Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Beefed-up background checks may be coming for peace officer applicants
By Tim Walker
Criminal background checks are common during pre-employment investigations of a job seeker’s past.
Such checks are especially important when an applicant is applying to beco...
Bill aims to establish Minnesota as a ‘Trans Refuge’ state
By Tim Walker
Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul) wants to protect transgender people, their families, and medical practitioners from legal repercussions for traveling to Minnesota to receive gen...
Special education funding gap would disappear under massive spending proposal
By Steve Abrams
Seventeen percent of Minnesota’s students qualify as needing special education. A federal mandate has been in place since the 1970s to ensure students with special needs are giv...
Inflation, scholarships and safety are focus of U of M budget request
By Rob Hubbard
The state of higher education in Minnesota is something like a math problem. One that school leadership and a lot of legislators are gazing at like a complicated theorem on a wh...
Driver’s license applicants could volunteer demographic info under bill that gains committee OK
By Margaret Stevens
Policymakers have learned anecdotally and through information shared by local law enforcement that there’s a disparity in terms of which drivers get pulled over and what happens...
Grants to lessen disparities among kids could become permanent — and receive $50 million
By Jonathan Mohr
A pilot program created in 2019 to improve development and reduce racial disparities among young children would become permanent and receive $50 million in funding under a bill ...
House gives go-ahead to 'Driver's Licenses For All'
By Margaret Stevens
Driver’s license for all has been proposed before. The House has passed it before. After a lengthy debate Monday, the House did it again.
HF4, a bill that would eliminate th...
VA budget proposal includes money to open doors at three new veterans homes
By Jonathan Mohr
Funding for Minnesota’s veterans would receive a significant boost as part of the biennial budget proposed by Gov. Tim Walz last week.
The Department of Veterans Affairs see...
Medical Assistance would cover home care and homemaker services under new, bipartisan bill
By Tessa Pieper
Many people in need of home care services cannot get them.
Staffing also poses a problem due to low wages and reimbursement rates for providers.
Sponsored by Rep. Ginny ...
Citing ‘growing demand,’ Walz administration proposes $3 billion bonding plan
By Margaret Stevens
It’s been practice of the Legislature to address capital projects with large bonding bills in even-numbered years.
That didn’t happen in 2022.
Gov. Tim Walz proposed cap...
Week in Review: Jan. 23-27
By HPIS Staff
Another lengthy floor session wrapped up another busy week in the House. Members debated for more than seven hours before passing HF7 that would require utilities in the state t...
House OKs bill to include inflation on both sides of budget forecast
By Mike Cook
Honest accounting is the goal of a bill that would eat into some of the state’s projected $17.6 billion surplus without a dollar being spent.
Roughly five weeks before an up...
House passes carbon-free energy requirement after bill generates lively debate
By Rob Hubbard
The sun shone brightly on the snow-covered Capitol grounds on Thursday. And, long after day gave way to evening, the House voted for the sun to do a lot more for Minnesota ...
Walz administration seeking $7 billion to boost funding for schools across state
By Steve Abrams
What does it mean to “fully fund” education?
For years it has been the catchphrase of Gov. Tim Walz whenever talking about his plans for Minnesota’s K-12 schools. On Thursda...
Governor’s budget request aims to give Border to Border Broadband a boost
By Margaret Stevens
Time is running out to meet Minnesota’s statutory goal to get high-speed internet to all households by 2026.
Nearly 300,000 households do not have access to 100 megabits per...
