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Sunset Advisory Commission
The Sunset Advisory Commission was created by Minnesota Laws 2011, First Special Session, Chapter 10, Article 3, Sections 2 to 22. An overview of the Act and the Advisory Commission are found in The Minnesota Sunset Act by Mark Shepard and Lynn Aves, Minnesota House of Representatives Research Office.
The first group of agencies was sunset and was reviewed in 2012, see list below. Changes to the sunset review
process and other 2012 legislative action are relected in Chapter 278 from 2012. Agencies up for review in 2014 include the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Human Rights, Department of Education, Board of Teaching, Office of Higher Education, the Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board, and the councils of color.
Links on this web page are to information compiled by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library as one component of our Minnesota Agencies database. Sources include reports submitted to the Library from the agencies, membership lists from the office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, and the websites of the agencies. The database is complemented by print notebooks containing news clippings, press releases, and other historical information. Please contact us for supplementary materials.
The sunset photo was graciously provided by David Oakes, Senate Photographer.
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