Bill Summaries: 2011–2012
House Research Department
Bill summaries are prepared by Legislative Analysts of the nonpartisan House Research Department for the benefit of House members and the general public. Generally, summaries are only prepared for bills that have been scheduled for public hearings. Users are cautioned to review the language of the bill itself rather than relying entirely on information provided by the summary.
Updated versions of bill summaries reflect amendments to a bill adopted in committee or on the House or Senate floor. All versions of bill summaries, both most recent and previous, are available.
Summaries from a previous biennium are also available:
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| Bill | Latest Version | Subject | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF 1 | Second engrossment | Environmental review and permitting | All versions |
| HF 2 | Second engrossment | Zero-based budgeting; sunset process | All versions |
| HF 3 | 1st engrossment | Alternative teacher preparation program and limited term teaching license | All versions |
| HF 4 | 2nd engrossment | Reduction in state workforce | All versions |
| HF 6 | Second engrossment | Sex Offender Sentencing | All versions |
| HF 7 | First engrossment | Local government mandates repealed | All versions |
| HF 8 | Third engrossment | Healthy Minnesota Contribution Program | All versions |
| HF 10 | As introduced | Business tax reductions | |
| HF 11 | As introduced | Research and Development Credit | |
| HF 12 | First committee engrossment with H0012A22 amendment | Agricultural property taxation; Green Acres | All versions |
| HF 15 | As Introduced | Partial income tax subtraction for military retirement pay; $6,000 limit | |
| HF 16 | As Introduced | Fishing with Two Lines | |
| HF 18 | As Introduced | Expands the sales tax exemption for farm machinery | |
| HF 19 | As introduced | Nursing Facility Rate Adjustment | |
| HF 22 | Delete everything amendment H0022DE2 | Property taxation; classification of certain inns located in small cities | |
| HF 31 | As Introduced | Drivers Given Priority to Take Deer Killed in Motor Vehicle Collisions | |
| HF 32 | First engrossment | Governmental tort liability limits | All versions |
| HF 40 | As introduced | Lifelong learning account program | |
| HF 42 | Conference committee report (CCRHF0042A) | Tax Omnibus Bill | All versions |
| HF 49 | As introduced | Fergus Falls local sales tax | |
| HF 50 | First engrossment | Veterans; creating a license plate for women veterans | All versions |
| HF 52 | First engrossment | Local government, zoning variances | All versions |
| HF 54 | As Introduced | Agricultural property taxation; Green Acres | |
| HF 55 | 2nd engrossment | State lands | All versions |
| HF 56 | First Engrossment | USERRA; Waiver of State Immunity | All versions |
| HF 57 | Conference Committee Report | Synthetic marijuana | All versions |
| HF 63 | 3rd engrossment | Teacher licensure provisions | All versions |
| HF 66 | First engrossment | Political contribution refund and tax check-off repeal | All versions |
| HF 67 | As Introduced | State budget | |
| HF 68 | As Introduced | Careless driving | |
| HF 71 | As Introduced | Operating Capital Revenue Uses Expanded | |
| HF 72 | As Introduced | Energy | |
| HF 77 | As introduced | Establishing Grant Programs for Healthy Communities and Circles of Support | |
| HF 79 | Third engrossment | Income tax federal conformity, tax year 2010 only; repeal of refund delay | All versions |
| HF 80 | As Introduced | Annual special permit for waterfront structures | |
| HF 82 | Delete everything amendment (H0082DE1) | Income tax subtraction for military retirement pay; phased in | All versions |
| HF 88 | As Introduced | Safe Schools Levy; Maintenance of Effort Requirement Repealed | |
| HF 89 | Third engrossment | Voter Identification | All versions |
| HF 92 | As Introduced | Repeal of January collective bargaining agreement deadline and aid penalty | |
| HF 93 | As Introduced | Arianna Celeste MacNamara Memorial Bridge | |
| HF 99 | As Introduced | Veterans; property tax; exempting property of veteran service organizations | |
| HF 102 | First Engrossment | Minnesota Science and Technology Program | All versions |
| HF 103 | First engrossment | Unemployment insurance | All versions |
| HF 105 | As Introduced | Veterans; appropriations; disabled veterans rest camp | |
| HF 106 | As Introduced | Providing a sales tax exemption for water used in public safety | |
