Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Legislators advance bill they hope will increase safety on Metro Transit buses, trains
By Margaret Stevens
During several hearings this session, the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee heard about annoying and sometimes criminal behavior occurring on buses, trains and a...
House OKs expanded protections under Women’s Economic Security Act
By Steve Abrams
Passed in 2014, the Women’s Economic Security Act provides a profusion of accommodations for nursing and pregnant employees in the workplace.
Updates to this legislation may...
House panel advances labor legislation targeting working conditions for rideshare drivers
By Steve Abrams
The life of a rideshare driver with Uber or Lyft is not easy. Long hours on the road, little pay, and risk of physical violence from passengers is the industry norm.
Issues ...
Taxes Committee joins the Social Security subtraction conversation
By Rob Hubbard
It’s a subtraction that’s proven a major addition to the public conversation recently. Whether Minnesotans should pay state taxes on Social Security income became a prominent ca...
Culturally specific mental health services could be expanded with proposed grant
By Tessa Pieper
The National Alliance on Mental Health estimates only one in three Black adults with mental illness receive treatment.
“A recent Blue Cross Blue Shield study showed major de...
House passes bill to codify protections for Native American kids, families
By Jonathan Mohr
The federal government established the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 to help end the practice begun in the 1800s of separating Native American children from their families in...
Ag panel approves bill that would let cities exterminate use of some pesticides
By Margaret Stevens
The sinking of bee populations is an all-hands-on-deck situation, and local communities should have their hands untied, say supporters of a bill that would allow cities to ban t...
Bill seeks to lower number of PTSD retirements among first responders
By Tim Walker
The state’s workforce shortage is especially acute in the public safety sector.
Peace officers and firefighters are retiring at record rates, in large part due to post-traum...
House lawmaker wants any funds awarded in MN vape lawsuit to pay for tobacco prevention, treatment efforts
By Tessa Pieper
Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has a $438.5 million settlement with 34 states.
Minnesota is not among them.
Instead, the state will take Juul Labs and Altria to tr...
Student-led organizations seek more than $2 million to prep schoolkids for future careers
By Steve Abrams
Career and technical student organizations aren’t your typical after-school club. These organizations foster student engagement in career and technical education programs for ov...
Scholarships could be a tool to replenish shrinking paramedic pool
By Rob Hubbard
Emergency medical services are among things most people expect to be there when they need them. And, indeed, 90% of Minnesotans who called 911 in 2022 had someone on the scene i...
‘Retirement crisis’ looms in Minnesota, lawmaker says, and legislators seek a solution
By Mike Cook
As more Minnesotans get grayer, fewer are expected to be able to retire comfortably.
It’s what Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn (DFL-Roseville) calls a “retirement crisis.”
A smal...
Skol! MN drivers could show support for local teams with new specialty plates
By Margaret Stevens
Fans of Minnesota’s six professional teams might be able to carry the team logo when they hit the road with a special license plate showing a contribution to the team’s philanth...
Proposal would pick up the tab for more than a million prepared meals
By Jonathan Mohr
Each Thursday, 900 ready-to-eat meals are prepared for students at the University of Minnesota experiencing food insecurity. Those meals typically run out in less than an hour.
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MPCA could sniff out issues with objectionable odors, take action under proposed legislation
By Margaret Stevens
Whether it comes from malting wheat, smoking ham, rendering animals or making paper, Minnesotans across the state can describe a smell peculiar to their hometown.
For some i...
