viewed on the House webcast schedule page. All video events are closed captioned with automatically generated captions.
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Agenda
I. H.F. 3030 (Igo) – pending referral: providing additional unemployment insurance benefits
II. H.F. 2390 (Sexton) - Southeast Minnesota Workforce Development Area grant funding
III. H.F. 2468 (Nelson) - Mental health in the construction industry funding provided
IV. H.F. 3033 (Van Binsbergen) - INFORMATIONAL HEARING: appropriating money for a wastewater industrial facility for First District in Litchfield, MN
V. H.F. 2882 (Baker) - Certain well contractors exempted from Department of Labor and Industry plan review and inspection requirements

If you would like to testify or provide materials to the committee, please contact spencer.johnson@house.mn.gov by 1pm on Tuesday, April 1st.

The Legislative Audit Commission Evaluation Subcommittee will select the semifinalist topics for the legislative survey.

Agenda

LAC Policy on Topic Selection

Topics by Policy Requirement

Topics by Subject

Most to Least Promising for 2025

Criteria Comparison Matrix for 2025

Background Papers for the 18 semifinalists for 2025

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PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION:  This meeting will also be livestreamed via YouTube, which will be closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

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

MEETING DOCUMENTS:  Materials will be posted above and on the Office of the Legislative Auditor website in the Notices section as soon as they are available, and posted to our Minutes page soon after.

Presentation of the key findings and recommendations of the evaluation, Guardianship of Adults.

Office of the Legislative Auditor:
Jodi Munson Rodríguez, Deputy Legislative Auditor, Program Evaluation Division
Caitlin Badger, Evaluation Manager

State Court Administrator's Office:
Dawn Torgerson, Deputy State Court Administrator

Judicial Branch:
Jamie Majerus, Branch Audit Manager

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PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION:  This meeting will also be livestreamed via YouTube, which will be closed captioned with automatically generated captions.

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

MEETING DOCUMENTS:  Materials will be posted above and on the Office of the Legislative Auditor website in the Notices section as soon as they are available, and posted to our Minutes page soon after.

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. HF 2354 (Norris) Medicaid fraud provisions expanded and modified, subpoena and enforcement authority specified, penalties imposed, and money appropriated.
IV. HF 1672 (Reyer) Medical cannabis provisions modified.
V. HF 2389 (Finke) Data calls authorized, limited long-term care insurance provided and regulated, automobile insurance governing provisions modified, data classified, administrative rulemaking authorized, penalties provided, and technical changes made.
VI. HF 2870 (Freiberg) Various changes related to election administration made, absentee voting provisions modified, and terminology clarified.
VII. HF 2743 (Jordan) Office of the Inspector General provisions modified; access to records provided; data classified; immunity and confidentiality in reporting or participating in an investigation provided; process for notice, appeal, and withholding of payments established; and fraud, theft, waste, and abuse definitions modified.
VIII. HF 1918 (Hanson, J) Department of Children, Youth, and Families policy language; TEACH early childhood program, great start compensation support payment program, child welfare policies, and out-of-home placement plans updated; and provisions to prevent foster care placements modified.
IX. HF 2551 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) Follow-up to 2024 children, youth, and families recodification; technical changes made.
X. HF 1671 (Pinto) Labor and industry; policy and technical changes made.
XI. Adjournment


Committee discussion of all bills will be limited to the provisions within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee. Items may be taken up in any order, items may be added or removed at the chair's discretion.

TESTIMONY: If you would like to testify on a bill, please email the Committee Administrator, anna.borgerding@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM the business day before the hearing. Include the bill number, your name, title, and/or organization where applicable, and whether your testimony will be in support of or opposition to the bill.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY & HANDOUTS: Please send electronically in accessible .pdf format to the Committee Administrator, anna.borgerding@house.mn.gov by 12:00 PM the business day before the hearing.

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

ACCOMODATIONS:
- 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.
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HF1721 (Freiberg) - Sweet Potato Comfort Pie organization funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2508 (Hiltsley) - African Career Education and Resource, Inc. funding provided; and money appropriated.
HF975 (Clardy) - Heroes and Heritage Interpretive Trail Loop funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF116 (Pérez-Vega) - Funding provided to expand arts programming that celebrates Latino cultural heritage, and money appropriated.
HF1640 (Xiong) - Funding provided to preserve the oral histories of Hmong veterans of the Secret War in Laos, and money appropriated.
HF1899 (Xiong) - United Hmong Family funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2085 (Lillie) - Commissioner of administration funding provided to facilitate cultural exchanges involving diverse Minnesota communities, and money appropriated.
HF2599 (Hussein) - Moorhead; funding provided to establish a cultural mall, and money appropriated.
HF1559 (Hussein) - Community festival grant program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2379 (Lee) - Mixtape Strategy funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2970 (Klevorn) - Capitol campus improvements funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2979 (Sencer-Mura) - Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF3019 (Hiltsley) - Osseo sesquicentennial funding provided, and money appropriated.

