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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time Note: The committee will recess at 10 a.m. and reconvene at 6:30 p.m. in Room 5.

Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Jean Wagenius
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
MN Department of Natural Resources budget presentation (cont.)
Presentation from the Public Facilities Authority concerning requests from the clean water fund.
HF217 (Faust) Agricultural property tax law modified, and certain property classification requirements changed.. INFORMATION ONLY
HF1325 (Doty) County geologic atlas program funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1445 (Knuth) Solar energy projects at regional parks grant program established, and money appropriated for solar energy projects in metropolitan parks and state parks and recreation areas.
HF1348 (Juhnke) Kandiyohi County; Green Lake water quality pilot program funding provided, money appropriated.
HF977 (Juhnke) Let's Go Fishing community outreach grants provided, money appropriated.
HF345 (Hansen) Minnesota Conservation Corps funding provided for parks, natural resource protection and restoration, and flood protection contracts, and money appropriated.
HF63 (Atkins) Inver Grove heights; Appropriating mo

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

K-12 Education Policy and Oversight

Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1441 (Brynaert) State measures of student achievement growth established.

Chair: Rep. Gene Pelowski
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF710 (Faust) Food Safety and Defense Task Force duties changed. Minnesota Organic Advisory Task Force membership and procedures changed, and language requiring two annual reports eliminated.
HF1011 (Hilty) Election administration provisions changed.
HF1351 (Winkler) Absentee ballot requirements and provisions modified.

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Al Juhnke
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF309 (Olin) Livestock and crop depredation payment funding provided, and money appropriated.
Budget discussions on the Dairy and Food Inspection Division of the Department of Agriculture.
Budget discussions on the Board of Animal Health.
Budget discussions on the Department of Agriculture Laboratories.

Chair: Rep. Tim Mahoney
Location: 200 State Office Building

Bills Added
Chair: Rep. Tim Mahoney
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF925 (Sertich) Official measure of unemployment expanded.
HF42 (Thissen) Four-month waiting period waived for unemployed persons for MinnesotaCare, and money appropriated.
HF1048 (Brynaert) Eligibility for benefits under certain training programs provided.
HF1116 (Davnie) Unemployment benefit requirements waived for dislocated workers, Minnesota investment fund authorization expanded, unemployment provisions modified, appeals required to be filed online, collection fee provided, unemployment benefit filing regulated, terms defined and clarified, and money appropriated.

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Karen Clark
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1354 (Clark) Nonprofit housing bonds authorized, money appropriated.
Presentation from Habitat for Humanity

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Property and Local Sales Tax Division

Chair: Rep. Paul Marquart
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:

HF1261 (Dittrich) State property tax system benchmarks, critical indicators, and principles provided, property tax working group established.
HF467 (Davnie) First tier of commercial-industrial property exempted from state general tax.
HF479 (Lenczewski) Revenue commissioner required to conduct a study of the metropolitan fiscal disparities program, and money appropriated
HF845 (Emmer) Biomass electrical generation facility property tax exemption provided

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Legislative Commission on Planning and Fiscal Policy

Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
Update on the status and process of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its applicability to Minnesota.
Discussion of ARRA funds and energy related issues.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time Note: please note earlier start time

Public Safety Policy and Oversight

Location Changed Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Debra Hilstrom
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF253 (Tillberry) Dog and cat breeder standards of care provided, and money appropriated.
HF819 (Atkins) Ticket sales; early internet sales of event tickets at inflated prices prohibited.
HF1213 (Hortman) Prostitution penalty enhancement provision for repeat offenders clarified, prostitution in a public place crime broadened, driving records relating to prostitution offenses made public for repeat offenders, and record availability ensured to law enforcement for first-time offenders.
HF1145 (Bigham) Investment and expert services for indigent defendants payment request applications modified.
HF497 (Mullery) Firearm data access authorized by parole and probation authorities.
HF1237(Eken) State park permit requirements modified, authority to operate state monuments and establish secondary units modified, John A. Latsch State Park liquor service eliminated, boater waysides provided, watercraft requirements modified, penalty appeals and enforcement provided, wild animal taking provide

Chair: Rep. Thomas Huntley
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1571 (Abeler) Governor's health and human services budget

Chair: Rep. Tom Rukavina
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
Institutional accreditation and financial aid eligibility: Office of Higher Education, Unaccredited career schools
HF1414 (Bigham) State grant program eligibility changed
HF1560 (Atkins) State grant program modified
HF1374 (Buesgens) Stable tuition rate guarantee

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Capital Investment Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Alice Hausman
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
Bonding recommendations from finance divisions

Chair: Rep. Paul Thissen
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF984 (Norton) Medical assistance coverage of primary care health care providers performing primary caries prevention services as part of the child and teen checkup program authorized
HF1140 (Huntley) Patient-centered decision-making process required before state employee health insurance program and medical assistance reimbursements
HF1454 (Huntley) Uniform formulary exception document development required
HF1567 (Huntley) Electronic prescription drug program technical changes made
HF1554 (Winkler) Isolation and quarantine provisions and mass dispensing of medication provisions modified
HF1341 (Thissen) Newborn screening program provisions modified

