Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House passes new requirements meant to keep kids out of child welfare system
By Jonathan Mohr
The Minneapolis NAACP filed a federal civil rights complaint in March that alleges Minnesota’s child welfare system discriminates against Black children and their families, espe...
With clock ticking, bonding chairs lay out $330 million list of proposed local projects
By Margaret Stevens
Is it GO or no-go?
That’s the perennial question about capital investment with a 60% supermajority required to pass a bill funding projects with general obligation bonds. It...
Energy, agriculture and commerce conferees size up contrasts in House, Senate bills
By Rob Hubbard
As conference committee reports go, the one dealing with energy, agriculture and commerce is quite the combo platter. Not only will it send appropriations from multiple funds in...
Jobs conference committee’s tough task: solve ‘vast differences’ in bottom lines
By Tim Walker
The conference committee on the jobs and economic development and workforce development supplemental budget bill met for the first time Monday and took care of some easy tasks, ...
Tenant-landlord bill agreement would protect domestic violence victims, omit prohibition of income discrimination
By Miranda Bryant
The conference committee on a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions reached an agreement Monday.
The proposed legislation would, among other thin...
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...
