The following House Files were introduced:

Carruthers, McElroy, Hilty, Slawik and Kahn introduced:

H. F. No. 3704, A bill for an act relating to the housing finance agency; extending the availability of equity take-out loans; amending procedures for the allocation of low-income housing tax credits; permitting allocation of the housing pool to senior rental housing if it is federally assisted; requiring an impact statement and a hearing before an owner terminates participationin a federally assisted rental housing program; permitting a local government to require relocationassistance for certain tenants; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 462A.222, subdivision 3; and 474A.061, subdivision 2a; Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 462A.05, subdivision 39; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 471.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and International Trade.

Milbert and Johnson , A., introduced:

H. F. No. 3705, A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; exempting television commercials and tangible property used or consumed in producing television commercials; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 297A.25, by adding a subdivision.

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

Bakk and Jaros introduced:

H. F. No. 3706, A bill for an act relating to taxation; eliminating county authority to grant economic development tax abatements; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 469.1812, subdivision 4.

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

Sviggum, Osskopp, Dempsey and Rest introduced:

H. F. No. 3707, A bill for an act relating to taxes; allowing a special levy for required staffing of a new detention center and exempting construction materials for a joint law enforcement center from the sales and use tax; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, sections 275.70, subdivision 5; 297A.15, subdivision 7; and 297A.25, by adding a subdivision.

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

Murphy introduced:

H. F. No. 3708, A bill for an act relating to the city of Hermantown; providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases.

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

Kahn, Osthoff, Munger, Hausman and Biernat introduced:

H. F. No. 3709, A bill for an act relating to natural resources; establishing the Mississippi whitewater trail; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 85.

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

Rest, Leighton, Tomassoni, Ozment and Bakk introduced:

H. F. No. 3710, A bill for an act relating to income taxation and higher education; extending the number of years of educationprovided by the state to 13; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 135A; and 290.

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

Greenfield, Dorn, Wejcman and Goodno introduced:

H. F. No. 3711, A bill for an act relating to public administration; authorizing spending to acquire and to better public land and buildings of a capital nature under the administration of the veterans homes board and the commissioner of human services and to make other public improvements of a capital nature; authorizing issuance of bonds; appropriating money.

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

Stanek, Murphy, Chaudhary and Broecker introduced:

H. F. No. 3712, A bill for an act relating to corrections; guaranteeing correctional officers rights when a formal statement is taken as part of an investigation that could result in disciplinary action; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 241.

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

Dawkins introduced:

H. F. No. 3713, A bill for an act relating to health; modifying the enrollee complaint system for health maintenance organizations; establishing an office of health care consumer assistance , Advocacy , And information; extending the dates for establishing certain health plan dispute resolution processes; modifying requirements of counties for participating in medical assistance and general assistance medical care; requiring a study; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, sections 62D.11, subdivision 1; 62Q.105, subdivision 1; 62Q.30; and 256B.692, subdivision 2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 62J.

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

Erhardt introduced:

H. F. No. 3714, A bill for an act relating to taxation; clarifying the tax rate on non-mixed-municipal solid waste incinerated at a mixed municipal solid waste combustor facility that uses energy recovery; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 297H.04, by adding a subdivision.

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

Workman; Swenson, H.; Stang and Holsten introduced:

H. F. No. 3715, A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying the method of paying assistance under the Minnesota family investment program-statewide; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 256J.24, by adding a subdivision.

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

Workman; Swenson, H.; Gunther and Stang introduced:

H. F. No. 3716, A bill for an act relating to health; establishing requirements for abstinence education grants; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.

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

Kalis introduced:

H. F. No. 3717, A bill for an act relating to education; reducing the levy for independent school district No. 2860, Blue Earth area.

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

Bishop and Bradley introduced:

H. F. No. 3718, A bill for an act relating to appropriations; authorizing state bonds; appropriating money for a collocated consolidated office for several state agencies.

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

Carruthers introduced:

H. F. No. 3719, A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for the office of research and technology transfer administration for purposes of developing an international technology acquisition and transfer system.

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

Milbert, Pawlenty, Erhardt and Hasskamp introduced:

H. F. No. 3720, A bill for an act relating to taxation; property; limiting increases in market value; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 273.11, subdivision 1a.

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

Macklin , Abrams and Pawlenty introduced:

H. F. No. 3721, A bill for an act relating to taxation; property; reducing the class rate on certain seasonal recreational property; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 273.1398, subdivision 1a; Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 273.13, subdivision 25 , As amended.

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

Daggett introduced:

H. F. No. 3722, A bill for an act relating to the city of Detroit Lakes; authorizing the city to impose sales and use taxes; specifying purposes for expenditures of the proceeds of the taxes.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs.

Skoglund introduced:

H. F. No. 3723, A bill for an act relating to human services; changing ineligibility provision for state funded programs; amending Laws 1997, chapter 203 , Article 9, section 21.

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

Biernat introduced:

H. F. No. 3724, A bill for an act relating to education; authorizing a demonstration joint school and recreation year-round youth athletic program; appropriating money.

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

Long; Abrams; Johnson , A. , And Ozment introduced:

H. F. No. 3725, A bill for an act relating to taxation; exempting certain printed materials from the sales tax; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 297A.25, by adding a subdivision.

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

Kelso introduced:

H. F. No. 3726, A bill for an act relating to education; amending licensure requirements for teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students; amending Laws 1993, chapter 224 , Article 3, section 32.

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

Ness, Greiling, Tomassoni, Carlson and Kinkel introduced:

H. F. No. 3727, A bill for an act relating to education; including a licensed community education instructor in the definition of teacher upon mutual agreement of a school board and the exclusive bargaining representative of the teachers; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 125.032, subdivision 2.

