Currently Posted Meetings

1. Call To Order

2. Approval of Meeting Minutes 4/3/2025

3. HF 2995 (Noor) Human services forecast adjustments provided, and money appropriated

4. HF 2434 (Schomacker) Aging and older adult services, disability services, early intensive developmental and behavioral intervention, direct care and treatment, and health care provisions modified; working group created; stipend payments to collective bargaining unit members required; and money appropriated.

*Testimony will not be taken on either HF on Tuesday. Tuesday’s hearing will consist of a budget walkthrough and Member comments

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Previous Meeting Minutes

III. HF2783 (Klevorn) Code of ethics for legislative branch established; payment withholding if credible allegation of fraud exists allowed; authority to share data regarding fraud in public programs granted; renewable energy improvement, storage projects, and EVSE projects provided; and money appropriated.

- Monday, April 7th, 2025: A delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF2783 will be posted and will serve as the State Government Finance bill.
- Tuesday, April 8th, 2025: Committee walkthrough and public testimony; no official action will be taken.
- Thursday, April 10th, 2025: Additional testimony, mark-up, and passage.

IV. Adjournment

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

Agenda
I. Overview of grants appropriation process by the Department of Employment and Economic Development

II. Presentation by the Office of the Legislative Auditor on the grant process of the Department of Employment and Economic Development

* agenda is subject to change

Calendar for the Day: April 10, 2025

• PFAS Litigation Update, Minnesota Attorney General’s Office

The following bills will be heard on an informational-only basis. No formal action will be taken. Each bill is allotted 3 minutes.
• HF 333 (Johnson, P.) Duluth; Lot D redevelopment project funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 2712 (Xiong) Capitol tunnel improvements funding provided relating to disabilities compliance (ADA), and money appropriated.
• HF 1064 (Acomb) Wayzata; downtown lakeshore improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 1069 (Vang) Brooklyn Center; public works facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 1113 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) Washington County; public works facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 2207 (Rehm) Chaska; City Square West project funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF XXXX (Rehm) Chanhassen Bluffs Sports Complex; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds. House Research draft attached.
• HF 204 (Gottfried) Rice Creek Watershed District funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 2867 (Clardy) Mendota Heights; city hall and public safety facility provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 2924 (Virnig) Mendota; water infrastructure funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 746 (Stephenson) Anoka; Rum River Dam capital improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 1530 (Cha) Woodbury; La Lake Park funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 2587 (Frederick) Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center campus new psychiatric facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF 1078 (Hansen) Washington County; grant funding provided for county's wood waste and diseased tree utilization program, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. Walkthrough of HF 2300 (Scott) Judiciary finance bill.
IV. Public testimony on HF 2300 (Scott) Judiciary budget bill.
V. Adjournment

HF 2300 will be used as the vehicle for the House Judiciary budget bill. A delete-everything amendment labeled "A25-0061" and a corresponding spreadsheet have been posted.

Please note that no official action will be taken on HF 2300 during this hearing.

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.

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.
- 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.

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

I. Call to Order
II. HF 1016 (Lawrence) - Baldwin; base year formula aid provided.
III. HF 2800 (Fogelman) - Alpha; 2023 aid penalty forgiveness provided, and money appropriated.
IV. HF 156 (Anderson) - Olmsted County; refundable sales and use tax exemption provided for construction materials for a regional exhibition center.
V. HF 3051 (Davids) - Sales and use tax exemption provided for the granting of the privilege of admission to championship golf tournaments sponsored by the Professional Golfers' Association of America.
VI. HF 526 (Dotseth) - Fire protection and emergency medical services special taxing districts established, fire protection and emergency medical services aid provided, and money appropriated.
VII.HF 2658 (Gander) - East Grand Forks; refundable sales and use tax exemption for construction materials provided.
VIII. HF 2062 (Robbins) - Sales and use tax; vendor allowance provided
IX. Adjourn

*HF2801 has been removed and replaced with HF2800.

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 Monday, April 7th, 2025

I. Call To Order

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Minutes

IV. Education Finance Budget Bill

• HF2433 (Youakim) Kindergarten through grade 12 education changes made; prekindergarten through grade 12 education funding provided; general education, education excellence, American Indian education, teachers, special education, facilities, school nutrition, libraries, early childhood, community education, and state agencies provisions modified; and money appropriated.
o This is the Governor’s education budget bill, which will serve as a vehicle for the committee’s budget agreement.
o The Committee Delete-All Amendment will be posted when it is available.
o Instructions on public testimony will be posted with the amendment.

