Currently Posted Meetings

Presentation on Administration Budget Proposal:
HF5267 (Pinto)Governor's budget bill for early childhood programs; child welfare and child care licensing provisions modified; technical changes to early childhood law made; Department of Children, Youth, and Families recodification updated; and money appropriated.
HF5021 (Edelson) Parental fees for out-of-home placements eliminated.
HF3689 (Hassan) Out-of-home placement plan summary requirement added.
HF4727 (Pinto) Child Protection Advisory Council created, and reports required.
Agenda Items may be changed or added

Accessibility: 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, Colie Colburn, colie.colburn@house.mn.gov as soon as possible.

Meeting Materials: Presenters or members of the public are encouraged to provide all materials to be offered in Committee to the CA at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing. Distribution of such materials is subject to approval by the Chair; a copy will be kept by Committee staff. These materials should be in accessible (Optical Character Recognition) format for posting to the committee webpage; contact the Committee Administrator for more information about acceptable electronic formats.

Testimony: Bill authors must arrange their own testifiers and provide each testifier’s name, position title, and email address to the CA 24 hours in advance of the hearing. Written testimony is also encouraged and will be posted on the committee webpage prior to the meeting.

Amendments: All amendments that are substantive must be given to the CA by 1:00 PM on the day prior to the committee hearing. This deadline may be waived at the discretion of the Chair.

1. HF 5033 (Pinto) Child protection package.*
2. HF 685 (Agbaje) Corporate home owner residential rentals restricted.**
3. HF 912 (Agbaje) Layla Jackson Law established, child welfare provisions modified, reports required, and money appropriated.
4. HF 5282 (Stephenson) Licensure of businesses engaged in cannabis sales modified, transfer and sharing of data between state agencies regulated, penalties imposed, and rulemaking authorized.

*A delete-everything amendment to HF 5033 has been posted.
**Testimony on HF 685 was taken on 3/22/24. No further public testimony will be taken on this bill.

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.

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.

HF 3276 (Frazier) Ranked choice voting provided; jurisdictions authorized to adopt ranked choice voting for local offices; adoption, implementation, and use procedures established; and use of electronic voting systems with reallocation feature allowed.
HF 4413 (Koegel) Open Meeting Law; interactive technology use for advisory public bodies requirements amended.
HF 4854 (Klevorn) Administrative Procedure Act and Office of Administrative Hearings technical and policy provisions modified.

HANDOUTS: Handouts MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT and emailed to the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing. If you are bringing hard copies, bring 40 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 the committee administrator by 12 p.m. (noon) the business day before the hearing.
DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the State and Local Government 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.
*Agenda items (including bills) may be added or removed, and/or order may change.

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.

April 4, 2024 hearing minutes

HF4372 (Nelson) Time period to register and pay applicable taxes following purchase of motor vehicle extended.

HF4004 (Keeler) Commissioner of public safety directed to eliminate 180-hour training requirement for postsecondary institutions offering commercial motor vehicle instruction, and rulemaking authorized.

HF4691 (Koegel) St. Paul; Metropolitan Council provided to indemnify Ramsey County and Ramsey County Regional Authority for excess liability resulting from rail-related incidents occurring at Union Depot.

HF4988 (Kraft) Requirements governing assessment of trunk highway projects for impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled modified, technical advisory committee established, and money appropriated.


Agenda is subject to change

Notes:
• 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.
• For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Matt Baumann, at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov or 651-296-3208.

Public Testimony:
Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator matt.baumann@house.mn.gov by 2:00 PM the day before 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

Please note that this list serv notification email is not monitored. If you wish to reply, please email me directly at: matt.baumann@house.mn.gov


Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
• 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.
• For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Matt Baumann, at matt.baumann@house.mn.gov or 651-296-3208.

Public Testimony:
Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator matt.baumann@house.mn.gov by 2:00 PM the day before 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




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.

1. Welcome and Call to Order
2. Approval of the Minutes – Monday, April 8th
3. Calendar for the Day – Thursday, April 11th
4. Deadline Waivers
HF4713 (Curran) Commissioner of labor and industry required to adopt rules related to acceptable blood lead levels for workers.
HF4728 (Bahner) Commissioner of revenue required to establish online system to claim the political contribution refund, political contribution refund program amended to allow electronic transfer between the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board and the Department of Revenue, and money appropriated.
HF4746 (Hassan) Transportation network companies regulated, civil cause of action provided, and criminal penalties imposed.
HF3499 (Brand) Railroad safety provided, including minimum insurance requirement modification and maximum train length establishment.

5. Calendar for the Day – Monday, April 15th
6. Deadline Waivers (continued)
HF4537 (Pinto) Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General executive bill on children's licensing issues provisions modified.
HF4818 (Berg) Metropolitan Airports Commission; health and welfare benefits required, and penalties imposed.
HF2609 (Berg) Gun trafficking investigations and firearm seizures report required by Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Violent Crime Enforcement Teams, trigger activator definition amended, and transferring firearms to persons who are ineligible to possess firearms penalties increased.
HF3757 (Demuth) Felony offense established for reporting a fictitious emergency and directing the emergency response to the home of other individuals, and conforming change made.

7. Adjournment

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.

Approval of the Minutes from April 4th, 2024
HF 4232 (Sencer-Mura) Compensatory revenue distribution clarified.
HF 5004 (Tabke) Participation in and funding for alternative teacher compensation program increased, district authorized to qualify under long-term facilities maintenance revenue program as a district eligible for alternative facilities revenue, and money appropriated.
HF 5326 (Youakim) Certain lunchroom furniture costs authorization in the school food service fund. **pending referral, Revisor #24-08039

Agenda items may be added or changed.

