Samantha Vang

Sponsored bills

• HF3404: Criminal penalty for impersonating a peace officer increased, crime of impersonating a peace officer while possessing a firearm established, enhanced penalties established, persons presenting as peace officers required to fulfill duty to identify, and criminal penalties established.
• HF5154: Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.
• HF2627: Legacy bill; Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council and Greater Minnesota Regional Park and Trails Commission provisions modified, acquiring land interests provisions modified, state parks added to and deleted from, land sales and conveyances authorized, money appropriated from outdoor heritage fund, and prior appropriations modified and extended from legacy funds. (primary sponsor)
• HF3945: Greenhouse gas pollution cost-recovery program created, account established, reports required, and money appropriated.
• HF3879: Outdoor heritage fund; prior appropriations extended and modified, and money appropriated. (primary sponsor)
• HF4372: Meat processing training and retention incentive grantees allowed more time to complete projects. (primary sponsor)
• HF5048: Analysis of the statewide economic impact of increased immigration enforcement in Minnesota funding provided, report required, and money appropriated. (primary sponsor)
• HF4553: Clemency Review Commission funding provided, and money appropriated.
• HF5047: Organization of Liberians in Minnesota grant funding provided, and money appropriated. (primary sponsor)
• HF3466: Mandatory environmental assessment worksheet requirements for drainage projects established, and rulemaking required. (primary sponsor)
• HF4342: Relief program for small businesses negatively impacted by federal enforcement activity established, report required, and money appropriated.
• HF1531: Expiration of crossbow hunting and fishing allowance removed.
• HF4874: Electric cooperatives and municipal utilities; recovery of fixed costs clarified with respect to net metered facilities, meter aggregation allowed for electric cooperatives and municipal utilities, commission authority clarified with respect to electric cooperative practices, member access to cooperative documents and meetings improved, and electronic voting and voting by mail required for cooperative board directors.
• HF4477: Minnesota business recovery loan program established, report required, and money appropriated.
• HF4839: Commissioner of health directed to join World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
• HF4080: Certain retailers prohibited from obtaining an ownership interest in livestock dealers or meat packing companies, and certain exclusive contracts prohibited.
• HF3704: Sale and distribution of certain seeds coated or treated with systemic insecticides without the approval of the commissioner of agriculture, and application or treatment of ornamental outdoor plants and turf with neonicotinoid insecticides prohibited.
• HF2688: A resolution memorializing Congress to overturn the United States Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC, requesting that Congress clarify that the rights protected under the Constitution are the rights of natural persons and not the rights of artificial entities and that spending money to influence elections is not speech under the First Amendment, and asking that Congress propose a constitutional amendment to provide such clarification.
• HF0971: Brooklyn Park Northwest Metro Regional Athletic Facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
• HF4738: Sales and use tax exemptions for preferred athletic facility seating and amenities included with the privilege of admissions repealed, safe harbor shelter and housing grants funding provided, and money appropriated.