State of Minnesota
SENATE BILL INTRODUCTIONS
Thursday, March 24, 2022
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 Duckworth, Lang, Howe, Rarick, and Hoffman introduced--
S.F. No. 4261: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new aircraft shelter at the Duluth Air National Guard Base.
Referred to the Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs Finance and Policy.
Senator Senjem introduced--
S.F. No. 4262: A bill for an act relating to energy; creating a process regulated by the Public Utilities Commission allowing natural gas utilities to sell bonds as a way to reduce economic impacts on customers when extraordinary events damage utility infrastructure or impose significant costs; establishing an account; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 216B.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy.
Senator Ingebrigtsen introduced--
S.F. No. 4263: A bill for an act relating to corrections; appropriating money for The Redemption Project to assist inmates to transition from incarceration to the community.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy.
Senator Ingebrigtsen introduced--
S.F. No. 4264: A bill for an act relating to corrections; directing the commissioner of corrections to issue a grant to a qualified nongovernmental organization to assist inmates in finding meaningful employment after release from incarceration; appropriating money.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy.
Senator Eken introduced--
S.F. No. 4265: A bill for an act relating to elections; providing for ranked-choice voting in elections for federal and state offices; authorizing jurisdictions to adopt ranked-choice voting for local offices; establishing procedures for adoption, implementation, and use of ranked-choice voting; allowing municipalities to use electronic voting systems with a reallocation feature; authorizing rulemaking; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 204B.27, by adding a subdivision; 204B.34, subdivision 1; 204B.35, subdivision 1; 204C.19, by adding a subdivision; 204C.21, by adding a subdivision; 204C.24, subdivision 1; 204C.32, subdivision 1; 204C.33, subdivisions 1, 3; 204D.08, subdivision 5; 204D.10, subdivisions 1, 3; 204D.11, subdivision 1; 205.13, subdivision 2; 206.58, subdivision 1; 206.83; 206.89, subdivisions 2, 3; 207A.12; 208.05; Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 204D.08, subdivision 4; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 206; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 204E.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senator Eken introduced--
S.F. No. 4266: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for West Central Regional Water System; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Duckworth introduced--
S.F. No. 4267: A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing mental health grants for federal instructional setting level 4 for special education sites; appropriating money.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance and Policy.
Senator Duckworth introduced--
S.F. No. 4268: A bill for an act relating to education; requiring due process forms and procedures time for teachers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 122A.50.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance and Policy.
Senator Senjem introduced--
S.F. No. 4269: A bill for an act relating to utilities; modifying submission dates for certain reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 216B.096, subdivision 11; 237.55.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy.
Senator Rarick introduced--
S.F. No. 4270: A bill for an act relating to retirement; Public Employees Retirement Association; excluding persons employed by the Duluth Transit Authority under a collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters from participation in the general employees retirement plan; amending Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 353.01, subdivision 2b.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4271: A bill for an act relating to transportation; amending the description of Legislative Route 25; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 161.114, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance and Policy.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 4272: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for road and bridge improvements in the city of Savage; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 4273: A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance; authorizing data sharing with the attorney general; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 268.19, subdivision 1.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Growth Finance and Policy.
Senators López Franzen and Kunesh introduced--
S.F. No. 4274: A bill for an act relating to corporations; requiring publicly held corporations to have a minimum number of female directors and directors from underrepresented communities; imposing penalties; requiring reports; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 302A.
Referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Data Practices Policy.
Senators Benson, Eichorn, Johnson, and Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4275: A resolution urging the President of the United States to consider the current geopolitical tensions and support policies and take measures to ensure America's long-term energy affordability, security, leadership and progress, including actions that result in the continued operation of existing oil and natural gas pipelines, the construction of new pipelines, and an end to restrictions on developing our nation's onshore and offshore oil and natural gas resources.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy.
Senator Utke introduced--
S.F. No. 4276: A bill for an act relating to environment; appropriating money to demolish and remediate abandoned Williams School building.
Referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Finance.
Senators Tomassoni and Bakk introduced--
S.F. No. 4277: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for production studio improvements in the city of Chisholm; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Utke introduced--
S.F. No. 4278: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for drinking water and sanitary sewer improvements in the city of Bagley; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Eaton introduced--
S.F. No. 4279: A bill for an act relating to game and fish; prohibiting trapping without permission on certain private lands; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.001, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance.
