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Committee Considers Statutory Update to Explore Minnesota to Reflect Broader Marketing Role
Summary
House File 1152 would revise Minnesota Statutes to broaden Explore Minnesota's statutory mission to include business attraction, outdoor recreation and film promotion and clarify contracting authority for creative freelance work; bill was laid over for further consideration.
Representative Pete Johnson presented House File 1152 to the committee, a statutory update to Minnesota Statute 116U to reflect Explore Minnesota’s evolving mission. The bill consolidates and clarifies existing statutory language to explicitly include film production, outdoor recreation, business attraction and workforce attraction as promotion activities under Explore Minnesota’s marketing remit.
Lauren Bennett McGinty, executive director of Explore Minnesota, told the committee the bill is largely housekeeping:…
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