STATE OF MINNESOTA
SPECIAL SESSION - 2005
_____________________
SIXTH DAY
Saint Paul, Minnesota, Friday, June 3, 2005
The House of Representatives convened at 10:00 a.m. and was
called to order by Steve Sviggum, Speaker of the House.
Prayer was offered by the Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Stewart,
Director, Minneapolis Police Chaplain Corps, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The members of the House gave the pledge of allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America.
The roll was called and the following members were present:
Abeler
Anderson, B.
Anderson, I.
Atkins
Beard
Bernardy
Blaine
Bradley
Brod
Buesgens
Carlson
Charron
Cornish
Cox
Cybart
Davids
Dean
DeLaForest
Demmer
Dempsey
Dittrich
Eastlund
Eken
Emmer
Entenza
Erhardt
Erickson
Fritz
Garofalo
Gazelka
Goodwin
Greiling
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Hansen
Hausman
Heidgerken
Hilstrom
Hoppe
Hornstein
Hortman
Hosch
Howes
Huntley
Jaros
Johnson, R.
Juhnke
Kahn
Kelliher
Klinzing
Koenen
Kohls
Krinkie
Larson
Latz
Lenczewski
Lesch
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Mahoney
Marquart
McNamara
Meslow
Moe
Mullery
Murphy
Nelson, M.
Nelson, P.
Newman
Nornes
Olson
Opatz
Otremba
Paulsen
Paymar
Pelowski
Peppin
Peterson, A.
Peterson, N.
Peterson, S.
Poppe
Powell
Rukavina
Ruth
Ruud
Samuelson
Scalze
Sieben
Simon
Slawik
Smith
Soderstrom
Thao
Thissen
Tingelstad
Urdahl
Vandeveer
Wagenius
Wardlow
Welti
Westerberg
Westrom
Wilkin
Zellers
Spk. Sviggum
A quorum was present.
Abrams; Clark; Davnie; Dill; Dorman; Dorn; Ellison; Finstad;
Hilty; Holberg; Johnson, J.; Johnson, S.; Knoblach; Lanning; Magnus; Mariani;
Ozment; Penas; Sailer; Seifert; Sertich; Severson; Simpson; Solberg; Sykora and
Walker were excused.
The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journals of the preceding
days. DeLaForest moved that further
reading of the Journals be suspended and that the Journals be approved as
corrected by the Chief Clerk. The
motion prevailed.
INTRODUCTION
AND FIRST READING OF HOUSE BILLS
The following House Files were introduced:
Emmer and Newman introduced:
H. F. No. 28, A bill for an act relating to elections; campaign
finance; changing certain disclosure requirements; limiting independent
expenditures by political party units; regulating electioneering
communications; increasing certain expenditure limits; broadening the definition
of "corporation"; prohibiting certain government contributions;
establishing a work group; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 10A.01,
by adding a subdivision; 10A.14, subdivision 1; 10A.20, by adding subdivisions;
10A.25, subdivision 2; 10A.322, subdivisions 2, 4, by adding a subdivision;
211B.15, subdivision 1; 290.06, subdivision 23; proposing coding for new law in
Minnesota Statutes, chapters 10A; 211B.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Emmer and Olson introduced:
H. F. No. 29, A bill for an act relating to elections;
regulating campaign finance; requiring annual notice of a state employee's
right to reduce union dues expended for certain purposes; requiring an accounting
of certain expenditures by a union to its members; broadening the definition of
"corporation"; prohibiting certain government contributions; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 10A.01, by adding a subdivision; 10A.14,
subdivision 1; 10A.20, by adding subdivisions; 10A.25, subdivision 2; 211B.15,
subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters
10A; 179A; 211B.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Latz and Westrom introduced:
H. F. No. 30, A bill for an act relating to retirement;
providing survivor benefits to spouse of St. Louis Park police officer killed
while on active duty in Iraq.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Eken, Lieder, Moe, Otremba, Koenen, Fritz, Hansen, Sailer,
Bernardy and Marquart introduced:
H. F. No. 31, A bill for an act relating to human services;
providing inflation adjustments for long-term care providers; changing certain
income tax provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 256B.431, by
adding a subdivision; 256B.434, subdivision 4; 256B.5012, by adding a
subdivision; 256B.765; 290.01, subdivisions 6b, 19d; 290.17, subdivisions 2, 4.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Westerberg and Gunther introduced:
H. F. No. 32, A bill for an act relating to gambling;
authorizing the operation of lottery gaming machines and conduct of other
nonlottery games at a gaming facility; licensing and regulating the gaming
facility; imposing a gaming transaction fee on gaming at the gaming facility;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 240.13, by adding
a subdivision; 240.135; 240.30, subdivision 1; 299L.07, subdivisions 2, 2a;
