By Tessa Pieper
The House wants to prohibit subminimum wages for people with disabilities, but the Senate doesn’t.
It is just one of many differences between the omnibus human services poli...
By Tessa Pieper
Shake your Magic 8-ball and ask if the House and Senate will agree on a seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area sales tax.
“Ask again later.”
While the House included...
By Steve Abrams
Significant changes to labor law could be around the corner for Minnesota workers — particularly unionized educators.
As amended to substitute the House language, HF1522/SF1...
By Rob Hubbard
If the proposed merger of the Fairview and Sanford health care systems results in the University of Minnesota’s hospitals and clinics being returned to the oversight of the stat...
By Tim Walker
Peace officers and firefighters are retiring at record rates, in large part due to post-traumatic stress disorder they develop because of the considerable job-related trauma the...
By Steve Abrams
Last week, the House amended and passed the omnibus jobs, economic development, labor, and industry finance bill.
The amendment to include House language in HF3028/SF3035* d...
By Rob Hubbard
Judging from Monday’s stop-and-start meeting that began early and was scheduled to end late, the environment, natural resources, climate and energy conference committee plans to...
By Mike Cook
Monday afternoon was kind of like preparing to go to the polling place for 10 legislators.
Conferees for the omnibus state and local government and elections finance bill be...
By Jonathan Mohr
Conferees on the omnibus early childhood finance bill learned Monday that although the House and Senate bills would both appropriate $300 million in new spending during the upco...
By Tim Walker
The omnibus judiciary and public safety conference committee began its work Monday with words of encouragement from the Senate sponsor.
“I for one am very excited to be on t...
By Margaret Stevens
A new grain indemnity fund seems assured in the next few years as the program to compensate grain farmers when an elevator fails has support from both chambers of the Legislatur...
By Mike Cook
An idea aiming to help Minnesotans as they get grayer received enough green votes.
Establishment of a Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program is the genesis of HF782 to b...
By Steve Abrams
Minnesota should dole out $2.2 billion in new funding for K-12 education.
On this, the House and Senate are in agreement. How to spend those billions – and what policy chang...
By Jonathan Mohr
The House and Senate versions of the omnibus veterans and military affairs finance bill were just over $20,000 apart to begin with, so it didn’t take a conference committee long...
By HPIS Staff
Conference committees are unpredictable, can start or stop with very little notice, and their work is sometimes hard to follow. But after the last two weeks of long floor debate...