INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

Tuesday, March 20, 2007


The following House Files were introduced:

Greiling introduced:

H. F. 2245, A bill for an act relating to education; modifying general education aid; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 126C.13, subdivision 4.

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

Westrom introduced:

H. F. 2246, A bill for an act relating to energy; amending allocations from the renewable development account for renewable energy production incentive payments and grants; establishing ownership criteria for projects to contribute to a utility's renewable energy standard; requiring a proportion of conservation improvement program funds to be spent on renewable energy projects; establishing rebates for home furnaces burning biomass; requiring electric cooperatives and municipal utilities to transfer a proportion of conservation improvement program funds to the University of Minnesota; making landfill gas and gas generated from anaerobic digesters eligible for renewable energy production incentive payments; establishing a grant program for on-farm anaerobic digesters; establishing a rebuttable presumption that a wind energy conversion system is not a public or private nuisance two years after it begins operations; directing that petroleum violation escrow funds be used for grants to K-12 schools to develop conservation and renewable energy projects; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 116C.779, subdivision 2; 216B.1691, as amended, by adding a subdivision; 216B.241, subdivision 6, by adding subdivisions; 216C.41, subdivisions 1, 2, 3; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 216C; 561.

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

Dean, Berns, DeLaForest and Emmer introduced:

H. F. 2247, A bill for an act relating to state government; establishing procedures and restrictions relating to hiring outside attorneys; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 8.065.

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

Nelson and Gunther introduced:

H. F. 2248, A bill for an act relating to workers' compensation; adopting recommendations of the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 176.101, subdivision 1; 176.102, subdivision 11; 176.136, subdivisions 1a, 1b; 176.275, subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 176.669.

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

Clark introduced:

H. F. 2249, A bill for an act relating to housing; regulating transactions between certain low-income and moderate-income housing developers and local units of government; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 462A.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Housing Policy and Finance and Public Health Finance Division.

Bly introduced:

H. F. 2250, A bill for an act relating to appropriation for University of Minnesota.

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

Lenczewski and Slocum introduced:

H. F. 2251, A bill for an act relating to tax increment financing; providing a reimbursement mechanism for the city of Bloomington related to siting of the north-south airport runway.

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

Davnie introduced:

H. F. 2252, A bill for an act relating to state government; creating a sustainable growth working group; appropriating money.

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

Peterson, A.; Bly; Hilty; Tschumper and Kalin introduced:

H. F. 2253, A bill for an act relating to energy; amending provisions regarding community-based energy development projects; regulating utility ownership and cost recovery for renewable energy projects; requiring Public Utilities Commission to establish policy regarding curtailment payments; regulating green pricing programs; requiring studies of potential for dispersed generation projects; extending expiration of reliability administrator position and transferring the position from Public Utilities Commission to Department of Commerce; limiting the length of wind easements if a project is not constructed; requiring reliability administrator to study need for and authority of state electric transmission authority and of enhancing ease of interconnecting dispersed generation projects to the grid; specifying aggregation procedures for purposes of permitting wind projects; allowing counties to issue permits for large wind energy conversion systems; removing sunset for renewable energy option program for utility customers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 216B.1612; 216B.1645, by adding subdivisions; 216B.169; 216B.2426; 216C.052; 500.30, subdivision 2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 216B; 216F; repealing Laws 2007, chapter 3, section 3.

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

Ruth introduced:

H. F. 2254, A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying payment rates for services to ventilator-dependent persons provided by a nursing facility in Waseca County; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 256B.431, subdivision 2e.

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

Zellers, Dean, Simpson, Emmer, Peppin, Finstad, Berns, DeLaForest, Kohls and Gottwalt introduced:

H. F. 2255, A bill for an act relating to taxation; property; freezing the value for two years on seasonal-recreational property; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 273.11, subdivision 1a, by adding a subdivision.

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

Eken and Dill introduced:

H. F. 2256, A bill for an act relating to game and fish; creating a three-year license for fish houses and dark houses; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 97A.411, subdivision 1; 97A.475, subdivisions 11, 12.

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

Beard, Moe, Erhardt, Seifert, Sertich, Lieder, Severson and Gottwalt introduced:

H. F. 2257, A bill for an act relating to sales and use tax; exempting purchases by political subdivisions of materials used in construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and airports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 297A.70, subdivision 2.

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

Clark introduced:

H. F. 2258, A bill for an act relating to health; requiring a health risk level standard for exposure to arsenic; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.

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

Lenczewski introduced:

H. F. 2259, A bill for an act relating to taxation; modifying taxation of certain compensation paid to nonresidents; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 290.17, subdivision 2.

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

Lenczewski introduced:

H. F. 2260, A bill for an act relating to finance; establishing the State Budget Trends Study Commission; requiring a study; appropriating money.

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

Hansen introduced:

H. F. 2261, A bill for an act relating to taxation; authorizing the city of Mendota to impose a food and beverage tax.

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

Ruud and Wagenius introduced:

H. F. 2262, A bill for an act relating to state government; creating a new Department of Energy; transferring existing duties from the Department of Commerce; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 15.01; 15.06, subdivision 1; 15A.0815, subdivision 2; 43A.08, subdivision 1a; 116C.779; 123B.65, subdivisions 1, 5; 216A.085; 216A.095; 216B.241, subdivision 1; 216C.01, subdivisions 2, 3; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 216H.

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

Tillberry introduced:

H. F. 2263, A bill for an act relating to education finance; modifying transition revenue; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 126C.10, subdivision 31.

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

Sviggum introduced:

H. F. 2264, A bill for an act relating to transportation; appropriating money for trunk highway projects; authorizing sale of trunk highway bonds.

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

Mullery introduced:

H. F. 2265, A bill for an act relating to criminal justice; providing that certain violent offenders consent to on-demand searches as a condition of being released on probation, supervised release, or parole; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 244.05, by adding a subdivision; 609.135, by adding a subdivision.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Civil Justice.

Murphy, M. and Huntley introduced:

H. F. 2266, A bill for an act relating to agriculture; requiring the state to provide export grain inspection services at the Port of Duluth; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 17B.03, by adding a subdivision.

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs.

Murphy, M.; Sertich; Dill and Hilty introduced:

H. F. 2267, A bill for an act relating to community corrections; appropriating money for a productive day pilot project operated by Arrowhead Regional Corrections Agency.

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

Lenczewski and Simpson introduced:

H. F. 2268, A bill for an act relating to public finance; providing terms and conditions related to the issuance of obligations and the financing of public improvements and services; extending the time for certain publications of notices; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 118A.03, subdivision 3; 123B.61; 204B.46; 331A.05, subdivision 2; 365A.02; 365A.04; 365A.08; 365A.095; 373.01, subdivision 3; 375B.09; 383B.117, subdivision 2; 410.32; 412.301; 428A.02, subdivision 1; 453A.02, subdivision 3; 473.39, by adding a subdivision; 475.58, subdivision 3b; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 475.

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