GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS & VETERANS AFFAIRS POLICY
Basement Hearing Room
State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Jim Rhodes
Agenda: HF857 (Kielkucki) Election day registration to require picture identification, additional registration information required, certain felony convictions reported, and rulemaking authorized.
HF479 (Lipman) Election day voter registration identity and residence requirements modified, election administration practice study requested, election equipment purchase revolving loan fund created, and money appropriated.

HEALTH & HUMAN
SERVICES POLICY
10 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Fran Bradley
Agenda: HF1123 (Mulder) Nonmetropolitan county prepaid medical assistance program capitation rates increased.
HF1124 (Mulder) Nonmetropolitan inpatient hospital rates for certain diagnosis-related groups adjusted.
HF281 (Greiling) Civil commitment mentally ill definition and emergency hold standard modified, early intervention hospital stay extended, and specified hearings on medications combined with commitment proceeding.
HF812 (Bradley) Suicide prevention goals, programs, duties and studies required; mental illness transition plans established; provider payment rates adjusted; mental health services and treatment coverage requirements provided; and money appropriated.
HF1531 (Bradley) Young adult transitional services provided and community based mental health services increased.

JOBS & ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
200 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Dan McElroy
Agenda: HF1003 (Gunther) Displaced homemakers program funding provided and money appropriated.
HF387/SF142 (Walker/Higgins) Black Minnesotans council membership increased.
HF1038 (Clark, J.) Minnesota Inventors Congress grants provided and money appropriated.
Review of Occupational Industrial Center (OIC) programs.

TRANSPORTATION FINANCE
5 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Carol Molnau
Agenda: HF1773 (Swenson) Minnesota rail service improvement program money appropriated.
HF1520 (Kuisle) County and municipal state-aid street fund restrictions modified, highway safety center grant authority transferred, and state rail bank lease provisions modified.
HF672 (Hausman) Railroad bridge expansion financial assistance authorized.

10:15 a.m.

CIVIL LAW
Basement Hearing Room
State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Steve Smith
Agenda: HF1446 (Smith) Family law recodification provided for marriage dissolution, child custody, support, and maintenance provisions, and conforming changes provided.
HF1360 (Boudreau) Minnesota Citizens' Personal Protection act of 2001 adopted recognizing the right to selfdefense, providing permits to carry a pistol, and imposing criminal penalties.
Note: Any unfinished business will be conducted in 500S State Office Building at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20.

ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL
RESOURCES FINANCE
10 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Mark Holsten
Agenda: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: Remediation Fund and Solid Waste Fund.
Office of Environmental Assistance budget presentation.

HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
300S State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Peggy Leppik
Agenda: HF1661 (Tuma) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities credit transfer required for specified lower-division courses.

K-12 EDUCATION FINANCE
5 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Alice Seagren
Agenda: HF1372 (Erickson) Relating to education; appropriating money for electronic continual learning plans.
HF1351 (Abeler) Relating to education; allowing local learn and earn programs to add up to five additional program slots; providing for a subsequent evaluation of student outcomes; appropriating money.
HF1434 (Juhnke) Relating to education finance; extending the metropolitan magnet school grant program statewide; appropriating money.
HF1052 (Leighton) Relating to education finance; extending the disabled access levy for Independent School District No. 500, Southland.
HF1601 (Carlson) Relating to education funding; authorizing a grant for the metro homework hotline; appropriating money.
HF1575 (Carlson) Relating to education finance; continuing the same level of compensatory revenue for districts that reduce the concentration of students eligible for free or reduced price meals by closing a school facility.

Property Tax Division/TAXES
200 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Ron Erhardt
Agenda: HF1398 (Dorman) Residential rental property class rates reduced, and homestead and agricultural credit aid computation adjusted to compensate for lost revenue.
HF1035 (Peterson) Agricultural homestead property residency location requirement exception provided for employer-provided housing.
HF1461 (Marquart) Agricultural homestead classification maximum distance from residency extended.
HF1187 (Mulder) Education agricultural property tax credit increased.

