Minnesota Legislature
Week in Review: Feb. 17-21
By Lisa Kaczke
Lawmakers debated, rejected and tabled their first bill on the House Floor this week. HF20 would make data collected by the attorney general’s office classified as private only if it were truly data “on individuals.” After it failed to receive the 68 votes needed to pass, a motion to reconsider the bill prevailed and the bill was then tabled on a split-voice vote.
Crowds showed up to testify in several committee hearings this week. It was standing room only in the House Education Policy Committee Wednesday when a bill to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports in Minnesota was sent to the House Floor on a party-line vote.
Have a restful weekend before another busy week next week.
Here’s a look back at what happened over the last few days.
Recent Dailies
State's cannabis office outlines budget needs, policy plans ahead of marketplace launch
By Lisa Kaczke
The Office of Cannabis Management is focusing this session on its needs related to launching and regulating an expanding adult-use cannabis market in Minnesota.
Interim Dire...
Bill seeks to boost state agency accountability
By Mike Cook
On the back of a boat trolling for walleyes with maybe a cigar and “brown liquid in a glass” alongside, Rep. Jim Nash (R-Waconia) began thinking about how to better utilize info...
Health, human services budgets propose solutions for increasing costs
By Margaret Stevens
The Departments of Health and Human Services are facing structural deficits and some uncertainty around federal funding heading into their next biennium budgets.
Leaders fro...
Social Security subtraction, repeal of delivery fee clear House committee
By Rob Hubbard Updated 6:52 p.m. One of the House Republicans’ top priorities on recent campaigns has returned. Starting its legislative journey in the House Transportation Finance an...State poised to power planes with pulp, not petroleum
By Tim Walker
Can you fly airplanes with wood?
The answer is: yes.
It’s a very qualified “yes” — and it may not happen for many years — but the potential exists to manufacture sustain...
Transportation committee considers governor’s budget proposals
By Rob Hubbard
Duluth’s Blatnik Bridge funding would go up, and state funding for mass transit would go down.
Those are two of the big-ticket items that Gov. Tim Walz’s administration is r...
New House oversight panel aims to stop misuse of state grant dollars
By Mike Cook
On the day testimony began at the trial of the alleged ringleader in the Feeding Our Future scandal, a new House committee began working toward better preventing state grant dol...
Week in Review: Feb. 3-7
By Lisa Kaczke
The House is back in action.
After weeks of stalemate amid a DFL boycott to deny a quorum, Republican and DFL leaders reached an agreement outlining how the House will opera...
Full House convenes for first time in 2025, elects Demuth speaker
By Tim Walker
DFL, Republicans convene with a quorum for the first time in 2025 session after agreeing to a power-sharing deal.
House DFL, Republicans strike power-sharing deal
By Mike Cook
A quorum is expected to be present in the House Thursday afternoon.
That’s because it was announced Wednesday evening DFL and Republican caucus leadership reached an ag...
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Full House convenes for first time in 2025, elects Demuth speaker
By Tim Walker
DFL, Republicans convene with a quorum for the first time in 2025 session after agreeing to a power-sharing deal.
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...
