The following House Files were introduced:
Abrams, Kuisle, Lanning, Jacobson, Ruth, Simpson, Pugh, Atkins, Hausman, Lenczewski and Larson introduced:
H. F. 3081, A bill for an act relating to public finance; modifying the authority of cities and counties to finance purchases of computers and related items; clarifying the financing of conservation easements; extending sunsets on establishment of special service districts and housing improvement areas; extending the maximum maturity of bonds for qualified housing development projects; revising time for certain notices of issues; modifying the authority to finance street reconstruction; modifying limits on city capital improvement bonds; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 428A.101; 428A.21; 469.034, subdivision 2; 474A.131, subdivision 1; 475.52, subdivisions 1, 3, 4; Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, sections 373.01, subdivision 3; 373.40, subdivision 1; 410.32; 412.301; 475.521, subdivision 4; 475.58, subdivision 3b.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Kuisle introduced:
H. F. 3082, A bill for an act relating to public safety; modifying provision for handling state mail; allowing vehicle lessors to choose where renewal notices are sent; modifying and clarifying provisions regulating parking privileges for persons with disabilities; clarifying authorization of collector plates for self-propelled vehicles; establishing system of permanent registration for fleet vehicles; clarifying provisions for refunds of vehicle registration taxes; authorizing commissioner to prohibit operation by motor carrier prohibited by federal government to operate in interstate commerce under performance and registration information system; modifying provisions governing fees for and access to driver's license, identification card, and vehicle registration information; classifying certain driver and vehicle service data; reducing amount of information required on vehicle title documents; modifying notice procedures for vehicle transfers; authorizing fees; regulating applications for certificates of title to vehicles; requiring vehicle dealers to flag vehicles being held for resale; requiring notice by dealers of vehicles removed from the state; authorizing removal of certain old liens from department records; providing for electronic filing of motor carrier fuel tax; providing for two-year learner permits; increasing disqualification offenses for commercial driver to include serious offenses committed in noncommercial vehicle; modifying provision governing issuance of limited drivers' licenses; adding offense of using forged document to obtain driver's license as a crime subjecting offender's property to forfeiture; abolishing provision allowing distribution of abstract of driver's record; abolishing provision making commissioner the agent for certain persons for purpose of receiving service of process relating to an action to recover damages from traffic accident; making technical and clarifying changes; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 16B.49; 168.011, subdivision 5a; 168.021, subdivisions 1, 1a, 2a, 2b, 3; 168.10, subdivisions 1a, 1c, 1d; 168.127, subdivision 3; 168.15, subdivision 1; 168.16; 168.187, by adding a subdivision; 168.31, subdivision 5; 168.325, by adding subdivisions; 168.346; 168A.04, subdivision 1; 168A.05, subdivisions 3, 5; 168A.10, subdivision 1; 168A.11, subdivisions 1, 2; 168A.20, by adding a subdivision; 168D.08; 169.345, subdivisions 2, 3, 4; 169.346; 171.05, subdivisions 1, 2; 171.12, subdivision 7; 171.165, subdivisions 1, 4, by adding a subdivision; 171.26; 171.30, subdivision 1; 609.531, subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 168.345, subdivisions 3, 4; 170.23; 170.55; 171.12, subdivision 8.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Policy.
Magnus introduced:
H. F. 3083, A bill for an act relating to the environment; providing for issuance of pipeline routing permits by the Environmental Quality Board; ratifying the authority of the board to impose conditions, to suspend permits, and to pursue enforcement of permits; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 116I.015, subdivision 3, by adding subdivisions.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.
Abeler and Otremba introduced:
H. F. 3084, A bill for an act relating to the environment; modifying groundwater protection provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 103H.005, subdivision 11; 103H.201, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.
Otremba introduced:
H. F. 3085, A bill for an act relating to public health and the health of livestock; protecting the right of Minnesota citizens to protect their health and the health of their children and livestock through access to pesticides application information; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 18B.37, subdivisions 2, 5.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Policy.
Sieben introduced:
H. F. 3086, A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying treatment of sponsor income for purposes of determining MinnesotaCare eligibility; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 256L.04, subdivision 10a.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services Finance.
Kuisle introduced:
H. F. 3087, A bill for an act relating to taxation; property; establishing an aggregate resource preservation property tax program; requiring a restrictive covenant on certain land; providing a classification for property containing certain unmined aggregate; providing definitions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 273.13, subdivision 23; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 273.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Erickson introduced:
H. F. 3088, A bill for an act relating to elections; prohibiting certain business entities from making campaign contributions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 211B.15, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Stang, Abeler, Kelliher, Sviggum and Finstad introduced:
H. F. 3089, A bill for an act relating to state and local government operations; establishing a metropolitan stadium authority; providing for the membership and powers of the authority; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs.
Gunther, Cornish, Hackbarth and Simpson introduced:
H. F. 3090, A bill for an act relating to economic development; creating a program to retain and create jobs; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116J.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development Finance.