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

K-12 Education Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF55 (Falk) Lac qui Parle Valley; Transfer of funds authorized for ISDN 2853.
HF1117 (Falk) Ortonville; ISDN 62 fund transfer authorized.
HF795 (Brynaert) Mankato; ISDN 77 fund transfer authorized.
HF719 (Laine) St. Anthony-New Brighton; ISDN 282 fund transfer authorized.
HF322 (Nornes) Signature requirement increased for an election to revoke an operating referendum.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

State Government Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Phyllis Kahn
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
Outsourcing Information Technology

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Commerce and Labor

Chair: Rep. Joe Atkins
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF420 (Laine) Existing statutory implied residential construction warranties required to be made as express warranties and be provided to the buyer in writing, and warranty waivers prohibited.
HF330 (Scalze) Homeowners provided with a longer period within which to notify contractors of construction defects.
HF362 (Knuth) Homeowner's written notice requirement to building contractor of construction defect eliminated.
Pending Referral - HF 1463 (Davnie) Various filings and fees regulated and terms defined.
Pending Referral - HF1532 (Kalin) Secretary of State filings, forms, records, submissions, motions, and orders regulated.
HF569 (Sailer) Recycled paint pilot program implementation required by paint manufacturers.
HF1406 (Dill) Lawful gambling tax provisions modified.
HF993 (Dill) Financial statements submitted to the attorney general by charitable organizations audit requirement adjusted.
HF1511 (Atkins) Lawful gambling provisions modified.
HF1512 (Atkins) Electronic bingo a

Chair: Rep. Tony Sertich
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1324 (Hornstein) General Education Development test fee waiver authorized
HF1430 (Peterson) Working Family Resource Center grant provided, and money appropriated

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Environment Policy and Oversight

Chair: Rep. Kent Eken
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
DNR Critical Areas Report

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Environment Policy and Oversight

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Kent Eken
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1493 (Lillie) State parks and trails funding provided, money appropriated, planning and report required
HF1275 (Poppe) Sewage treatment systems provisions modified
HF1612 (Knuth) Minnesota Naturalist Corps established, state park naturalists, information centers and kiosks funding provided, money appropriated
HF1372 (Gardner) Infectious Waste Control Act modified
DNR Critical Areas Report
HF424 (Hansen) REMOVED

Chair: Rep. Bernie Leider
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1559 (Beard) Airport and air navigation facility improvement project funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF1608 (Lieder) Local roads and bridges funding provided, fracture-critical bridges grants authorized, money appropriated.
HF1804 (Lieder) Transit facilities funding provided, bonds issued, money appropriated.
HF1797 (Lieder) Federal economic recovery fund receipt and appropriation provided.
HF994 (Lieder) State hazardous materials registration and permit requirements abolished.
HF809 (Hornstein) Charitable organizations provided a metropolitan transit pass discount.
HF1333 (Gardner) Metropolitan area transit and paratransit capital expenditures additional funding provided, and certain obligations authorized.
HF1373 (Gardner) Minnesota Council on Transportation Access established, report required, money appropriated.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time Note: The tax committee will meet jointly with the House Property Tax and Local Sales Tax Division at 6 p.m. in place of the regularly scheduled meeting at 10:30 a.m.

Taxes

House Taxes Committee, Property Tax and Local Sales Tax Division

Chair: Rep. Paul Marquart
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF10 (Doty) 2008 Green Acres law changes repealed
HF78 (Eastlund) 2008 Green Acres law changes repealed
HF99 (Atkins) Minnesota Land Conservation Property Tax Law created.
HF153 (Davids) 2008 Green Acres Law changes repealed
HF184 (Dettmer) Green Acres law 2008 changes repealed.
HF216 (Faust) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified
HF217 (Faust) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified.
HF338 (Kalin) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified, and new property tax law classification established for preservation and legacy land.
HF340 (Hosch) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified
HF341 (Dettmer) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified.
HF350 (Demmer) Minnesota agricultural property tax law modified
HF387 (Bruce Anderson) Green Acres Law 2008 changes repealed
HF540 (Koenen) Rural vacant land assessment provided, and recapture modified that applies to certain property in the green acres program
HF634 (Jackson) Minnesota agricultural

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Licensing Division

Time Changed Location Changed
Chair: Rep. Cy Thao
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1668 (E. Murphy) Advanced practice registered nurses practice requirements modified
HF535 (Thao) Health-related licensing board provisions modified

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement

Location Changed
Location: 123 State Capitol
Agenda:
SF921/HF1124 (Betzold/Murphy, M.) MSRS-C; Department of Corrections recommendations for plan coverage expansion.
SF1191/HF1383 (Rosen/Gunther) Fairmont Police Relief Association; Amortization target date extended from 2010 to 2020.
HF1279 (Paymar), Articles 3 and 4: Correctional state employees retirement plan revised; vesting period for retirement annuity modified; service credit transfer permitted.