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Climate bills that have been presented/proposed in the MN Senate and may be presented again in the 2023 session. Click on any of the bills to see its exact language.
LAND MANAGEMENT
SF 3711 Appropriating money for the Forever Green Agriculture, perennial regenerative crops
SF 1594 Treated Seed Policy Changes, tracking distribution and disposal of seeds
SF1113 Soil-healthy farming goals establishment and financial incentives creation
SF 956 Urban Reforestation bond issue and appropriation (not funded)
SF4310 Funding to farm-to-school grants increase
SF 2272 Lawns to Legumes grant program appropriations
WATER/AIR
SF 3326 Products containing PFAS disclosure requirement
SF 3669 PFAS prohibition in juvenile products
SF 2809 Statewide Drinking Water Safety Action Plan Appropriation
SF 839 Pollution control agency whole effluent toxicity (WET) rules adoption
SF 1630 Greenhouse gas emissions-reduction goal; terrestrial sequestration
ENERGY
SF2144/HF1427 Solar for Schools establishment and public utility requirements
SF4089/HF4461 Solar for Schools funding provided
SF4119/HF4402 Solar Energy Production Incentive program extension
SF4102/HF3907 Solar PV Installation Cost Contingency Fund Establishment
SF3661/HF3621 State Policy for Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology
SF3655/HF3084 Energy Provisions Modifications in State-owned buildings
Land Management Bills
SF3711 A
one-time appropriation of $20,000,000 from the general fund in
fiscal year 2023 for the Forever Green Agriculture Initiative at
the University of Minnesota, available until June 30, 2028. By
incorporating perennial and
winter-annual crops into existing agricultural practices, it will protect the state's natural resources while increasing the efficiency, profitability, and
productivity of Minnesota farmers. Of this amount, up to
$5,000,000 is for equipment and
physical infrastructure to support breeding and agronomic activities necessary to develop perennial and
winter-annual crops.
Building soil health and thereby preventing or minimize
erosion and runoff will increase farm income, retain and clean water, increase
vegetation on the landscape, sequester carbon, and foster healthier rural residents and
pollinators and other wildlife. To accomplish this:
(1) at least
50 percent of Minnesota farmers are to implement cover crops, perennial
crops, no-till, or managed
rotational grazing by 2030;
(2) 100 percent of Minnesota farmers implement cover crops,
perennial crops, no-till, or
managed rotational grazing by 2035; and
(3) 100 percent of the state's tillable and grazeable acres
employ cover crops, perennial crops,
no-till, or managed rotational grazing by 2040.
It also adds a subdivision to existing Statute to require collection and classification of data for soil healthy farming involving The Board of Water and Soil Resources, the University of Minnesota, and Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
SF956 A bill authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds for urban reforestation. The commissioner of management and budget shall appropriate up to $16,000,000 from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources to give grants to cities, counties, townships, and park and recreation boards in cities of the first class. Planting of shade trees, and replacing of trees lost to forest pests, disease, or storm on public land will provide environmental benefits. A more diverse community forest better able to withstand disease and forest pests. The commissioner must give priority to grant requests to remove and replace trees with active infestations of emerald ash borer and any tree planted with money under this subdivision must be a climate-adapted species to Minnesota.
SF 4310 A bill appropriating money to increase funding for farm-to-school grants; and authorizing reimbursement of childcare providers who purchase from local farmers; amending existing statute.
SF2272 Lawns to Legumes
A bill appropriating $1,000,000 each in both fiscal years
2022 & 2023 from the general fund to the Board of Water and Soil Resources
for the Lawns to Legumes grant program. It provides
onetime grants or payments for demonstration projects planting residential
lawns with native vegetation and pollinator-friendly
forbs and legumes to protect a diversity of pollinators. Grants or payments will cover up to 75 percent of the
costs of the project, except
that in areas identified by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as
areas where there is a high
potential for rusty patched bumble bees to be present for which grants may be awarded for up to 90 percent of the costs of
the project.
Water and Air Bills
SF 4422 Inventory and establish plans to replace water pipes A bill requiring community water systems to inventory service lines and establish plans to replace lead service lines by 2032. The presence of lead in drinking water represents a threat to the public health, especially to the health and development of children in Minnesota; that pipes containing lead that connect water mains to homes and other buildings are a primary source of lead in drinking water. A full and complete inventory of all lead service lines in the state does not exist. It will require notices to customers, consumers, and owners; requiring reports; authorizing rulemaking; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in existing Statutes.
SF3326 Products containing PFAS disclosure
requirement A bill requiring notice of products containing PFAS. It
requires rulemaking & proposing a new statute where a manufacturer of a
product for sale in the state that contains intentionally added PFAS to a product
must submit to a written notice the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency. "Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl
substances" or "PFAS" means substances that
include any member of the class of fluorinated
organic chemicals containing at least one
fully fluorinated carbon atom.
