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Higher ed conferees ace final, make quick work of blending bills

If you were paying attention when the House passed its higher education policy and supplemental budget bills, the higher education conference committee report may produce some d...

House, Senate strike bargain on environment, natural resources supplemental spending bill

New ways for dealing with waste ­— packaging, boat wrap, outdated electronics, sewer sludge and heat — are included in a conference committee agreement on the environment and na...

Gun bill conference committee agrees to tougher penalties for straw purchases, ban on binary triggers

A straw purchase occurs when an individual buys a firearm for someone ineligible to purchase or possess them. Bills that would raise the penalty for a straw purchase from a ...

Conferees close deal on broad transportation, labor and housing package

What do Bruce Springsteen and Rotary International have in common? Both played a starring role in the final moments of the transportation/labor/housing supplemental budget b...

House passes changes to paid leave law amid chaos at close of vote

On the first day of 2026, a state-run insurance program is scheduled to begin providing Minnesota workers with up to 20 weeks per year of paid time off to deal with family ...

Conferees adopt report to spend $43 million more on education in fiscal year 2025

Continuing what began last year is the theme of an agreement that’d put more money toward education. Conferees to the education supplemental budget bill adopted the conferen...

Cannabis conferees successfully hash out differences, expand bill’s scope

(CORRECTION: Concerns raised by Rep. Nolan West were inaccurate in original story)  The cannabis regulation bill grew Wednesday. And conferees found it to be, as the kids sa...

House passes new requirements meant to keep kids out of child welfare system

The Minneapolis NAACP filed a federal civil rights complaint in March that alleges Minnesota’s child welfare system discriminates against Black children and their families, espe...

With clock ticking, bonding chairs lay out $330 million list of proposed local projects

Is it GO or no-go? That’s the perennial question about capital investment with a 60% supermajority required to pass a bill funding projects with general obligation bonds. It...

Energy, agriculture and commerce conferees size up contrasts in House, Senate bills

As conference committee reports go, the one dealing with energy, agriculture and commerce is quite the combo platter. Not only will it send appropriations from multiple funds in...

Jobs conference committee’s tough task: solve ‘vast differences’ in bottom lines

The conference committee on the jobs and economic development and workforce development supplemental budget bill met for the first time Monday and took care of some easy tasks, ...

Tenant-landlord bill agreement would protect domestic violence victims, omit prohibition of income discrimination

The conference committee on a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions reached an agreement Monday. The proposed legislation would, among other thin...

Week in Review: May 6-10

It was another long week with hours of debate on supplemental budget bills that have now, mostly, been passed off the House Floor, meaning conference committee season has fully ...

Human services conferees start work of compromising on budget bills

The House and Senate have different human services policy and program appropriations in their supplemental budget bills. The process of compromising began Friday at the first me...

Conference committee dives into transportation, labor, housing bill

A few days after each body passed extensive, multi-provision bills, conferees started reconciling differences on the transportation, labor and housing supplemental budget bill F...


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