LEGISLATURE: SENATE:

An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Committee and Interim Committee Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

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Creator: Minnesota. Legislature. Senate.
Title:Miscellaneous committee and interim committee records.
Dates:1956-1987 (bulk 1963-1972).
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Minutes, hearings transcripts, and related materials, including reports, agendas, exhibits, and resolutions, primarily of Senate standing committees and their subcommittees in both regular and interim sessions, and a few joint committees and commissions.
Quantity:13.2 cubic feet (13 boxes and 1 partial box).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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The records are arranged in the following chronological series; within each alphabetically by committee:

1956-1963
1963-1964 Interim
1965-1966 Interim
1967-1968 Interim
1969-1970 Interim
1971-1972 Interim
1987


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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Legislature. Senate. Miscellaneous Committee and Interim Committee Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 977-52; 978-62; 980-102; 982-80; 983-4; 2011-37

Processing Information:

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Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 001714485


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

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108.J.1.9BTax Committee: Minutes and agenda materials, 1956-1957.
Minutes, agenda materials, and exhibits. Includes a Citizens League Report on Assessment Law and Practice in the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County and the State of Minnesota, June 1956; information on the Port of Duluth; the Report of the Minnesota Interim Commission on Withholding Taxes, 1957; and a Legislative Research Committee staff report on Taxation of Commercial Motor Vehicles, Publication No. 75, December 1956.
Civil Administration Committee, 1959.
Miscellaneous agenda and exhibit materials of the Subcommittee on Pensions and Retirement and the Subcommittee on Public Service Ethics.
Committee on Committees: Agenda materials.
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108.J.1.8FDrafting Subcommittee, 1959-1960. 1 volume.
Tax Committee exhibits, 1959.
[Interim?], 1961-1962:
Civil Administration Committee: Minutes and agenda materials, November 1961-March 1962. 6 folders.
Taxation of Iron Ore Committee: Minutes. 1 volume.
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108.J.1.9BTax Committee: Minutes and transcripts of meetings, 1963. 4 folders.

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108.J.1.8FCivil Administration Committee: Subcommittee on State Departments:
Minutes and agenda materials. 1 volume.
Conservation Department report, July 1963-1964. 1 volume.
Education Committee: Minutes, meeting transcripts, and agenda materials. 1 volume.
Includes Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, including final report, and University Subcommittee.
Judiciary Committee and Subcommittees: Minutes and meeting transcripts. 1 volume.
Labor Committee: Minutes, transcripts, and agenda materials. 1 volume.
Includes Unemployment Compensation Insurance Subcommittee.
Welfare Committee: Minutes and agenda materials. 1 volume.
Includes a copy of the plot plan of Willmar State Hospital.
Miscellaneous committee minutes. 1 volume.
Civil Administration Committee Subcommittee on State Boards, December 4, 1964; Finance Committee, March-November 1964.
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108.J.1.9BCommission on Sale of Home Remedies: Minutes and testimony, 1963-1964.
Taxes and Tax Laws Committee: Transcripts of meetings, 1965. 5 folders.
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108.J.1.8FLabor Committee and Unemployment Compensation Insurance Subcommittee: Transcripts of meetings, 1964.
Labor Committee, March 6; subcommittee, May 25.
Resume of Senate Committee Activity, 1965.