V. Adjournment

Agenda to be determined.

Items may be added or removed from the agenda.

*An author’s delete-all amendment and fiscal spreadsheet for the omnibus Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy bill (HF2439-Heintzeman) will be posted when it is available. Information regarding amendment deadlines and hearing public testimony will be posted at that time as well.

Agenda to be determined.

Items may be added or removed from the agenda.

Walkthrough and Public Testimony of DE Amendment to HF2436 (West) Children and Families Budget Bill

No action will be taken during this meeting. Action will be taken on amendments and the bill, as amended on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

All agenda items subject to change at the discretion of the Co-Chairs.

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

Items may be added/removed
- Amendment deadline will be 1:00PM on Monday, April 7th
- Deadline to Sign-Up for Public Testimony will be 3:00PM on Monday, April 7th
- The DFL holds the gavel for this hearing


I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes

III. HF2445 (Igo) Housing Finance Budget Bill
- Non-Partisan House Research Department & House Fiscal Staff Walkthrough of Budget Bill DE and Spreadsheet
- Public Testimony

IV. Adjourn

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Testimony: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be in PDF format and emailed to the Committee Administrator Benjamin.Brinks@house.mn.gov and Committee Legislative Assistant Sowmya.Kannan@house.mn.gov by 3:00pm the day before each hearing. Public testifiers should email their full name, organization (if applicable) and preferred title. 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.

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.

HF 2432 (Novotny) Protection from report of fictitious emergency extended to all state or local correctional employees; Tribal Nation access and use of community supervisions services subsidy clarified; post-incarceration supervision provisions codified; obsolete administrative rules repealed; various other public safety, judiciary, and corrections provisions modified; and money appropriated. *

*HF 2432 will be used as the vehicle for the House Public Safety Finance bill. A DE amendment and spreadsheet will be posted when it is available.

TESTIMONY: Requests for in-person testimony must be submitted to the Committee Administrator of this hearing, Ellen.McDaniel@house.mn.gov, by 5:00 PM, April 7th, 2025. 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.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: Requests to submit written testimony must be submitted to the Committee Administrator of this hearing, Ellen.McDaniel@house.mn.gov, by 5:00 PM, April 7th, 2025. All written testimony must be submitted in PDF format and not include hyperlinks.

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

1. Approval of the April 1, 2025, meeting minutes.
    
2. SF 2640 (Maye Quade); HF 2367 (Nadeau): Implementing the labor agreement between the State and SEIU Healthcare  Minnesota and Iowa for individual providers of direct support services; establishing the Minnesota Caregiver Retirement Fund Trust.
   Testimony and discussion on this bill is limited to sections 1 and 14, the portion that relates to the Minnesota Caregiver Retirement Fund Trust.
   • Staff memo

Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) Bills

Testimony will be limited to two minutes per testifier on the TRA bills.

3. SF 2000 (Gustafson); HF 1582 (Wolgamott): TRA; Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 60 with 30 years of service, modifying the early retirement reduction factors, increasing postretirement adjustments, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money.
   Note: The following bills are identical to SF 2000/HF 1582:  SF 2523 (Cwodzinski)/HF 2341(Clardy) and HF 3052 (Gander)
   • Amendment S2000-1A
   • SF2000-HF1582 Summary
      
4. SF 3239 (Abeler); HF 2318 (Nadeau): TRA; Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 62 with 30 years of service, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money.
   • SF3239-HF2318 Summary
      
5. SF 2992 (Pratt); HF 2329 (Nadeau): TRA; Lowering the age from 62 to 60 for the enhanced early retirement reduction.
   • SF2992-HF2329 Summary

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PUBLIC TESTIMONY: Persons interested in testifying must email Lisa Diesslin at lisa.diesslin@lcpr.mn.gov by 5:00 PM on Monday, April 7, identifying the specific agenda item on which you would like to testify, your name, organization and title (if applicable), email address, and phone number. Testimony is limited to the items on the agenda.

PUBLIC VIEWING INFORMATION: This meeting will be streamed live by Senate Media Services. See www.senate.mn/schedule/webcast-schedule for the webcast schedule or the Senate Media YouTube page for YouTube streaming. These links may not appear until the day of the meeting.

NOTE: To access the Minnesota Senate Building after 5:00, use the main entrance on the corner of University Avenue and Park Street. There will be a security guard at that entrance after hours to let you in

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