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Senate Schedule for the week of January 3 - 9, 2005

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Update: January 3, 2005 1:10 p.m.

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Monday, January 3

No meetings scheduled.

Tuesday, January 4

Rules and Administration Committee
Chair: Sen. Dean E. Johnson
10:30 a.m. Room 15 Capitol
Agenda: To be announced.

The Senate will be in session at 12 noon

Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee
Chair: Sen. Leo Foley
3 p.m. Room 107 Capitol
Agenda: Confirmation hearing for Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Campion.

State and Local Government Operations
Chair: Sen. Linda Higgins
3 p.m. Room 112 Capitol
Agenda: Confirmation hearings:
Commissioner Dana Badgerow, Department of Administration and
Mary R. Krinkie, Met Council.

Wednesday, January 5

***Meeting Canceled***
Joint Public Safety Budget Division and Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee
Chairs: Sen. Jane Ranum and Sen. Leo Foley
12 noon Room 112 Capitol
Agenda: Department deficiency requests: Department of Corrections, Public Defenders, and Department of Public Safety (Gang Strike Task Force).
Department of Corrections overview.

Capital Investment Committee
Chair: Sen. Keith Langseth
1 p.m. Room 15 Capitol
Agenda: Bonding requests for environmental projects.

Thursday, January 6

The Senate will be in session at 9 a.m.

****Revision 1: Room change***
Finance Committee
Chair: Sen. Richard Cohen
30 minutes after session adjourns Room 15 Capitol
Agenda: S.F. XXXX-Cohen: Requiring disclosure of the impact of inflation on state expenditures.

Friday, January 7

Regent Candidate Advisory Council
Chair: Paul Dovre
1 p.m. Basement Hearing Room, SOB
Agenda: The council will meet to review the 58 applications that were received for the four open positions on the U of M Board of Regents. The vacancies to be filled on the board are from the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th Congressional Districts and one at-large. The council will select candidates to interview. Interviews will be held the last week in January. Based on the recommendations of the council, the congressional delegations, and joint education committees, final appointments to the Board of Regents will be made by the Legislature when they meet in Joint Convention, usually sometime in February.

Saturday, January 8

No meetings scheduled.

Sunday, January 9

No meetings scheduled.



 


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