Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate State Affairs
Room:     412
Date:     Monday, January 28, 2008
Time:     7:45 AM



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         SB 188      establish high performance building design and construction standards for newly constructed or renovated state-owned buildings.
             The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Office of the Governor

         SB 190      impose a fee on certain pipelines carrying crude oil and to create a crude oil pipeline compensation fund that may be used in the event of a crude oil spill.
             Senators Hanson (Gary), Abdallah, Bartling, Heidepriem, Kloucek, Maher, Nesselhuf, Peterson (Jim), and Smidt (Orville) and Representatives Moore, Dennert, Gassman, Gillespie, Halverson, Nelson, Noem, and Sigdestad

         SB 90      Provide for voluntary limitations on campaign spending for legislative office.
             Senators Katus, Hanson (Gary), Hoerth, Jerstad, Maher, Napoli, Peterson (Jim), Schmidt (Dennis), and Two Bulls and Representatives Van Norman, Bradford, Kirkeby, Lucas, Nygaard, Sigdestad, and Thompson

         SCR 3      requesting all state agencies and all local governments which subsidize new business development in the state to require certain benefitting businesses to pay a living wage and to provide adequate health benefits to its employees.
             Senators Katus, Hoerth, Hundstad, Jerstad, Kloucek, Koetzle, Maher, Napoli, Schmidt (Dennis), Turbak Berry, and Two Bulls and Representatives Thompson, Ahlers, Feinstein, Kirkeby, Nygaard, Sigdestad, and Street

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         SB 75      establish a residential geothermal heat pump grant program and to make an appropriation therefor.
             Senators Garnos, Abdallah, and Kloucek and Representatives Lucas and Hackl

         SB 121      revise the definition of trans-state transmission facility.
             Senators Heidepriem, Bartling, Hanson (Gary), Hoerth, Jerstad, Katus, Maher, Peterson (Jim), and Two Bulls and Representatives Halverson, Ahlers, Bradford, and Engels

         SB 91      establish design and construction standards for newly constructed or renovated state buildings, public school facilities, and higher education facilities.
             Senators Katus, Hoerth, Jerstad, Kloucek, Maher, and Two Bulls and Representatives Ahlers, Bradford, Davis, Feinstein, Lucas, Nygaard, Sigdestad, Street, Thompson, and Van Norman

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         THOMAS A. DEMPSTER, Chair