# Children, Families and Learning *Minnesota Senate committee assignment* Children, Families and Learning is a committee of the [[Minnesota Senate]]. The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library lists it among the committee assignments of Senator David Kleis, who represented Senate District 16 from 1995 to 2002 and District 15 from 2003 to 2005.[^1] The record in this collection does not describe the committee's own enactments, hearings or membership beyond that assignment. The committee appears in one at-issue pair, AI-Stearns-054. That pair sets Kleis's ten years of Senate service, including his seats on [[Crime Prevention and Public Safety]] and on Children, Families and Learning, beside the chief-authored legislation that the project could verify in the public record: one payroll direct-deposit bill and one teacher-pipeline appropriation.[^2] The pair is anchored to a White House presidential action on eliminating information silos.[^3] ## Who The Legislative Reference Library's *Legislators Past & Present* record for David Kleis lists his Senate service in District 16 (1995–2002) and District 15 (2003–2005). It also lists his role as Assistant Minority Leader in the 82nd and 83rd Legislatures, a total of 3,969 legislative days, and committee assignments that include Crime Prevention and Public Safety and Children, Families and Learning.[^1] The project's dossier counts that service as four terms.[^2] The pack does not record Kleis's party affiliation, and it does not identify the committee's chair or its other members. ## In the at-issue record - **AI-Stearns-054** (package: Stearns). The project's dossier, section II.B, confirms two Senate bills chief-authored by Kleis against the Revisor's records.[^2] - SF 1787 (2004) required local-government employers to permit payroll by direct deposit. It was enacted as Chapter 292, effective August 1, 2004, and its House companion was authored by Rep. Jim Knoblach.[^2] - SF 1927 (2001) appropriated funds for a collaborative between [[St. Cloud State University]] and ISD 742 to recruit, prepare and mentor future teachers in the St. Cloud area.[^2] - The dossier confirms one co-authorship: SF 496 (1999), which extended the time period for financial-institution search warrants.[^2] - A complete author history would require an interactive Revisor query. That query was not completed, and the dossier logs it as gap G-K1. The record therefore does not establish whether Kleis chief-authored other bills. The dossier states: "What is verified is verified; nothing is asserted beyond it."[^2] - The pair's federal anchor is the White House presidential action on stopping waste, fraud and abuse by eliminating information silos.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, *Legislators Past & Present*, record for David Kleis (undated in the pack) — Senate District 16 (1995–2002) and District 15 (2003–2005); Assistant Minority Leader, 82nd–83rd Legislatures; 3,969 legislative days; committee assignments including Crime Prevention and Public Safety and Children, Families and Learning. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?id=10326 [^2]: Project dossier, *Kleis Apex Dossier*, §II.B (2026-09-01) — SF 1787 (2004, Chapter 292, effective August 1, 2004; House companion by Rep. Jim Knoblach); SF 1927 (2001, St. Cloud State University / ISD 742 teacher collaborative); co-authorship of SF 496 (1999); four terms; open author-history query logged as gap G-K1. The dossier cites the Revisor's records for these bills, but the pack carries no public URL for them. [^3]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (2025) — the presidential action named as the federal anchor of at-issue pair AI-Stearns-054. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/