Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House Republican school safety package stalls; DFL proposal up next
By Graham Johnson
Nathan Flansburg is the superintendent of PACT Charter School in Ramsey. He laments that schools are no longer about simply getting an education.
“Schools are now expected t...
House panel advances bill to repeal automatic special education funding cuts
By Graham Johnson
Minnesota special education spending has increased from $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion per year over the last five years.
Those skyrocketing costs led to a 2025 law creating a...
State eyes $3 million study to harness heat from wastewater
By Rob Hubbard
What goes down the drain could come back to heat your home or business. That’s the principle behind using wastewater as a heating source.
Rep. Larry Kraft (DFL-St. Louis Par...
Minnesota lawmakers move toward Medicaid work requirements under pressure of federal cuts
By Tim Walker
New rules in the federal “Big Beautiful Bill” add work or community service requirements for Medicaid eligibility and require states to adopt those rules or lose federal funding...
Department of Natural Resources policy bill unveiled, held over
By Tim Walker
The Department of Natural Resources has a wide-ranging mission that can be summarized as providing outdoor recreation opportunities by conserving, managing, and regulating the s...
House GOP pushes for $4 billion property tax refund as DFL warns of risks to MN's hospitals, schools
By Rob Hubbard
During an April 9 House floor session, Rep. Isaac Schultz (R-Elmdale Township) unsuccessfully moved to suspend House rules to take up a bill that would appropriate $4 billion to...
Renovated State Office Building on track for September '27 reopening, House lawmakers hear
By Mike Cook
House operations and members are likely to return to a renovated and expanded State Office Building in September 2027.
Once that building is filled, the current home of thos...
'We are all just a crisis away': Lawmakers push to fund expanded emergency housing
By Graham Johnson
When the Pathways Home Act passed in 2023, the Legislature appropriated $150 million in one-time funding for emergency shelter facility improvement projects.
It wasn’t nearl...
Upgrades to ‘Oregon Trail’-era county IT systems would be prioritized under bill
By Winter Keefer
When Jeanne Holland became a Wright County commissioner, she thought county workers were joking that they had to use a green screen to process public assistance services.
Th...
Proposed grant program targets health care labor shortages
By Margaret Stevens
Basic economic principles say when demand exceeds supply, prices rise. It is a dynamic seen in the oil market with gas prices, and it can apply to labor as well: when an industr...
Legislation aims to align transit, road projects and housing development
By Rob Hubbard
Rep. Katie Jones (DFL-Mpls) feels that a plan’s been missing when it comes to how to make commercial and housing development, road construction projects and transit routes work ...
Omnibus liquor bill that includes ‘Grandparents’ Happy Hour’ passes House
By Lisa Kaczke
Residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities are one step closer to enjoying a happy hour in their facilities.
The issue of alcohol in those facilities arose wh...
House panel debates ban on burning pesticide containers
By Tim Walker
Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul) sponsors a bill that would add just one line to state statute on pesticide use, whereby: “A person is prohibited from disposing a pesticide...
Week in Review: April 6-10
By Lisa Kaczke
With the Easter/Passover break and the first two bill deadlines in the rearview mirror, the House returned Tuesday for its final six weeks — or less — of session. The Legislatur...
House legislation could alter environmental review process for large-scale livestock operations
By Tim Walker
The number of family-run farms in Minnesota has been shrinking for several decades.
Reasons for this decline are many, and for small family-run dairy farms, a major reason i...
