Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
State of the State returns to the Capitol as Walz touts ideas for the projected surplus
By Rob Hubbard
There’s been a paucity of pomp to Gov. Tim Walz’s last two State of the State addresses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he delivered one via video from a room at the governor’s r...
Week in Review: April 19-22
By HPIS Staff
Lawmakers returned from their Easter/Passover break this week and spent the last few days making mostly procedural moves to get omnibus bills aligned.
Aside from the House p...
House passes Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund appropriations without formal commission recommendation
By Brian Hall
Voting on a proposal that received the highest scores from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, the House passed the yearly appropriations bill from the En...
Omnibus early childhood, E-12 education bill headed to House Floor
By Pratik Joshi
The House Ways and Means Committee added two sections of the omnibus early childhood bill into the omnibus education finance and policy bill before approving HF4300, as amended, on an 18-10 party line vote.
Three more omnibus bills — plus pension changes — rolled into single package
By Mike Cook
Merging is something drivers do when, ideally, they get up to speed and enter a freeway or interstate.
In Capitol-speak, merging is what happened Wednesday to the House bill...
House, Senate negotiators begin reconciliation of drought relief assistance bills
By Brian Hall
Trying to decide the total appropriation, how it’s split and how much each farmer could receive are part of the responsibility of a conference committee weighing the House and S...
Omnibus agriculture, housing and broadband bills combined; headed to House Floor
By Brian Hall
Representatives from both sides of the aisle questioned the combining of omnibus bills in the House Ways and Means Committee, but the process continued and the three bills becam...
House DFL majority sets $7.4 billion supplemental biennial spending target
By Mike Cook
Before beginning its dig into supplemental funding bills for many areas of state government, the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a budget resolution Tuesday for proposed ...
Week in Review: April 4-8
By HPIS Staff
There are times when the pace of work around the Capitol seems to follow a hurry-up-and-wait pattern, while other times things move so swiftly it can be tough to keep up. The la...
$259 million omnibus health finance and policy bill gets committee approval
By Tim Walker
With a sizable budget surplus at hand, now is the right time to make expansive investments to improve health care for all Minnesotans, says the sponsor of the omnibus health finance and policy bill.
House human services committee approves wide-ranging omnibus package
By Margaret Stevens
Addressing deep poverty, homelessness, mental health issues, community living and, especially, workforce shortages in caring professions are part of a wide-ranging omnibus bill ...
Transportation panel OKs omnibus bill proposing funding boost for state's roads, transit and smaller cities
By Margaret Stevens
With billions of dollars going to the states through the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, it is historic times for transportation.
“We’ve seen nothing like th...
Divided committee approves amended omnibus public safety package
By Tim Walker
Despite disagreements over individual provisions in the omnibus public safety policy and finance bill, the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Com...
Tax bill focused on targeted cuts advances in House
By Rob Hubbard
Should tax cuts be simple and sweeping? Or should they be numerous and targeted?
That will be the tax policy debate going forward at the Capitol this year. On the day that o...
Omnibus environment and natural resources bill advances on party-line vote
By Brian Hall
A House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee that’s been divided all session stayed that way Thursday as it approved its omnibus environment and natura...
