Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House panel sends bill that would limit train length to next stop
By Margaret Stevens
Waiting at train crossings can be a daily inconvenience for some people. However, if you are in an ambulance and the train is 2 or 3 miles long, waiting risks more than being l...
House passes expanded price-gouging legislation
By Tim Walker
A 2023 law to curb price-gouging may be expanded to offer people more protections when unscrupulous businesses jack up their prices during a declared emergency.
Rep. Brad Ta...
Lawmakers aim to boost broadband equitability across the state
By Tim Walker
Have you “cut the cord” and canceled your cable TV service to switch to streaming services to get your sports, news and entertainment on your home screens?
If you have,...
Bill would require sober houses to have supply of opiate antagonists
By Miranda Bryant
Would lives be saved or would more addicts relapse if sober houses are required to keep addictive drugs on hand to counteract an opiate overdose?
Sponsored by Rep. Luke Fred...
Crumbling infrastructure creating a crisis in Minnesota’s prisons, corrections ombudsperson says
By Margaret Stevens
Two photographs showing tiers of prison cells, taken 100 years apart, almost identical. Those pictures of the Minnesota Correctional Facility — Stillwater gave a stark portrait ...
Minnesota schools could be eligible for Purple Star designation
By Jonathan Mohr
One of the most difficult things for children of military service members can be moving from place to place and school to school.
Twelve-year-old Genevieve LaPorte told the ...
Week in Review: March 4-8
By HPIS Staff
Lots of ground was covered this week with bills heard on subjects as varied as doxing, therapy dogs, rainbows, roadable aircraft and carbon capture, to name just a few. A bipart...
Lawmakers aim to tap Medicaid for novel nutrition, prisoner health care programs
By Miranda Bryant
Food insecure folks and incarcerated individuals would benefit under a pair of bills.
Both call for the Department of Human Services to submit Section 1115 waivers to the fe...
Legislation calls for state’s larger employers to include salary ranges in job postings
By Brian Basham
While employed by a local technology company, Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL-Maple Grove) discovered her salary was about $20,000 a year less than a male co-worker who had less respon...
To earn or not to earn: House health committee debates HMOs in Minnesota
By Miranda Bryant
Whether health maintenance organizations should be allowed to earn a profit in Minnesota is once again a subject of debate.
Sponsored by Rep. Liz Reyer (DFL-Eagan), HF3529 w...
Funding boost sought to boot up additional high school computer science courses
By Brian Basham
Last year, Minnesota had an average of 7,384 open computing jobs each month; the average salary was $105,311.
Without some educational changes those openings will likely not...
House panel approves corporate tax fix
By Rob Hubbard
Did we say 2023? We meant 2024.
That’s the gist of a mistake that’s been a bugaboo for House Republicans since the session began. The first bill signed into law this year co...
Anti-doxing bill to protect judges clears judiciary panel
By Tim Walker
The words “dox” or “doxing” don’t appear anywhere in the text of HF4326, but that’s what the bill is all about.
To dox is to publicly identify or publish private information...
Student grant program could soon see red ink, higher education officials say
By Rob Hubbard
We have good news and bad news: More students are going to college in Minnesota.
How could a rise in enrollment be seen as bad news after so many years of declines? Because ...
Proposal would raise ‘age of delinquency’ by three years
By Jonathan Mohr
A 10-year-old child who commits a delinquent act or petty offense in Minnesota is not considered “in need of protection or services” in the eyes of the law but can instead be co...