Abrams, Mullery, Dempsey, Erhardt, Kuisle, Hausman, Lenczewski and Larson introduced:
H. F. 3091, A bill for an act relating to metropolitan government; providing for the financing of metropolitan area transit and paratransit capital expenditures; authorizing the issuance of certain obligations; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 473.39, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance.
Abrams, Kuisle, Lanning, Jacobson, Ruth, Brod, Magnus, Atkins, Pugh, Lenczewski and Larson introduced:
H. F. 3092, A bill for an act relating to taxation; increasing the duration limit for tax abatement; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 469.1813, subdivision 6.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Rukavina and Sertich introduced:
H. F. 3093, A bill for an act relating to local government; providing a ceiling in cities of the first class for percentage net tax capacity in TIF districts above which a TIF moratorium applies.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Kelliher introduced:
H. F. 3094, A bill for an act relating to the environment; mandating certain project environmental review; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 116D.04, subdivision 2a.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.
Murphy introduced:
H. F. 3095, A bill for an act relating to local government aid; clarifying that railroad property is included in measures of commercial industrial property; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 477A.011, subdivision 32.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Abeler and Hackbarth introduced:
H. F. 3096, A bill for an act relating to game and fish; modifying decoy restrictions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 97B.811, subdivision 3; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 97B.811, subdivision 4.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.
Lenczewski introduced:
H. F. 3097, A bill for an act relating to taxation; abolishing the metropolitan fiscal disparities law; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 473F.001; 473F.01; 473F.02; 473F.03; 473F.05; 473F.06; 473F.07, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 5; 473F.08; 473F.09; 473F.10; 473F.11; Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, sections 473F.07, subdivision 4; 473F.13.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Zellers; Olsen, S., and Severson introduced:
H. F. 3098, A bill for an act relating to employment; requiring locks or other security devices to ensure privacy for nursing mothers in the workplace; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 181.939.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Jobs and Economic Development.
Zellers, Brod and Stang introduced:
H. F. 3099, A bill for an act relating to crime; increasing certain penalties associated with malicious punishment of children; directing the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to rank offenses at specified severity levels; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 609.377, subdivisions 5, 6.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Policy and Finance.
Zellers, Severson, Simpson and Brod introduced:
H. F. 3100, A bill for an act relating to taxation; providing a checkoff on the income tax return for donations to the veterans of the global war on terrorism fund; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 290.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Zellers, Severson, Simpson and Stang introduced:
H. F. 3101, A bill for an act relating to veterans; proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article XIII, section 8, to authorize general obligation bonding proceeds to be used to pay a bonus to Minnesota residents who served as members of the United States military during the Global War on Terrorism.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Gunther; Dorman; Sykora; Osterman; Severson; Westerberg; Rhodes; Nornes; Simpson; Smith; Davids; Walz; Lanning; Anderson, J.; Fuller; Hackbarth; Nelson, C.; Mullery; Solberg; Thao; Juhnke; Otremba; Clark; Kelliher; Hilstrom; Pugh; Paymar; Finstad; Brod; Mahoney; Nelson, M.; Dorn; Hausman; Haas and Sertich introduced:
H. F. 3102, A bill for an act relating to occupations and professions; merging regulation of cosmetology and barbering under one board; adjusting fees; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 154.01; 154.02; 154.03; 154.04; 154.06; 154.07, as amended; 154.08; 154.11; 154.12; 154.161, subdivisions 2, 4, 5, 7; 154.18; 154.19; 154.21; 154.22; 154.23; 154.24; 154.25; 155A.01; 155A.02; 155A.03, subdivisions 1, 2, 7, by adding subdivisions; 155A.045, subdivision 1; 155A.05; 155A.07, subdivisions 2, 8, by adding a subdivision; 155A.08, subdivisions 1, 2, 3; 155A.09; 155A.095; 155A.10; 155A.135; 155A.14; 155A.15; 155A.16; 214.01, subdivision 3; Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, sections 116J.70, subdivision 2a; 214.04, subdivision 3; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 155A.03, subdivisions 11, 13; 155A.04; 155A.06; Minnesota Rules, part 2100.9300, subpart 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development Finance.
Gerlach introduced:
H. F. 3103, A bill for an act relating to lawful gambling; repealing combined receipts tax; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 297E.02, subdivision 6.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.
Cornish, Ozment, Hackbarth, Dill and Otto introduced:
H. F. 3104, A bill for an act relating to natural resources; repealing certain criminal penalties related to captive wildlife; repealing Minnesota Rules, part 6244.2000, subpart 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.
Knoblach and Opatz introduced:
H. F. 3105, A bill for an act relating to capital investment; modifying the grant recipient of an appropriation for St. Cloud Paramount Theater to provide for the city to own the facility; amending Laws 1998, chapter 404, section 23, subdivision 17, as amended.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.