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Back from break, Ways and Means Committee begins merging omnibus bills for House Floor
With just under six weeks (at most) left in the legislative session, much budget work has now been funneled to the House Ways and Means Committee, a final opportunity to shape omnibus bills before they hit the House Floor.
It’s also an opportunity to better match with similar topical omnibus bills moving through the Senate. That is why five bills on the committee docket became four Tuesday.
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul), HF2310, the omnibus environment and natural resources finance and policy bill, was amended to include the omnibus climate and energy finance bill.
That bill was then approved, as amended, on a split-voice vote and sent to the House Floor. The committee is scheduled to have hearings on several other budget bills this week as well. Read more
Session Daily
Last-minute compromise narrows scope of nurse staffing bill that goes to governor (5/22/2023 10:10:00 PM) Aid to nursing homes, grants for workers pass House in session’s final hours (5/22/2023 8:24:00 PM) House lawmakers send pair of capital investment bills to governor’s desk as 2023 session ends (5/22/2023 7:03:00 PM) $9.3 billion health bill would repeal old abortion laws, address health disparities (5/22/2023 6:05:00 PM) DFLers call transportation package a ‘generational investment’ as House gives a green light (5/21/2023 5:37:00 PM) House passes tax package that includes rebate checks, $1 billion in new revenues (5/20/2023 8:53:00 PM) Agreement on transportation budget includes gas tax hike, delivery fee (5/20/2023 7:49:00 PM) Compromise agreement on nurse staffing legislation clears conference committee (5/20/2023 2:36:00 PM) House passes $14 billion human services package that includes contentious nursing home loan program (5/19/2023 8:08:00 PM) House passes state and local government agreement that calls for new state flag, changes to legislative procedure (5/19/2023 1:47:00 PM) House passes prospective new state regulations of Uber and Lyft (5/19/2023 10:51:00 AM)
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The Ninety-third Session of the the Minnesota Legislature is scheduled to reconvene Monday, February 12, 2024 at 12 Noon
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The Ninety-third Session of the the Minnesota Legislature is scheduled to reconvene Monday, February 12, 2024 at 12 Noon
News and Notes
Bill Introductions: HF3340-HF3342
2023 committee deadlines
- Friday, March 10 — Committees must act favorably on bills in the house of origin
- Friday, March 24 — Committees must act favorably on bills, or companions of bills, that met the first deadline in the other body
- Tuesday, April 4 (5 p.m.) — Committees must act favorably on major appropriation and finance bills
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