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Thursday, March 14, 2019

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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM

Capital Investment Division

Chair: Rep. Mary Murphy
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 1460, HF 1479, HF 2119, HF 274, and HF 1081 are pending referral and will be heard on an informational only basis
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM

Early Childhood Finance and Policy Division

Chair: Rep. Dave Pinto
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
I. Call to Order

II. Approve Meeting Minutes

III. HF1384 (Her) - Tribal organizations and Head Start programs background studies governed.

IV. HF1382 (Richardson) - Charter schools authorized to provide special education deaf and hard-of-hearing services to students at early ages.

V. HF1785 (Richardson) - Pupil Fair Dismissal Act amended, and pupil dismissals limited.

VI. HF1582 (Youakim) - Parent-child home program funding provided, and money appropriated.

VII. HF1653 (Hassan) - Northstar Care for Children child under the age of six benefits modified.

VIII. HF423 (Brand) - Greater Minnesota child care facility grand program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

IX. HF422 (Brand) - Child care in rural Minnesota funding provided, and money appropriated.

X. HF2264 (Wazlawik) - Retaining early educators through attaining incentives now (REETAIN) grant program established, reports required, and money appropriated.

XI. HF2111 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) - Reach Out and Reach Minnesota program grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

XII. Adjournment

The Chair intends to reconvene at 7PM in the State Office Building Room 400N.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM

Jobs and Economic Development Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Tim Mahoney
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 2161 (Mahoney) Dual-training occupation competency grants expanded to include next generation technology
HF 914 (Mahoney) Special revenue fund financial institutions account funding provided.
HF 1504 (Davnie) Youth skills training program modified
HF 650 (Xiong, J) AmeriCorps Promise Fellows program funding provided
HF 1019 (Lien) Small business development center services funding provided

If you would like to testify, please contact Travis Reese at (651) 296-7175 or travis.reese@house.mn

Procedural Motion: The following House Files are to be returned to Ways and Means with a recommendation to be re-referred to Capital Investment:
HF 2105 (Lee) Minneapolis; outdoor performance venue funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 2106 (Lee) Minneapolis; outdoor performance venue funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 2143 (Kresha) Morrison County; C.A. Weyerhaeuser Museum funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF 2164 (Bierman) Lakeville; Ames Arena improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM

State Government Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Michael V. Nelson
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
I. HF 2118 (Koegel) National Sports Center funding provided - procedural motion to return to Ways and Means with recommendation

II. Office of the State Auditor, Governor's recommended budget change level requests

II. Office of the Attorney General, Governor's recommended budget change level requests
Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM

Taxes

Chair: Rep. Paul Marquart
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
I. HF 2169 (Marquart) Individual income and corporate franchise taxes, partnership taxes, sales and use taxes, special taxes, property taxes, gross revenue taxes, fire and police state aid, and other miscellaneous provisions policy and technical changes made
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:30 AM

Rules and Legislative Administration

Chair: Rep. Ryan Winkler
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Rules and Legislative Administration
Chair: Rep. Ryan Winkler


Meeting:
Thursday, March 14, 2019
9:30 AM to 9:45 AM
400S State Office Building

Agenda:
I. Call To Order

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Minutes of March 12, 2019

IV. Calendar for the Day for March 18, 2019

V. Rules Discussion

VI. Adjournment




Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM
Time Note: The room is scheduled until 11:30 if needed to complete the agenda.

Agriculture and Food Finance and Policy Division

Time Changed
Chair: Rep. Jeanne Poppe
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 1733 (Poppe) Omnibus Agriculture Policy bill (amendments and vote out)

HF 1339 (Ecklund) Shade tree replacement planting funding provided

HF 395 (Hansen) Funding for forest pest response

HF 1546 (Lippert) Beginning farmer tax credit modified

HF 2202 (Lippert) Next generation farmer program

Other bills may be added


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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM

Education Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Jim Davnie
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Meeting is cancelled.
Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM

Education Policy

Chair: Rep. Cheryl Youakim
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
I. Call to Order

II. HF761 (Erickson) - Pupil transportation for certain homeless students authority assigned, and money appropriated.

III. HF1111 (Hassan) - Postsecondary education enrollment options eligibility clarified.

IV. HF1838 (Sandell) - School administrator licensure fee modified, special revenue fund administrator licensure account created, and money appropriated.

V. H1711DE1 Amendment (Omnibus Bill)

VI. Adjournment

The Committee will NOT be reconvening this evening.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM
Time Note: If necessary, the committee will recess and reconvene in Capitol 120 after session.

Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Division

Chair: Rep. Jean Wagenius
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF2233 (Long) - Electric vehicle purchaser rebates provided, electric vehicle charging station network installation grants awarded, and money appropriated.
HF2269 (Mahoney) - Public Utilities Commission contract approval required under the state's biomass mandate.
HF2396 (Long) - State building code; voluntary stretch energy code establishment required, and technical assistance for voluntary stretch energy code provided.y code
HF2218 (Richardson) - Utilities and grantees required to submit annual diversity reports.

