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The Legislative Audit Commission will meet to review and approve final topics for the Office of the Legislative Auditor to evaluate in 2025.

Policy on Topic Selection

Topics by Policy Requirement

Background Papers for Possible Evaluations

Most to Least Promising

Criteria Comparsion Matrix

Survey results 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.

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee
Chair: Rep. Kristin Robbins
Vice Chair: Rep. Patti Anderson

Meeting: Monday, May 5th, 2025
8:30 – 10:45 a.m.
G23

Agenda:
I. Call To Order
II. Roll Call
III. Approval of the Minutes
IV. Medicaid Fraud Discussion
V. Informational Hearing:
a. HF3043 (Robbins)
b. HF2891 (Robbins)
VI. Adjourn

TESTIMONY AND MATERIALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Individuals wishing to testify or submit written testimony or handouts for the hearing must email the committee administrator by 3 p.m. the day prior to the hearing. Testimony information must include name, organization, and title (if applicable), email, phone number, and position on the bill. Handouts must be in PDF format with OCR capability.

Agenda items are subject to change at the discretion of the Chair.

Next Meeting: TBD

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION

Agenda:
I. Call To Order
II. Approval of the Minutes: May 1, 2025
III. Calendar for the Day: May 7, 2025
IV. Adjournment

HF 3228 (Baker) Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted.
Jessica Stimac, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry

HF 2441 (Pinto) Department of Labor and Industry, Workers Compensation Court of Appeals, and Bureau of Mediation Services Budget Bill
Nicole Blissenbach, Commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry
Evan Rowe, Deputy Commissioner, Dept of Employment and Economic Development
Lauren Bennett McGinty, Executive Director, Explore MN
Kari Johnson, Minnesota Consortium of Community Developers
Darielle Dannen, Greater Minnesota Partnership
Daniela Lorenz, City of St. Paul
Robert Reedy, on behalf of IPS Providers
Renay Dossman, President, Neighborhood Development Center
Jeff Tollefson, President and CEO, MnTech
Michelle Dreier, Electrical Association
Antonio Cardona, Vice President of Career Readiness, Project for Pride in Living
Trisha Reinwald, Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities
ThaoMee Xiong, Executive Director, Coalition of Asian American Leaders
Sydney Spreck, MN Association of Professional Employees
Tom Dicklich, Executive Director, MN State Building and Construction Trades Council
Ryan SanCartier

Testimony will be limited to 2 minutes per person

If you would like to provide materials, please contact Travis Reese by 1pm on Monday, May 5 at travis.reese@house.mn.gov

UPDATE 2: We have added HF2730 and HF2257 and removed HF2768 and HF1932. Both of these newly added bills are vehicle bills.

UPDATED: DE Amendment to HF2437 (2025 House Taxes Bill) has been posted.

HF2437 (Davids) Individual income taxes, corporate franchise taxes, property taxes, local government aids, sales and use taxes, and other taxes and tax-related provisions modified; certificate of rents paid provisions modified; cannabis tax provisions modified; and money appropriated. (The DE Amendment to HF2437 is the 2025 House Taxes Bill.)

*The Taxes Committee will have a bill overview, public testimony and mark-up of the 2025 House Taxes Bill during Tuesday’s Committee hearing.

BILL ADDED: HF2257 (Gomez) Property tax; provisions related to public charity institution exemptions modified. (This is a vehicle bill.)

BILL ADDED: HF2730 (Gomez) Local government debt financing modified. (This is a vehicle bill.)

BILL REMOVED: HF1932 (Gomez) Taxpayer assistance grants and tax credit outreach grants funding provided, and money appropriated. (This is a vehicle bill.)
BILL REMOVED: HF2768 (Gomez) individual income taxes, corporate franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, and other various taxes and tax-related provisions modified; various policy and technical changes made; income tax credits and subtractions modified; and enforcement, return, and audit provisions modified. (This is a vehicle bill.)


Items may be added to the agenda. Public testifiers should email their full name, organization (if applicable) and preferred title to the DFL Committee Administrator (Patrick.McQuillan@house.mn.gov) and the DFL CLA (Shamat Abraha Shamat.Abraha@house.mn.gov) by 2:00 PM on Monday, May 5th. Please let us know what issues (including article/sections) of the bill you wish to testify on.

Materials to be distributed to the Committee members are also due by 2:00 PM on Monday, May 5th. 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. Testifiers may participate remotely at the Chair’s discretion.

The following bills are vehicle bills only. Action will be taken.

1. Call to Order

2. Introduction of members and staff

3. Walk-through of HF 2432 spreadsheet

4. Walk-through of HF 2432 side-by-sides

5. Review of same and similar provisions and discussion of policy items

6. Adjourn

Note: There will be no public testimony at this meeting.

Due to the fluid nature of floor sessions and committee meetings, date and time are subject to change with relatively short notice

1. Approval of the April 22, 2025, meeting minutes.
    
2. SF 1986 (Kupec); HF 1779 (Wolgamott): PERA and MSRS General plans; Authorizing an unreduced early retirement annuity for probation agency employees at age 60 or 35 years of service (laid over from April 22). 
   • Amendment S1986-1A
   • Amendment S1986-2A - adopted by the Commission on March 25
   • Amendment S1986-3A - Commission voted to not adopt on April 22
   • Delete-everything amendment S1986-DE2
   • SF1986-HF1779 Summary from the March 25 meeting
      
3. SF 3467 (Rasmusson/Frentz): Making corrections and clarifying changes to pension and retirement statutes.
   • SF3467-HFxxxx Summary
      
4. 2025 Omnibus Pension and Retirement Bill.
   • Delete-everything amendment S2884-DE1
   • Amendment S2884-2A (Secure Choice)
   • Motion authorizing staff to make any necessary technical corrections 
   • Adoption of SF 2884 (Frentz); HF 1889 (O'Driscoll/Lillie), as amended, as the 2025 Omnibus Pension and Retirement Bill

I. Welcome and Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes – Monday, May 5th

III. Calendar for the Day – Friday, May 9th

IV. Deadline Waivers
HF3228 (Baker) Workers Comp Advisory Council Recommendations

V. HF475 (Long) Joint Committee on Library of Congress of United States Congress requested to approve replacement of statue of Henry Mower Rice now on display in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, and memorial resolution proposed.

VI. Adjournment

AMENDMENTS: Deadline for amendments is 10:00 AM on Wednesday, May 7. Amendments must be submitted via email to the Committee Administrator at Jeanne.Stuart@house.mn.gov.

TESTIMONY: Handouts, written testimony, and testifier requests must be emailed to the Committee Administrator Jeanne.Stuart@house.mn.gov by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 6. 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.