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MN Stat § 3.841 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.841 — Legislative Coordinating Commission.

3.841 LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COMMISSION. For purposes of sections 3.842 and 3.843, "commission" means the Legislative Coordinating Commission or a legislative commission or subcommittee established by the coordinating commission under section 3.305, subdivision 6, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the coordinating commission under sections 3.842 and 3.843 or other law requiring action by the coordinating commission on matters relating to administrative rules. History:  1974 c 355 s 69; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1980 c 615 s 1; 1980 c 618 s 26; 1981 c 112 s 1,2; 1981 c 253 s 1; 1981 c 342 art 2 s 1; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 155 s 6; 1993 c 370 s 2; 1994 c 629 s 1; 1997 c 98 s 1
MN Stat § 3.843 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.843 — Public Hearings By State Agencies.

3.843 PUBLIC HEARINGS BY STATE AGENCIES. By a vote of a majority of its members, the commission may request any agency issuing rules to hold a public hearing in respect to recommendations made under section 3.842, including recommendations made by the commission to promote adequate and proper rules by that agency and recommendations contained in the commission's biennial report. The agency shall give notice as provided in section 14.14, subdivision 1, of a hearing under this section, to be conducted in accordance with sections 14.05 to 14.28. The hearing must be held not more than 60 days after receipt of the request or within any other longer time period specified by the commission in the request. History:  1974 c 355 s 69; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1980 c 615 s 1; 1980 c 618 s 26; 1981 c 112 s 1,2; 1981 c 253 s 1; 1981 c 342 art 2 s 1; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1989 c 155 s 6; 1995 c 233 art 2 s 56; 1997 c 98 s 4
MN Stat § 3.8844 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.8844 — Legislative Commission On Data Practices.

3.8844 LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON DATA PRACTICES. Subdivision 1. Established. The Legislative Commission on Data Practices and Personal Data Privacy is created to study issues relating to government data practices and individuals' personal data privacy rights and to review legislation impacting data practices, data security, and personal data privacy. The commission is a continuation of the commission that was established by Laws 2014, chapter 193, as amended, and which expired June 30, 2019. Subd. 2. Membership. The commission consists of two senators appointed by the senate majority leader, two senators appointed by the minority leader in the senate, two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker, and two members of the house of representatives appointed by the minority leader in the house. Two members from each chamber must be from the majority party in that chamber and two members from each chamber must be from the minority party in that chamber. Each appointing authority must make appointments as soon as possible after the beginning of the regular legislative session in the odd-numbered year. The ranking senator from the majority party appointed to the commission must convene the first meeting of a biennium by February 15 in the odd-numbered year. The commission may elect up to four former legislators who have demonstrated an interest in, or have a history of working in, the areas of government data practices and personal data privacy to serve as nonvoting members of the commission. The former legislators must not be registered lobbyists and shall be compensated as provided under section 15.0575, subdivision 3. Subd. 3. Terms; vacancies. Members of the commission serve for terms beginning upon appointment and ending at the beginning of the regular legislative session in the next odd-numbered year. The appropriate appointing authority must fill a vacancy for a seat of a current legislator for the remainder of the unexpired term. Subd. 4. Officers. The commission must elect a chair and may elect other officers as it determines are necessary. The chair alternates between a member of the senate and a member of the house of representatives in January of each odd-numbered year. Subd. 5. Staff. Legislative staff must provide administrative and research assistance to the commission. The Legislative Coordinating Commission may, if funding is available, appoint staff to provide research assistance. Subd. 6. Duties. The commission shall: (1) review and provide the legislature with research and analysis of emerging issues relating to government data practices and security and privacy of personal data; (2) review and make recommendations on legislative proposals relating to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act; and (3) review and make recommendations on legislative proposals impacting personal data privacy rights, data security, and other related issues. History:   1Sp2021 c 11 art 3 s 1
MN Stat § 3.8845 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.8845 — Legislative Commission On Housing Affordability.