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

Pelowski, Carruthers, Garcia and Mares introduced:

H. F. No. 3728, A bill for an act relating to income taxation and higher education; extending the number of years of educationprovided by the state to 13; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 135A; and 290.

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

Greenfield introduced:

H. F. No. 3729, A bill for an act relating to health; directing the commissioner of human services to provide bridge funding to the neighborhood health care network and the Minnesota primary care association for distribution to their current members for uncompensated care; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 256.

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

Lieder, Biernat and Finseth introduced:

H. F. No. 3730, A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for unfunded flood-related costs.

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

Carlson; Pelowski; Johnson, R.; Dehler and Huntley introduced:

H. F. No. 3731, A bill for an act relating to education; changing the calculation of student financial aid by excluding a portion of any Pell grant; extending the number of years of education provided by the state to 13; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 136A.121, subdivision 5; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 135A; and 290.

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

Tomassoni, Bakk and Rukavina introduced:

H. F. No. 3732, A bill for an act relating to education; amending provisions regarding school bus advertising; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 121.175.

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

Ozment introduced:

H. F. No. 3733, A bill for an act relating to natural resources; modifying enforcement procedures and penalties for work performed on public waters wetlands; providing criminal penalties; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 103G.141, subdivision 1; and by adding a subdivision.

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

Mares introduced:

H. F. No. 3734, A bill for an act relating to employee relations; modifying provisions governing the public employees insurance program; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 43A.316, subdivision 2.

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

Anderson, I., introduced:

H. F. No. 3735, A bill for an act relating to property taxes; authorizing additional enterprise zone allocations for tax reductions; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 469.169, by adding a subdivision.

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

Juhnke introduced:

H. F. No. 3736, A bill for an act relating to education; establishing an alternative method of allocation for compensatory revenue; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 124A.28, subdivision 1a.

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

Johnson , A.; Olson, E.; Dawkins; Ness and Milbert introduced:

H. F. No. 3737, A bill for an act relating to income taxation and higher education; extending the number of years of educationprovided by the state to 13; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 135A; and 290.

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

Greenfield and Wagenius introduced:

H. F. No. 3738, A bill for an act relating to transportation; making seat belt violation a primary offense; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 169.686, subdivision 1.

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

Skare, Kuisle and Schumacher introduced:

H. F. No. 3739, A bill for an act relating to property taxation; appropriating money for a grant to produce materials to educate citizens about the working of the Minnesota property tax system.

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

Long and Solberg introduced:

H. F. No. 3740, A bill for an act relating to taxation; changing the rate of motor vehicle registration tax; making technical changes; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 161.081, by adding a subdivision; and 168.013, subdivision 1a.

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

Chaudhary introduced:

H. F. No. 3741, A bill for an act relating to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observance; appropriating money to the council on Black Minnesotans for planning and coordination activities.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and International Trade.

Dawkins introduced:

H. F. No. 3742, A bill for an act relating to taxation; providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by government entities of products manufactured in corrections industry programs; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 297A.25, subdivision 11.

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

Olson, M., introduced:

H. F. No. 3743, A bill for an act relating to juveniles; appropriating money to juvenile facilities that provide quality programming , As demonstrated by measurable outcomes.

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

Finseth introduced:

H. F. No. 3744, A bill for an act relating to appropriations; authorizing state bonds; appropriating money for a multipurpose events center in Red Lake Falls.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and International Trade.

Weaver, Farrell, Delmont, Larsen and Mares introduced:

H. F. No. 3745, A bill for an act relating to crime; prescribing a gross misdemeanor penalty for intentionally not paying for gasoline at a gasoline service station; amending Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 609.52, subdivisions 2 and 3.

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

Osthoff, for the Committee Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance, introduced:

H. F. No. 3746, A bill for an act relating to the environment; authorizing spending to acquire and to better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; authorizing state bonds; appropriating money.

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

Slawik introduced:

H. F. No. 3747, A bill for an act relating to education; modifying debt service levy equalization; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 124.95, subdivision 4; Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 124.961.

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

Anderson, I., introduced:

H. F. No. 3748, A bill for an act relating to financial institutions; trust companies; providing for the organization, powers , And duties of trust companies; providing fiduciary provisions for trust companies and banks exercising trust powers; regulating interstate trust offices; making conforming changes; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 16A.6701, subdivision 1; 48.01, subdivisions 1 and 2; 48.36, subdivision 1; 48.37; 48.39; 48.41; 48.42; 48.43; 48.44; 48.45; 48.46; 48.47; 50.085, subdivision 14; 303.25, subdivision 3; 525.551, subdivision 6; and 525.56, subdivision 4; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 48A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 46.045, subdivision 2a; 48.38; 48.475; 48.65; 48.66; 48.67; 48.68; 48.69; 48.70; 48.71; 48.72; 48.73; 48.75; 48.76; 48.77; 48.78; 48.79; 48.80; 48.81; 48.82; 48.83; 48.84; 48.841; 48.845; 48.846; 48.85; and 48.86.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.

Jennings, Jefferson, Mares and Carruthers introduced:

H. F. No. 3749, A bill for an act relating to baseball; providing for a process to construct, fund, maintain, And govern a major league baseball park; providing for community ownership of the baseball team; providing for powers and duties of the metropolitan sports facilities commission and the metropolitan council; authorizing certain taxes, revenue distributions, bonds and other debt obligations, And allocations; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 349A.10, by adding a subdivision; 473.551, subdivision 8, And by adding subdivisions; 473.552; 473.553, subdivision 1; and 473.556, subdivisions 3, 4, 5, And by adding subdivisions; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473I.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs.