Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Judiciary, public safety conference committee touts ‘historic investments’ to keep Minnesotans safe
By Tim Walker
The omnibus judiciary and public safety conference committee began its work Monday with words of encouragement from the Senate sponsor.
“I for one am very excited to be on t...
Seed money for grain indemnity fund included in House, Senate bills as omnibus conference meets
By Margaret Stevens
A new grain indemnity fund seems assured in the next few years as the program to compensate grain farmers when an elevator fails has support from both chambers of the Legislatur...
Proposal to help more Minnesotans retire with greater financial cushion passes House
By Mike Cook
An idea aiming to help Minnesotans as they get grayer received enough green votes.
Establishment of a Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program is the genesis of HF782 to b...
Conferees commence work on omnibus education bill
By Steve Abrams
Minnesota should dole out $2.2 billion in new funding for K-12 education.
On this, the House and Senate are in agreement. How to spend those billions – and what policy chang...
Conferees reach agreement on omnibus veterans, military affairs bill
By Jonathan Mohr
The House and Senate versions of the omnibus veterans and military affairs finance bill were just over $20,000 apart to begin with, so it didn’t take a conference committee long...
Week in Review: April 24-28
By HPIS Staff
Conference committees are unpredictable, can start or stop with very little notice, and their work is sometimes hard to follow. But after the last two weeks of long floor debate...
House approves omnibus tax bill with $3 billion in cuts, tax increases for top earners
By Rob Hubbard
The checks are almost in the mail. Raising kids could become a tad more affordable. And three-fourths of those receiving Social Security income wouldn’t pay taxes on it.
Suc...
House passes $64.2 million omnibus commerce finance bill
By Tim Walker
The Department of Commerce oversees more than 40 industry areas in Minnesota and licenses more than 250,000 professionals and businesses to ensure that their services and produc...
House lawmakers OK $7.1 billion omnibus health bill that seeks to purge restrictive abortion statutes
By Tessa Pieper
The topic of reproductive health care often generates heated debate. And Wednesday night on the House Floor was no different.
With House language substituted in an earlier c...
House passes omnibus judiciary policy bill
By Tim Walker
Updates and new provisions to civil law statutes related to property, data, civil rights, boards, contracts, forfeitures, marriage, and name changes received a favorable verdict...
Judiciary, public safety omnibus bill that includes gun-control measures passes House after extended debate
By Tim Walker
Omnibus bills setting budgets for state courts and the Department of Public Safety — now combined into one bill — would have a very wide reach, ranging from creating a new crime...
Just $2 million apart, Legacy conference committee opens discussion
By Tessa Pieper
Less than 0.5%.
Conferees on the omnibus Legacy finance bill (HF1999/SF1692), who met for the first time Wednesday learned they aren’t too far apart. House and Senate versio...
House tables ‘transformational’ omnibus judiciary and public safety bill that includes gun-control measures
By Tim Walker
Omnibus bills setting budgets for state courts and the Department of Public Safety — now combined into one bill — would have a very wide reach, ranging from creating a new crime...
Bipartisan — and largely technical — human services policy bill clears House
By Tessa Pieper
Thought the human services budget bill was confusing? Welcome to the omnibus human services policy bill.
Now heading to the Senate, HF1403, as amended, found bipartisan supp...
Conference committee likely after House OKs $14 billion human services bill
By Tessa Pieper
Minnesotans with disabilities and those caring for them demanded legislative action to address the ongoing workforce shortage.
The omnibus human services finance and policy ...