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108.J.1.8FCivil Administration Committee:
Full committee: Organization meeting, October 1, 1965.
Special Subcommittee on Home Remedies.
Interim Commission on the Sale of Home Remedies: Minority report, March 26, 1965.
Special Subcommittee on SCAD [State Commission Against Discrimination]-Human Rights.
Subcommittee on State Boards. 2 folders.
Includes its report to the full committee on proposed revision of the statutes governing the State Board of Electricity and related matters , January 1967.
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108.J.1.10FSubcommittee on State Employees.
Includes its report to the full committee on the study of compensation and other benefits of officers and employees of state government.
Subcommittee on State Departments. 6 folders.
Includes a background report on metropolitan problems prepared by Consulting Services Corporation, April 1967; and a compilation of proposals regarding urban problems. The June 17, 1966 meeting was joint with the Public Domain Committee’s Subcommittee on Water Resources.
Commerce Committee: Joint Subcommittee on Recodification of Insurance Laws: Minutes and agenda materials. 1 volume.
Education Committee:
Analysis of Organization and Management Practices, Department of Education, April 1966.
Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education: Minutes and transcripts. 3 folders.
Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education: Report, January 1, 1967. 1 volume in 1 folder.
Subcommittee on Higher Education: Minutes and transcripts. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Higher Education: Report, January 1967. 1 volume in 1 folder.
Elections and Reapportionment Committee: Minutes.
Finance Committee: Subcommittee on Welfare and Corrections.
Judiciary Committee:
Full Committee: Minutes, May 2, 1966.
Subcommittee on Divorce Laws.
Subcommittee on Industrial Commission. 2 folders.
Subcommittee on Law Enforcement Agencies. 2 folders.
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108.J.1.9BLiquor Control Committee. 3 folders.
Includes Subcommittee to Study Liquor Laws, and its report, January 1967, to the full committee.
Public Welfare Committee. Minutes/transcripts and agenda items. 2 folders.
Includes subcommittees on corrections and welfare, and their reports to the full committee.
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108.J.1.10FPublic Domain Committee:
Full Committee.
Minutes and transcripts of September 2 and October 29, 1965 meetings; some administrative correspondence; a report by the Conservation Department, Division of Game and Fish, on Estimated Effects on Fish, Wildlife and Wild Rice of Proposed Dam to be Constructed at Day’s High Landing, Deer River, undated; and a report on the White Oak Lake Project, Watson Sag Sub-Impoundment, by Consulting Services Corporation, January 1967.
Subcommittee on Land Exchange.
Minutes of the February 3, 1966 subcommittee meeting, and of the August 25, 1966, joint public hearing in Duluth of the subcommittee and the Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Resources Commission.
Subcommittee on Watershed Laws and Related Matters: Minutes/transcripts.
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108.J.2.1BSubcommittee on Water Resources. 3 folders.
Minutes of a joint public hearing on water resources and water pollution, held in Duluth on August 24, 1966, and statements and background materials, all or most presented at that hearing.
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108.J.1.9B1966 Special Session: Elections and Reapportionment Committee: Exhibits and agenda materials.
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108.J.2.2FClaims Subcommittee/Joint with House Claims Committee: Records, 1967. 4 folders.
Correspondence, background information, and other material relating to claims considered by the committees and by the State Claims Commission.
Taxes and Tax Laws Committee: Transcripts of hearings on taxes and tax laws, January-May 1967. 5 folders.

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108.J.2.1BStanding committees agendas and notices. 1 volume.
Civil Administration and Metropolitan Affairs Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on state departments, on public safely/commerce/voluntary apprentice, a joint subcommittee with the Judiciary Committee on administrative review, and on state employees.
Commerce Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on insurance, on consumer credit and banking, and on trading stamps.
Education Committee: Elementary and Secondary Education Commission. 1 volume.
Education Committee: Subcommittee on Higher Education. 1 volume.
Includes Minnesota State College System: A Report to the Senate Education Committee Subcommittee on Higher Education, G. Theodore Mitau, Chancellor, May 28, 1968.
Finance Committee:
Conservation Subcommittee.
Includes minutes of joint meeting, March 21, 1968, of the subcommittee and the House Appropriations State Departments Subcommittee.
Education Subcommittee.
Subcommittee on Semi-State Activities.
State Arts Council and Minnesota Historical Society.
Subcommittee on State Departments. 2 folders.
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108.J.2.3BJoint Meeting with Civil Administration and Metropolitan Affairs Committee re civil services salary plan, October 22, 1968.
Welfare Subcommittee.
Joint Liquor Control Study: Minutes, 1968.
Judiciary Committee:
Subcommittee on High Risk Insurance.
Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Corrections and the Care and Treatment of Sex Offenders.
Miscellaneous subcommittees.
Subcommittees on domestic relations, special projects, administrative and probate law and procedure, and criminal and juvenile law.
Labor Committee. 1 volume.
Local Government Committee. 1 volume.
Public Welfare Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on corrections and on welfare.
Rules Committee: Interim Subcommittee on the Study of a Second Medical School in Minnesota: Research [background] materials. 1 volume.
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108.J.2.2FPublic Domain Committee: Subcommittee on Flood Plain Zoning:
Minutes, March 26, 1968.
Exhibits referred to in minutes of October 26, 1967. 4 folders.
Includes index in first folder.
Miscellaneous materials. 4 folders.
Includes a Metropolitan Council Compendium of Agencies and Organizations Concerned with the Major River Corridor, 1969; a compilation of public comments; a Metropolitan Council Inventory of Physical Features and Facilities within the Major River Corridors in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, September 1969; statements presented at a June 24, 1968 public hearing on flood plain zoning; a 1965 report on record high water conditions on the Mississippi and Rum rivers; Flood Plain Information, South Fork of the Crow River, Delano, Minnesota, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1968; a Conservation Department report on Floods and Flood Damage Reduction in Minnesota, July 1968; and miscellaneous background materials.
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108.J.2.3BSenate and House committees on need and for a second medical school: Minutes, 1968.

