Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House passes higher ed package that leaves $131 million aid shortfall unaddressed
By Margaret Stevens
A $131 million shortage in the state’s student aid program is not addressed in a proposed higher education bill passed off the House Floor Monday.
Consisting mostly of techn...
Budget-neutral housing bill targets expanding affordable units
By Margaret Stevens
A budget-neutral bill to build more houses and help keep families out of homelessness, garnered overwhelming support from the House Monday.
By an 99-34 vote, the House passe...
Bipartisan bill aims to boost distribution of dollars from state's Permanent School Fund
By Graham Johnson
Since 1862, Minnesota schools have benefited from funding distributed from the sale of land, timber and minerals on 2.5 million acres of land in the Permanent School Fund held b...
Minnesota lawmakers move to expand recognition, benefits for Secret War veterans
By Mike Cook
A 2025 law created state statute relating to the Veterans of the Secret War in Laos who served honorably with special guerrilla units or other irregular forces “in support of th...
House passes bill to boost state service pay for National Guard members
By Mike Cook
Base pay for National Guard members called to state service under emergency executive order has not changed since 1997.
Under current law, the rate is $130 per day.
Rep....
Panel finds no probable cause to support ethics complaints
By Margaret Stevens
The House Ethics Committee heard competing DFL and Republican complaints Friday alleging that two members left a committee meeting to drink at a St. Paul restaurant and ano...
Week in Review: April 27-May 1
By Lisa Kaczke
— UPDATED at 4:40 p.m.
Bills were moving this week as the clock ticks down to the final day of the 2026 session.
After more than two months, the bill to create an Office...
Bill regulating HOAs, common interest communities passes House
By Lisa Kaczke
A quarter of Minnesotans live in a homeowner association and 82% of new homes are in an HOA.
But state law hasn’t kept pace with the growing practice, which has led to the “...
Predictive market wagering ban added to public safety package that passes House
By Tim Walker
Don’t call it an omnibus bill. It’s a policy package.
But whatever name one uses, the 81-page public safety policy bill, with its 91 sections and language from more than a d...
House lawmakers OK digital payment protections for tenants, landlords
By Margaret Stevens
Technology is great until it isn’t, a testifier told the House Housing Finance and Policy Committee when it heard a bill aimed at addressing payment problems for landlords and t...
Tax committee considers 100% tax on money acquired by fraud
By Rob Hubbard
They’re calling it “The Take It Back Act.”
So said Rep. Patti Anderson (R-Dellwood) of HF5040, a bill she sponsors that, as amended, would impose a tax on a person or organi...
House moves toward putting gubernatorial term limits on November ballot
By Graham Johnson
“Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to place a limit of two terms on the offices of governor and lieutenant governor beginning with candidates elected in 2026?”
Tha...
Bipartisan inspector general bill clears Ways and Means Committee, heads to House Floor
By Mike Cook
A bicameral, bipartisan effort to address one of the top topics of this legislative session cleared a key House committee late Wednesday.
And it took quite a while to get to...
Omnibus health finance bill advances narrowly in Ways and Means Committee
By Winter Keefer
A bill to bring the state into alignment with the Medicaid cuts, changes and restrictions included in HR1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” awaits action by the full House.
Incl...
New fifth income tax tier proposed to boost local government, county aid
By Rob Hubbard
“How much is enough?” That was a central question in Wednesday’s House Taxes Committee debate over HF4845, a bill sponsored by Rep. Athena Hollins (DFL-St. Paul) that would crea...