340A.410, subdivision 5; 349A.01, subdivision 10, by adding subdivisions;
349A.04; 349A.10, subdivisions 3, 6; 349A.13; 541.20; 541.21; 609.75,
subdivision 3; 609.761, by adding a subdivision; proposing coding for new law
in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 16A; 299L; 349A.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Cox, Thao, McNamara and Johnson, R., introduced:
H. F. No. 33, A bill for an act relating to higher education;
regulating resident tuition; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 135A.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Slawik, Lanning, Nornes, Clark and Mahoney introduced:
H. F. No. 34, A bill for an act relating to human services;
modifying the child care assistance income eligibility provisions; establishing
a provider rate differential for accreditation; temporarily suspending child
care license fees; modifying the child care assistance parent fee schedule;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 119B.09, subdivision 1, as amended;
119B.13, by adding a subdivision; 245A.10, by adding a subdivision; repealing
Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 14, article 9, section 36.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Peterson, A., and Thissen introduced:
H. F. No. 35, A bill for an act relating to energy; requiring
utilities to meet certain renewable energy standards; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2004, section 216B.1691.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Blaine introduced:
H. F. No. 36, A bill for an act relating to highways;
designating Purple Heart Memorial Highway; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004,
section 161.14, subdivision 25, by adding a subdivision.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Greiling introduced:
H. F. No. 37, A bill for an act relating to education;
providing increased funding for child care assistance, early childhood family
education programs, general community education, adult basic education, special
education, and the general education formula allowance; suspending and reducing
certain fees relating to child care; imposing a temporary individual income tax
surtax; providing grants; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes
2004, sections 119B.09, subdivision 1, as amended; 119B.13, by adding a
subdivision; 124D.135, subdivision 1; 124D.20, subdivision 3; 124D.52,
subdivision 3; 124D.531, subdivisions 1, 4; 125A.76, subdivisions 1, 4;
125A.79, subdivisions 1, 6; 126C.10, subdivision 2; 245A.10, by adding a
subdivision; 290.06, by adding a subdivision; repealing Laws 2003, First
Special Session chapter 14, article 9, section 36.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Zellers; Peppin; Bradley; Abrams; Carlson; Nelson, M.;
Peterson, S.; Hilstrom; Hortman; Anderson, B., and Dittrich introduced:
H. F. No. 38, A bill for an act relating to health; allowing
construction of a new hospital in the city of Maple Grove; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2004, section 144.551, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Zellers; Peppin; Bradley; Abrams; Carlson; Nelson, M.;
Hilstrom; Peterson, S.; Hortman; Anderson, B., and Dittrich introduced:
H. F. No. 39, A bill for an act relating to health; providing
an exception to the hospital construction moratorium; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2004, section 144.551, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Hansen and Atkins introduced:
H. F. No. 40, A bill for an act relating to natural resources;
creating a farmland and natural areas fund; establishing a cigarette fee;
creating a council; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law as
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116V.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Huntley, Goodwin, Thissen, Hausman, Otremba, Liebling,
Loeffler, Ruud and Lieder introduced:
H. F. No. 41, A bill for an act relating to health; eliminating
the MinnesotaCare limited benefit set for adults without children; providing an
increase for certain facilities and providers; repealing the MA and alternative
care cost recovery and lien provisions; reducing fees for parents of children
on TEFRA and other programs; permitting individuals and small employers to
purchase health insurance through state plans; reducing health care taxes;
establishing a prescription drug discount program; reducing the county share
for long-term placements; adding a health care cost containment fee on
cigarette distributors; reducing expenditures for professional contracts;
reducing spending on managed care and health care access fund; increasing
MinnesotaCare premiums; transferring funds; appropriating money; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 43A.27, subdivision 2, by adding a