SF 3669 PFAS
prohibition in juvenile products (forever chemicals}
A bill prohibiting PFAS in products designed for use by
infants and children under
12 years of age; proposing a new
Statute. Examples of these products include but are not limited to a baby or toddler foam
pillow; bassinet; bedside sleeper; booster
seat; changing pad; child restraint system for use in motor vehicles and
aircraft; co-sleeper; crib
mattress; highchair; highchair pad; infant bouncer; infant carrier;
infant seat; infant sleep
positioner; infant swing; infant travel bed; infant walker; nap cot;
nursing pad; nursing pillow;
play mat; playpen; play yard; polyurethane foam mat, pad, or pillow; portable foam nap mat; portable infant
sleeper; portable hook-on chair; soft-sided portable crib; stroller; and toddler mattress;
and
SF2809 Statewide Drinking Water Safety
Action Plan
A bill appropriating money from the
general fund to the
commissioner of health in fiscal year 2023 to develop a statewide drinking
water safety action plan to
protect and improve the state's drinking water through research,
implementation, and outreach.
It will establish or
expand a multiagency sentinel well network to detect changes in
water quality in the most
vulnerable shallow aquifers that provide drinking water to private
wells This will be done in
consultation with the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota and
the commissioners of
agriculture, natural resources, and the Pollution Control Agency. It will
provide resources for well owners to identify hazards associated with aquifers
and
wells of particular designs and
ages. This
requires a report, (plan) to be submitted to the chairs and ranking
minority members of the house
of representatives and senate committees and divisions with jurisdiction over health, agriculture and
environment, and natural resources.
SF 839 Requiring
the commissioner of the Pollution control agency to adopt rules on whole
effluent toxicity (WET) with a statewide consistency requirement for evaluating and applying whole
effluent toxicity (WET) as water-quality-based effluent limitations and permit conditions for discharges occurring
outside the Lake Superior basin;
SF1630 State
greenhouse gas reduction goals modification to include terrestrial
sequestration; governmental actions consistency with greenhouse gas reduction
goals requirement. This includes net zero GHG emissions by 2050 and a 45% reduction from 2005 levels by
2035. Terrestrial sequestration" means the amount of annual statewide greenhouse
gas emissions that is removed from the atmosphere by plants and micoorganisms located in Minnesota, excluding on
active croplands, and stored in vegetation,
biomass, and soils so as to prevent emissions from reaching the atmosphere, as
estimated by the commissioner of the Pollution
Control Agency.
Energy Bills
SF2144 Solar for Schools A bill for the Department of Commerce to establish the “Solar for Schools” program to promote the use of solar energy on school buildings; with new Statutes and public utility requirements. The purpose of the program is to provide grants to stimulate the installation of solar energy systems on or adjacent to school buildings by reducing the cost, and to enable schools to use the solar energy system as a teaching tool that can be integrated into the school's curriculum.
A Solar for
Schools program account is to be established
in the special revenue fund. Money received from the general fund must be transferred to the commissioner of
commerce and credited to the account.
SF4119 Solar Energy
Production Incentive Program extension
A bill extending the solar energy
production incentive program and establishing
an energy storage incentive program, appropriating money; amending existing statutes plus a new statute.
Utilities are to operate a program to provide solar energy production incentives for
solar energy systems of no more than a total aggregate nameplate capacity of 40 kilowatts
alternating current per premise. Owners of a solar energy system installed before June
1, 2018, are eligible to receive a production incentive.
SF4102
Solar photovoltaic array
installation costs contingency fund establishment
A
bill establishing a contingency fund to pay certain costs associated with installation of a solar
photovoltaic array. It amends and adds to existing Statute.
An amount from the renewable development account not to
exceed
$3,000,000 must be withheld to
serve as a contingency fund to facilitate the installation of
a certain solar photovoltaic array
within the city of St. Paul.
The
commissioner may distribute money from the contingency fund to the owner of the solar array if it has started design or
construction, or is constructed and put in service, prior to a corrective
action determination made by the Pollution Control Agency. The
owner of the solar array may use money to pay for:
(1)
storage and transportation costs incurred for equipment removed;
(2) any costs
incurred should reinstallation necessitate redesign or new equipment;
(3) lost
revenue or any damages incurred under the power purchase agreement from
not
selling energy during the solar
array's removal and reinstallation; and
SF3661 Carbon Capture and Sequestration
A bill establishing state policy
supporting the deployment of carbon capture
and sequestration technologies as a method of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions in
order to achieve the state greenhouse gas emission-reduction goals;
proposing Statutes.
SF3655
A bill modifying energy provisions in state-owned buildings; All new building and major building renovation
projects must use renewable energy
sources to the extent required to meet the sustainable building 2030 performance standards.
Geothermal
energy efficiency sources may also
be considered. amending and repealing Statutes.
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