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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Ethics

Chair: Rep. Mary Murphy
Location: 300S State Office Building
Agenda:
Organizational Meeting
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Time Note: The division will recess at 10 a.m. and reconvene at 4:30 p.m.

Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Jean Wagenius
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
MN Board of Water and Soil Resources budget presentation (cont.)
HF1493 (Lillie) State parks and trails funding provided, money appropriated, planning and report required.
HF1558 (Olin) Water quality permit compliance grants provided, and money appropriated.
HF2004 (Hortman) Coon Rapids; Bicycle and pedestrian trail grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2012 (Brown) Shooting Star Trail funding provided, money appropriated.
HF2055 (Slawik) Ramsey County; Land acquisition funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF2066 (Mack) Minnesota zoo water quality funding provided, and money appropriated.
HF1674 (Hausman) Disposition of receipts to the parks and trails fund provided, grant program established, money appropriated.
HF1967 (Haws) Park and trails legacy grant program established, and appointments provided.
HF2235 (Clark) Drinking water source protection funding provided, and money
appropriatedd.
HF1991 (Scalze) Coal tar prohibited, notification and planning re
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Public Safety Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Michael Paymar
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1540 (Hilstrom) adding per page filing fees for court papers; directing the increase in fees to the Supreme Court
HF1541 (Hilstrom) amending court filing fees and the criminal surcharge amount
HF1542 (Hilstrom) providing funding for the public defender; establishing a public defender fee for licensed
HF1578 (Hilstrom) amending the co-payment amount for public defender representation

Any group or individual wishing to testify should contact the committee legislative assistant at Libby.Wyrum@house.mn
Chair: Rep. Gene Pelowski
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:

HF938 (Reinert) State employees with disabled veteran status provided additional sick leave.
SF237 (Obermueller) Minnesota Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day designated as the first Sunday in October.
HF774 (Knuth) Greenhouse gas emission registry provided.
SF423 (Swails) Noncampaign disbursements specified.
SF261 (Jackson) Death deed transfer clarifying, technical, and conforming changes made, common element certificates of title expanded to include planned communities, designated transfer requirements exempted, cartways in cities procedures established, and power of attorney provision modified relating to real property transactions.

Removed from the agenda; SF0104 (Kelly) Canon Falls library and fire station constructiion design-build contracts authorized.
Chair: Rep. Al Juhnke
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF839 (Juhnke) Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory funding provided, money appropriated.
HF841 (Juhnke) Farmer-lender mediation law extended.
HF900 (Juhnke) Pesticide railroad application regulated.
HF510 (Juhnke) Pesticide control law, and the fertilizer, soil, and plant amendment law provisions changed.
HF793 (Juhnke) Loan program terms updated, and family farm security program abolished.
Chair: Rep. Tim Mahoney
Location: 200 State Office Building
Bills Added
Chair: Rep. Tim Mahoney
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1948 (Haws) Investment fund established for eligible organization, loans authorized, and money appropriated.
Chair: Rep. Karen Clark
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1432 (Rosenthal) Children aging out of foster care provisions modified, Runaway and Homeless Youth Act modified, and money appropriated.
Informational hearing on HF1989 (Hayden) Housing Solutions Act provided, deed tax percentage adjusted, rental housing assistance provided, housing account for leverage opportunity established, and money appropriated.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Property and Local Sales Tax Division

Chair: Rep. Paul Marquart
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
Public testimony and mark up of HF2020 (Marquart) Property Tax Division Report
Chair: Rep. Tom Huntley
Location: 200 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Thomas Huntley
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
Department of Human Services update on Stimulus provisions
HF8 (Simon) Minnesota False Claims Act established.
Testimony on Governor's supplemental budget proposal for GAMC
Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Tom Rukavina
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF939 (Mahoney) New job training funding provided for hard-to-train individuals, and money appropriated.
HF1635 (Dettmer) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' human resources systems improvements provided
HF1251 (Pelowski) Economic development authority authorized to become a member of a limited liability company.
HF1785 (Norton) Accountability measures and reports required as a condition for receiving state funds.
HF1587 (Torkelson) Minnesota Inventors Congress funding provided, and money appropriated
HF744 (Mullery) Transitional employment training project funding provided, and money appropriated
HF1963 (Winkler) Early warning system employers provided new requirements, new penalties applied for any employer failing to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, United States Code, title 29, section 2101, and oversight authority enhanced.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Public Safety Policy and Oversight