subdivision; 252.27, subdivision 2a; 256B.15,
subdivisions 1, 1a, 2, 3, 4; 256B.19, subdivision 1; 256B.431, by adding a
subdivision; 256B.5012, by adding a subdivision; 256B.765; 256L.02, by adding a
subdivision; 256L.03, subdivision 1; 256L.04, subdivisions 1, 7a, by adding
subdivisions; 256L.05, subdivisions 1, 3a; 256L.07, as amended; 256L.09, by
adding a subdivision; 256L.12, subdivision 6; 256L.15, subdivisions 2, as
amended, 3, by adding a subdivision; 256L.17, subdivision 5; 295.52,
subdivisions 1, 1a, 2, 3; 325D.32, subdivision 9; 514.981, subdivision 6;
524.3-805; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 43A;
62J; 256; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 256B.15, subdivisions 1c,
1d, 1e, 1f, 1g, 1h, 1i, 1j, 1k; 256L.035; 514.991; 514.992; 514.993; 514.994; 514.995.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Rukavina and Juhnke introduced:
H. F. No. 42, A bill for an act relating to taxes; adding a
fourth bracket to the income tax; increasing the cigarette tax; modifying the
dedication of cigarette tax revenues; imposing a floor stocks tax; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 290.06, subdivision 2c; 297F.05, subdivision
1; 297F.10, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Rukavina and Solberg introduced:
H. F. No. 43, A bill for an act relating to counties;
authorizing county boards to contract for the sale of biomass; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 282.04, subdivision 1.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
Smith and Murphy introduced:
H. F. No. 44, A bill for an act relating to retirement; various
public pension plans; clarifying and revising various plan provisions; eliminating obsolete provisions; defining
final average salary; modifying the definition of allowable service to include
time on strike; permitting judges to purchase service credit for an authorized
leave; requiring specified payments; clarifying references to actuarial
services in determining actuarial equivalence; defining covered salary to
include certain employer contributions to supplemental retirement plans;
specifying itemized detail of plan administrative expenses in annual financial
reporting; excluding police officers of the University of Minnesota from the
public employees police and fire fund; clarifying collection procedures
relating to charter schools; adding a uniform nonassignment and legal process
exemption provision; adding employees of Bridges Medical Services, Hutchinson
Area Health Care, and Northfield Hospital to privatization coverage; extending
date for filing special law approval with the secretary of state for the RenVilla
Nursing Home; requiring the privatization periodic filing of updated copies of
articles of incorporation and bylaws; modifying a higher education individual
retirement account plan investment option provision; implementing the
recommendations of the Volunteer Firefighter Relief Association working group
of the state auditor; modifying the trigger date for filing financial reports;
revising the per firefighter financing requirements for monthly benefit service
pensions; modifying the options for crediting interest on deferred service
pensions; clarifying the deferred service pension options available to defined
contribution plans; providing for the crediting of service during military
service leaves; requiring the amortization of experience losses; clarifying the
compliance requirements for the qualification for fire state aid; modifying a
limit on mutual fund investments; clarifying corporate stock and exchange
traded funds investment authority; modifying the municipal representation
requirements on relief association governing boards; clarifying exemptions from
process and taxation; providing that certain laws do not apply to the
consolidation of specified volunteer firefighter
relief associations; providing an ad hoc postretirement adjustment to Eveleth
police and fire trust fund benefit recipients; authorizing the Maplewood
Firefighters Relief Association to transfer assets to the Oakdale Firefighters
Relief Association to cover service credits earned by certain individuals;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 3A.01,
subdivisions 1, 2, 6, 8, by adding subdivisions; 3A.011; 3A.02, subdivisions 1,
1b, 3, 4, 5; 3A.03, subdivisions 1, 2; 3A.04, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, by
adding a subdivision; 3A.05; 3A.07; 3A.10, subdivision 1; 3A.12; 3A.13; 43A.17,
subdivision 9; 69.011, subdivision 2b, by adding a subdivision; 69.021,
subdivisions 5, 11; 69.051, subdivisions 1, 1a; 69.33; 69.77, subdivision 4;
69.771; 69.772, subdivisions 3, 4; 69.773, subdivisions 4, 5; 69.775; 352.01,
