Government Records
The records are arranged in the following chronological series; within each alphabetically by committee:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics
should
Accession numbers: 977-52; 978-62; 980-102; 982-80; 983-4; 2011-37
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001714485
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.
Miscellaneous agenda and exhibit materials of the Subcommittee on Pensions and Retirement and the Subcommittee on Public Service Ethics.
Includes Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, including final report, and University Subcommittee.
Includes Unemployment Compensation Insurance Subcommittee.
Includes a copy of the plot plan of Willmar State Hospital.
Civil Administration Committee Subcommittee on State Boards, December 4, 1964; Finance Committee, March-November 1964.
Labor Committee, March 6; subcommittee, May 25.
Includes its report to the full committee on proposed revision of the statutes governing the State Board of Electricity and related matters , January 1967.
Includes its report to the full committee on the study of compensation and other benefits of officers and employees of state government.
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.
Includes Subcommittee to Study Liquor Laws, and its report, January 1967, to the full committee.
Includes subcommittees on corrections and welfare, and their reports to the 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.
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.
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.
Correspondence, background information, and other material relating to claims considered by the committees and by the State Claims Commission.
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.
Includes subcommittees on insurance, on consumer credit and banking, and on trading stamps.
Includes Minnesota State College System: A Report to the Senate Education Committee Subcommittee on Higher Education, G. Theodore Mitau, Chancellor, May 28, 1968.
Includes minutes of joint meeting, March 21, 1968, of the subcommittee and the House Appropriations State Departments Subcommittee.
State Arts Council and Minnesota Historical Society.
Subcommittees on domestic relations, special projects, administrative and probate law and procedure, and criminal and juvenile law.
Includes subcommittees on corrections and on welfare.
Includes index in first folder.
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.
Includes subcommittees on corporate farming, drainage and bridge construction, and meat inspection.
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.
Includes lists of bills referred to the committee and subcommittees, agendas and minutes, subcommittee reports, correspondence, requests for hearings, and related materials.
Includes subcommittees on insurance, banking, and securities (joint with the House Committee on Financial Institutions).
The special problems subcommittee is joint with the House Labor Committee’s Subcommittee on Teacher-School Board Relations.
Includes subcommittees on conservation, education, state departments, and welfare-corrections.
Includes subcommittees on pari-mutuel betting and on Vietnam veterans bonuses.
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.
Includes memoranda on competency to stand trial and on pre-trial release, and draft rules of criminal procedure, January 27, 1970.
Includes subcommittees on unemployment compensation and on workmen’s compensation.
Includes subcommittees on county government and on municipal law.
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.
Apparently submitted at various meetings and hearings regarding the establishment of Voyageurs National Park.
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.
Subcommittees on legislative procedures, reapportionment, educational film, and staffing.
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.
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).
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.
Includes subcommittees on community corrections facilities and on state correctional institutions.
Subcommittees on school finance and school law and on teacher tenure.
Subcommittees on welfare-corrections, state departments, and program budgeting.
Full committee, and subcommittees on pari-mutuel betting and on health services. Includes committee report and recommendations, December 1972.
Full committee, and subcommittees on family problems, commercial law, criminal law, judicial procedure, and corporate responsibility.
Full committee, and subcommittees on occupational safety practices and workmen’s compensation.
Includes subcommittees on municipal law codification and on county government study.
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.
Includes Subcommittee on Pari-Mutuel Betting.
Includes 1984 Senate Legislative History of Corporate Takeovers.