3.8845 LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON HOUSING AFFORDABILITY. Subdivision 1. Membership. (a) The Legislative Commission on Housing Affordability consists of: (1) two senators appointed by the senate majority leader; (2) two senators appointed by the senate minority leader; (3) two representatives appointed by the speaker of the house; and (4) two representatives appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives. (b) Each appointing authority must make appointments by January 31 of the regular legislative session in the odd-numbered year. Subd. 2. Meetings. The ranking senator from the majority party appointed to the commission must convene the first meeting of a biennium by February 15 in the odd-numbered year. Subd. 3. Terms; vacancies. Members of the commission serve for terms beginning upon appointment and ending at the beginning of the regular legislative session in the next odd-numbered year. The appropriate appointing authority must fill a vacancy for a seat of a current legislator for the remainder of the unexpired term. Subd. 4. Officers. The commission must elect a chair and may elect other officers as it determines are necessary at the first meeting of the commission in an odd-numbered year. The chair alternates between a member of the senate and a member of the house of representatives at the start of the regular legislative session in each odd-numbered year. Subd. 5. Staff. The Legislative Coordinating Commission must provide administrative and research assistance to the commission. Subd. 6. Duties. The commission shall: (1) define housing affordability and study issues relating to housing affordability and the construction, preservation, and rehabilitation of owner-occupied and rental housing, including subsidized housing, existing and future government regulations impacting housing affordability, market forces impacting housing affordability, and access to homeownership; (2) review and provide the legislature with research and analysis of emerging issues affecting housing affordability and homeownership access, including but not limited to construction work force, innovation, building practices, and building material costs; (3) review and provide the legislature with research and analysis of policies to reduce the homeownership equity gap; and (4) review and make recommendations on legislative and rulemaking proposals positively impacting personal housing affordability, access to homeownership, and other related barriers to homeownership, especially with regard to first-time home buyers and economically disadvantaged buyers and renters. Subd. 7. Expiration. This section expires June 30, 2023. History:   1Sp2019 c 10 art 2 s 2
MN Stat § 3.8853 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.8853 — Legislative Budget Office.

3.8853 LEGISLATIVE BUDGET OFFICE. Subdivision 1. Establishment; duties. The Legislative Budget Office is established to provide the house of representatives and senate with nonpartisan, accurate, and timely information on the fiscal impact of proposed legislation, without regard to political factors. Subd. 2. Director; staff. (a) The Legislative Budget Office Oversight Commission must appoint a director and establish the director's duties. The director may hire staff necessary to do the work of the office. The director serves in the unclassified service for a term of six years and may not be removed during a term except for cause after a public hearing. (b) The director and staff hired under this section must provide professional and technical assistance to the Tax Expenditure Review Commission under section 3.8855. Subd. 3. Uniform standards and procedures. The director of the Legislative Budget Office must adopt uniform standards and procedures governing the timely preparation of fiscal notes as required by this section and section 3.98. The standards and procedures are not effective until they are approved by the Legislative Budget Office Oversight Commission. Upon approval, the standards and procedures must be published in the State Register and on the office's website. Subd. 4. Access to data; treatment. Upon request of the director of the Legislative Budget Office, the head or chief administrative officer of each department or agency of state government, including the supreme court, must promptly supply data that are used to prepare a fiscal note, including data that are not public data under section 13.64 or other applicable law, unless there are federal laws or regulations that prohibit the provision of the not public data for this purpose. Not public data supplied under this subdivision may only be used by the Legislative Budget Office to review a department or agency's work in preparing a fiscal note and may not be used or disseminated for any other purpose, including use by or dissemination to a legislator or to any officer, department, agency, or committee within the legislative branch. Violation of this subdivision by the director or other staff of the Legislative Budget Office is cause for removal, suspension without pay, or immediate dismissal at the direction of the oversight commission. Subd. 5. Fiscal note delivery and posting. The director of the Legislative Budget Office must deliver a completed fiscal note to the legislative committee chair who made the request, and to the chief author of the legislation to which it relates. Within 24 hours of completion of a fiscal note, the director of the Legislative Budget Office must post a completed fiscal note on the office's public website. This subdivision does not apply to an unofficial fiscal note that is not public data under section 13.64, subdivision 3. History:  1Sp2017 c 4 art 2 s 3; 2018 c 214 art 5 s 1-5; 1Sp2021 c 14 art 11 s 3
MN Stat § 3.8854 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.8854 — Legislative Budget Office Oversight Commission.

