Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Labor, industry conferees begin work on striking agreement
By Brian Basham
With only a few major differences between House and Senate language in the labor and industry policy bills, HF3947/SF3852*, conferees walked through side-by-sides and began disc...
With finish line in mind, ways and means committee melds eight supplemental spending bills into three
By Rob Hubbard
There was a lot of merging traffic at Thursday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing.
With less than four weeks remaining in the 2024 session, the agenda was designe...
House workforce panel approves proposed updates to paid leave law
By Tim Walker
It’s been nearly a year since the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act became law, and officials from the department in charge of implementing it are asking for changes to help man...
Bill to update law around family court proceedings about ‘what’s best for the kids’
By Tim Walker
Corporations have mission statements defining its business, objectives, and how it will reach those goals.
The state may create something like a mission statement to guide f...
House passes protections for renters embroiled in utility disputes
By Rob Hubbard
If you’re a renter, how you pay for your power, heat and water can be problematic if your landlord does the billing instead of the utilities.
There have been instances in wh...
Education policy conference committee lays out differences in House, Senate bills
By Brian Basham
With a laundry list of differences, the education policy conference committee met Wednesday to walk-through the differences between the House and Senate bills.
Largely, the ...
Northern MN helium discovery prompts proposed regulatory framework for gas, oil production
By Margaret Stevens
Perhaps best known for filling party balloons and causing Mickey Mouse voices, helium is a critical element for many industries ranging from semiconductors to fiber optic cables...
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
A look back at what happened in the Minnesota House of Representatives the week of April 15-19.
House Taxes Committee sends its final bill onward
By Rob Hubbard
While the 2023 tax law was mostly about targeted tax relief for lower earners and higher tax rates for those at the other end of the income spectrum, the product of this year’s ...
Health panel approves supplemental budget bill; next stop, ways and means
By Miranda Bryant
The House Health Finance and Policy Committee passed a $43 million supplemental health budget bill Friday on a party-line vote.
Sponsored by Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL-Rocheste...
House panel OK’s finance bill that sponsor says aims to tackle a Minnesota ‘workforce in crisis’
By Tim Walker
Legislation to distribute $16.75 million in onetime fiscal year 2025 funding among more than 40 organizations and municipalities for job training programs and other workforce de...
House passes cannabis legislation aiming to speed up retail sales
By Tim Walker
Last summer, it became legal for adults to possess cannabis and grow cannabis plants for personal, recreational use.
But buying cannabis legally at a licensed retail busines...
Wide-ranging human services supplemental budget bill clears House panel
By Miranda Bryant
People experiencing or facing imminent homelessness. Prisoners preparing to re-enter the community. The elderly.
All would benefit from the human services supplemental budge...
Health supplemental budget bill grows to $43 million through reappropriations, additional resources
By Miranda Bryant
Mental health service provisions, pharmacy service expansion, and insurance reimbursements for prosthetics and orthotics are coming out on top despite a relatively small health ...
Committee OKs agriculture bill funding nitrate treatment, allowing fertilizer research council to sunset
By Margaret Stevens
When session ended last year, House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee Chair Rep. Samantha Vang (DFL-Brooklyn Center) had a goal: keep whole the Agricultural Growth, Resea...