| HF 107 | As Introduced | Spear Fishing - Slot Limits for Northerns Removed | |
| HF 108 | As Introduced | Income tax checkoff for contributions for multiple sclerosis research and assistance | |
| HF 110 | As Introduced | Pension Commission membership | |
| HF 112 | As introduced | Taylors Falls -- border city development zone authority | |
| HF 113 | First engrossment | Exemption from MinnesotaCare Provider Tax | All versions |
| HF 115 | As Introduced | Repeal of January collective bargaining agreement deadline and aid penalty | |
| HF 117 | As Introduced | Grant program to fund high school counseling services | |
| HF 122 | Second engrossment | Dental plan provider agreements | All versions |
| HF 125 | 1st engrossment | Salary freeze; 2011 appropriation reductions | All versions |
| HF 126 | As Introduced | Higher education base reductions | |
| HF 127 | As Introduced | State employee salary freeze | |
| HF 128 | As Introduced | Appropriations reductions | |
| HF 129 | 1st engrossment | Permanently enacts state revenues savings initiatives enacted temporarily during the 2010 session and conforms to federal income tax changes | All versions |
| HF 130 | Conference committee report | State budget reductions | All versions |
| HF 133 | 1st engrossment | Trial placements at the Minnesota Academies for the Deaf and Blind | All versions |
| HF 135 | First Engrossment | Local authority to regulate wells | All versions |
| HF 141 | 1st engrossment | Public safety dogs | All versions |
| HF 142 | As Introduced | Agricultural property taxation; Green Acres | |
| HF 143 | As Introduced | Allowing Glenwood Township to impose an aggregate materials tax | |
| HF 148 | As Introduced | Agricultural property taxation; Green Acres | |
| HF 151 | 1st engrossment | Posting predatory offender information on the Internet | All versions |
| HF 152 | As Introduced | Criminal possession and sale of identification documents | |
| HF 155 | As Introduced | Repeals general levy limits | |
| HF 156 | As introduced | Property taxation; seasonal recreational property | |
| HF 161 | Delete everything amendment (H0161DE2) | Public safety; firearms; repealing Minnesota's permit-to-purchase requirement | |
| HF 164 | As Introduced | Income tax subtraction for military retirement pay | |
| HF 166 | As Introduced | Lead poisoning prevention | |
| HF 171 | Delete everything amendment (H0171DE2) | Electronic Benefit Transfers and Residency Requirements | |
| HF 173 | 1st engrossment | Sunset of state agencies | All versions |
| HF 174 | Third engrossment | DOR for tax compliance contract | All versions |
| HF 180 | As Introduced | Location of Criminal Prosecutions | |
| HF 182 | First engrossment | Water Rulemaking Moratorium and Study | All versions |
| HF 183 | As Introduced | Requiring teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test before being granted an initial teaching license | |
| HF 185 | As introduced | Environmental penalties | |
| HF 186 | Second engrossment | Veterans; Drivers License Renewal Requirements | All versions |
| HF 191 | First Engrossment | Consolidation of state agency information systems and services | All versions |
| HF 192 | 1st engrossment | Reinventing Government Employment Act | |
| HF 194 | As introduced | Capital investment, report on jobs created or retained | |
| HF 197 | As introduced | Nonresident Off-Road Vehicle State Trail Pass | |
| HF 199 | 1st engrossment | Freedom of choice in health care | All versions |
| HF 200 | First engrossment | Alzheimer's Disease Reporting | All versions |
| HF 201 | As Introduced | Prohibiting Use of State Health Care Program Funding for Abortions | |
| HF 202 | As Introduced | Corporate franchise tax - single sales apportionment | |
| HF 203 | 1st engrossment | Legislative approval of rules | All versions |
| HF 206 | 1st engrossment | Permenant School Fund Advisory Committee membershp | All versions |
| HF 207 | As Introduced | Minerals management costs | |
| HF 210 | Fourth engrossment | Elections | All versions |
| HF 211 | Second engrossment | Omnibus torts bill | All versions |
| HF 212 | As Introduced | PELRA definition of public employee | |
| HF 221 | As introduced | Paynesville airport | |
| HF 222 | Delete-everything amendment (H0222DE3) | Health insurance | |
| HF 225 | As Introduced | Limiting Northern Pike Experimental and Special Management Waters | |
| HF 226 | First engrossment | Veterans cemetery siting | All versions |
| HF 229 | First engrossment | Juvenile sex offender -- residency restriction | All versions |
