The following House Files were introduced:
Paymar; Mariani; Johnson, S.; Thao and Entenza introduced:
H. F. 49, A bill for an act relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for asset preservation of the Roy Wilkins Center in St. Paul.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development Finance.
Opatz introduced:
H. F. 50, A bill for an act relating to appropriations; authorizing state bonds; appropriating money for a grant for parks and trails to the St. Cloud area regional parks and trails coordinating board.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Finance.
Davids and Anderson, J. introduced:
H. F. 51, A bill for an act relating to insurance; clarifying that certain laws include long-term care insurance; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 60A.06, subdivision 1; 61B.20, subdivision 10.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services Policy.
Davids introduced:
H. F. 52, A bill for an act relating to insurance; prohibiting insurers from charging membership fees or dues; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 72A.20, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Jobs and Economic Development.
Opatz introduced:
H. F. 53, A bill for an act relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for the Northstar commuter rail system.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance.
Slawik, Stanek, Davnie, Bernardy, Greiling, Goodwin, Atkins and Sykora introduced:
H. F. 54, A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a school district policy on student-on-student abuse; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 121A.03, subdivisions 2, 3, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Education Policy.
Mahoney; Gunther; Lesch; Davids; Entenza; Johnson, S.; Thao and Mariani introduced:
H. F. 55, A bill for an act relating to capital improvements; providing for a grant to the city of St. Paul to acquire land for and remediate contamination in the Phalen corridor; authorizing issuance of bonds; appropriating money.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development Finance.
Paymar introduced:
H. F. 56, A bill for an act relating to domestic abuse; modifying provisions relating to the admissibility of testimony; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 518B.01, subdivision 15.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Policy and Finance.
Borrell introduced:
H. F. 57, A bill for an act relating to liquor; authorizing five additional on-sale liquor licenses in St. Michael.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Regulated Industries.
Severson introduced:
H. F. 58, A bill for an act relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for municipal water and wastewater systems in St. Stephen.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development Finance.
Kahn, Greiling, Goodwin, Bernardy, Eken, Hausman and Paymar introduced:
H. F. 59, A bill for an act relating to elections; prohibiting independent expenditures by political parties on behalf of their own candidates as a condition of receiving a public subsidy; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 10A.25, by adding a subdivision; 10A.28, subdivision 1; 10A.31, subdivision 5; 10A.322, subdivision 4, by adding a subdivision; 290.06, subdivision 23.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Lipman introduced:
H. F. 60, A bill for an act relating to elections; changing certain absentee ballot provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 203B.07, subdivision 2; 203B.08, subdivision 1; 203B.12, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Anderson, I.; Solberg; Rukavina; Lieder and Eken introduced:
H. F. 61, A bill for an act relating to the legislature; providing for the organization of the house of representatives in case of tie vote for a house officer; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 3.06, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Anderson, I.; Juhnke; Solberg; Rukavina; Eken and Lieder introduced:
H. F. 62, A bill for an act proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article IV, section 23; providing for veto override sessions of the legislature.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Boudreau introduced:
H. F. 63, A bill for an act relating to retirement; general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota state retirement system; authorizing a purchase of prior service credit for part-time employment.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Seifert, Pelowski and Kielkucki introduced:
H. F. 64, A bill for an act relating to state government; specifying certain contents for a statement of need and reasonableness for proposed administrative rules; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 14.131.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn, Goodwin, Greiling, Hausman, Eken and Paymar introduced:
H. F. 65, A bill for an act relating to state government; proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article V, sections 1, 2, 5; abolishing the office of lieutenant governor.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn, Mariani, Goodwin, Greiling, Eken, Bernardy, Hausman and Paymar introduced:
H. F. 66, A bill for an act relating to elections; providing an instant runoff for presidential, congressional, and statewide elections; permitting a municipal governing body to adopt the instant runoff for municipal offices; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 204B.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn introduced:
H. F. 67, A bill for an act relating to elections; city elections; providing for the election of certain council members elected by ward after reapportionment; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 205.84, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn introduced:
H. F. 68, A bill for an act relating to elections; authorizing a pilot project to register voters and conduct absentee voting by the Internet.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn and Rhodes introduced:
H. F. 69, A bill for an act relating to elections; requiring an affidavit of candidacy to include the candidate's residence address; providing for rejection of an affidavit that indicates the candidate does not live in the district from which election is sought; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 204B.06, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn, Paymar and Rhodes introduced:
H. F. 70, A bill for an act relating to elections; providing that uncontested judicial offices must appear after all contested judicial offices on the canary ballot; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 204D.14, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Kahn, Mariani, Hausman and Davnie introduced:
H. F. 71, A bill for an act relating to elections; proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article VII, section 1; authorizing local units of government to permit permanent resident noncitizens to vote in local elections.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Dill introduced:
H. F. 72, A bill for an act relating to capital investments; authorizing land acquisition at Vermilion Community College; appropriating money.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Higher Education Finance.
Anderson, I. introduced:
H. F. 73, A bill for an act relating to counties; requiring each county to adopt an emergency management plan by January 2005; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 12.25, subdivision 2.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs.