House Bill Introductions
HF 671 (F. Lee): A bill to make any administrative penalties for serious environmental violations unforgivable. Companion SF 1227.
Status: Introduced 1/23/23; referred to Environment and Natural Resources. Heard 2/28/24; held over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill. Re-referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law. Set for hearing 3/7/24. Committee recommends Do Pass and refers to Environment and Natural Resources 3/7/24. Laid over for omnibus bill. Placed into the House Omnibus Environment and Natural Resources Supplemental Omnibus bill HF 3911.
HF 703 (Scott): Requiring a product stewardship program for wind and solar component reclamation and recycling. Companion SF 4078.
Status: Introduced 1/23/23; referred to Environment and Natural Resources.
HF 3439 (Rehm): Requiring electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all new residential buildings that provide on-site parking. Companion SF 4298.
Status: Introduced 2/12/24; referred to Labor and Industry. Laid over 4/11/24.
HF 3457 (Kraft): Within 30 days after a site or route permit has been issued for a project under chapter 216E (electric generation facilities, transmission), all state agencies must make any final decisions on any other pending permits for that project. Companion Bill SF 3682.
Status: Introduced 2/12/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 2/28/24. Heard 2/28/24; committee reports to adopt as amended, referred to Environment and Natural Resources. Re-referred to Environment and Natural Resources; set for hearing 3/19/24. Laid over 3/19/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 3579 (Lee): Requiring additional air quality monitoring and reporting by air permit holder. Companion SF 4379.
Status: Introduced 2/12/24; referred to Environment and Natural Resources. Heard 2/28/24; held over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill. Amended to only apply to the 30 largest air pollution emitters as determined by the MPCA and placed into the House Omnibus Environment and Natural Resources Supplemental Omnibus bill HF 3911.
HF 3647 (Engen): Prohibiting any entity that receives state funding from making campaign contributions or expending money or any political purpose (lobbying). Companion SF 4062.
Status; Introduced 2/13/24; referred to Elections Finance and Policy.
HF 3704 (Kraft): Requiring utilities to study transmission congestion in Minnesota, identify the frequency of congestion in certain areas, analyze grid enhancing technology (GETS) that could alleviate the congestion, and propose a plan for installing GETS at each congestion point. Companion Bill SF 3683.
Status: Introduced 2/13/23; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 2/28/24. Amended and heard 2/28/24; held over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 3895 (R. Hansen): Subjecting electric cooperatives to open meetings/public records laws; requiring certain documents be available on-line; allowing for vote by mail for board elections. Companion SF 4361.
Status: Introduced 2/19/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/6/24. Laid over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill 3/6/24.
HF 3900 (Kraft): Requiring high-voltage transmission lines to be sited in certain priority areas; requiring utilities to pay for any relocation of transmission lines. Companion SF 3949.
Status: Introduced 2/19/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/5/24. Amended and laid over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill 3/6/24. Re-referred to Transportation 3/11/24. Set for hearing 3/19/24. Laid over for omnibus bill 3/19/24. Placed into House Omnibus Transportation bill HF 3436.
HF 3946 (Carroll): Revising the PACE program to allow for projects to move forward under PACE even if it does not meet certain cost-effective requirements but provides other benefits. Companion SF 3535.
Status: Introduced 2/19/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/5/24. Amended and laid over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill 3/5/24. Set for further hearing 3/26/24. Laid over for possible omnibus bill. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4025 (Koegel): Establishing the Minnesota Advisory Council on Infrastructure and funding it; to coordinate infrastructure planning, funding, and maintenance, particularly as it pertains to climate policy, economic development and energy. Companion SF 4108.
Status: Introduced 2/19/24; referred to Sustainable Infrastructure Policy. Set for hearing 3/6/24. Committee reports to adopt as amended; referred to State and Local Government 3/6/24. Set for hearing 3/26/24. Committee reports do pass as amended; referred to Ways and Means 3/26/24. Referred to Rules and Administration 4/2/24. Rules committee waived Joint Rule 2.03 4/4/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4120 (Koegel): Requiring a public comment period at public meetings, if it is the entity’s practice to offer public comment periods. Companion SF 4297.
