Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House passes bill that could establish Minnesota as a safe haven for reproductive health care
By Tessa Pieper
Abortion is legal in Minnesota but not necessarily so in neighboring states.
To ensure access, preserve patient privacy and block other states’ laws from affecting health ca...
Health care simulation training center — and $8 million funding ask — aims to treat workforce ills
By Margaret Stevens
Data shows the state is facing a severe shortage of health care workers: Minnesota will need more than 50,000 more nurses by 2030, one-fifth of nurses are at retirement age or o...
Week in Review: March 13-17
By HPIS Staff
Mid-March is here and, looking at the calendar, we’re more than halfway through the 2023 regular legislative session. Spring begins on Monday, budget targets could soon follow, ...
Potential for release proposed for juvenile offenders with life sentences
By Tim Walker
The latest medical research shows that a person’s brain is not fully developed until their mid-20s.
Is it therefore morally justifiable to sentence a person who commits a cr...
House bill would mandate smaller K-12 class sizes, boost funding formula
By Steve Abrams
Class sizes in Minnesota schools are spiraling out of control, parents and educators say. Classrooms of 30 or 35 students are becoming increasingly common, impairing educational...
House elections committee approves expanded use of ranked-choice voting
By Rob Hubbard
What can be done about the divide? Political polarization has been an area of concern for several years. Is ranked-choice voting the answer? Does it inspire candidates to build ...
More than $60 million proposed to support statewide historic, cultural preservation projects
By Tessa Pieper
We can easily lose the history we don’t record.
That’s why HF2566 would appropriate $63.75 million in the 2024-25 biennium from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to the Mi...
Transportation bill could update license fee collection, distribution in effort to better match customer needs
By Margaret Stevens
Changing technology, COVID-19 and the advent of REAL ID have changed the way driver’s licenses and identification cards are issued. The fee structure and how those fees are allo...
House lawmakers OK bill to help people retrieve property from towed vehicles
By Margaret Stevens
At a minimum, having a vehicle towed is an inconvenience. However, for people without a permanent address, losing that access could also mean losing everything they own – winter...
House passes $50 million in funding for homeless prevention program
By Tessa Pieper
What was requested initially ended up being cut in half. Still, it would help provide a roof over the head of many Minnesotans.
Originally, Rep. Michael Howard (DFL-Richfiel...
Bill would direct health department to analyze costs, benefits of universal health coverage
By Tessa Pieper
Americans pay more to die sooner.
We pay an average of $12,318 per person on health care annually, yet our life expectancy is only 76.1 years. Whereas other comparatively we...
Lawmakers hear plan to fund, provide American Indian education to all Minnesota students
By Steve Abrams
Education for and about Indigenous Minnesotans has been lackluster for years, say advocates who’ve long pushed the Legislature to make improvements in curriculum and investments...
Scholarship program proposed to address Minnesota’s persistent police staffing shortage
By Rob Hubbard
Police forces are shrinking, and Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) would like to do something about that.
“Our law enforcement agencies are experiencing dire workforce shor...
Committee OKs $40 million to replenish the state’s disaster contingency account ahead of spring flood season
By Tim Walker
Spring is a time of rebirth, and a time to replenish our northern souls after a long winter.
It’s also the time to replenish the state’s disaster assistance contingency acco...
Transportation panel greenlights bill that could charge developers for street improvements
By Margaret Stevens
Each new home built in a community adds an average of 10 vehicle trips per day. According to Prior Lake City Manager Jason Wedel, that could mean 66,000 new trips every single d...
