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Section 4: Additional Carry-over Bills of Interest for 2020 The following is a listing of additional bills introduced solar garden program offered to Xcel customers, unless during the 2019 legislative session that remain of the owner provides to potential subscribers a disclosure interest to municipal utilities for the upcoming 2020 checklist developed by the Clean Energy Resource Team. session, some for positive reasons, others out of concern for possible impacts on or to municipal utilities. MMUA HF 77—Rep. Green (R-Fosston) will continue to track these bills. This list is based on the SF 594—Sen. Utke (R-Park Rapids) shared bill tracking efforts of MMUA and the McGrann, To repeal the authority of the MPCA and DNR to pro- Shea, and Carnival law firm during the 2019 legislative mulgate rules and to sunset existing MPCA and DNR sessions. rules in 2024, unless codified before then by the Legisla- ture. SF 63-Sen. Ruud (R-Breezy Point) No House companion bill HF 78-Rep. Green(R-Fosston) To prohibit the use of funds from the Reinvest in Minne- SF 596—Sen. Utke (R-Park Rapids) sota Trust Fund to pay for debt service on bonds. To restrict the Board of Water and Soil Resources from imposing penalties for violations of the 2017 buffer law HF 53—Rep. Green (R-Fosston) relating to agricultural drainage. SF 603—Sen.Utke (R-Park Rapids) To require each state agency to include as part of its an- HF 1677—Rep. Baker (R-Willmar) nual report on obsolete rules a list of all current grants SF 182—Sen. Lang(R-Olivia) of rulemaking authority under law;to require a hearing To establish a fund and claims process for businesses on a proposed expedited rulemaking when 25 or more negatively affected by the closing of the poultry waste people request a hearing(current law is 100 people). biomass energy plant in Benson. HF 165-Rep. Rarick(R-Pine City) HF 1570-Rep. Loeffler(DFL-Minneapolis) SF 100-Sen. Osmek (R-Mound) SF 297-Sen. Dziedzic(DFL-Minneapolis) To require investor-owned electric utilities to include To establish a Green Roof Task Force to review laws in assessment of energy storage systems in their Integrated other cities, states and countries regarding Green Roofs, Resource Plans; to establish criteria for energy storage roof replacement costs, and impacts of Green Roofs in- pilot projects by investor-owned utilities; to require the cluding energy usage and stormwater management. Commerce Department to contract with a third party to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of energy storage system HF 136—Rep. Stephenson(DFL-Coon Rapids) technologies. SF 317—Sen. Latz (DFL-St. Louis Park) To prohibit internet service providers in Minnesota from HF 167-Rep. Lee (DFL-St. Paul) violating net neutrality. SF 879-Sen. Champion(DFL-Minneapolis) To require the MPCA to offer a regulated facility subject HF 188—Rep.Lucero (R-Dayton) to an enforcement action the option to conduct or pay for No Senate companion bill. a third party to conduct a public health supplemental To repeal the prohibition on the MPUC from issuing cer- environmental project whenever the agency determines tificates of need for nuclear electric generating facilities. that pollution from the noncompliance may result in measurable impacts on the health of the population HF 818 Rep.—Persell(DFL-Bemidji) exposed to the pollution; to require the agency to report SF 318—Sen. Johnson(R-East Grand Forks) to the Legislature annually the number of enforcement To require counties to abate the state general levy on actions taken against regulated facilities, the amount of personal property that is part of an intrastate natural fees imposed and collected and other information. gas distribution or transmission pipeline construct- ed after January 1, 2018 that serves an underserved SF 102-Sen. Johnson(R-East Grand Forks) non-metro area. No House companion bill To require legislative approval to change fees related to SF 385—Sen. Bigham(DFL-Cottage Grove) personnel training for water pollution control, subsur- No House companion bill face sewage treatment systems, wastewater treatment To extend and increase the Renewable Energy Standard operators, wastewater laboratory certification and all to 50 percent by 2030 for all utilities. MPCA permit fees. SF 425-Sen. Marty(DFL-Roseville) HF 1125-Rep.Acomb (DFL-Minnetonka) No House companion. SF 105—Sen.Little (DFL-Lakeville) To require the Department of Commerce to establish, To require the MPUC not to approve any community through a stakeholder process, a planning strategy for 8 238