| HF 232 | As Introduced | Veterans; Gold Star License Plate eligibility expanded | |
| HF 233 | As introduced | Identification of Improper Medicaid Payments | All versions |
| HF 235 | First engrossment | Hannah's law | All versions |
| HF 239 | As introduced | ICF/MR Rate Increase | |
| HF 240 | The delete everything amendment (H0240DE8) | Veterans; homestead market value exclusion for certain disabled veterans | All versions |
| HF 242 | As Introduced | Spear Fishing on Cass Lake | |
| HF 247 | First engrossment | Voluntary contributions to the state through the income tax system | All versions |
| HF 248 | As introduced | Repeal of law relating to Section 125 plans | |
| HF 250 | 1st engrossment | Claims against the state | All versions |
| HF 253 | As introduced | Repeal the June accelerated tax payments | |
| HF 254 | As Introduced | Alternative Facilities Levy | |
| HF 257 | As Introduced | Early graduation incentive program for high school students | |
| HF 258 | 1st engrossment | Modifies revenue recapture for licensed ambulance services | All versions |
| HF 259 | As introduced | Mississippi River Management Plan | |
| HF 262 | Second engrossment | Community paramedics | All versions |
| HF 264 | First engrossment | Civil immunity; weight gain from food consumption | All versions |
| HF 269 | First engrossment | Qualified economic offer for teachers | All versions |
| HF 272 | As introduced | Nursing Facility Rate Adjustment | |
| HF 273 | First engrossment | Enrollment options for students in low-performing schools | All versions |
| HF 274 | As amended by author's amendment (H0274A1) | Estate tax -- small business and farm exemption | |
| HF 281 | 1st engrossment | State Primary Canvassing | |
| HF 288 | First engrossment | Tax credit for investments in startup and emerging businesses | All versions |
| HF 289 | As introduced | Business taxes | |
| HF 290 | As introduced | Federal conformity; foreign operating corporations | |
| HF 292 | 1st committee engrossment | Parenting plans | All versions |
| HF 293 | As introduced | Annandale Tactical Training Center | |
| HF 297 | As Introduced | Consolidation of state information technology systems and services | |
| HF 299 | Second engrossment | State Agency Value Initiative (SAVI) | All versions |
| HF 300 | First engrossment | Specifying the content of the early childhood screening program notice | All versions |
| HF 301 | As Introduced | Operating capital revenue uses | |
| HF 305 | As Introduced | Authorizing a bank branch in Northern Township | |
| HF 306 | As Introduced | Juvenile offenses: age of adult certification/EJJ | |
| HF 308 | As introduced | Taconite Revenue; State Aid Reductions Restored | |
| HF 311 | As introduced | Supplemental contracts with providers | |
| HF 315 | As introduced | Long-term care provider rate increases | |
| HF 317 | As introduced | City of Ramsey -- Tax Increment Financing (TIF) | |
| HF 322 | Delete everything amendment (H0322DE3) | Children's Equal and Shared Parenting Act | All versions |
| HF 323 | First engrossment | Real estate broker price opinions | All versions |
| HF 327 | As introduced | Microdistilleries | |
| HF 328 | As introduced | Elbow Lake seaplane base | |
| HF 329 | As introduced | Prohibiting the use of public resources for advocacy | |
| HF 332 | As Introduced | No net increase in state land | |
| HF 336 | As introduced | Allow all cities to impose a local sales tax with an LGA offset | |
| HF 337 | As amended by author's amendment (H0337A1) | Tax Increment Financing (TIF) -- excluding county levies | |
| HF 338 | As introduced | Prohibition of new tax increment financing (TIF) activities | |
| HF 339 | First engrossment | Establishes process for negotiating teacher contracts; prohibits teachers from striking | All versions |
| HF 341 | As Introduced | School aid payments; state cash flow borrowing | |
| HF 342 | First Engrossment | Manufactured Home Inspections | All versions |
| HF 343 | Delete-everything amendment (H0343DE1) | Enhancing prevention of use of money transfers in fraudulent transactions | |
| HF 346 | As Introduced | Operating capital account fund transfers | |
| HF 347 | First engrossment | Motor vehicle and driver's license filing fees | All versions |
| HF 348 | As Introduced | Decoys in Public Waters | |
| HF 355 | 1st engrossment | Reducing home school mandates | All versions |
| HF 358 | As introduced | Immigration enforcement | |
| HF 359 | As amended by the H0359DE1 amendment | Modifies the tax treatment of motor vehicle repair paints and supplies | |