Senator Westrom introduced--
S.F. No. 4280: A bill for an act relating to animals; modifying an exemption to regulated animal possession prohibitions and requirements; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 346.155, subdivision 7.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Finance and Policy.
Senator Westrom introduced--
S.F. No. 4281: A bill for an act relating to agriculture; expanding eligibility for beginning farmer tax credits; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 41B.0391, subdivision 1.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Finance and Policy.
Senators Kunesh, Clausen, and Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 4282: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a monument to missing and murdered indigenous women.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senator Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 4283: A bill for an act relating to health; establishing health record retention requirements for physicians who perform eye surgery; establishing a fee; classifying certain data; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services Finance and Policy.
Senator Nelson introduced--
S.F. No. 4284: A bill for an act relating to public finance; modifying local government debt financing; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 123B.61; 366.095, subdivision 1; 373.01, subdivision 3; 383B.117, subdivision 2; 410.32; 412.301.
Referred to the Committee on Local Government Policy.
Senators Goggin, Rarick, Howe, and Dornink introduced--
S.F. No. 4285: A bill for an act relating to workforce development; appropriating money for apprenticeship preparation programming.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Growth Finance and Policy.
Senators Murphy and Coleman introduced--
S.F. No. 4286: A bill for an act relating to public safety; appropriating money for juvenile delinquency treatment homes and violence prevention and wellness efforts in Ramsey County.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy.
Senator Frentz introduced--
S.F. No. 4287: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a regional sports facility at Minnesota State University Mankato; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senators Frentz, Rosen, and Wiklund introduced--
S.F. No. 4288: A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying funding for adult mental health initiatives; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 245.4661, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Human Services Reform Finance and Policy.
Senators Eichorn, Ingebrigtsen, and Lang introduced--
S.F. No. 4289: A bill for an act relating to natural resources; modifying the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources member terms; modifying expenditure of environment and natural resources trust fund; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 116P.05, subdivisions 1, 2; 116P.08, subdivisions 1, 2; 116P.12, subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116P.05, subdivision 1a.
Referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance.
Senators Westrom, Johnson, Eichorn, Mathews, and Dornink introduced--
S.F. No. 4290: A bill for an act relating to elections; establishing a procedure for the chair of either of the state's two largest major political parties to request a forensic audit of a state primary or state general election; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 204C.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senators Goggin and Senjem introduced--
S.F. No. 4291: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new regional wastewater treatment facility in Goodhue County.
Referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Growth Finance and Policy.
Senator Utke introduced--
S.F. No. 4292: A bill for an act relating to health care; permitting temporary practice by health care providers from other jurisdictions.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services Finance and Policy.
Senators Dziedzic, Frentz, Housley, Duckworth, and López Franzen introduced--
S.F. No. 4293: A bill for an act relating to state government; appropriating money for humanitarian relief aid for Ukraine; requiring a report.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senators Frentz, Pappas, Cwodzinski, Klein, and Putnam introduced--
S.F. No. 4294: A bill for an act relating to retirement; Minnesota State Retirement System plans, Public Employees Retirement Association plans, Teachers Retirement Association, Minnesota state higher education individual retirement account plan, and St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association; increasing postretirement adjustment rates; temporarily reducing employee contribution rates; reducing the investment rate of return actuarial assumption; increasing and extending direct state aid to the public employees police and fire retirement plan, the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, and the judges retirement plan; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 352.04, subdivision 2; 352.92, subdivision 1; 352B.02, subdivision 1a; 353.27, subdivisions 2, 3c; 353.65, subdivisions 2, 3b; 353E.03, subdivision 1; 354.42, subdivision 2; 354A.12, subdivisions 3a, 3c; 354A.29, subdivision 7; 354B.23, subdivision 1; 356.215, subdivision 8; 356.415, subdivisions 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e; 490.123, subdivisions 1a, 5; Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, sections 354A.12, subdivision 1; 356.415, subdivision 1f.
Referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections.
Senators Wiger and Pappas introduced--
S.F. No. 4295: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; amending and extending availability of a 2018 appropriation of bond proceeds for Lake Links Trail; amending Laws 2018, chapter 214, article 1, section 17, subdivision 7, as amended.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Anderson introduced--
S.F. No. 4296: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for water improvements in the city of South Haven; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.