3.8854 LEGISLATIVE BUDGET OFFICE OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. (a) The Legislative Budget Office Oversight Commission consists of: (1) two members of the senate appointed by the senate majority leader; (2) two members of the senate appointed by the senate minority leader; (3) two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house; and (4) two members of the house of representatives appointed by the minority leader. The director of the Legislative Budget Office is the executive secretary of the commission. The chief nonpartisan fiscal analyst of the house of representatives, the lead nonpartisan fiscal analyst of the senate, the commissioner of management and budget or a designee, and the legislative auditor are ex-officio, nonvoting members of the commission. (b) Members serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority, or until they are not members of the legislative body from which they were appointed. Appointing authorities shall fill vacancies on the commission within 30 days of a vacancy being created. (c) The commission shall meet in January of each odd-numbered year to elect its chair and vice-chair. They shall serve until successors are elected. The chair and vice-chair shall alternate biennially between the senate and the house of representatives. The commission shall meet at the call of the chair. The members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses consistent with the rules of the legislature governing expense reimbursement. (d) The commission shall review the work of the Legislative Budget Office and make recommendations, as the commission determines necessary, to improve the office's ability to fulfill its duties, and shall perform other functions as directed by this section, and sections 3.8853 and 3.98. History:   2018 c 214 art 5 s 6
MN Stat § 3.888 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.888 — Legislative Commission On Cybersecurity.

3.888 LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON CYBERSECURITY. Subdivision 1. Membership. The Legislative Commission on Cybersecurity consists of the following eight members: (1) four senators, including two senators appointed by the senate majority leader and two senators appointed by the senate minority leader; and (2) four members of the house of representatives, including two members appointed by the speaker of the house and two members appointed by the minority leader of the house. Subd. 2. Terms; vacancies. Members of the commission serve for a two-year term beginning on appointment and expiring on appointment of a successor after the opening of the next regular session of the legislature in the odd-numbered year. A vacancy in the membership of the commission must be filled for the unexpired term in a manner that will preserve the representation established by this section. Subd. 3. Duties. The commission shall provide oversight of the state's cybersecurity measures. The commission shall review the policies and practices of state agencies with regard to cybersecurity and may recommend changes in policy to adequately protect the state from cybersecurity threats. The commission may develop recommendations and draft legislation to support and strengthen the state's cybersecurity infrastructure. Subd. 4. Chair. The commission shall elect a chair by a majority vote of members present. If the commission is unable to elect a chair by a majority vote at its first meeting of a biennium, the ranking member of the majority party shall serve as chair. The officers shall alternate between a member of the senate and a member of the house of representatives. A chair shall serve a two-year term expiring upon election of a new chair after the opening of the next regular session of the legislature in the odd-numbered year. Subd. 5. Meetings. The commission must meet at least three times per calendar year. The meetings of the commission are subject to section 3.055, except that the commission may close a meeting when necessary to safeguard the state's cybersecurity. The minutes, recordings, and documents from a closed meeting under this subdivision shall be maintained by the Legislative Coordinating Commission and shall not be made available to the public until eight years after the date of the meeting. Subd. 6. Administration. The Legislative Coordinating Commission shall provide administrative services for the commission. Subd. 7. Expiration. The commission expires December 31, 2028. History:   1Sp2021 c 12 art 2 s 1
MN Stat § 3.921 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.921 — Standing Committees As Interim Study Committees.

3.921 STANDING COMMITTEES AS INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEES. Subdivision 1. Interim studies. Each standing committee or subcommittee of the senate and house of representatives is continued during the intervals between sessions of the legislature to make studies and investigations within its general jurisdiction, as directed by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the senate and the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration of the house of representatives, or by resolution or law. Subd. 2. Vacancies. Vacancies in a committee or subcommittee during the intervals shall be filled by the last elected speaker of the house for house of representatives committees and by the last elected senate committee on committees for senate committees. Subd. 3. Expenses. A standing committee of the senate that requires money to defray expenses of its operations during the interim shall prepare and submit a budget to the senate Committee on Rules and Administration for its approval. The money must not be spent by the standing committee without prior approval of the senate Committee on Rules and Administration. A standing committee of the house of representatives that requires money to defray expenses of its operations during the interim shall prepare and submit a budget to the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee of the house of representatives for its approval. The money must not be spent by the standing committee without prior approval of the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee of the house of representatives. Subd. 4. Certification to management and budget commissioners. The expenses of a committee shall be paid upon the certification to the commissioner of management and budget of their amount. Payment of the expenses is directed from any direct appropriation for them to the legislature or either branch of it. History:  1963 c 887 s 1; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1973 c 720 s 69; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 3.9221 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.9221 — Indian Tribes; Compacts To Be Negotiated.