subdivisions 2a, 4, 5, 12, 21, 23, by adding a subdivision; 352.021,
subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4; 352.04, subdivisions 1, 12; 352.041, subdivisions 1,
2, 3, 5; 352.115, subdivisions 2, 3; 352.15, subdivisions 1, 3, 4; 352.22,
subdivision 10; 352.87, subdivision 3; 352.91, by adding a subdivision; 352.93,
subdivision 1; 352B.01, subdivisions 1, 2, 3; 352B.02, subdivision 1e;
352B.071; 352C.021, by adding a subdivision; 352C.091, subdivision 1; 352C.10;
352D.01; 352D.015, subdivisions 3, 4; 352D.02, subdivision 1; 352D.03; 352D.05,
subdivision 4; 352D.085, subdivision 1; 352D.09, subdivision 5; 352D.12;
353.01, subdivisions 6, 10, 14, 32, 33, by adding a subdivision; 353.025;
353.026; 353.027; 353.028; 353.14; 353.15, subdivisions 1, 3; 353.27,
subdivision 11; 353.271; 353.28, subdivisions 5, 6; 353.29, subdivision 3;
353.31, subdivision 1c; 353.32, subdivision 9; 353.33, subdivisions 3, 12;
353.64, by adding a subdivision; 353.651, subdivision 3; 353.656, subdivision
1; 353F.02, subdivision 4; 354.05, subdivision 7, by adding a subdivision;
354.091; 354.094, subdivision 1; 354.10, subdivisions 1, 3, 4; 354.33,
subdivision 5; 354.39; 354.41, subdivision 2; 354.42, by adding a subdivision;
354.44, subdivisions 2, 6; 354A.011, subdivision 3a, by adding a subdivision;
354A.021, subdivision 5, by adding a subdivision; 354A.097, subdivision 1;
354A.31, subdivisions 4, 4a, 5; 354B.21, subdivisions 2, 3; 354B.25,
subdivision 2; 355.01, subdivision 3e; 356.20, subdivision 4; 356.215,
subdivision 8; 356.216; 356.24, subdivision 1; 356.47, subdivision 3; 356.551;
356.65, subdivision 2; 356A.06, subdivision 7; 383B.46, subdivision 2; 383B.47;
383B.48; 383B.49; 422A.01, subdivisions 6, 11, by adding a subdivision;
422A.05, subdivision 2c; 422A.06, subdivisions 3, 5, 7, 8; 422A.10, subdivisions
1, 2; 422A.101, subdivision 3; 422A.15, subdivision 1; 422A.16, subdivision 9;
422A.22, subdivisions 1, 3, 4, 6; 422A.231; 422A.24; 423B.05, subdivision 3;
423B.09, subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision; 423B.10, subdivision 1;
423B.17; 423C.05, subdivision 2; 423C.09; 424A.02, subdivisions 3, 4, 7;
424A.04, subdivision 1; 424B.10, subdivision 1; 471A.10; 490.121, subdivisions
1, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, by adding subdivisions; 490.122; 490.123,
subdivisions 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3; 490.124, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13; 490.125, subdivisions 1, 2; 490.126; 490.133; 525.05; Laws
1999, chapter 222, article 16, section 16, as amended; Laws 2000, chapter 461,
article 4, section 4, as amended; Laws 2004, chapter 267, article 12, section
4; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 352C; 356;
383B; 423C; 424A; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter
490A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 3A.01, subdivisions 3, 4, 6a,
7; 3A.02, subdivision 2; 3A.04, subdivision 1a; 3A.09; 352.119, subdivision 1;
352.15, subdivision 1a; 352C.01; 352C.011; 352C.021; 352C.031; 352C.033;
352C.04; 352C.051; 352C.09; 352C.091, subdivisions 2, 3; 353.15, subdivision 2;
353.29, subdivision 2; 353.34, subdivision 3b; 353.36, subdivisions 2, 2a, 2b,
2c; 353.46, subdivision 4; 353.651, subdivision 2; 353.663; 353.74; 353.75;
354.10, subdivision 2; 354.59; 422A.101, subdivision 4; 422A.22, subdivisions
2, 5; 422A.221; 490.021; 490.025; 490.101; 490.102; 490.103; 490.105; 490.106;
490.107; 490.108; 490.109; 490.1091; 490.12; 490.121, subdivisions 2, 3, 5, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; 490.124, subdivision 6; 490.132; 490.15;
490.16; 490.18.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the
Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
Severson moved that the name of Tingelstad be added as an
author on H. F. No. 8.
The motion prevailed.
Ozment moved that the names of Nelson, P., and Tingelstad be
added as authors on H. F. No. 10. The motion prevailed.
Ozment
moved that the name of Nelson, P., be added as an author on
H. F. No. 11. The motion
prevailed.
Eken moved that the names of Moe; Lillie; Goodwin; Clark;
Anderson, I.; Hausman; Koenen; Greiling; Johnson, S.; Otremba; Fritz;
Scalze and Bernardy be added as authors on H. F. No. 17. The motion prevailed.
Cox moved that the names of Sailer and Scalze be added as
authors on H. F. No. 22.
The motion prevailed.
ADJOURNMENT
Paulsen moved that when the House adjourns today it adjourn
until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 7, 2005.
The motion prevailed.
Paulsen moved that the House adjourn. The motion prevailed, and the Speaker declared the House stands
adjourned until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 7, 2005.
Albin
A. Mathiowetz,
Chief Clerk, House of Representatives