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108.J.2.3BAgriculture Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on corporate farming, drainage and bridge construction, and meat inspection.
Civil Administration Committee:
Committee and subcommittee minutes. 2 volumes.
Includes meetings of the full committee, and of subcommittees on interstate compacts and commissions, metropolitan problems, state departments, peace officer training, and employer-employee relations; and a transcript of a Minnesota congressional-legislative seminar on federal revenue sharing, June 19, 1970.
Report of Subcommittee on Public Employer-Employee Relations.
Metropolitan Affairs Division. 1 volume.
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108.J.2.4FMiscellaneous record book. 2 folders.
Includes lists of bills referred to the committee and subcommittees, agendas and minutes, subcommittee reports, correspondence, requests for hearings, and related materials.
Commerce Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on insurance, banking, and securities (joint with the House Committee on Financial Institutions).
Committee on Committees.
Education Committee:
Subcommittees on Coordination of Higher Education and on Special Problems. 1 volume.
The special problems subcommittee is joint with the House Labor Committee’s Subcommittee on Teacher-School Board Relations.
Summary of testimony before the Subcommittee on Coordination of Higher Education, 1970.
Subcommittee on State Aids (Joint). 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Tax Levy and Bond Limitations (Joint). 1 volume.
Finance Committee. 1 volume and 1 folder.
Includes subcommittees on conservation, education, state departments, and welfare-corrections.
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108.J.2.5BGame and Fish Committee. 1 volume.
General Legislation Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on pari-mutuel betting and on Vietnam veterans bonuses.
Judiciary Committee. 2 volumes.
Includes subcommittees on judicial discipline, criminal and juvenile law, county attorneys/district prosecutors, rules of criminal procedure, special projects, and administrative and probate law and procedures.
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129.C.2.5BJudiciary Committee: Subcommittee on Rules of Criminal procedure. Agenda materials.
Includes memoranda on competency to stand trial and on pre-trial release, and draft rules of criminal procedure, January 27, 1970.
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108.J.2.5BLabor Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on unemployment compensation and on workmen’s compensation.
Local Government Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on county government and on municipal law.
Public Domain Committee. 1 volume.
Includes Subcommittee on Problems Relating to Minnesota River and Flood Control; transcripts of meetings and hearings regarding the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the proposed Voyageurs National Park; and the committee’s summary position paper on H.R. 10482, a bill to authorize the establishment of the park.
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129.C.2.5BPublic Domain Committee. Miscellaneous background materials, 1969-1970. 5 folders.
Apparently submitted at various meetings and hearings regarding the establishment of Voyageurs National Park.
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108.J.2.5BPublic Highways Committee. 1 volume.
Public Welfare Committee. 2 volumes and 1 folder.
Includes subcommittees on corrections and welfare; minutes of a public health legislative forum, September 22, 1970; and a report on interim activities by the Subcommittee on Welfare.
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108.J.2.6FRules and Legislative Expense Committee:
[Various subcommittees]. 1 volume.
Subcommittees on legislative procedures, reapportionment, educational film, and staffing.
Subcommittee on Capitol Remodeling Program. 1 volume.
Materials presented by federal-state consultant, 1970. 1 volume.
Senate seminar, January 27, 1970. 1 volume.
Standing committee resolutions.
Taxes and Tax Laws Committee. Hearing reports and miscellany.
Temperance and Liquor Control Committee.
House and Senate Subcommittees on Study of Minnesota Experimental City: Minutes, and interim report, 1969-1970, November 1970. 3 folders.
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129.C.2.5BMinnesota Experimental City legislative subcommittees correspondence and miscellaneous records, 1969-1970. 7 folders.
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108.J.2.6FJoint Highway Executive Committee final report, 1969-1970 interim.
Joint meeting of Senate and House host committees for 1971 National Legislative Conference, October 1, 1970.

