Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Week in Review: May 6-10
By HPIS Staff
It was another long week with hours of debate on supplemental budget bills that have now, mostly, been passed off the House Floor, meaning conference committee season has fully ...
Human services conferees start work of compromising on budget bills
By Miranda Bryant
The House and Senate have different human services policy and program appropriations in their supplemental budget bills. The process of compromising began Friday at the first me...
Conference committee dives into transportation, labor, housing bill
By Margaret Stevens
A few days after each body passed extensive, multi-provision bills, conferees started reconciling differences on the transportation, labor and housing supplemental budget bill F...
Election conferees reach agreement on policy, budget provisions
By Mike Cook
The votes were cast Friday afternoon. The result is an agreement on elections policy and budget provisions.
However, it is not yet official because nonpartisan staff have be...
House, Senate tax conferees convene to discuss differences
By Rob Hubbard
If there’s one thing the chairs of the House and Senate Taxes committees agree on, it’s the value of the child tax credit they created last year.
“I don’t call anything hist...
Conference committee begins work on supplemental education finance bill
By Brian Basham
The education supplemental budget bill committee has some homework to do after its initial meeting Friday.
There are many differences between the House and Senate language a...
Legalized sports betting back on track as session reaches home stretch
By Tim Walker
The phrase “down to the wire” comes from horse racing, where it was long the practice to stretch a wire across and above the track at the finish line.
The saying is also a t...
House gives OK to energy, agriculture and commerce package
By Rob Hubbard
Geothermal energy, anaerobic digesters and permitting reform for electricity transmission projects. Substance abuse treatment, recovery and prevention grants. Treatment of nitra...
Health budget bill passes off House Floor
By Miranda Bryant
Addressing a wide range of provisions from prior authorizations to mental health matters; from abortion and gender-affirming care to amino acid-based elemental formula and whole...
Biggest budget item passes House, creating a tax forfeiture settlement account
By Rob Hubbard
“The Tyler Settlement.”
That’s what it says in the supplemental budget target agreement reached between Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders in March, next to a dollar amou...
Lawmakers strike deal on commerce policy, consumer protection package
By Tim Walker
Legislation that would beef up a host of consumer protection laws will head back to both bodies for their consideration and possible passage now that a conference committee work...
Legacy conference committee finds common ground
By Miranda Bryant
The first and last legacy finance conference committee meeting Wednesday was brief – so much so that introductions of lawmakers and staff took more time than the sole agenda ite...
House rejects flurry of campus protest amendments, passes higher education budget bill
By Rob Hubbard
May is a time when people pay a little more attention to what’s happening on college campuses, what with graduations and other year-end activities. But interest is much stronger...
House passes $55 million boost for public safety, judiciary and corrections
By Tim Walker
The state’s judicial system, and Public Safety and Corrections departments could be in line to receive an extra $55.35 million in this fiscal year and the next.
That’s the b...
House OKs legislation creating statewide emergency medical services office
By Miranda Bryant
Is it prudent to create a new government body to oversee emergency medical services in Minnesota without sufficient funding for ambulance services throughout the state?
The ...
