Minutes

Present: Senator Ron Latz - Chair, Senator Clare Oumou Verbeten Vice Chair, Senator Jim Carlson, Senator Justin D. Eichorn, Senator Michael E. Kreun, Senator Warren Limmer, Senator Sandra L. Pappas, Senator Judy Seeberger, Senator Bonnie S. Westlin

Absent: Senator Jeff R. Howe

Senator Ron Latz called the meeting to order at 12:34pm

S.F. 2044: Senator Abeler: Closed-captioned television requirement in certain circumstances.

Testifiers: Keenan Gao (Hard of Hearing Community Member); Alicia Lane-Outlaw (Gov Relations Director for the MN Commission for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing)

Senator Carlson moved that S.F. 2044, be recommended to pass and re-referred to the State and Local Government and Veterans Committee. - MOTION PREVAILED.

H.F. 62: Senator Kupec: Public Employment Relations Board Data modification and appropriation.

Testifiers: Meg Luger (Chair of PERB)  

Be recommended to pass and re-referred to the Finance Committee.

S.F. 1934: Senator Kreun: Revocation clarification of stay provision relating to certain stays of adjudication and deferred prosecutions.

Testifiers: Carli Stark, Bryan Lindberg, Dylan Warkentin (Director of Corrections, Anoka County); Nate Reitz

             
A-1 Kreun moves – adopted by voice

 

***laid over to get answer on where bill should go next, taken back off the table following SF2318 at the end of the hearing and sent to floor

 

As amended, be recommended to pass.

S.F. 201: Senator Dornink: Mower County appropriation for the alternatives to incarceration program.

Testifiers: Steve King (Mayor) 

Be laid over.

S.F. 472: Senator Weber: Local emergency management grants for local planning and preparedness efforts appropriation.

Testifiers: Garry Johanson (Emergency Manager, Norman County); Kyle Oldre (Emergency Manager, Rock County)

Be laid over.

S.F. 1760: Senator Kreun: Conciliation court claims jurisdictional limit modification by increasing the monetary value of claims authorization.

Testifiers: Scott Plooster (Farmer, Scott County) 

Be recommended to pass.

S.F. 1591: Senator Hauschild: Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal emergency management coordinator establishment and appropriation.



Be laid over.

S.F. 1843: Senator Hauschild: Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal coat guard services appropriation.

Testifiers: Robert Deschampe (Chair, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

             

A-1 – Westlin moves, adopted by voice

 

As amended, be laid over.

S.F. 2318: Senator Kreun: Process modification by which a person with a felony conviction applies for a name change.

Testifiers: Neng Lor (Hennepin Co Regional Service Center Manager); Julie Hanson (MN Association of County Officers)

             

Oral amendment: Add a sec 3 that strikes section 517.08, subd. 1b, paragraph (d).

 

As amended, be recommended to pass.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:04p

Senator Ron Latz, Chair	Diana Rico, Legislative Assistant