INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

Thursday, April 3, 2003


The following House Files were introduced:

Westerberg, DeLaForest, Tingelstad, Bernardy and Hackbarth introduced:

H. F. 1445, A bill for an act relating to highways; authorizing issuance of trunk highway bonds for improvements to marked trunk highway 65; appropriating money.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance.

Osterman; Seifert; Kuisle; Klinzing; Otremba; Hoppe; Cox; Soderstrom; Dorman; Rhodes; Nelson, P.; Juhnke; Dill; Zellers; Harder; Magnus; Lindgren and Simpson introduced:

H. F. 1446, A bill for an act relating to highways; directing commissioner of transportation to lease safety rest areas or contract for their private operation; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 160.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Policy.

Bernardy and Otremba introduced:

H. F. 1447, A bill for an act relating to veterans; permitting World War I and II veterans the same parking privileges as physically disabled persons; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 169.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Policy.

Dill, Davids, Peterson, Penas, Lanning, Heidgerken, Urdahl, Eken, Marquart, Lindgren, Cornish, Koenen, Lieder, Hoppe, Finstad, Simpson, Swenson, Sertich, Otremba, Juhnke, Dorman and Murphy introduced:

H. F. 1448, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; establishing Minnesota rural communications infrastructure fund and appropriating money for providing low-interest loans and grants to communications infrastructure projects in rural Minnesota; imposing a fee on wireless telephone service; providing ten-year sunset date; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 237.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Regulated Industries.

Harder, Kuisle and Magnus introduced:

H. F. 1449, A bill for an act relating to transportation; modifying transit assistance provisions for annually appropriating money for transit operations; abolishing property tax replacement aid program; making technical and clarifying changes; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 16A.88, subdivision 1; 174.24, subdivisions 1, 3b; 275.71, subdivision 5; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 174.242.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance.

Lenczewski, Seagren and Larson introduced:

H. F. 1450, A bill for an act relating to highways; authorizing issuance of $774,000,000 in state trunk highway bonds for trunk highway construction projects in Bloomington; appropriating money.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance.

Kahn, Kelliher, Biernat, Paymar, Clark, Hornstein and Hausman introduced:

H. F. 1451, A bill for an act relating to smoking; prohibiting smoking in workplaces; providing for smoke-free areas in multitenant buildings; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 144.413, subdivision 2; 144.414, subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision; 144.415; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services Policy.

Urdahl, Kuisle, Swenson, Juhnke, Heidgerken and Blaine introduced:

H. F. 1452, A bill for an act relating to agriculture; clarifying the definition of pastures for the purpose of animal feedlot regulation; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 116.07, subdivision 7.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Policy.

Sertich introduced:

H. F. 1453, A bill for an act relating to the city of Hibbing; authorizing an extension of a tax increment financing district.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.

Sertich introduced:

H. F. 1454, A bill for an act relating to campaign finance; prohibiting party units from accepting contributions indirectly they could not accept directly; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 10A.27, by adding a subdivision.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.

Nelson, P. introduced:

H. F. 1455, A bill for an act relating to border city development zones; authorizing the city of Taylors Falls and the town of Franconia to establish zones and exercise border city development zone powers.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.

Slawik, Greiling, Bernardy and Goodwin introduced:

H. F. 1456, A bill for an act relating to Head Start; transferring the Head Start program from the department of children, families, and learning to the department of human services.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Education Finance.

Gunther and Simpson introduced:

H. F. 1457, A bill for an act relating to commerce; regulating cigarette delivery sales; providing penalties; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325D.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Jobs and Economic Development.

Severson introduced:

H. F. 1458, A bill for an act relating to natural resources; permitting the harvesting of farmed cervidae on licensed shooting preserves; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 17.451, subdivision 2; 17.452, subdivisions 5, 8; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 84.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Policy.

Cornish introduced:

H. F. 1459, A bill for an act relating to highways; directing commissioner of transportation to consider design-build method in reconstructing highway 14; authorizing issuance of trunk highway bonds for improvements to highway 14; appropriating money.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Policy.

Dorman introduced:

H. F. 1460, A bill for an act relating to ethanol; clarifying shareholder rights in certain business associations; prohibiting ethanol producer payments for associations not in compliance; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 41A.09, by adding subdivisions.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Policy.

Lanning introduced:

H. F. 1461, A bill for an act relating to the city of Moorhead; extending authority to impose a tax levy; amending Laws 2002, chapter 377, article 11, section 1.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.

Hoppe introduced:

H. F. 1462, A bill for an act relating to crime prevention; requiring the bureau of criminal apprehension to establish and maintain an Internet Web site containing public criminal history data; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 13.87, subdivision 3.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Policy and Finance.

Latz introduced:

H. F. 1463, A bill for an act relating to taxation; making changes to sales and use tax provisions to conform to streamlined sales tax project; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 289A.18, subdivision 4; 289A.20, subdivision 4; 289A.40, subdivision 2; 289A.50, by adding a subdivision; 297A.61, subdivisions 3, 7, 10, 17, 30, 31, by adding subdivisions; 297A.66, by adding a subdivision; 297A.668; 297A.67, subdivisions 7, 8, by adding a subdivision; 297A.68, subdivision 36; 297A.72, subdivision 1; 297A.81; 297A.99, subdivisions 5, 10, 12; 297A.995, by adding a subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 297A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 297A.61, subdivisions 14, 15, 18; 297A.69, subdivision 5.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Taxes.

Pugh, Sieben and Atkins introduced:

H. F. 1464, A bill for an act relating to environmental improvement; authorizing phase II stormwater pollution prevention program plans to certain municipalities.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy.

Finstad introduced:

H. F. 1465, A bill for an act relating to education; using other revenue for recognition of volunteers for extracurricular activities; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 123B.49, subdivision 4.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Education Finance.

Smith introduced:

H. F. 1466, A bill for an act relating to retirement; requiring an actuarial study to determine the costs to restructure the four Minnesota teacher retirement plans.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations and Veterans Affairs Policy.

Clark, Mariani and Lieder introduced:

H. F. 1467, A bill for an act relating to transportation; requiring commissioner of transportation to require contractors to take certain actions for hiring women and minorities for highway projects; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 161.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Policy.

Peterson, Eken, Otremba, Koenen, Juhnke and Hilty introduced:

H. F. 1468, A bill for an act relating to agriculture; providing a mechanism for farmers to reserve seed from an agricultural crop for purposes of planting in subsequent crop years; authorizing a fee; imposing a penalty; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, sections 21.81, by adding subdivisions; 21.87; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 21.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Policy.