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Debra Hilstrom
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
TBA
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Capital Investment Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Alice Hausman
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF855 (Hausman) Omnibus Capital Investment bill mark-up and passage
HF2134 (Hausman) Asset preservation for various state agencies and higher education facilities funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Paul Thissen
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
Supportive housing and managed care pilot cost study results, Hearth Connection
HF1276 (Norton) County human services mandates modified
HF866 (Hosch) School districts required to obtain employee health coverage through the public employees insurance program
HF249 (Thissen) Emeritus status requirements modified for licensed psychologists, inactive licensure status for licensed psychologists created, licensed psychologists authorized to provide a final determination not to certify, and licensed psychologist added to Health Care Reform Review Council

HF504 (Kahn) and HF657 (Thissen) have been moved to Wednesday's agenda
SF213*/HF285 (Clark) and HF2069 (Liebling) have been moved to Thursday's agenda
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

K-12 Education Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF2033 (Faust) Research-based professional development funding provided for the St. Croix River Education District, "response to intervention" problem solving included, money appropriated.
HF1046 (Mariani) Minnesota reading corps program established, and money appropriated.
HF1177 (Garofalo) Early graduation achievement scholarship program established, money appropriated.
HF1702 (Davnie) Grants authorized for the concurrent enrollment programs in the same manner as advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs, and money appropriated.
HF751 (Benson) School districts authorized to create site-governed schools, and money appropriated.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

State Government Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Phyllis Kahn
Location: 5 State Office Building
Agenda:
Proposed budget for: Attorney General, Campaign Finance Board, Capitol Area Architecture Planning Board, Lottery, Racing Commission, Office of Administrative Hearings, Legislature
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Commerce and Labor

Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Joe Atkins
Location: Basement State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1038 (Jackson) Public Utilities Commission authorized to order refunds of unlawful utility rate revenues.
HF1615/SF743 (Sanders) Petroleum standards updated, biodiesel blends and fuels standards established.
HF1306 (Hornstein) Cocoa bean shell mulch retail sale notice required.
HF1853 (Atkins) Various licenses, forms, coverages, marketing practices, and records regulated, data classified, and coordination of health insurance benefits provided.
HF2029 (Davnie) Consumer small loan lenders and residential mortgage originators and servicers regulated, calculation of reserves and nonforfeiture values of preneed funeral insurance contracts provided, and additional commerce provisions provided.
HF412 (Bunn) Home owner warranty statute of repose adjusted.
Agenda Changed
Chair: Rep. Tony Sertich
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF2088 (Slawik) Early childhood education funding provided relating to school readiness programs, school readiness service agreements, and prekindergarten exploratory projects, reports required, and money appropriated.
HF2202 (Bly) Early childhood education funding provided for after-school community learning programs, and money appropriated.

HF1543 (Slawik) has been removed from the agenda.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Environment Policy and Oversight

Hearing Canceled
Chair: Rep. Kent Eken
Location: 5 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Bernie Leider
Location: 10 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF1816 (Morrow) Motor carriers, highways and Department of Transportation provisions modified and updated, clarifying and technical changes provided.
HF45 (Bigham) Penalty provided for careless driving resulting in death, and providing for revocation of violator's driver's license.
HF108 (Norton) Seat belt violation made a primary offense in all seating positions regardless of age.
HF1898 (Hornstein) Local transit planning and development provisions modifie, and financial assistance for public transit providers provided.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

K-12 Education Finance Division

Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Location: Farmington High School Little Theater; 800 Denmark Ave; Farmington, MN
Agenda:
Education funding in growing school districts.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Finance

Chair: Rep. Lyndon Carlson
Location: 200 State Office Building
Agenda:
HF855 (Hausman) Omnibus capital investment bill
HF2134 (Hausman) Asset preservation for various state agencies and higher education facilities funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
HF1467 (Nelson) Rail safe technology federal grant application directed.
HF775 (Beard) Vehicle service fees credited to the vehicle services operating account.

HF2073 (Greiling) has been removed from the agenda
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement

Location: 107 State Capitol
Agenda:
Final consideration of the 2009 omnibus retirement bill, delete-everything amendment to SF191/HF723 (Betzold/Murphy, M.)
Revision/clarification of erroneous deduction/overpayment recovery provisions (PERA, first class city teachers)
Commission staff technical correction/clarification amendments
SF1878/HF1983 (Betzold/Kahn) Minneapolis Firefighters Relief Association; Number of representatives on the board of trustees modified.
SF1625/HF1923 (Skoe/Sailer) PERA Privatization; Extend filing date for Clearwater County Memorial Hospital.

Calendar for the Day
House Floor Amendments
Order of Business