Minnesota Legislature
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
Many committees held their final meetings this week with members marking up, debating and voting on comprehensive supplemental budget bills in advance of Friday’s final deadline for those bills to have had favorable action taken on them in order to proceed.
That deadline does not apply to the taxes, bonding or ways and means committees, however, so they will take center stage in the weeks to come as tweaks and procedural moves are made and, of course, a capital investment bill is likely assembled and debated.
A reminder that their will be no House activity Monday and Tuesday of next week in observance of Passover. Legislative happenings will resume April 24 at noon.
Have a good weekend, stay warm, and here’s a look back at what happened over the last few days.
Recent Dailies
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
A look back at what happened in the Minnesota House of Representatives the week of April 15-19.
House Taxes Committee sends its final bill onward
By Rob Hubbard
While the 2023 tax law was mostly about targeted tax relief for lower earners and higher tax rates for those at the other end of the income spectrum, the product of this year’s ...
Health panel approves supplemental budget bill; next stop, ways and means
By Miranda Bryant The House Health Finance and Policy Committee passed a $43 million supplemental health budget bill Friday on a party-line vote. Sponsored by Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL-Rocheste...House panel OK’s finance bill that sponsor says aims to tackle a Minnesota ‘workforce in crisis’
By Tim Walker
Legislation to distribute $16.75 million in onetime fiscal year 2025 funding among more than 40 organizations and municipalities for job training programs and other workforce de...
House passes cannabis legislation aiming to speed up retail sales
By Tim Walker
Last summer, it became legal for adults to possess cannabis and grow cannabis plants for personal, recreational use.
But buying cannabis legally at a licensed retail busines...
Wide-ranging human services supplemental budget bill clears House panel
By Miranda Bryant People experiencing or facing imminent homelessness. Prisoners preparing to re-enter the community. The elderly. All would benefit from the human services supplemental budge...Health supplemental budget bill grows to $43 million through reappropriations, additional resources
By Miranda Bryant Mental health service provisions, pharmacy service expansion, and insurance reimbursements for prosthetics and orthotics are coming out on top despite a relatively small health ...Committee OKs agriculture bill funding nitrate treatment, allowing fertilizer research council to sunset
By Margaret Stevens When session ended last year, House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee Chair Rep. Samantha Vang (DFL-Brooklyn Center) had a goal: keep whole the Agricultural Growth, Resea...Labor committee advances supplemental finance bill
By Brian Basham A supplemental budget bill that would appropriate more than $9.57 million from the General Fund in fiscal year 2025, was approved by the House Labor and Industry Finance and Pol...Committee OK’s transportation policy, budget bill
By Margaret Stevens
The respect Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Mpls) has garnered literally filled a room Thursday as the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee took a short break to honor th...
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Ways and Means Committee OKs proposed $512 million supplemental budget on party-line vote
By Mike Cook
Meeting more needs or fiscal irresponsibility is one way to sum up the differences among the two parties on a supplemental spending package a year after a $72 billion state budg...
Minnesota’s projected budget surplus balloons to $3.7 billion, but fiscal pressure still looms
By Rob Hubbard
Just as Minnesota has experienced a warmer winter than usual, so has the state’s budget outlook warmed over the past few months.
On Thursday, Minnesota Management and Budget...
