Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House passes $52 million to bolster child care for families while helping providers
By Jonathan Mohr
Access and affordability have posed problems for families in need of child care, as have workforce shortages and profitability for those who provide it.
Those issues were on...
Bill proposes $25-a-month cap on co-pays for life-saving prescription drugs
By Tim Walker
People with asthma could be able to breathe easier — literally and figuratively.
HF348 would require health plans to limit patient co-pays to no more than $25 per one-month ...
After two years and no bonding bill, House DFL unveils nearly $2 billion capital investment package
By Margaret Stevens
The Legislature doesn’t usually get a bonding package proposed as early as February. But since it’s been more than two years since a bonding bill has passed, capital funding is ...
Proposal seeks to end fees for burial in state veterans cemeteries
By Jonathan Mohr
Burial fees some families must pay to inter loved ones in a state veterans cemetery may soon end.
The House Veterans and Military Affairs Finance and Policy Committee held o...
Week in Review: Feb. 6-10
By HPIS Staff
Big plans for Super Bowl Sunday? Good luck if you’re a fan of the Chiefs or Eagles. For everyone else, enjoy the game, the commercials, the food, or ignore all of it and get out...
House passes free breakfast, lunch for all Minnesota schoolkids
By Steve Abrams
The days of students going hungry in Minnesota’s K-12 schools may be a thing of the past.
The House voted 70-58 Thursday to pass HF5, which would institute universal no-cost...
Committee approves school-linked behavioral health grants bill
By Tessa Pieper
An appropriation bill lacks appropriation. But it’s moving along.
Sponsored by Rep. Robert Bierman (DFL-Apple Valley), HF564 seeks to appropriate grant money to students for...
House OKs $5 million in emergency funding for Minnesota food shelves
By Jonathan Mohr
The sticker shock many Minnesotans feel when buying groceries these days is even worse for the state’s food shelves, which must absorb those increased costs while trying to meet...
Diagnostic services could be provided free of charge after initial mammogram
By Tessa Pieper
One in eight women will get breast cancer.
It is the most common cancer found in women, though it affects men as well.
HF390 seeks to assist in early diagnosis and, ulti...
Bill laying out updated accommodations for pregnant, nursing workers heads to House Floor
By Steve Abrams
During pregnancy and while nursing, working women are entitled to special accommodations in the workplace. Many of these were first set in state statute in 2014.
In the view...
MN families could net $3,000 per child under proposed tax credit
By Rob Hubbard
Have a kid? Have a tax credit.
That’s the basic principle behind HF1369, a bill sponsored by Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn (DFL-Eden Prairie) that, as amended, would establish...
Minnesota playing catch-up in funding youth intervention programs, advocates say
By Tim Walker
“The problems facing young people are persistent, real, pressing, and dangerous.”
Those words came from a high school student who listed some of what he and his friends enco...
Additional proposed spending on career, technical education in MN schools gets warm House reception
By Steve Abrams
Not every Minnesota student is destined for a four-year college. Many want to pursue a job in the trades. But preparing them for these vocations could require an increase in fun...
Walz transportation budget proposes maximizing federal funds now, increasing tab fees for future
By Margaret Stevens
(CORRECTION: The original post stated the proposed tab fee resturucture would generate $700 million annually. It is over four years.)
A boost in state funds for roads, bridg...
Early learning scholarships targeted for almost $1 billion boost
By Jonathan Mohr
Two points have been made time and again during meetings of the House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee this year: The first five years of a child’s life are pe...
