Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Lawmakers seek more remote participation in local advisory commission meetings
By Mike Cook
Balancing the public’s right to know what government is doing with greater opportunity for more people to participate is the genesis of a bill that has no easy answers.
Spon...
Governor’s early childhood supplemental budget proposals total nearly $37 million
By Jonathan Mohr
A measure that seeks to update how child care providers are regulated by moving to a “risk-based” licensing system is part of a package of proposals and new funding heard by the...
House judiciary panel approves proposal to reform reviews of child deaths
By Tim Walker
A child dying due to maltreatment is a tragedy.
Unfortunately, the state’s dysfunctional process to investigate such a death only compounds the tragedy, says Rep. Dave Pinto...
Commerce committee considers measure aimed at clarifying conflicting gambling regulations
By Tim Walker
Depending on how you count them, the state has at least four agencies, commissions, and boards regulating gambling in Minnesota.
That’s too fragmented and causes problems, s...
Elections policy bill clears a divided House
By Mike Cook
The November election is just under seven months away, but a plethora of changes to how and when people vote are key components of the 2024 elections policy bill.
It include...
House passes public safety policy bill with bipartisan support
By Tim Walker
Changes affecting crime victims and their rights, making criminal justice reforms, modifying predatory offender restrictions, and modifying some duties of the Department of Corr...
State lawmakers could return Humphrey to Washington with statue swap
By Margaret Stevens
Minnesota could be getting new representation in Washington D.C.
Sponsored by House Majority Leader Jamie Long (DFL-Mpls), HF5156, as amended, would appropriate $300,000 fro...
Week in Review: April 1-5
By HPIS Staff
Focus started to shift this week with members beginning to spend less time in committee meetings and more time together as a body on the House Floor. That trend should continue ...
House greenlights transportation policy bill
By Margaret Stevens
House members who voted in favor of a bill that allows registration of flying cars can make a strong case the transportation policy bill is looking toward the future. Those...
House passes proposed changes to state’s early education programs
By Jonathan Mohr
Two similar state programs that work to achieve the same goal of helping prepare young children for school would be merged under a bill passed by the House Thursday.
Members...
Higher education policy bill gets high marks in House
By Rob Hubbard
If Minnesota’s 2023 higher education law was the biggest budget bang that public colleges and universities and student scholarship programs had ever seen, then you could call th...
Staggered child tax credit payments among Walz tax recommendations
By Rob Hubbard
Among the many pieces of legislation signed into law in 2023, few are more universally praised than the child tax credit. More than one legislator has called it the most consequ...
Funds to treat water included in state’s agriculture supplemental budget ask
By Margaret Stevens
In November, the Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter that directed state agencies to take action in southeastern Minnesota to protect human health from nitrates. Earli...
Religious exemption language added to gender-affirming care bill
By Miranda Bryant
A religious exemption has been added to a bill that would guarantee health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care.
Sponsored by Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul), HF2607...
Bill proposing referendum that could create full-time Legislature, redistricting commission clears second committee
By Mike Cook
A bill approved Thursday in the House State and Local Government Finance and Policy Committee would also ask voters to weigh in on a proposed constitutional ban on legislators serving as lobbyists while in office.
