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Governor Dayton Takes Action on Bills

5/20/2018 9:55:01 PM

The Governor signed the following fourteen bills into law:

·         Chapter 173, SF 2991: This bill creates the real estate appraisal advisory board prescribes duties, and creates provisions for broker license reinstatement. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 174, SF 327: This bill prohibits the assignment of military pay or benefits, and provides remedies. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 175, HF 3799: This bill regulates fraternal benefit societies. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 176, SF 893: This bill enacts revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 177, HF 3095: This bill modifies waste management provisions regarding organized collection. 

·         Chapter 179, SF 3367: This bill requires sex trafficking prevention training for employees of hotels and motels. 

·         Chapter 180, SF 2675: This bill removes date restrictions on all-payer claims data use for health care costs, quality, utilization, and illness analysis. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies. 

·         Chapter 182, SF 3326: This bill is the Revisor’s bill. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies. 

·         Chapter 183, SF 3638: Little Alan’s Law; this bill increases awareness for carbon monoxide dangers in fish houses, and establishes full incorporation of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and motorboats into the DWI law establishment. 

·         Chapter 184, SF 2869: This bill eliminates the tariff filing requirement for motor carriers.

·         Chapter 185, HF 3873: This bill adopts recommendations from the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 186, SF 3168: This bill is the omnibus lands bill. This bill passed unanimously in both legislative bodies.

·         Chapter 188, HF 3265: This bill modifies the governance provisions of the Minnesota assessment of parenting for children and youth and child foster care, and establishes the foster care sibling bill of rights. 

·         Chapter 189, SF 3297: The bill authorizes the City of St. Paul or its Board of Water Commissioners to use the design-build process for the McCarron’s water treatment process improvement project. 

Governor Dayton also deposited the following bills with the Secretary of State, allowing them to become law without his signature:

·         Chapter 163, SF 2685: This bill exempts child care providers from the positive supports strategies training rule. To read Governor Dayton’s letter, CLICK HERE.

·         Chapter 181, HF 4003: This bill would bar the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing permit conditions imposed on ground water permit holders within five miles of White Bear Lake. To read Governor Dayton’s letter, CLICK HERE.

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