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House lawmakers pass agreement that would keep Uber, Lyft operating in Minnesota
By Brian Basham
A provision two years in the making is now a signature away from providing benefits to ride share drivers.
Passed 71-59 by the House and included in the transportation, labor and housing conference committee report is a plan to pay rideshare drivers $1.28 per mile and 31 cents per minute with a $5 minimum per ride.
The transportation, labor and housing bill was passed 70-59 Sunday night and sent to the Senate.
Sponsored by Rep. Hodan Hassan (DFL-Mpls), HF4746, as amended, would also grant drivers the right to appeal a deactivation, providing an avenue to possibly reactivate their account on a rideshare app, and appropriate $173,000 in fiscal year 2025 from the General Fund for enforcement, education, and outreach, with annual base of $123,000 beginning in fiscal year 2026.
Recent Dailies
Higher ed conferees ace final, make quick work of blending bills
By Rob Hubbard
If you were paying attention when the House passed its higher education policy and supplemental budget bills, the higher education conference committee report may produce some d...
House, Senate strike bargain on environment, natural resources supplemental spending bill
By Margaret Stevens New ways for dealing with waste — packaging, boat wrap, outdated electronics, sewer sludge and heat — are included in a conference committee agreement on the environment and na...Gun bill conference committee agrees to tougher penalties for straw purchases, ban on binary triggers
By Tim Walker
A straw purchase occurs when an individual buys a firearm for someone ineligible to purchase or possess them.
Bills that would raise the penalty for a straw purchase from a ...
Conferees close deal on broad transportation, labor and housing package
By Margaret Stevens
What do Bruce Springsteen and Rotary International have in common?
Both played a starring role in the final moments of the transportation/labor/housing supplemental budget b...
House passes changes to paid leave law amid chaos at close of vote
By Tim Walker
On the first day of 2026, a state-run insurance program is scheduled to begin providing Minnesota workers with up to 20 weeks per year of paid time off to deal with family ...
Conferees adopt report to spend $43 million more on education in fiscal year 2025
By Brian Basham
Continuing what began last year is the theme of an agreement that’d put more money toward education.
Conferees to the education supplemental budget bill adopted the conferen...
Cannabis conferees successfully hash out differences, expand bill’s scope
By Tim Walker
(CORRECTION: Concerns raised by Rep. Nolan West were inaccurate in original story)
The cannabis regulation bill grew Wednesday. And conferees found it to be, as the kids sa...
House passes new requirements meant to keep kids out of child welfare system
By Jonathan Mohr The Minneapolis NAACP filed a federal civil rights complaint in March that alleges Minnesota’s child welfare system discriminates against Black children and their families, espe...With clock ticking, bonding chairs lay out $330 million list of proposed local projects
By Margaret Stevens
Is it GO or no-go?
That’s the perennial question about capital investment with a 60% supermajority required to pass a bill funding projects with general obligation bonds. It...
Energy, agriculture and commerce conferees size up contrasts in House, Senate bills
By Rob Hubbard
As conference committee reports go, the one dealing with energy, agriculture and commerce is quite the combo platter. Not only will it send appropriations from multiple funds in...
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Ways and Means Committee OKs proposed $512 million supplemental budget on party-line vote
By Mike Cook
Meeting more needs or fiscal irresponsibility is one way to sum up the differences among the two parties on a supplemental spending package a year after a $72 billion state budg...
Minnesota’s projected budget surplus balloons to $3.7 billion, but fiscal pressure still looms
By Rob Hubbard
Just as Minnesota has experienced a warmer winter than usual, so has the state’s budget outlook warmed over the past few months.
On Thursday, Minnesota Management and Budget...
