State of Minnesota
SENATE BILL INTRODUCTIONS
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
11:00 A.M.
EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
Introduction and First Reading of Senate Bills
The bills listed on today's introduction calendar are given their first reading and referred as indicated.
Senators McEwen, Port, Morrison, Maye Quade, and Dziedzic introduced--
S.F. No. 1: A bill for an act relating to health; establishing a fundamental right to reproductive health; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Mann, Dziedzic, Port, Boldon, and Mohamed introduced--
S.F. No. 2: A bill for an act relating to economic development; providing for paid family and medical leave; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 13.719, by adding a subdivision; 177.27, subdivision 4; 181.032; 256J.561, by adding a subdivision; 256J.95, subdivisions 3, 11; 256P.01, subdivision 3; 268.19, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 268B.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development.
Senators Port, Murphy, Putnam, Boldon, and Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 3: A bill for an act relating to elections; modifying provisions related to voter registration; absentee voting; requiring voting instructions, sample ballots, and election judges to be multilingual in certain situations; regulating intimidation, deceptive practices, and interference with voter registration and voting; campaign finance; establishing a Democracy Dollar coupon program; repealing the political contribution refund program; expanding the definition of express advocacy; providing penalties; requiring reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 10A.01, subdivisions 11, 16a; 10A.02, subdivision 13; 10A.15, subdivision 1; 10A.20, subdivision 3; 10A.27, subdivision 11; 10A.34, subdivision 4; 13.607, by adding a subdivision; 201.014, by adding a subdivision; 201.054, subdivisions 1, 2; 201.061, by adding a subdivision; 201.071, subdivision 1; 201.091, subdivision 4; 201.161; 201.162; 203B.04, subdivision 5; 203B.06, subdivisions 1, 3; 203B.121, subdivision 2; 204C.10; 211B.15, subdivisions 1, 7, 7b, by adding subdivisions; 211B.32, subdivision 1; 289A.37, subdivision 2; 289A.50, subdivision 1; 290.01, subdivision 6; 609.165, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 201; 204B; 211B; 243; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 10B; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 13.4967, subdivision 2; 290.06, subdivision 23.
Referred to the Committee on Elections.
Senators Frentz and Mohamed introduced--
S.F. No. 4: A bill for an act relating to energy; modifying electric utility renewable energy standard obligations; exempting certain wind projects from certificate of need proceedings; including low-voltage transmission lines in the definition of "solar energy generating system" for siting purposes; modifying Public Utility Commission authority to issue site permits for electric generation facilities; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 216B.1691, subdivisions 1, 2a, 2b, 2d, 2e, 2f, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, by adding subdivisions; 216B.2422, subdivision 3; 216B.243, subdivision 8; 216E.01, subdivision 9a; 216E.03, subdivisions 5, 10, 11; 216E.04, subdivision 2; 216F.04; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate.