3.9221 INDIAN TRIBES; COMPACTS TO BE NEGOTIATED. Subdivision 1. Definition. For purposes of this section, "act" means the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Public Law 100-497, and future amendments to it. Subd. 2. Negotiations authorized. The governor or the governor's designated representatives shall, pursuant to section 11 of the act, negotiate in good faith a tribal-state compact regulating the conduct of class III gambling, as defined in section 4 of the act, on Indian lands of a tribe requesting negotiations. The agreement may include any provision authorized under section 11(d)(3)(C) of the act. The attorney general is the legal counsel for the governor or the governor's representatives in regard to negotiating a compact under this section. If the governor appoints designees to negotiate under this subdivision, the designees must include at least two members of the senate and two members of the house of representatives, two of whom must be the chairs of the senate and house of representatives standing committees with jurisdiction over gambling policy. Subd. 3. Time limits. (a) In the case of negotiations undertaken pursuant to a request for negotiations received before April 20, 1989, the authority granted under subdivision 2 to negotiate with an Indian tribe expires 180 days after April 20, 1989. (b) In the case of negotiations undertaken pursuant to a request for negotiations received after April 20, 1989, the authority granted under subdivision 2 to negotiate with an Indian tribe expires 180 days after receipt of the request by the governor. Subd. 4. Terms of compact; rights of parties. A compact agreed to on behalf of the state under this section must contain: (1) a provision recognizing the right of each party to the agreement, including the legislature by joint resolution, to request that the agreement be renegotiated or replaced by a new compact, and providing the terms under which either party, including the legislature, can request a renegotiation or the negotiation of a new compact; and (2) a provision that in the event of a request for a renegotiation or a new compact the existing compact will remain in effect until renegotiated or replaced. Subd. 5. Report. The governor, the attorney general, and the governor's designated representatives shall report to the house of representatives and senate committees having jurisdiction over gambling regulation annually. This report shall contain information on compacts negotiated, and an outline of prospective negotiations. History:  1989 c 44 s 1; 1991 c 336 art 2 s 1; 1994 c 633 art 7 s 1,2
MN Stat § 3.93 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.93 — Definitions.

3.93 DEFINITIONS. As used in sections 3.93 to 3.96 "attack" means an action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means. History:  1961 c 572 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 3.94 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.94 — Place Of Session.

3.94 PLACE OF SESSION. Whenever, in the event of an attack, or a finding by the executive council that an attack may be imminent, the governor deems the place of the legislative session then prescribed to be unsafe, the governor may change it to any other place within or without the state which the governor deems safe and convenient. History:  1961 c 572 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 3.95 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.95 — Special Session In Event Of Attack.

3.95 SPECIAL SESSION IN EVENT OF ATTACK. In the event of an attack, if the legislature is not in session, the governor shall convene a special session as soon as practicable, but within 30 days after the inception of the attack. If the governor fails to issue the call, the legislature, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday more than 30 days after the inception of the attack, shall convene without call at the place where the governor then maintains official office. History:  1961 c 572 s 3; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 3.96 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.96 — Quorum And Vote Requirements.

3.96 QUORUM AND VOTE REQUIREMENTS. In the event of an attack the quorum requirement for the legislature is a majority of the members of each house who convene for the session. If the affirmative vote of a specified proportion of members of the legislature would otherwise be required to approve a bill, resolution, or for any other action, the same proportion of the members of each house convening at the session is sufficient. History:  1961 c 572 s 4; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 3.974 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 3 - 3E — Legislature|Chapter 3 — Legislature|Section 3.974 — Distribution Of Written Report.

3.974 DISTRIBUTION OF WRITTEN REPORT. For each audit, evaluation, or other review completed, the legislative auditor shall provide a written report to the organization or individual audited, evaluated, or reviewed; the Legislative Reference Library; and the Legislative Audit Commission. History:  (3286-10) 1939 c 431 art 4 s 3; 1973 c 492 s 29; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1; 1999 c 99 s 3