Legislative Scorecard 2017 The legislators pictured below RECEIVED THE HIGHEST SCORES ON OUR LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD. They deserve special recognition for their efforts to limit the spending growth and reach of Minnesota State Government. Those receiving 100% are “Best Friends of the Taxpayer”. Those receiving a score of 87% and above are denoted “Friends of the Taxpayer.” Those receiving a score of 80 and above get an “Honorable Mention” for 2017. Those with a gold frame have also signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

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Rep. Cal Bahr 31B-East Bethel

Friends of the Taxpayer Rep. Eric Lucero 30B -Dayton

Rep. Drew

Rep. Mary Franson 8B -Alexandria

Christensen 56A-Savage

Honorable Mention Rep. Steve Drazkowski 21B-Mazeppa

Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen 18B-Glencoe

Rep. Jeff Howe 13A- Rockville

Rep. Ron Kresha 9B- Little Falls

Rep. Jim Newberger 15B-Becker

Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer 30 - Big Lake Rep. Marion O’Neill 60B-Maple Lake 

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Rep. Joyce Peppin 34A- Rogers

Rep. Cindy Pugh 33B-Chanhassen

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Rep. Duane Quam 25A-Byron

Rep. Peggy Scott 35B-Andover

Rep. Abigail Whelan 35A-Ramsey

What did the Minnesota Legislature do in The 2017 Session?

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his year’s session will probably be remembered more by how it ended than what it contained but a lot did happen. As usual, some of it was good, some bad, and some just kicking the can down the road. Tax cuts and Tax Reform. Property tax cuts for farmers and the phase-out of taxes on social security taxes on Seniors. –Most of it passed and was signed into law. Property Tax empowerment provisions and tuition tax credits were stripped from the final bill. The Social Security phase-out turned into a tax credit, with some stipulations. (although the Governor wanted a do-over, see below) Education reform, including an end to seniority as the critical factor in teacher retention (LIFO) and school choice in the form of tax credits for private school tuition. –Most of it passed, although some of it was on the Governor’s do over list. (See below). Attempts to downsize and cut the budget did not survive budget negotiations – we got a 9% increase for the biennium in spending. Spending continues to grow in the out years (see chart) Pumped up road and bridge spending. The trick here was to do it without raising the gas tax or any other vehicle-related tax or fee hike like license tab fees, both of which Governor

Dayton had wanted. Pre-emption. Progressive Activists have been trolling around the state trying to make cities into progressive fiefdoms by enacting labor laws by ordinance. Business was very keen on a law stopping cities from creating their own minimum wage and labor laws, resulting in a nightmare of different laws in Minnesota. The legislature tried to preempt that with a state standard. On two attempts, It did not survive the Governor’s veto pen. Minneapolis’ ban on plastic bags which had not gone into effect yet was slapped down. Borrowing. We were hoping for no bonding bill in a nonbonding year, but since there was pent up demand due to no bonding bill last cycle and some arguably worthy projects, we did expect one. It came in just under a Billion dollars. ($995 Million) That top number will continue to be a flashpoint because Dayton’s Revenue commissioner Myron Franz argues that Minnesota could be borrowing SO MUCH MORE, about FOUR TIMES as much as it has been . Legislative arguments that we shouldn’t be burdening future generations with a growing slice of the budget for debt service have fallen on deaf ears at the Governor’s office. Sunday Sales. As of July 1, 2017 Minnesotans can buy liquor on Sundays, and retailers can decide to be open or not.

Dayton’s DO-OVER DEMANDS overnor Dayton wants a doG over. After months of negotiations

with the legislature and grudgingly signing the budget bills into law, the Governor decided to withhold funding the operations of the legislature to pressure it to come back into special session and undo some of what was just passed. The Minnesota Supreme court has ordered the Legislature and the Governor into mediation. This is his re-do list:

1. Put back the automatic tax increase on tobacco that encourages a black market in cigarettes. 2. Keep the estate tax inclusion increase high and uncompetitive with other states. 3. Remove the Commercial-Industrial Property tax freeze. Small and Medium businesses are getting clobbered by this extra property tax that has no analog in other states. 4. Remove the ban on issuing driver’s licenses to undocumented persons. 5. Get rid of Education reforms that are meant to help the teacher shortage and provide new pathways to entering the teaching field.

Hanging fire: What didn’t get resolved?

HEALTH INSURANCE You will notice that we did not score any healthcare related bills. Why not? These bills have substantial fiscal impact. They are trying to provide a temporary fix to a government created problem, namely the destruction of the private insurance market thanks to Obamacare. We decided to wait and see if the temporary fix works because it could save Minnesotans from two awful fates, 100% government controlled healthcare or a destroyed private insurance market (which by the way is a substantial employer in this state). Some critics of this fix want single payer and opposed the fix for this reason. We can’t side with them. So we’ll postpone our judgement until next session’s bills. Another crack at solving the pension problem fails . There is so much wrong with the Minnesota government’s pension system its hard to know where to start. But one place is that the taxpayers and children should not be punished for the unsustainably large retirement benefits agreed upon by unions and local governments for years without any thought about how they would be paid for in the future. Pension “reform” bills in years past are just a series of Band-Aids on the system which don’t recognize years of increases that pension holders have been able to capture and force state and local taxpayers to shore up the funds when there are losses. This bill cuts the rate of increase in pension benefits in future years rather than putting that burden on taxpayers and schools. (HF 003 Special Session)

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2017 Minnesota House of Representatives Scorecard