Sales and Income Tax Division/TAXES
500N State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Elaine Harder
Agenda: HF1559 (Sviggum) Exempts construction materials and equipment for a fire hall in the city of Dodge Center from sales and use taxes.
HF931 (Cassell) Extends the same sales tax and motor vehicle excise tax exemptions applicable to nonpublic schools to school districts.
HF946 (Winter) Eliminates the special sales and use tax rates on motor vehicle rentals and alcohol sales.
HF947 (Winter) Extends the exemption for the construction of an agricultural processing facility by one year.
HF1190 (Dorman) Exempts construction materials and equipment for certain agricultural processing facilities from the sales and use taxes.

12:30 p.m.

FAMILY & EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION FINANCE
5 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Barb Sykora
Agenda: Child Care, Gerald Cutts, Development Corporation for Children.
Fiscal Overview of Child Care, Katherine Schill, House Fiscal Analyst.
HF1515 (Sykora) Relating to family and early childhood education finance; consolidating MFIP and basic sliding fee child care assistance programs; modifying income eligibility.
HF504 (Mulder) Relating to family and early childhood education; modifying the at-home infant child care program.
HF1449 (Swapinski) Relating to early childhood; creating a grant program to increase the education and retention of child care providers and staff.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT &
METROPOLITAN AFFAIRS
200 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Jerry Dempsey
Agenda: HF1340 (Anderson, B.) Wright County recorder appointment permitted.
HF1589 (Howes) Bid and performance bond thresholds modified for economic development projects.
HF1465 (Stanek) Police civil service periodic examinations permitted and clarifying changes provided.
HF1077 (Rukavina) Aggregate material removal tax extended to counties that vote to impose the tax and rate of tax increased.
HF610 (Solberg) Local public officer's conflict of interest law exception provided (continued hearing).

REGULATED INDUSTRIES
10 State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Ken Wolf
Agenda: Mark-up of Committee Energy Bills:
HF659 (Wolf) State energy plan established, energy conservation promoted, and conforming, technical and clarifying changes provided (Governor's Proposal).
HF1323(Jennings/Wolf) Energy Reliability and Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Note: Meeting will be continued at 7 p.m. in 118 State Capitol if agenda is not finished during our regular meeting.

3 p.m.

THE HOUSE MEETS IN SESSION.

After session at the call of the chair (approx. 6 p.m. ‹ monitor schedule)

***CANCELED***
Subcommittee on Metropolitan Council and Agencies/LOCAL GOVERNMENT &
METROPOLITAN AFFAIRS
500N State Office Building
Chr. Rep. Mark Buesgens
Agenda: Canceled. HF1690 (Dibble) Metropolitan disposal system cost allocation system modified.
Other Business: Consider previously heard bills (HF46, HF444, HF1218, HF1322).

6 p.m.

Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement
107 State Capitol
Chr. Sen. Dean Johnson
Agenda: ***NOTE CHANGE***
Update briefing on Minnesota retirement building project.
S.F. 77 (Wiger); H.F. XXXX: PERA; Exclude certain St. Paul city trades personnel and Metropolitan Airports Commission plumbers from PERA coverage.
S.F. 1096 (Pogemiller); H.F. 1334 (Kahn): MSRS; University hospital employee disability benefits continuation.
S.F. 841 (Kiscaden); H.F. XXXX: TRA; Exempting certain teachers from post retirement earnings limits and reductions. S.F. 1129 (Johnson, Dean); H.F. 968 (Juhnke): Volunteer Firefighter Relief Associations; Provide ambulance service personnel state supplemental benefits, and increase amount and limits on supplemental benefits.
S.F. 777 (Tomassoni); H.F. 1161 (Sertich): MSRS; Refund eligibility.
S.F. 24 (Wiger); H.F. XXXX: Volunteer Fire; Service pension payment upon fire department reemployment.
S.F. XXXX; H.F. 855 (Mares): PERA; Contribution increases, benefit modifications, and coverage changes.
S.F. 810 (Pogemiller); H.F. XXXX: PERA; Contribution.