Status: Introduced 2/22/24; referred to State and Local Government.
HF 4136 (Coulter): Increasing civil penalties for non-compliance with state open meetings laws; requiring specific documentation if the entity is to close a meeting for attorney-client privilege reasons. Companion SF 4132.
Status: Introduced 2/22/24; referred to State and Local Government.
HF 4155 (Kraft): Requiring all utilities (electric, water, etc.) to accept an individual taxpayer ID number in lieu of an SSN for applications for new service. Companion SF 4159.
Status: Introduced 2/22/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/6/24. Laid over for possible inclusion in omnibus bill 3/6/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4177 (Acomb): Amended to become House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill.
Status: Introduced 2/22/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/26/24. Laid over for possible omnibus bill 3/26/24. Heard and passed by committee 4/17/24; referred to Ways and Means. Set for hearing 4/25/24.
HF 4189 (Kraft): Requiring the MPCA to formulate a methodology to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of various steps in the sourcing, production, shipping, and sale of the retail industry. Companion SF 4167.
Status: Introduced 2/22/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4240 (Kraft): Establishing and funding a local climate planning assistance program at the MPCA. Companion SF 4295.
Status: Introduced 2/26/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4242 (Kraft): Establishing a residential energy rating rebate program, and modifying residential code standards. Companion SF 4202.
Status: Introduced 2/26/24; referred to Labor and Industry. Set for hearing 3/19/24. Laid over for omnibus bill 3/19/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4292 (Greenman): Prohibiting lobbying expenses and other expenses in IOU rate recovery. Companion SF 4426.
Status: Introduced 2/26/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4354 (Klevorn): State Public Utilities Commission added to the list of agencies which are subject to certain obligations to Tribal governments. Companion SF 4428.
Status: Introduced 2/28/24; referred to State and Local Government. Set for hearing 3/12/24. Committee recommends Do Pass; referred to House floor 3/12/24. Second reading 3/14/24.
HF 4410 (R. Hanson): A bill requiring reimbursement of certain costs to MPCA enforcement of environmental laws. Companion Bill SF 4433.
Status: Introduced 2/28/24; referred to Environment and Natural Resources. Set for hearing 3/13/24. Committee recommends Do Pass; referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law. Set for hearing 3/19/24. Referred to Environment and Natural Resources 3/19/24. Placed into the House Omnibus Environment and Natural Resources Supplemental Omnibus bill HF 3911.
HF 4413 (Koegel): Allowing advisory public bodies to meet by interactive technology if certain conditions are followed. Companion SF 4456.
Status: Introduced 2/28/24. Referred to State and Local Government. Laid over 4/9/24.
HF 4423 (Stephenson): Funding for pilot thermal energy network projects. Companion Bill SF 4760.
Status: introduced 2/28/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/13/24. Set for hearing 3/20/24. Laid over 3/20/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4430 (Myers): Repealing the nuclear moratorium.
Status: Introduced 2/29/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4554 (Virnig): Revising open meeting laws to allow for unlimited remote participation. Companion SF 4461.
Status: Introduced 3/4/24; referred to State and Local Government.
HF 4558 (Hollins): Revising rules regarding submetering and clarifying landlord restrictions. Companion SF 4579.
Status: Introduced 3/4/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/6/24. Set for hearing 3/13/24. Laid over for omnibus bill. HF 4558 compared to companion bill SF 4579; HF 4558 indefinitely postponed and SF 4579 substituted for House version on House floor 4/15/24. See SF 4579, which was placed on the House floor calendar for 4/24/24.
HF 4574 (Stephenson): Revising the ECO/CIP laws to allow for the counting of efficient electrification. Companion SF 4562.
Status: Introduced 3/4/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/12/24. Laid over for omnibus bill. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4647 (Feist): A bill clarifying when public records/data may be destroyed and how it is to be stored. Companion SF 4949.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law.
HF 4648 (Feist): A bill clarifying certain individual information as private data.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law.