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2. Legislative Jujitsu wins the Day With two of the most fiscally conservative members of the House and Senate in charge of the State Government committees this year, even this compromise bill had some significant reform. We also scored its original version (see #15). In addition to an audit of the Met Council, this bill had a provision that would defund the Department of Revenue if the Governor did not sign the tax bill. On that basis alone, the Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (SF 0001 Special Session). 3. Last minute try at Preemption. This bill was a last-ditch attempt to get preemption (see # 11) passed and signed into law, by bundling it with the approval of some union contracts and changes to the pension bill that would have made public worker pensions more solvent. The Governor vetoed it. The Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (HF 0003 Special Session). 4. More Money for Education, a huge cost driver of the MN state budget Every two years, Minnesota spends about $17 billion on public schools. That’s nearly half the state budget. Education spending, including pre-school and higher ed. has increased more than $2 billion under Gov. Mark Dayton. Bowing to the teachers’ union, Dayton has fought any significant reform and continues to try to expand the mandate of the state all the way back to the cradle. This is despite the many failures of the existing system. The taxpayer friendly vote was NO. (HF2 Special Session) 5. MORE MONEY ON THE STATE’S CREDIT CARD 2017 was a budget, not a bonding year but the legislature had a pent-up demand for pork which resulted in a $995 Million Bonding bill. The Dayton Administration thinks that we could be borrowing A LOT more despite already turning debt service into the fastest growing portion of the MN state budget. The taxpayer friendly (and your grand-children’s) vote was NO. (HF5 Special Session) 6. REAL ID The Federal Government continues to bully non-compliant states into handing over more of their citizens’ data and spending millions on upgrades for their drivers’ licensing system. DVS has just rolled out a new system way behind schedule, over budget and buggy to say the least. Does anyone think that REAL ID will be implemented successfully given this history? Nevertheless, legislators were panicked into writing a big blank check. The taxpayer friendly vote was NO. (HF 3) 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN CHOOSE SUNDAY SALES OF ALCOHOL Sunday sales of alcohol were legalized in Minnesota this year with municipal consent. Now let’s have a conversation about whether the government should be selling alcohol. The taxpayer and freedom-friendly vote was YES. (HF 30) 8. EDUCATION REFORM FINALLY IN LAW. OR IS IT? The House and Senate passed, and the Governor signed this Education Reform bill affecting teacher tenure. The “Last in First Out” rule (Often referred to as “LIFO”) makes seniority the most important factor in teacher retention when layoffs occur. Non-traditional teacher training is also featured in this bill that would allow teachers with work experience in a particular field to teach in MN high schools on a faster licensure track. The State Teachers Union, Education Minnesota strongly opposed the bill, and now the Governor is trying to get rid of it in a special session. The Taxpayer and kid-friendly vote was YES. (HF140) 9. Local Government Transparency Local control is a good thing, but sometimes local governments run roughshod over property owners’ rights. This bill requires a two-thirds vote of the members of a city council present to adopt a building moratorium for housing. It also requires public notice of the meeting and proposed moratorium. The Taxpayer and property rights vote was YES. (HF140) 10. No more golden parachutes for political appointees Career public employees get severance when they are let go from their jobs, but political appointees are generally considered to be atwill employees. That seems to have changed during the Dayton Administration with some of his picks picking up severance after a mere six months on the job. The legislature decided to stop this practice. (A somewhat different version of this bill made it into SF1 Special Session.) The Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (HF0399) 11. Local Government gone wild This bill prohibits or “pre-empts” local governments from adopting and enforcing local laws and policies relating to the private sector employment, like a minimum wage higher than the state minimum wage or requirements that an employer provide particular benefits. Aimed squarely at Minneapolis and St. Paul which had already started down this road, It was vetoed by the Governor. The Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (HF 0600) 12. “Suitegate” Scandal Last session taxpayers were treated to a parade of politicians and hangers-on, who got to enjoy the perks of knowing somebody on the Vikings Sports Facility Board when abuse of luxury suites was exposed by the Star Tribune. This bill sought to remedy that. Who would be shameless enough to vote against it? Six reps from Minneapolis, that’s who. Taxpayer-friendly vote was YES. (HF0778) 13. Trespassers beware Apparently in MN, if you trespassed on somebody’s land and got

14. Making it easier for unions and cities to cut deals. This bill strikes three laws about public service commissions (which resolve disputes and give sanctions to municipal union employees, especially police and firefighters). It gets rid of requirements about when they should meet and select their members and makes it legal for firefighters covered by a civil service commission (larger cities and towns) to solicit and make political contributions. The taxpayer and transparency friendly vote was NO. (SF1354) 15. State Government Reform, the stronger version We gave credit to the State Government Reform bill that the special session produced but would be remiss if we also did not give credit to the version that passed the Senate and the House earlier. Most notably, a new non-partisan legislative budget office that can take out the partisan character of cost estimates and limiting the number of state employees. The Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (SF605) 16. Hennepin and Ramsey Counties attempt a last minute money grab for Transit This amendment to the transportation omnibus bill failed because other legislators saw it for what it was, an attempt to divert more funds from the motor vehicle sales tax to Hennepin and Ramsey counties. Hennepin in particular wants funding for more light rail now that the legislature has blocked new spending on it. The State Taxpayer friendly vote was No. (SF1060 P Anderson Amendment SENATE ONLY).

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1. “Don’t Stop Believ’en” Tax Bill: The Sequel. It included some not so great tax credits that singled out groups for special treatment but the good outweighed in this bi-partisan bill. Some an exemption for small businesses in the Business property tax and a credit that allows many more seniors not to have to pay tax on their social security benefits. We would have preferred to abolish that tax as other states have done. The Taxpayer friendly vote was YES. (HF 0001 Special Session)

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injured you could sue the owner for negligence. Until this bill passed. Does not apply to children or instances where someone was granted access or where other laws apply. The Taxpayer and property rights friendly vote was YES. (HF985)

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