Notes:
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.
For questions about the agenda or the committee, please contact the Committee Administrator, Polly Cerkvenik, at polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov or 651-296-5524.

Public Testimony:
If you are interested in providing testimony on the scheduled please contact the committee administrator at: polly.cerkvenik@house.mn.gov no later than 2pm on Monday, April 8th. Written testimony is encouraged. Testimony may be limited.

HF4757 (Stephenson): Cannabis regulations modified.

NOTE: The committee will consider and take testimony related to the sections of the bill in the Health Committee’s jurisdiction.

Sections:
1, 3-14, 21-25, 27-32, 35, 41-42, 57-58, 62, 64-70, 73-92, 94-95, 99, 103-118

HF5317 (Liebling): Governor's budget bill for Health and Human Services.

HF4251 (Her): Office of Cannabis Management prohibited from approving cannabis flower, cannabis products, and hemp-derived consumer products.

HF4001 (Fischer): Hospital construction moratorium exception provided.

HF5020 (Liebling): Supplemental payments to eligible hospitals for graduate medical education costs established.

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.

HF5299 (Pelowski) Funding and related policy changes provided to certain higher education licensure and grant provisions, fees established, and money appropriated.

Public Testimony: If you would like to testify to the bill you must send the request to Owen.Wirth@house.mn.gov by 2pm Monday, April 8.

Written Testimony: Must be submitted to Owen.Wirth@house.mn.gov and Christopher.Olendorf@house.mn.gov by 2pm Monday, April 8.

Amendments: Must be submitted to Owen.Wirth@house.mn.gov by 10am, Monday, April 8.

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

The Agriculture Committee will not be meeting.

I. HF4047 (Bierman) - Pilot program grant established for pediatric hospital discharge to home care nursing services, report required, and money appropriated.

II. HF5228 (Virnig) - TEFRA parental contributions eliminated, and conforming changes made.

III. HF5280 (Noor) - Governor's budget bill for human services; aging, disability services, substance use disorder treatment, and Department of Direct Care and Treatment modified; human services law technical changes made; human services contingency fund established; and money appropriated.

*Agenda items may be added or removed.

HANDOUTS: All handouts must be provided electronically to the Committee Administrator and Committee Legislative Assistant at least 12 hours prior to the start of a committee meeting. Handouts should be in accessible (Optical Character Recognition) format for posting to the committee webpage. Contact the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov to submit handouts or for more information about acceptable electronic formats.

TESTIFYING: In-person public testimony will be taken as time allows. Testifiers must contact the Committee Administrator at sean.herring@house.mn.gov by 5pm the day prior to the hearing in order to sign up to testify. Written testimony is encouraged and will be posted on the committee webpage.

DOCUMENTS: Meeting documents may be found on the Human Services Finance webpage.

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 5217 (Nelson, M) Bureau of Mediation Services supplemental appropriations and other provisions modified
Johnny Villarreal, Commissioner, Bureau of Mediation Services

HF 5224 (Nelson, M) Combative sports regulations modified, and payment threshold from contractor recovery fund increased
Kate Perushek, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry

If you would like to testify or provide materials for the committee, please contact travis.reese@house.mn.gov by 4pm on Monday, April 8

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.

UPDATE: HF2484 has been removed from today's agenda.

HF3605 (Youakim) Property tax refund program established for child care providers that rent a child care facility, report required, and money appropriated.
HF4555 (Howard) Maintenance of effort condition for receipt of local affordable housing aid imposed.
HF5194 (Vang) Brooklyn Park; special authority and provisions related to property taxes, tax increment financing, and sales and use taxes for projects provided; special tax increment financing authority provided; special property tax abatement authority provided; value capture district establishment authorized; and money appropriated.
HF3559 (Cha) Woodbury; refundable sales and use tax exemption provided for construction materials for a water treatment facility and associated infrastructure.
HF4892 (Wiener) Browerville Public Schools; refundable sales and use tax exemption for construction materials provided.

Items may be added/removed from the agenda. 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 (Lauren Sabes Lauren.Sabes@house.mn.gov) by 1 PM on Monday, April 8th. Materials to be distributed to the Committee members are also due by 1 PM on on Monday, April 8th. 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.

Cancelled

HF5274 (Stephenson); Conduct of advance deposit wagering, card playing, and pari-mutuel betting provided; definitions provided; and clarifying and conforming changes made.

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.

HF3425 (Hicks) Olmsted County; tax-forfeited property environmental remediation funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF4822 (Feist) Tax-forfeited property excess sale proceed distribution modified, and money appropriated.

Written Testimony must be submitted to Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 5:00pm, Monday, April 8, 2024. Submitted written testimony is public and will be posted on the committee website and included in the committee record.

If you would like to sign up to testify, please email Peter.Strohmeier@house.mn.gov by 5:00pm, Monday, April 8, 2024.

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.

HF2271 (Sencer-Mura) Family homeless prevention and assistance program funding provided, and money appropriated.

HF4645 (Kozlowski) Minnesota homeless study funding provided, and money appropriated.

HF5032 (Bahner) Working group on common interest communities and homeowners associations established, and report to legislature required.

HF3210 (Pursell) Cooperative manufactured housing infrastructure grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

HF4278 (Lee, K.) St. Paul; The Heights housing development funding provided from the housing infrastructure program, report required, and money appropriated.

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.