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108.J.2.6FAd Hoc Committee on Flexible Sessions. 1 volume.
Includes Flexible session report, George G. Goodwin, secretary of the Senate, March 20, 1972, and Preliminary report of the Joint Committee on Flexible Sessions, August 1972. Most meetings were joint with the House Subcommittee on Legislative Processes, and subsequently of a joint committee of the Senate and House rules committees.
Agriculture Committee. 1 volume.
Mainly joint between its Subcommittee on Drainage and the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water and Drainage. Includes the Subcommittee on Drainage’s report, Interim activities and recommendations, November 1971-December 1972, Office of Senate Counsel, December 1, 1972. Minutes after June 13, 1972 are found in the volumes for the Natural Resources and Environment Committee (listed below).
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129.C.2.3BCivil Administration Committee. 2 volumes and 1 folder.
Subcommittees on health services, criminal justice planning, cable TV, natural resources (joint with the House Environmental Preservation Committee’s Subcommittee on Environmental Policy and Organization), and consumer affairs.
Commerce and Insurance Committee:
Subcommittee on Commerce and Consumer Affairs. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Insurance. 1 volume.
Corrections and Commitments Committee. 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on community corrections facilities and on state correctional institutions.
Education Committee. 1 volume.
Subcommittees on school finance and school law and on teacher tenure.
Finance Committee. 1 volume.
Subcommittees on welfare-corrections, state departments, and program budgeting.
General Legislation Committee: Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs (joint with House).
Health and Welfare Committee. 1 volume and 1 folder.
Full committee, and subcommittees on pari-mutuel betting and on health services. Includes committee report and recommendations, December 1972.
Judiciary Committee. 1 volume.
Full committee, and subcommittees on family problems, commercial law, criminal law, judicial procedure, and corporate responsibility.
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129.C.2.4FLabor Relations Committee. 1 volume.
Full committee, and subcommittees on occupational safety practices and workmen’s compensation.
Local Government Committee (joint with House). 1 volume.
Includes subcommittees on municipal law codification and on county government study.
Natural Resources and Environment Committee:
Subcommittee on Recycling of Waste Products. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Registration of Mineral Rights. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Snowmobile Industry and Snowmobiling. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Water Permits. 2 volumes and 4 folders.
Verbatim minutes, accompanied by some agenda materials, and additional background information, statements, and drafts of committee recommendations. Most meetings are joint with the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Drainage and the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Waters and Drainage. There is some overlap with the Senate Agriculture Committee minute books.
Select Committee on Performance Audit, April 19, 1972.
Rules and Administration Committee:
Full Committee (minutes and agenda materials). 2 folders.
Subcommittee on Capitol Remodeling Program.
Subcommittee on Educational Film of the Minnesota State Legislature.
Subcommittee on Election Contest Costs and procedures.
Subcommittee on Federal-State Relations. 1 volume.
Subcommittee on Legislative procedure. 1 volume.
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129.C.2.5BReconversion Study Commission. Minutes, May-December 1972. 2 folders.
Rules and Administration Committee: Subcommittee on Staffing.
Taxes and Tax Laws Committee:
Committee minutes.
Includes Subcommittee on Pari-Mutuel Betting.
Materials relating to Senator Blatz’s tax reform plan, 1971. 2 folders.
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129.C.2.6FTranscript of tapes and copies of committee reports, January 15-June 27, 1971. 13 folders.
Urban Affairs Committee (joint with House Metropolitan and Urban Affairs Committee).
Miscellaneous committee materials:
Final report of the Senate Subcommittee on Adult Corrections, Interim 1973, January 31, 1974. 1 volume.
Senate Rules and Administration Committee: Subcommittee on Consultants: Agenda materials, 1976.
Joint Committee on Solid and Hazardous Wastes: Minutes, November 14, 1978. 2 pages in 1 folder.

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103.I.4.11BSenate Joint Commerce and Judiciary Hearing: Transcripts, June 24, 1987. 3 folders.
Includes 1984 Senate Legislative History of Corporate Takeovers.

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Expand/CollapseCATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Legislative bodies -- Minnesota -- Committees.
Legislative hearings -- Minnesota.
Organizations:
Minnesota. Legislature. Senate -- Committees.
Document Types:
Transcripts.
Functions:
Hearing.

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