Senators Marty, Mohamed, Dziedzic, and Fateh introduced--
S.F. No. 5: A bill for an act relating to public safety; establishing requirements for the purchase of catalytic converters; providing for penalties; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 325E.21, subdivisions 1b, 2, 5, 6, by adding subdivisions; 609.5316, subdivision 3.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 6: A bill for an act relating to consumer protection; prohibiting price gouging; prescribing penalties; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325E.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senators Hoffman and Abeler introduced--
S.F. No. 7: A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying rates for certain disability waiver services; modifying rates for certain elderly waiver services; modifying rate floors for certain customized living services; modifying rates for nursing facilities; establishing rate floors for intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities; modifying rates for intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities; modifying rates for community first services and supports; modifying rates for personal care assistance services; modifying rates for certain home care services; modifying rates for nonemergency medical transportation services; establishing a fuel cost rate adjustment for medical transportation services; modifying provisions related to home and community-based services; modifying provisions related to the emergency staffing pool; establishing a residential settings closure prevention grant program; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 256B.0625, subdivisions 17, 17a; 256B.0659, subdivisions 1, 12, 17a, 19, 24; 256B.0913, subdivisions 4, 5; 256B.4911, by adding a subdivision; 256B.4912, by adding a subdivision; 256B.4914, subdivisions 3, as amended, 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 8, 9, 10, 10a, 10c, 12, 14, by adding a subdivision; 256B.5012, by adding subdivisions; 256B.85, subdivisions 7, 7a, by adding a subdivision; 256B.851, subdivision 5; 256E.35, subdivisions 1, 2, 4a, 6, 7; 256P.02, by adding a subdivision; 256R.02, subdivisions 16, 24, 26, 29, 34, by adding subdivisions; 256R.23, subdivisions 2, 3; 256R.24, subdivision 1; 256R.25; 256S.15, subdivision 2; 256S.18, by adding a subdivision; 256S.19, subdivision 3; 256S.205, subdivisions 3, 5; 256S.2101, subdivisions 1, 2, by adding subdivisions; 256S.212; 256S.213; 256S.214; 256S.215; Laws 2022, chapter 40, section 6; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 256; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 256B.4914, subdivision 9a; 256S.19, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Human Services.
Senators Kunesh and Maye Quade introduced--
S.F. No. 8: A bill for an act relating to education finance; providing supplemental aid for transportation, nutrition, English learners, and special education; appropriating money.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance.
Senator Hauschild introduced--
S.F. No. 9: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; expanding the dependent care credit; establishing the great start child care credit; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 290.0131, by adding a subdivision; 290.067.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Seeberger and Dziedzic introduced--
S.F. No. 10: A bill for an act relating to labor and industry; providing for use of skilled and trained contractor workforces at petroleum refineries; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 177.27, subdivision 4; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 181.
Referred to the Committee on Labor.
Senator Mohamed introduced--
S.F. No. 11: A bill for an act relating to housing; establishing a state rent assistance program for low-income, cost-burdened households; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 462A.05, by adding a subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 462A.
Referred to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention.
Senator Miller introduced--
S.F. No. 12: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 290.0132, subdivision 26.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Champion introduced--
S.F. No. 13: A bill for an act relating to state government; recognizing Juneteenth, June 19, as a state holiday; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 10.55; 645.44, subdivision 5.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government and Veterans.
Senator Wiklund introduced--
S.F. No. 14: A bill for an act relating to child care assistance; modifying child care assistance rates; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 119B.13, subdivision 1.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Putnam, Hauschild, Klein, Westlin, and Nelson introduced--
S.F. No. 15: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; establishing a public pension benefit subtraction; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 290.0132, subdivision 26, by adding a subdivision; 290.091, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Gustafson, Kupec, Hoffman, Rest, and Weber introduced--
S.F. No. 16: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; establishing a public pension benefit subtraction; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 290.0132, subdivision 26, by adding a subdivision; 290.091, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Seeberger and Drazkowski introduced--
S.F. No. 17: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; establishing a public pension benefit subtraction; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 290.0132, subdivision 26, by adding a subdivision; 290.091, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Champion introduced--
S.F. No. 18: A bill for an act relating to state government; establishing the Emmett Louis Till Victims Recovery Program; appropriating money.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senator Champion introduced--
S.F. No. 19: A bill for an act relating to public safety; creating an office for missing and murdered Black women and girls; requiring a report; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 299A.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Kunesh introduced--
S.F. No. 20: A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for full-service community schools.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance.
Senator Oumou Verbeten introduced--
S.F. No. 21: A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for English learner programming; adding English learner cross subsidy aid; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 124D.65, subdivision 5; 126C.10, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance.
Senators Oumou Verbeten and Dziedzic introduced--
S.F. No. 22: A bill for an act relating to housing; establishing a first-generation homebuyers down payment assistance fund under the administration of a central community development financial institution; requiring a report; appropriating money.