| HF 360 | First engrossment | Declaring that school districts are not required to serve students without disabilities from other states who are placed in state residential facilities | All versions |
| HF 361 | As Introduced | Fleeing peace officers | |
| HF 362 | Delete everything amendment (H0362DE1) | Common interest community association records | |
| HF 364 | As introduced | Detoxification | |
| HF 367 | As Introduced | Municipal laboratories | |
| HF 369 | As introduced | Capital investment, return on investment analysis | |
| HF 370 | As Introduced | Youth intervention programs | |
| HF 371 | First engrossment | Public Employees Insurance Program | All versions |
| HF 377 | As Introduced | Hutchinson local sales tax | |
| HF 378 | As introduced | For-profit graduate education | |
| HF 382 | As introduced | Receiverships and Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors | |
| HF 383 | First engrossment | Radiation Therapy Facility Construction Moratorium | All versions |
| HF 384 | As Introduced | Veterans Higher Education Assistance Program (campus vet reps) | |
| HF 387 | As Introduced | Driver's license reinstatement diversion program | |
| HF 389 | As amended by H0389A2 | Local government, interim planning ordinances, municipal development contracts | All versions |
| HF 392 | As introduced | School bus crossing arm | |
| HF 393 | As Introduced | Eliminate the early sales tax remittances for all months except June | |
| HF 394 | As Introduced | Expanding the sales tax exemption for public radio systems | |
| HF 395 | As introduced | Real estate law technical changes | |
| HF 398 | As amended by H0398A3 | Changing the state-local government fiscal relationship | |
| HF 405 | As Introduced | Youthbuild | |
| HF 407 | As Introduced | School aid payments; state cash flow borrowing | |
| HF 410 | As amended by the H0410A1 amendment | Phased-in income tax exemption for social security benefits | |
| HF 418 | First engrossment | Back Office Consolidation Act | All versions |
| HF 419 | As Introduced | Combining State Departments and Agencies | |
| HF 429 | First engrossment | Anoka County, bonding for public safety systems | All versions |
| HF 434 | As introduced | Petrofund | |
| HF 435 | As Introduced | Management of permanent school fund | |
| HF 439 | As introduced | Prison Assaults | |
| HF 440 | First engrossment | Omnibus judiciary bill | All versions |
| HF 441 | First engrossment | Telephone fees | All versions |
| HF 442 | As Introduced | Staff Development Revenue Reserve Repealed | |
| HF 444 | As introduced | Uniform Commercial Code, Article 9 | |
| HF 445 | As introduced | Tax increment financing -- market rate housing developments | |
| HF 446 | As amended with author's amendment (H0446DE2) | Jobs credit | |
| HF 447 | First engrossment | Vulnerable adults | All versions |
| HF 448 | As introduced | Sales of brand-exclusive clothes at off-sale site | |
| HF 449 | As introduced | Repeals 2% contractor withholding requirement | |
| HF 451 | First engrossment | Income tax federal conformity, tax year 2010 only | All versions |
| HF 459 | As introduced | Deputy John J. Liebenstein Memorial Highway | |
| HF 460 | As introduced | Fire sprinklers/single family homes | |
| HF 462 | As introduced | Nurse Licensure Compact | |
| HF 464 | As introduced | Teacher collective bargaining agreements | |
| HF 465 | As introduced | Safe at Home; protective orders | |
| HF 466 | As Introduced | Veterans; homelessness grant | |
| HF 467 | Second engrossment | Prison Gardens | All versions |
| HF 468 | As Introduced | Prohibiting certain expenditures of state funds | |
| HF 469 | First engrossment | Harassment restraining orders | All versions |
| HF 471 | As Introduced | Outdoor Heritage Fund appropriation | |
| HF 473 | First engrossment | Spousal maintenance | All versions |
| HF 474 | As introduced | Fire Safety Account | |
| HF 479 | As Introduced | Controlled substances | |
| HF 480 | As Introduced | Electronic Prescribing Requirements | |
| HF 481 | Delete-everything amendment A11-0139 | Property and Local Tax Division Report | All versions |
| HF 482 | As Introduced | Mortuary Science | |
| HF 485 | As introduced | Sales tax exemption for the Minnesota State High School League | |
| HF 493 | First engrossment | Motor vehicle provisions | All versions |
| HF 495 | As introduced | National Popular Vote Interstate Compact | |
| HF 497 | As Introduced | Creation of health insurance exchange | |
| HF 498 | As Introduced | No net loss of hunting lands | |