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Floor Sessions Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2002
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About the Debate:
The Senate took up the Calendar items and General Orders including HF 2598 - a bill that requires recitation of the pledge of allegiance in all public/charter schools. HF 2598 was progressed by the author after a lengthy floor debate.

Calendar
HF 2531 (Berglin)A bill for an act relating to health; regulating hospice care providers; providing criminal penalties. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 57-0

HF 2813 (Robling) A bill for an act relating to human services; requiring child care
providers to develop policies for reporting suspected child maltreatment; requiring child care
licenses to contain certain information. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 58-0

SF 3293 (Chaudhary) A bill for an act relating to highways; transferring three state highways and vacating one state highway. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 60-0

SF 2492 (Johnson, Dave) A bill for an act relating to economic development;
providing extra unemployment benefits for certain workers laid off from Fingerhut Companies,
Incorporated, Farmland Foods Company, and airline and airline-related industries. Third Reading
Final Passage Roll Call - 60-0

SF 2463 (Anderson) A bill for an act relating to employment; regulating overtime for nurses; allowing reciprocity for border state nursing licensees. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 62-0

SF 222 (Krentz) A bill for an act relating to natural resources; establishing a gross misdemeanor penalty for gross overlimit violations of fish and game laws; setting certain restitution values; providing criminal penalties. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 61-0

HF 2612 (Scheid) A bill for an act relating to occupations; revising circumstances in which the signature of a licensed architect, licensed engineer, licensed land surveyor, licensed landscape architect, licensed geoscientist, or certified interior designer is require. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 60-0

SF 2989 (Johnson, Dave) A bill for an act relating to corrections; clarifying mandatory sentences for driving while impaired offenders; enhancing offender accountability by requiring offender co-payment of certain sex offender treatment fees; authorizing an independent, contracted, board-certified forensic pathologist to sign the record of death on department incarcerated deaths. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 61-0

SF 3059 (Higgins) A bill for an act relating to youth employment; modifying the requirements for youth employment involvement in certain construction projects paid for with grant fund. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 62-1

SF 2678 (Higgins) A bill for an act relating to natural resources; making technical changes and clarifications; modifying certain requirements for nonresident youth small game hunting; modifying requirements for firearms safety certificate; modifying prohibitions of hunting while under the influence; providing for taking unprotected birds; making certain stamp exemptions. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 2611 (Ranum) A bill for an act relating to crime prevention; adopting a new compact for
interstate adult offender supervision and repealing the existing compact; creating an advisory council on interstate adult offender supervision; requiring the appointment of a compact administrator; imposing criminal penalties for a violation of the new compact. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 2957 (Samuelson) A bill for an act relating to professions; requiring reporting of practice act violations to the board of dentistry; providing complainant immunity. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 62-0

SF 3286 (Johnson, Dave) A bill for an act relating to adoption; requiring a registered putative father to serve notice of a paternity action on an interested party. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 62-0

SF 2460 (Kleis) A bill for an act relating to crimes; imposing special civil liability for destruction of field crop products, animals, and organisms; providing criminal penalties for persons who promote, advocate, and take responsibility for criminal acts under certain circumstances. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 61-1

SF 3380 (Knutson) A bill for an act relating to family law; modifying provisions governing postnuptial contracts. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 3086 (Sabo) A bill for an act relating to domestic abuse; providing for the effect of a
recognition of paternity upon temporary custody; providing a presumption concerning an order of protection. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 2627 (Kiscaden) A bill for an act relating to health; requiring optometrists and ophthalmologists to give patients copies of their prescriptions for contact lenses; establishing other requirements for access to and the content of prescriptions for contact lenses. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 3024 (Scheid) A bill for an act relating to commerce; providing certain cosmetology definitions; regulating continuing education and licensing requirements for certain licensees; regulating the contractor's recovery fund; providing for the adoption and amendment of uniform conveyancing forms. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 63-0

SF 2988 (Metzen) A bill for an act relating to financial institutions; regulating detached facilities, certain charges and fees, and mortgage prepayment penalties. Third Reading. Final Passage Roll Call - 64-0

General Orders
SF 1226 (Sams) A bill for an act relating to insurance; no-fault auto; regulating
basic economic loss benefits-recommended to pass as amended

SF 2692 (Sams) A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying requirements for background studies; requiring a review and report to the legislature on these requirements; limiting authority of commissioner of human services to set aside a disqualification; modifying list of disqualifying crimes-recommended to pass as amended

SF 3238 (Ranum) A bill for an act relating to nonprofit corporations; neighborhood organizations; providing options regarding the election of directors, voting rights, and meeting notice requirements-recommended to pass as amended

HF 2899 (Rest)A bill for an act relating to metropolitan government; making changes to the
livable community provisions-recommended to pass

SF 2559 (Knutson) A bill for an act relating to motor vehicles; authorizing sale of unauthorized, impounded vehicles within 15 days of notice unless owner declares intent to reclaim for vehicles impounded in the metropolitan area-recommended to pass

SF 2932 (Krentz) A bill for an act relating to the environment; encouraging
citizen water quality monitoring-recommended to pass

SF 2650 (Samuelson) A bill for an act relating to financial institutions; modifying
regulation of credit unions-recommended to pass as amended

HF 2598 (Reiter) A bill for an act relating to education; requiring recitation of the pledge of allegiance in all public schools; providing for instruction in the proper etiquette, display, and respect of the United States flag-bill is progressed

The Senate will reconvene on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 9:00 a.m.