Referred to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention.
Senator Dibble introduced--
S.F. No. 23: A bill for an act relating to health; prohibiting conversion therapy with children or vulnerable adults; prohibiting medical assistance coverage for conversion therapy; prohibiting the misrepresentation of conversion therapy services or products; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 256B.0625, by adding a subdivision; 325F.69, by adding a subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 214.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senator Dibble introduced--
S.F. No. 24: A bill for an act relating to transportation; appropriating money related to the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Senators Rest, Klein, and Weber introduced--
S.F. No. 25: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income and corporate franchise; providing for certain conformity to federal tax provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 289A.02, subdivision 7; 290.01, by adding a subdivision; 290.0123, subdivision 3; 290.0131, by adding a subdivision; 290.0132, subdivisions 18, 24, by adding a subdivision; 290.0133, by adding a subdivision; 290.0134, by adding a subdivision; 290.0671, subdivision 1a; 290.0675, subdivision 1; 290.091, subdivision 2; 290.095, subdivision 11; 290A.03, subdivision 15; 291.005, subdivision 1; Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, sections 289A.08, subdivision 7; 290.01, subdivisions 19, 31; 290.06, subdivision 2c.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Champion introduced--
S.F. No. 26: A bill for an act relating to elections; restoring the right to vote to individuals convicted of a felony upon completion of any term of incarceration imposed and executed by a court for the offense; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 201.014, by adding a subdivision; 201.071, subdivision 1; 204C.10; 609.165, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 201; 243.
Referred to the Committee on Elections.
Senators Mohamed and Champion introduced--
S.F. No. 27: A bill for an act relating to transportation; modifying requirements for a noncompliant driver's license or Minnesota identification card and making related changes, including on eligibility, proof of lawful presence, primary and secondary documentation, and data practices; making technical changes; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 13.6905, by adding a subdivision; 171.04, subdivision 5; 171.06, subdivision 3, by adding subdivisions; 171.07, subdivisions 1, 3; 171.12, subdivisions 7a, 9, by adding a subdivision; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 171.015, subdivision 7.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Senator Westlin introduced--
S.F. No. 28: A bill for an act relating to education finance; fully funding school district special education services; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 125A.76, subdivision 2e.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance.
Senators Nelson, Putnam, and Limmer introduced--
S.F. No. 29: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 290.0132, subdivision 26.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator McEwen introduced--
S.F. No. 30: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; establishing grant program to replace lead drinking water service lines; establishing grant program for mapping lead service lines; requiring report; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 446A.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development.
Senators Jasinski and Lang introduced--
S.F. No. 31: A bill for an act relating to natural resources; modernizing statutes related to the registration, transfer, and operation of snowmobiles; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 84.788, subdivision 5; 84.82, subdivision 2, by adding a subdivision; 84.821, subdivision 2; 84.84; 84.86, subdivision 1; 84.87, subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Rules, parts 6100.5000, subparts 3, 4, 5; 6100.5700, subpart 4.
Referred to the Committee on Environment, Climate, and Legacy.
Senators McEwen, Kunesh, and Gustafson introduced--
S.F. No. 32: A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance; modifying wage credits and providing reimbursement; authorizing transfers from the general fund; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 126C.43, subdivision 2; 268.085, subdivision 7; 268.19, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 268; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 268.085, subdivision 8.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development.
Senators Murphy, Dziedzic, and Maye Quade introduced--
S.F. No. 33: A bill for an act relating to public safety; appropriating money to the Office of the Attorney General to provide legal services for violent crimes and financial exploitation.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government and Veterans.
Senators Maye Quade, Pappas, Kunesh, and Pha introduced--
S.F. No. 34: A bill for an act relating to employment; providing for earned sick and safe time; requiring a report; authorizing rulemaking; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 177.27, subdivisions 2, 4, 7; 181.942, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 177; 181; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 181.9413.
Referred to the Committee on Labor.