Legislative Watch 
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10/3/05-Gov. Tim Pawlenty is polling Minnesota lawmakers on their interest in a special session.
Among the topics being considered for discussion would be repealing a unique law that sets a minimum fuel price.
Intended to protect small fueling stations, Minnesota law is set at the dealer’s cost plus taxes, plus 6 percent or 8 cents per gallon, whichever is less.
Legislation considered during the session that ended in May called for repealing the law. The bill made it out of the state’s Senate but died in the House.
Pawlenty favors a repeal of the law.
Minnesota’s law was enacted in 2001 at the urging of operators of small and medium-sized service stations who were concerned about being undercut by large chains.
