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Sunday, April 4, 2010 - Saturday, April 10, 2010

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The Senate publishes a schedule of Senate committee hearings and floor sessions. The schedule is continually updated.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010  
12 Noon  
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Senate will be in Session at 12 Noon

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3:00 p.m.  
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Joint Meeting: Committee on Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications; Environment and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Forestry
Meeting Minutes     
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Chairs: Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon, Sen. Tom Saxhaug
3 p.m.
Room 123 Capitol
Agenda: 
Minnesota Forest Resources Council Report: Assessing Forestation Opportunities for Carbon Sequestration in Minnesota

 
4:00 p.m.  
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications
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Chair: Sen. Yvonne Prettner Solon
04:00 PM
Room 123 Capitol

Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications Committee will meet immediately after joint meeting with Forestry Subcommittee is adjourned.
Agenda: 
Presentation of Community Energy Challenge Program
Confirmation of PUC Commissioner Betsy Wergin

 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010  
8:30 a.m.  
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
***Revision 1: Agenda change and Addition(s)***
Committee on Finance
Meeting Minutes
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Chair: Sen. Richard J. Cohen
08:30 AM
Room 123 Capitol
Agenda: 
S.F. 2830 Chaudhary Natural resources definitions and legislative guide requirement repeal.
S.F. 70 Rest Constitutional amendment for judges retention elections.
S.F. 2737 Skogen Livestock investment grant program eligible producers appropriation.
S.F. 3275 Anderson Natural resources department long-range land management budget analysis requirement.
S.F. 2510 Tomassoni Labor and industry licensing and fee modifications.
S.F. 2540 Murphy Transportation powers, definitions, goals, mission and prohibitions expansion; deputy registrar modifications; towing powers modifications; transportation access council creation; safety technology grants.

 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Committee on Taxes
Meeting Minutes
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Chair: Sen. Thomas M. Bakk
08:30 AM
Room 15 Capitol
Agenda: 
S.F. 3334 Stumpf Thief River Falls airport authority special levy authority.
S.F. 2448 Robling Special tax district levies separate statement requirement on tax statements.
S.F. 2338 Berglin Disposable bags excise tax imposition.
S.F. 2565 Scheid Local government aid study group membership expansion.
S.F. 3289 Rest Economic development districts creation and definition requirements modification.
S.F. 3053 Rest Metropolitan fiscal disparities program study requirement.
S.F. 2872 Bakk Motor vehicle repair parts and supplies sales tax imposition.

 
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
E-12 Education Budget and Policy Division
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Chair: Sen. LeRoy A. Stumpf
08:30 AM
Room 112 Capitol
Agenda: 
MN Department of Education presentation on the federal School Improvement Grant program for Minnesota's 34 lowest achieving schools

 
11:00 a.m.  
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Senate will be in Session at 11 a.m.

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30 Minutes After Session  
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
***Revision 2: Time change***
State Government Budget Division
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Chair: Sen. Don Betzold
30 Minutes After Session
Room 107 Capitol

30 minutes after session adjourns.
Agenda: 
S.F. 3318 Dibble Energy improvement financing program provisions modification.
S.F. 3325 Latz Local impact notes request from finance and ways and means committees authorization.
S.F. 1770 Jungbauer Ladder out of poverty task force establishment.
S.F. 1880 Metzen Innovation board reestablishment; providing for grants and appropriation.
S.F. 2620 Bonoff Service innovation commission establishment.
S.F. 2496 Rummel Policy innovation and research task force.

 
Thursday, April 8, 2010  
8:30 a.m.  
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Health and Human Services Budget Division
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Chair: Sen. Linda Berglin
08:30 AM
Room 123 Capitol
Agenda: 
Presentation on How Federal Health Care Reform Will Effect Minnesota

 
Thursday, April 8, 2010
***Revision 3: Agenda change***
Committee on Taxes
Meeting Minutes
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Chair: Sen. Thomas M. Bakk
08:30 AM
Room 15 Capitol

SF3047 Withdrawn by author.
Agenda: 
S.F. 3036 Vandeveer Energy management system purchase and installation income tax subtraction.
S.F. 2224 Kubly County public safety radio communications equipment upgrade sales tax exemptions.
S.F. 2545 Frederickson Sales tax exemption for public safety radio communications equipment.
S.F. 2798 Rosen Sales tax exemption for public safety radio communications equipment.
S.F. 2688 Anderson Homeless prevention and food shelf income tax checkoff.
S.F. 3322 Pappas Higher education bond allocation limits modification; housing finance agency (HFA), office of higher education and rural finance authority bonding authority transfer authorization.

 
Thursday, April 8, 2010
E-12 Education Budget and Policy Division
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Chair: Sen. LeRoy A. Stumpf
08:30 AM
Room 112 Capitol
Agenda: 
S.F. 2716 Saltzman Charter school provisions modifications; charter schools facilities authority establishment; credit enhancement account creation; purchasing and borrowing authority authorization; building lease transition aid eligibility authorization.

 
11:00 a.m.  
Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Senate will be in Session at 11 a.m.

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Friday, April 9, 2010  
8:30 a.m.  
Friday, April 9, 2010
***Revision 2: Agenda change***
Committee on Finance
Meeting Minutes
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Chair: Sen. Richard J. Cohen
08:30 AM
Room 123 Capitol

SF 2701 has been removed.
Agenda: 
S.F. 3275 Anderson Natural resources department long-range land management budget analysis requirement.
S.F. 2541 Kubly Indian tribal government owned watercraft, off-highway vehicles and snowmobiles motor vehicle registration and licensing requirement exemptions.
S.F. 3003 Saltzman Solid waste disposal facilities requirements and landfill siting rules modifications.
S.F. 2510 Tomassoni Labor and industry licensing and fee modifications.
S.F. 2873 Frederickson Public facilities authority duties and programs modifications; department of employment and economic development (DEED) employees transfer to public facilities authority.
S.F. 2832 Saltzman Construction codes residential written contact performance guidelines requirements; housing statutory warranties modifications and dispute resolution procedures provisions.
S.F. 2941 Saltzman 4-H funding procedure modification; University of Minnesota extension service policy modification for 4-H programs support.
S.F. 1905 Scheid Small employer health insurance market application form standardization development and adoption.
S.F. 1761 Scheid Health plans chemotherapy treatment coverage payment regulations.
S.F. 3134 Betzold State government appropriations, appropriation reductions and one-time transfers.
S.F. 2629 Sieben County assistive voting, vote-counting and optical scan equipment grants appropriation.
S.F. 1590 Sieben Inflatable amusement equipment safety standards establishment.
S.F. 2750 Bonoff Constitutional amendment for public debt to be incurred for public information technology systems, licenses and infrastructure.
S.F. 3084 Carlson Professional or technical services contract reporting threshold reduction; report requirements modifications.
S.F. 3325 Latz Local impact notes request from finance and ways and means committees authorization.
S.F. 2471 Olseen Declaration of trust and real property secretary of state filings modification.
S.F. 2682 Erickson Ropes Fillmore county veterans cemetery funding.

 

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