* Each bill will be heard informationally.
* Each bill presentation will have three minutes to present and four minutes for questions.
* Handouts and letters of support or opposition are welcome.
* Additional in-person testimony will not be taken.

Items may be added or removed from the agenda.

If you wish to submit written testimony, please send the written testimony to Mike.Molzahn@house.mn.gov by 10 a.m. the day before the meeting.

I. Call To Order & Roll Call
II. Approval of the Minutes: April 1, 2025
III. Resolutions on Legal Fees
IV. Resolution on Implementing Agreement for House Organization – P101B
V. Amendment to Senate Concurrent Resolution 2
VI. Presentation on the Supplemental Agreement for House Organization
VII. Adjournment

I. Call to Order.
II. HF926 (Nash) - Sales of certain cigars exempted from the excise taxes imposed on tobacco products and premium cigars.
III. HF2437 (Davids) - 2025 Governor's Tax Bill
IV. Adjourn

Written testimony or requests to testify in person are due via e-mail to the GOP Committee Administrator sam.moyer@house.mn.gov by 1:00 PM on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business

Agenda note: HF2446 (Anderson) is the Governor’s recommended Agriculture budget. The committee will do a walkthrough and take testimony on the bill, but no action will be taken.

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. HF 2792 (Niska) Certain legal fees and expenses relating to Minnesota Chamber of Commerce v. Choi funding provided, and money appropriated.
IV. HF 1917 (Anderson) Definition of public official in a city or county modified.
V. HF 2083 (Zeleznikar) Revenue threshold requiring cities to perform annual audits raised.
VI. HF 1665 (Schomacker) Public water and sewer systems authorized to install water and sewer pipelines in public road rights-of-way.
VII. HF 2709 (Jones) Canvassing access to multiple unit buildings by candidates and census workers standards modified.
VIII. HF 1378 (Freiberg) Elections; filing dates and reporting requirements modified.
IX. HF 2098 (Freiberg) Metropolitan Council; procedures and review period for certain metropolitan programs modified, reporting requirements for expenditures modified, and report eliminated.


-HF 2098 (Freiberg) will serve as the vehicle for the Local Government Policy Omnibus
-HF 1378 (Freiberg) will serve as the vehicle for the Elections Policy Omnibus
-HF 1378 will be heard pending rereferral.
-HF 1667 has been removed from the agenda.

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF 2769 (Dotseth) Requirements for green burials established, and amount of proceeds dedicated to permanent care and improvement funds modified.

IV. HF 2489 (Virnig) Epinephrine access in schools requirements modified.

V. HF 1935 (Backer) Reimbursement rates for long-term ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring services provided by diagnostic testing facilities raised.

VI. HF 2604 (Backer) Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.

VII. HF 2955 (Backer) County-administered rural medical assistance program established; payment, coverage, and eligibility requirements for the CARMA program established; and commissioner of human services directed to seek federal waivers.

VIII. HF 2909 (Bahner) Coverage and payment for certain pharmacy services modified.

IX. HF 2242 (Nadeau) Single Pharmacy Benefit Manager

X. HF 1934 (Reyer) Requirements for dental administrator rates modified in the medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs, dental administrator contract dates changed, critical access dental provider task force established, and report required.

XI. HF 1883 (Gillman) Central service technician requirements established.

XII. HF 2435 (Bierman) Department of Health, health care, pharmacy services, background studies, Department of Human Services program integrity, health-related licensing boards, and certain fee provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; and money appropriated.

XIII. HF 2464 (Backer) Environmental laboratories accreditation provisions modified.

XIV. Adjournment

The Committee will recess until 6:45pm or at the call of the chair to complete the agenda.

If you would like to submit written testimony or sign up to testify, please contact both Committee Administrators at Jonathan.Cotter@house.mn.gov and Jack.Dockendorf@house.mn.gov by 5pm on Tuesday, April 1st.

10 bills will be heard by the committee:
Note: any bills not completed on April 2nd may be heard on part of the hearing
time on Monday April 7th.
Note: HF423 has been removed from the agenda

• HF2554(Witte) Burnsville; Elmstrand Finseth Ruge Heroes Memorial Bridge designated.
• HF854(Baker) Kandiyohi County; marked Trunk Highway 23 segment designated as Joshua Schmidt Memorial Highway.
• HF2606(Olson) Delivery of liquid fuels exempted from retail delivery fee.
• HF1774(Davids) Delivery of aggregate materials excluded from the retail delivery fee.
• HF1468(Engen) Circle Pines; full-service deputy registrar's office established.
• HF750(Robbins) Driver's license suspensions expanded to include all cases where a person is believed to have committed criminal vehicular homicide or criminal vehicular operation, and peace officers required to report all cases where a person is believed to have committed vehicular homicide or criminal vehicular operation.
• HF2234(Anderson) Transportation; requirements on use of certain state and regional sources of funds allocated to metropolitan counties modified.
• HF2665(Schwartz) Definition qualifying agricultural products amended for purposes of special farm products permits.
• HF1521(Koegel) Pavement asset sustainability ratio targets established.
• HF2798(Fogelman) Escort vehicle requirements for overdimensional loads modified.
• HF423(Sexton) Medford; Steele County State-Aid Highway 12 segment speed limit established.

