Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Metro sales tax might foot bill for statewide rental assistance program
By Tessa Pieper
DFL spending targets announced this week devote $1 billion of the state’s projected $17.5 billion budget surplus to housing.
Shoppers in the Twin Cities metropolitan area ma...
Judiciary panel advances bill to reform aiding and abetting felony murder law
By Tim Walker
Minnesota’s aiding and abetting felony murder laws allow people to be convicted of murder even if they did not kill anyone or intend for anyone to die.
While those laws can ...
Proposed redrawn Met Council district map gains committee approval
By Mike Cook
At the state level, House and Senate districts are redrawn after each decennial federal census to create districts of equal population size.
The same is true, albeit less wi...
House passes bill to establish Minnesota as a ‘trans refuge’ state
By Tim Walker
Establishing Minnesota as a “trans refuge” is another vote and gubernatorial signature away from becoming law.
A bill to prevent out-of-state laws from interfering in the pr...
House passes bill to unlock federal funds for renewable energy projects
By Rob Hubbard
Minnesota may go more deeply into the matchmaking business. The federal government is offering grants to states for energy projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it ...
House passes private prison prohibition
By Tim Walker
Minnesota’s only privately owned prison is the Prairie Correctional Facility, built by the city of Appleton.
The 1,600-bed, medium-security prison opened in 1992, and a...
Labor committee's omnibus policy bill heads to House Floor on party-line vote
By Steve Abrams
Significant changes to labor law could be around the corner for Minnesota workers — particularly unionized educators.
The House Labor and Industry Finance and Policy Committ...
State might take a smaller bite of pull tab revenue
By Rob Hubbard
Are the state’s charities in need of a tax cut?
Perhaps you’d say: Wait, charities are nonprofits and therefore not taxed. But those relying for funding on “charitable gamin...
Ag policy omnibus bill sails through committee to House Floor
By Margaret Stevens
For the first time, Rep. Samantha Vang (DFL-Brooklyn Center) could use the line “peace in the valley” as the House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee approved Thursday, wi...
Omnibus government bill proposes changes to definition of legislative day, altered session start date
By Mike Cook
House members could meet in session a lot more often and start a few days later.
Those are two provisions in the omnibus state and local government policy bill that, ironica...
Transportation chair says metro sales tax increase could pay for better buses, safer trains
By Margaret Stevens
About 13 hours after hearing a proposal to improve the bus riding experience, the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee heard a possible way to pay for it.
Rep....
House committee votes to extend unemployment benefits to hourly school workers
By Steve Abrams
Say you’re a paraprofessional at an elementary school, or a bus driver for a high school, or a cook on a college campus. Like the teaching staff, you have the summers off. But u...
House bill aims to ‘make a big difference’ with education savings accounts for all MN newborns
By Jonathan Mohr
Parents who want to pay for their kids to attend college are usually told to begin saving money as soon as possible after the child is born.
A proposal discussed Thursday by...
No fare — or, no fair? Free ride pilot project included in bus improvement bill
By Margaret Stevens
Waiting in the bitter cold there may be no more sinking feeling than watching a bus pass your stop because it is full, not knowing when the next one will come. Unreliability and...
Grants could help state catch up with electric school buses
By Rob Hubbard
Diesel school buses are probably bad for our kids’ health, with studies suggesting the fumes to be a common cause of asthma. Could changing over to electric buses be the answer?...
