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Proposed House rules changes would ax per diem pay for absent members
By Lisa Kaczke
Lawmakers won’t receive per diem on days they’re absent from a floor session under a proposed House rule.
It is included in a permanent rules package approved, as amended, Thursday without discussion by the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee at a brief meeting.
House Majority Leader Harry Niska (R-Ramsey) said a floor vote will occur Monday.
The proposed House rules would also establish a process for election challenges, require the House Journal to include whether a member voting remotely is doing so for health-related or safety-related reasons, eliminate the fiscal calendar, and clarify germaneness.
Recent Dailies
Licensing bill would usher in seven health professional interstate compacts to ease worker shortages
By Miranda Bryant
The conference committee report to the health occupational licensure and scoping bill was adopted Saturday evening in short order.
Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL-Rochester) and Sen...
Loans for rideshare driver vehicles gains committee approval, heads to House Floor
By Brian Basham
Keeping rideshare companies Uber and Lyft operating in Minnesota has been on a lot of legislator minds the last few months at the Capitol.
Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL-Mpls) says ...
House, Senate reach agreement on public safety and judiciary legislation
By Tim Walker
The public safety and judiciary supplemental budget bill expanded Friday when a conference committee adopted its report combining a $53.9 million appropriations bill with a poli...
Energy, agriculture conferees find green agreement
By Rob Hubbard
Commerce went to cannabis, but energy and agriculture remained united.
Such was the result of a midweek re-ordering of conference committees that took place after a conferen...
Family preservation conference committee finds quick agreement
By Jonathan Mohr Protections intended to keep more Minnesota families together took another step toward becoming law Friday evening when a conference committee on the proposed “Minnesota African...Conference committee reaches agreement on funding jobs, economic development programs
By Tim Walker
Several of the main players at Friday’s jobs, workforce, and economic development finance and policy conference committee made opening remarks praising the agreement reached.
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Higher ed conferees ace final, make quick work of blending bills
By Rob Hubbard
If you were paying attention when the House passed its higher education policy and supplemental budget bills, the higher education conference committee report may produce some d...
House, Senate strike bargain on environment, natural resources supplemental spending bill
By Margaret Stevens New ways for dealing with waste — packaging, boat wrap, outdated electronics, sewer sludge and heat — are included in a conference committee agreement on the environment and na...Gun bill conference committee agrees to tougher penalties for straw purchases, ban on binary triggers
By Tim Walker
A straw purchase occurs when an individual buys a firearm for someone ineligible to purchase or possess them.
Bills that would raise the penalty for a straw purchase from a ...
Conferees close deal on broad transportation, labor and housing package
By Margaret Stevens
What do Bruce Springsteen and Rotary International have in common?
Both played a starring role in the final moments of the transportation/labor/housing supplemental budget b...
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Walz proposes slimmed-down 2026-27 state budget, sales tax changes
By Tim Walker
This is an odd-numbered year, and so the Legislature is constitutionally required to craft a budget to fund the state government for the next two fiscal years.
Gov. Tim Walz...
Simon says no quorum, Republicans elect Demuth speaker
By Rob Hubbard
Depending upon how you view a situation, you could say that Tuesday’s Opening Day for the House of Representatives found the chamber either half full or half empty.
In ...
