Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Constitutional amendment reauthorizing state lottery money for the environment could be on 2024 ballot
By Margaret Stevens
Three times in the past 35 years more than 70% of Minnesota voters approved constitutional amendments to spend lottery proceeds on environmental projects – most recently to reau...
House, Senate reach agreement on Legacy budget that includes Hmong cultural preservation
By Tessa Pieper
Lt. Tong Vang. Capt. Xia Nou. Lt. Neng Xiong. Capt. Ganghis Khang.
Wanting to honor otherwise unrecognized veterans from the secret war in Laos, Rep. Ethan Cha (DFL-Woodbury...
Taxes conference committee begins to hash out its differences
By Rob Hubbard
How big will your tax cut be? Or are you among those who will see an increase?
The conference committee comparing the omnibus tax bills will be determining that in the comin...
Commerce conference committee begins work, finds ‘broad agreement’
By Tim Walker
In his closing remarks to wrap up the first meeting of the conference committee on the omnibus commerce finance and policy bill Wednesday, Sen. Matt Klein (DFL-Mendota Heights) ...
Delivery fee, metro sales tax rate represent $350 million difference between omnibus transportation bills
By Margaret Stevens
As with anything big and complex — which is how Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Mpls) characterizes the omnibus transportation finance and policy bill he sponsors — the devil is in th...
Tuition free or frozen? Higher ed conference committee launches discussion
By Rob Hubbard
“Grab them by the budgets” is a phrase that Rep. Gene Pelowski, Jr. (DFL-Winona) has been using since this session’s first meeting of the House Higher Education Finance and Poli...
Conference committee embarks on path to finalized state health budget
By Tessa Pieper
From Greater Minnesota to the Twin Cities, health impacts everyone across the state and whether the ultimate omnibus health and human services appropriations bill will help or h...
House passes paid family and medical leave bill
By Tim Walker
Boon or bane?
The paid family and medical leave bill is one or the other, depending on who’s opining about it.
Rep. Ruth Richardson (DFL-Mendota Heights) sponsors HF2 to...
Total spending, subminimum wage measure among items left to be sorted out as human services conferees begin work
By Tessa Pieper
The House wants to prohibit subminimum wages for people with disabilities, but the Senate doesn’t.
It is just one of many differences between the omnibus human services poli...
House, Senate differ on sales tax hike to fund housing aid as conference committee kicks off negotiations
By Tessa Pieper
Shake your Magic 8-ball and ask if the House and Senate will agree on a seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area sales tax.
“Ask again later.”
While the House included...
House passes omnibus labor policy bill likely destined for conference committee
By Steve Abrams
Significant changes to labor law could be around the corner for Minnesota workers — particularly unionized educators.
As amended to substitute the House language, HF1522/SF1...
Lawmakers choose three new University of Minnesota regents
By Rob Hubbard
If the proposed merger of the Fairview and Sanford health care systems results in the University of Minnesota’s hospitals and clinics being returned to the oversight of the stat...
House passes bill to help stanch rise in retirements among Minnesota first responders due to PTSD
By Tim Walker
Peace officers and firefighters are retiring at record rates, in large part due to post-traumatic stress disorder they develop because of the considerable job-related trauma the...
Omnibus jobs conference committee starts work on reconciling a $70 million appropriations gap between House, Senate versions
By Steve Abrams
Last week, the House amended and passed the omnibus jobs, economic development, labor, and industry finance bill.
The amendment to include House language in HF3028/SF3035* d...
Environment, energy conferees discuss differences in House and Senate bills
By Rob Hubbard
Judging from Monday’s stop-and-start meeting that began early and was scheduled to end late, the environment, natural resources, climate and energy conference committee plans to...
