Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Bill to bar discrimination of tissue donors passes House
By Margaret Stevens
A bill that aims to help prevent economic harm to living tissue donors was passed by the House 126-8 Tuesday.
HF1829 would prohibit life, long-term care and disability insur...
Conference committee finds common ground on technical issues — but no deal yet on paid family leave, earned sick time
By Margaret Stevens
Though the House and Senate are far apart on issues such as paid family leave and earned sick time, the conference committee on the omnibus climate and energy, commerce, labor a...
Environment conference committee takes small step forward, OKs policy agreements
By Brian Hall
With time running short and still major hurdles to overcome, the conference committee trying to sort out the differences in the environment and natural resources supplemental fi...
House moves closer to overhaul of LCCMR, using lottery proceeds for housing
By Brian Hall
The House moved closer to reforming the makeup of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, while also approving a plan to increase revenue in the state’s Envir...
How deep is your tax cut? Conference committee starts talking
By Rob Hubbard
Have the House and Senate cut a deal on tax cuts? Well, the two sides have evidently compromised on the parameters around the total size of a cut, but details are still to be ha...
House passes omnibus pension and retirement bill, sends back to Senate
By Mike Cook
A couple changes were made to a group of largely non-controversial bills approved by the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement before the entire package received str...
Bipartisan framework of session-ending deal includes education investments, tax cuts
By Mike Cook
On Monday in St. Paul, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leader have reached agreement on a framework to end the 2022 legislative session.
Week in Review: May 9-13
By HPIS Staff
A look back at what happened in the Minnesota House of Representatives the week of May 9-13.
House OKs legislation legalizing sports betting
By Margaret Stevens
By coincidence, minutes after the Minnesota Vikings 2022 schedule was announced, an opportunity to legally bet on those 17 contests got closer.
The time has come for Minneso...
House passes bill making minor redistricting corrections
By Jonathan Mohr
Redrawing the state’s legislative and congressional district boundaries is a complicated process, but one the Minnesota Constitution requires each decade to reflect population g...
Trio wrongly imprisoned would get relief via claims bill passed by House
By Mike Cook
Each year, a joint House-Senate Subcommittee on Claims decides which claims against the state it should fund.
This year’s bill calls for $813,315 in payments in fiscal year ...
Wide gulf to bridge in jobs, energy and commerce conference committee
By Rob Hubbard
When the House and Senate agreed to combine four omnibus bills into one, the funding gap in the resultant legislation grew and grew.
Few conference committees are entrusted ...
Supporters say universal transit system would offer parity, efficiency
By Margaret Stevens
The Legislature has been challenged to rethink metropolitan area transit and reform its governance. In other words, said Citizen Advocates for Regional Transit Co-Founder Jim Sc...
Lifting of growler cap included in liquor bill that passes House
By Margaret Stevens
It could be happier hours for some of the state’s most popular breweries because customers may be able to take more beverage with them.
As part of the omnibus liquor bill, p...
House passes bill aiming to close ‘treatment gap’ for those found incompetent to stand trial
By Tim Walker
The House passed a bill that aims to increase public safety by providing more mental health services to criminal defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial.
Rep. Heather E...