HF 4684 (Hollins): A bill to fund a study on climate change adaptation costs to the state. Companion SF 4910.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Environment and natural Resources. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4688 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger): A bill to establish and fund a utility thermal energy network deployment work group. Companion SF 4687.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/19/24. Laid over for omnibus bill 3/19/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4689 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger): Rebates for geothermal heat exchange systems established and funded. Companion SF 4686.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/19/24. Laid over for omnibus bill 3/19/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4700 (Long): Permit reform bill; modifying permitting for energy in Minnesota. Companion SF 4784.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/20/24. Laid over 3/20/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4721 (Jordan): Establishing a recycling and stewardship program for batteries. Companion SF 4711.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Environment and Natural Resources.
HF 4749 (Bahner): Requiring cyber incident reporting by local governmental entities. Companion SF 4874.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to State and Local Government. Set for hearing 4/5/24. Laid over 4/5/24.
HF 4759 (Acomb): Establishing a grant program and funding for grants to communities to study geothermal energy systems.
Status: Introduced 3/7/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/27/24. Laid over for possible omnibus bill 3/26/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4812 (Scott): Prohibits installing AMI without customer consent. Companion SF 4373.
Status: Introduced 3/11/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4835 (Scott): Applies the penalties under the Data Practices Act to violations of the Official Records Act. Companion SF 4904.
Status: Introduced 3/11/24; referred to State and Local Government.
HF 4836 (Scott): Defining “correspondence” for the purposes of retention under the government record retention law; requiring 3 year retention period. Companion SF 4822.
Status: Introduced 3/11/24; referred to State and Local Government.
HF 4851 (Greenman): Prohibiting certain executive pay/bonuses from being placed in rates of IOU rate-payers. Companion SF 3959.
Status: Introduced 3/11/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4938 (Hollins): Funding provided for an anaerobic digestor energy system. Companion SF 4889.
Status: Introduced 3/14/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/27/24. Laid over for possible omnibus bill 3/27/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 4953 (Freiberg): Establishing a carbon tax for the electric energy industry. Companion bill SF 4802.
Status: Introduced 3/14/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 4975 (Acomb): Repealing a reporting requirement for the Renewable Development Account. Companion bill SF 4942.
Status: Introduced 3/14/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 3/26/24. Laid over for possible omnibus bill 3/26/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 5016 (Freiberg): Creating an ongoing renewable energy grant funded by the RDA. Companion Bill SF 4863.
Status: Introduced 3/18/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 5018 (Hollins): Creating a year-round legislature.
Status: Introduced 3/18/24; referred to Elections Finance and Policy.
HF 5056 (Hussein): A bill to establish grants for electric lawn care and snow removal equipment. Companion Bill SF 4969.
Status: Introduced 3/20/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 5060 (Grossell): Exempting cooperatives from the RES and CFS. Companion Bill SF 5033.
Status: Introduced 3/20/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 5097 (Acomb): Requiring a PUC proceeding on upgrading hosting capacity on the distribution grid for renewable energy.
Status: Introduced 3/21/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Set for hearing 4/3/24. Laid over 4/3/24. Amended to exempt municipals and cooperatives and placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 5149 (Engen): Allowing owners to opt out of advanced energy meters (AMI). Companion SF 4900.
Status: Introduced 3/25/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 5171 (Carroll): Creating and funding a program for incentives for automated software to review and issue permits for residential solar projects.
Status: Introduced 3/25/24; referred to Climate and Energy. Laid over for possible omnibus bill 4/2/24. Amended to exempt municipals and cooperatives and placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 5241 (Franson): Requiring generation facilities to certify as being free of child labor. Companion Bill SF 5154.
Status: Introduced 4/2/24; referred to Climate and Energy.
HF 5328 (Klevorn): Establishing a state fund for renewable energy and energy storage updates to state buildings. Companion Bill SF 5423.
Status: Introduced 4/8/24; referred to State and Local Government. Set for hearing 4/12/24. Laid over 4/12/24. Placed into House Climate and Energy Omnibus Bill HF 4177.
HF 5423 (Kraft): Requiring the Department of Commerce establish performance standards regarding energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for city, state, county, school district, metropolitan, and private buildings of 50,000 gross square feet or larger served by IOUs in the 7 county metro area or served by municipals in Greater Minnesota if the population is over 50,000 people.
Status: Introduced 4/25/24; referred to Climate and Energy.