06:55 - Gavel. MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE. 32:57 - Concurrence to Senate amendments to <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF466&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF466</A> (Otremba) A bill for an act relating to agriculture; changing certain warehouse laws. 37:47 - Concurrence to Senate amendments to <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2156&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2156</A> (Demmer) A bill for an act relating to civil law; changing certain powers and duties of conservators. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT. 51:25 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF42&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF42</A> (Howes) A bill for an act relating to firearms; authorizing the use of silencers to muffle discharges of firearms for natural resource wildlife control. CALENDAR FOR THE DAY. 57:00 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1716&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1716</A> (Wilkin) Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted. 1:00:14 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1720&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1720</A> (Bradley) A bill for an act relating to human services; making agency technical amendments; changing provisions related to children and family services, health care, and continuing care programs. 1:05:47 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF1925&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF1925</A> (Dean) A bill for an act relating to human services; making changes to licensing provisions and background studies; changing provisions for state-operated services in access to data, records retention, sharing information, and assisting patients required to register as a predatory offender in completing registration forms; adding a notification provision for certain patients released on pass; adding a provision to abuse prevention plans. 2:02:18 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2187&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2187</A> (Abrams) A bill for an act relating to public and municipal corporations; creating a county subsidiary corporation to provide health care and related services, education, and research; providing for governance of Hennepin County Medical Center. 2:14:18 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF986&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF986</A> (Nelson, M.) A bill for an act relating to economic development; redefining low-income area for the purpose of the urban initiative program; providing a sunset date for the Urban Initiative Board. 2:19:03 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1945&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1945</A> (Kahn) A bill for an act relating to local government; requiring a city council to vote on charter commission recommendations for charter amendments by ordinance. 2:21:38 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1379&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1379</A> (Severson) A bill for an act relating to motor vehicles; excluding cost of air bag repair or replacement and related repair costs from motor vehicle damage calculations for salvage title and consumer disclosure purposes. 2:24:55 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1268&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1268</A> (Severson) A bill for an act relating to veterans; eliminating a restriction on a veteran's preference provision. 2:27:42 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF400&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF400</A> (Mahoney) A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance; making an eligibility exception permanent for certain school food service workers. 2:30:02 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1861&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1861</A> (Mahoney) A bill for an act relating to building plan review; directing the commissioner of labor and industry to study procedures for supervision of installation of biotechnology piping systems; requiring a report to the legislature. 2:33:22 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1368&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1368</A> (Westrom) A bill for an act relating to energy; providing for expedited cost recovery for certain transmission investments; authorizing and regulating transmission companies; permitting the transfer of transmission assets and operation to transmission companies; providing for expedited regulatory approval of transmission projects related to renewable generation; providing new criteria to analyze the need for transmission projects; establishing the framework for a wind energy tariff related to community development; requiring a wind integration study; transferring generation plant siting and transmission line routing authority from the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board to the Public Utilities Commission; providing for technical corrections to the energy assistance program; providing for a sustainably managed woody biomass generation project to satisfy the biomass mandate; providing for an electronic mail filing system at the Public Utilities Commission and Department of Commerce; making changes to the conservation investment program recommended by the legislative auditor; authorizing the creation of energy quality zones; regulating eligibility of biogas projects for the renewable energy production incentive; providing for the recovery of certain infrastructure investments by gas utilities; requiring a study of compensation of landowners for transmission easements; promoting the use of soy-diesel; providing for the adjustment of power purchase agreements to account for production tax payments; promoting the use of hydrogen as an energy source; requiring study of using biodiesel fuel to heat homes; expanding authority of city of Alexandria to enter into telecommunications-related joint ventures. 5:10:59 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1371&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1371</A> (Lanning) A bill for an act relating to local government; increasing compensation of watershed district managers; clarifying who can enter onto land. 5:15:40 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2498&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2498</A> (Abrams) A bill for an act relating to public finance; authorizing purchases of certain guaranteed investment contracts; authorizing a special levy; modifying a taconite fund provision; modifying the authority of cities and counties to finance purchases of computers and related items; extending the term of certain notes; clarifying the financing of conservation easements; extending sunsets on establishment of special service districts and housing improvement areas; authorizing municipalities to improve streets and roads outside municipal boundaries; providing for financing of certain improvements; extending the maximum maturity of certain bonds; revising time for certain notices of issues; exempting obligations issued to pay judgments from net debt limits; modifying limits on city capital improvement bonds and enabling certain towns to issue bonds under a capital improvement plan; authorizing the issuance of certain revenue bonds; modifying certain tax increment financing provisions; providing a bidding exception; increasing reserve from public facilities pool for certain purposes; providing for payment of certain refunding bonds; abolishing the housing bond credit enhancement program and providing for debt service on the bonds; authorizing a tax abatement extension; providing for an international economic development zone; providing tax incentives; requiring a report; appropriating money for certain refunds (bill was continued, and taken up again at 5:48:10). 5:43:58 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2228&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2228</A> (Abrams) A bill for an act relating to taxation; recodifying and clarifying the powers of the commissioner of revenue; recodifying a criminal penalty. 5:48:12 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2498&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2498</A> (Abrams) A bill for an act relating to public finance; authorizing purchases of certain guaranteed investment contracts; authorizing a special levy; modifying a taconite fund provision; modifying the authority of cities and counties to finance purchases of computers and related items; extending the term of certain notes; clarifying the financing of conservation easements; extending sunsets on establishment of special service districts and housing improvement areas; authorizing municipalities to improve streets and roads outside municipal boundaries; providing for financing of certain improvements; extending the maximum maturity of certain bonds; revising time for certain notices of issues; exempting obligations issued to pay judgments from net debt limits; modifying limits on city capital improvement bonds and enabling certain towns to issue bonds under a capital improvement plan; authorizing the issuance of certain revenue bonds; modifying certain tax increment financing provisions; providing a bidding exception; increasing reserve from public facilities pool for certain purposes; providing for payment of certain refunding bonds; abolishing the housing bond credit enhancement program and providing for debt service on the bonds; authorizing a tax abatement extension; providing for an international economic development zone; providing tax incentives; requiring a report; appropriating money for certain refunds. 6:18:07 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1815&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1815</A> (Zellers) A bill for an act relating to commerce; modifying various requirements for licensees of the Department of Commerce. 6:22:22 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=SF1326&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">SF1326</A> (McNamara) A bill for an act relating to natural resources; providing for an official map of state forest roads as an alternative recording method. 6:42:50 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF221&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF221</A> (Davids) A bill for an act relating to civil actions; regulating liability on land used for recreational purposes; modifying the definition of recreational purpose. 6:49:00 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2192&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2192</A> (Tingelstad) A bill for an act relating to adoption; providing for data collection and best practice guidelines for conducting postadoption services; requiring a report. 6:56:59 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF1889&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF1889</A> (Wilkin) A bill for an act relating to human services; implementing child protection, child care, and child and family support provisions. 6:59:07 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF1575&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF1575</A> (Brod) A bill for an act relating to the military; clarifying statutes pertaining to the accumulation of vacation and sick leave by public officers and employees while on military leave and upon reinstatement in public office or employment; authorizing payment for some or all of the accumulated leave. 7:02:47 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF1176&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF1176</A> (Brod) A bill for an act relating to education; modifying teacher license variance for certain special education teachers. 7:04:54 - <A HREF="http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?billnumber=HF2448&session_number=0&ls_year=84&year=2005">HF2448</A> (Bradley) A bill for an act relating to human services; making forecast adjustments for human services programs. The CALENDAR FOR THE DAY was continued. 7:07:38 - MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. Runs 7 hours, 14 minutes.