HF1367 (Pinto) Judicial review of child maltreatment occurring outside of Minnesota allowed, and local welfare agency responsibility for assessing or investigating alleged maltreatment occurring outside of state provided. Remove
HF2732 (Pursell) Rural child care stabilization and support payment program.
HF1897 (Moller) Correction order requirements modified.
HF1424 (Hanson) Relative foster care licensing, training, and background study requirements modified; Minnesota family investment program modified; and money appropriated.
HF1383 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) Program established to assist families with the cost of child care.
HF2728 (Coulter) Child care great start compensation support payments modified.
HF2863 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) Cross-references in the definition of child care background study subject corrected.

**Informational Hearing Only. No official action will be taken on the following bill:
HF1685 (Kraft) Commissioner of Minnesota IT Services directed to integrate the transit assistance program into the Minnesota benefits web portal, and money appropriated.

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

TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony for the hearing must email the committee administrator by 8:00 AM on the day of the hearing. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability. In-person testimony may be limited due to committee time constraints.

AMENDMENTS: Amendments must be emailed to the committee administrators by 3:00 PM the day before the committee hearing

Colie Colburn, DFL Committee Administrator, colie.colburn@house.mn.gov; and Lauren Hayward, GOP Committee Administrator, Lauren.Hayward@house.mn.gov

Adoption of DE Amendment to HF1306 (Jordan) - Kindergarten through grade 12 education changes made; general education, education excellence, charter schools, Read Act, special education, school nutrition, and state agencies provisions modified; and reports required.

HF1124 (Youakim) - School year allowed to start before Labor Day for two school years with approval by board vote, and report required.

HF2023 (West) - Overdose prevention education required in health education standards.

NOTE:
Testimony for bills were taken in previous committee hearings.

Amendments: Bill Authors and Committee Members wishing to present an amendment must submit amendments via email to Wilson Lee via email at wilson.lee@house.mn.gov and Jody Withers at jody.withers@house.mn.gov.

Agenda
I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF933 (Nash) - Municipal powers to require planned unit developments limited, and planned unit development agreements regulated.
1. Representative Nash

IV. HF1931 (Bahner) - Authority provided to the attorney general to enforce laws related to common interest communities.
1. Representative Bahner

V. HF2309 (Rehrauer) - Housing provisions modified, rental assistance program funding provisions modified, program eligibility criteria expanded, workforce housing project funding restrictions removed, housing aid fund uses clarified, and high-rise sprinkler system program provisions modified.
1. Representative Rehrauer

VI. Adjournment

Testimony: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator Garrick.Spennewyn@house.mn.gov and Committee Legislative Assistant Betsy.Ritzer@house.mn.gov by 3:00pm the day before each hearing. Public testifiers should email their full name, title and organization (If Applicable). Testifiers may participate remotely at the Chair’s discretion. Testimony may be limited to two minutes per testifier. 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.


*Agenda Subject to change at discretion of the Chair.

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes

3. HF 963 (Rarick) Commissioner of corrections authorized to revoke earned incentive credits granted under Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act.

Note: This bill was heard during the February 25, 2025 Public Safety Committee meeting and public testimony was taken at that time. There will be no additional public testimony on this bill. The Committee will consider an amendment and plan to move the bill out of committee.

4. HF 538 (Stier) Use of deadly force by peace officer to protect person from apparent death modified.

Note: This bill was heard during the March 4, 2025 Public Safety Committee meeting and public testimony was taken at that time. There will be no additional public testimony on this bill. The Committee will consider an amendment and plan to move the bill out of committee.

5. HF 3006 (Moller / Novotny) Department of Corrections deficiency funding request.

6. HF 2825 (Hudson) Access to expunged conviction records of applicants for licenses and positions in private security industry provided.

7. HF 467 (Harder) Sunset of correctional fees repealed.

8. HF 2812 (Stier) Commissioner of corrections required to charge a fee for incarcerated person communication services.

9. HF 2892 (Novotny) Community justice reinvestment account in the special revenue fund eliminated.

10. HF 2532 (Novotny) Community crime and violence prevention account eliminated, and unexpended amount transferred to the general fund.

11. HF 2875 (Nash) Crime of damage or theft to telecommunications equipment extended to broadband and cable services.

12. Adjourn

Removed from the agenda:
-HF 1567 (Duran) Personal information protections currently available for judicial officials extended to peace officers.
-HF 1354 (Moller) House Public Safety Committee Policy Omnibus. The bill was passed out of committee on April 1.


Testimony: Written testimony and requests to testify in person are due via e-mail to john.hultquist@house.mn.gov, the Committee Administrator for this hearing, no less than 24 hours prior to the start of the committee hearing. In-person testimony will be limited due to committee time constraints. Written testimony is strongly encouraged. Amendments and committee documents will be posted in advance of the hearing.