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Legislative Information
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Legislative Session
Updates
2009
Legislative Session
The 2009 Legislative Session began on January 8, 2009.
A summary of the House and Senate files through May 13, 2009 can be
found by clicking on the following links. The summary is a list of
files that may affect soil scientists.
House
2009 summary for MAPSS
Senate
2009 summary for MAPSS
For lists of all the house and senate files this session thus far (not
in a super pretty format - this was copied off of the MN Legislature
website), click on the following.
House
2009 - entire list of bills
Senate
2009 - entire list of bills
From past sessions, there have been proposed changes to Minnesota Rules
Chapter 7080. The ISTS committee has been given the responsibility to
track and comment on proposed changes to this rule. Please contact the
chair of the ISTS committee if you have any questions or comments, or
if you want to become involved. The Senate File SF3385 (omnibus bill)
in which the ISTS legislation was included passed the Senate on April
30.
2008
Legislative Session Summaries
The 2008 Legislative
Session began on February 12, 2008.
A summary of the House and Senate files through April 30, 2008 can be
found by clicking on the following links. The summary is a list of
files that may affect soil scientists.
House
2008 summary for MAPSS
Senate
2008 summary for MAPSS
For lists of all the house and senate files this session thus far (not
in a super pretty format - this was copied off of the MN Legislature
website), click on the following.
House
2008
Senate
2008
Read the MPCA's March 2008 subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS)
report. Click here!
Click
on this sentence to be directed to the summary of the 2006 Legislative
Session.
Click
here to visit the State of
Minnesota legislature website for additional information about any of
these or other introduced bills.
Minnesota
Board of Architecture,
Engineering, Land
Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design
(Board of AELSLAGID)
The Board of AELSLAGID meets on a monthly basis. The meetings are held
in Suite 295 of the Golden Rule Building in Downtown St. Paul,
Minnesota. The engineering, land surveying, geoscience (ELSGEO) section
meetings run from 8:00 am - 10:00 am. The full Board meetings run from
10:00 am - 12:00 pm. These meetings are open to the public. Contact
Suzanne D'Souza (MAPSS Executive Secretary) at 612-741-1365 for
additional information because she attends these meetings as a
representative of MAPSS. The current Soil Scientist Board Member is
Mary West, PSS. The dates of the meetings are on the MAPSS event
calendar. The website for the Board is
http://www.aelslagid.state.mn.us
Currently, the Board of AELSLAGID is reviewing the model law for soil
scientists in Minnesota. Minnesota has very well written model law
(Minnesota Statutes Chapter 326). In fact, it is so well written that
many other states refer to our statutes. One item that is under
consideration is adding and defining the term "work under direct
supervision." When geoscientists were added to the Board of AELSLAGID,
there was no provision for having a geoscientist-in-training work under
the supervision of a licensed person because there weren't any at that
time.
The
Joint Professional Committee (JPC)
The JPC is a group of representatives of the groups involved with the
Board of AELSLAGID who get together to discuss topics of interest
(primarily legislative) that affects our members. The meetings are held
in the AIA Minnesota boardroom inside the International Market Square
in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 11:45 am - 1:30 pm on every third or
fourth Wednesday of the month. Bring your own bag lunch or there is a
lovely salad/pasta bar in the building (a bit spendy but really good).
The dates of the JPC meetings are on the MAPSS event calendar.
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