Bills will be added to the agenda.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM
Time Note: ***RECONVENING AT 7 PM IN SOB 300N*** Committee may continue meeting as late as 12:30 p.m., if necessary. Committee may reconvene at 5:30 pm or the call of the chair, if necessary in SOB 300N.

Government Operations

Chair: Rep. Mike Freiberg
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
SCEh1855-1
HF1855 (Schultz)
Redistricting commission adoption of congressional and legislative district boundaries following federal census established, and constitutional amendment proposed.

SCEH1603-1 Subcommittee Engrossment
HF1603 (Dehn)
Mail balloting authorized in any town or city with fewer than 400 registered voters.

PLEASE NOTE: Testimony will be limited. Please plan accordingly. If you would like to testify, please contact Amanda Rudolph at amanda.rudolph@house.mn.
**Bills may be added or removed from the agenda. The order of the bills may change. Bills may carried over to the next committee meeting.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 9:45 AM

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division

Chair: Rep. John Lesch
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
HF 998 (Ecklund)
*This bill has been discussed in committee 2 times before and laid over for financial disclosure details, which have now been provided and are attached. This will be a brief discussion before voting on moving the bill back to Ways & Means.

HF 631 (Lesch) this will be the Judiciary Finance & Civil Law data practices & policy omnibus bill. Please see DE-3 amendment posted.

**as per Committee rules, all amendments are due by 10 am, Wed. March 13, 2019. This deadline may be waived in the Chair's discretion.
**walk through, markup/amendments and testimony/discussion will take place during committee on March 14th. If we do not finish during regular committee time, we will recess and re-convene at 5 pm, or 15 minutes after floor session ends (if floor session does not end by 5 pm) in the BASEMENT HEARING ROOM.

**If you'd like to testify on this bill, please contact the Committee Administrator, Rachel Ganani: rachel.ganani@house.mn; members of the public will be asked to keep testimony limited to two minutes per person**

Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 12:45 PM
Time Note: **If necessary, the division will reconvene in Room 5 State Office Building 15 minutes after Environment and Natural Resources Policy adjourns.

Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Rick Hansen
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Agenda Change: Bill added.

*HF411 (Poppe) Clean water funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF2022 (Bierman) Electric vehicle charging stations installation in state parks required, and money appropriated.
HF1853 (Lee) Electric vehicles supply equipment funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2061 (Klevorn) University of Minnesota; Forever Green Agriculture Initiative funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF970 (Huot) Prairie butterfly conservation program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF776 (Morrison) Lawns to legumes grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1092 (Acomb) Native bee survey funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1413 (Lippert) Prairie restoration plan funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1374 (Hansen) Conservation reserve program state incentives funding provided, and money appropriated.

*Additional bills may be added.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 12:45 PM

Health and Human Services Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Tina Liebling
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
*New HF167 (Lee) Supplemental environmental project offers provided in conjunction with enforcement actions against polluters.
HF259 (Mann) Doula services medical assistance reimbursement rates established.
HF1539 (Theis) Medical assistance reimbursement rates for doula services established.
HF1664 (Gomez) Commissioner of health grant to low-income families of color doula support, childbirth, and postpartum services funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1011 (Mann) Family planning grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF963 (Halverson) Prescription contraceptives supply requirements established; health plants required to cover contraceptive methods, sterilization, patient education, counseling, and related medical services; and eligible organization accommodations established.

New bill (HF167) added to the agenda.

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Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Police Professional Excellence Week

HF 2367 (Dehn) Certifying entities required to timely process visa certification documents.
HF 1236 (Lesch) Unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) use regulated by law enforcement agencies.
HF 719 (Kunesh-Podein) Requirement for tribes to exercise concurrent state law enforcement jurisdictional authority modified.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 12:45 PM

Transportation Finance and Policy Division

Chair: Rep. Frank Hornstein
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
*Bills may be added or removed*

The committee will meet from 12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. in Room 10. It will recess and reconvene at 5:30 to complete business in the same room.

**HF2434 has been added and HF1955 has been removed. HF2434 is a clone of HF1955. HF2434 will be heard in the reconvened evening portion of the meeting, pending referral.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 3:30 PM

Floor Session

Thursday, March 14, 2019 , 5:30 PM

Environment and Natural Resources Policy

Time Changed Location Changed
Chair: Rep. John Persell
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Agenda Updated ***

I. HF1403 - Lee: Ivory and rhinoceros horn trade prohibited, rulemaking authorized, and criminal penalties provided.***

II. HF1386 - Ecklund: Collector snowmobile registration requirements modified.***

III. HF1882 - Bernardy: Commercial fishing areas restrictions to provide invasive species control modified.

IV. HF2145 - Persell: Fishing license require to take muskellunge.

V. HF2258 - Hansen: Conservation materials use prohibited, and money appropriated.

VI. HF2267 - Hansen: Carpet product stewardship program provided, and report required.

VII. HF2321 - Becker-Finn: Privately-owned big game right to kill purchase of sale prohibited.***

VIII. HF2442 - Swedzinski: Night vision equipment use while hunting coyote or fox allowed.***

*Bills may be added to the agenda and order may change.*

If you wish to testify, please contact Sean Herring at sean.herring@house.mn
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