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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
Local assistance focus of House-passed elections supplemental funding bill
By Mike Cook
A voting operations, technology, and election resources account that assists local governments with certain election-related expenses would be the largest beneficiary of a suppl...
Supplemental workforce and economic development bill passed by House
By Tim Walker
A conference committee is likely forthcoming for the workforce and economic development supplemental budget bill.
By a 74-52 vote Friday, the House passed HF5205/SF5289*, a...
Tax bill with advance payments of credits passes House
By Rob Hubbard
While the 2024 House tax bill appears modest by comparison with the 2023 edition, it would expand the scope of some of last year’s provisions and call for more transparency...
House, Senate negotiators nix phase-out of subminimum wage in human services bill
By Miranda Bryant
Workers with a disability may continue to work for less than minimum wage.
The human services policy conference committee reached agreement Friday on the committee report to...
Public option amendment joins energy, agriculture and commerce bill
By Rob Hubbard
It’s been an interesting week for HF4975.
Sponsored by Rep. Patty Acomb (DFL-Minnetonka), the bill was created last week in the House Ways and Means Committee, when the supp...
House OK’s bill to increase penalties for ‘swatting’
By Tim Walker Making a fictitious emergency call that a serious crime is underway is a gross misdemeanor in Minnesota. House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) wants to make it a...Tougher penalties for firearm straw purchases pass House overnight
By Tim Walker
A straw purchase occurs when an individual buys a firearm for someone ineligible to purchase or possess it.
Rep. Kaela Berg (DFL-Burnsville) sponsors a bill that would incre...
House passes bill expanding firearm storage requirement following fierce floor debate
By Tim Walker
Acknowledging no single law is going to prevent all tragedies, Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn (DFL-Roseville) nonetheless urged passage of a firearms storage bill she sponsors in the ho...
Human services conference committee testimony centers on subminimum wages, recovery peers
By Miranda Bryant
The human services policy conference committee heard mixed opinions from the public Thursday on proposals that would phase out subminimum wages for workers with disabilities, an...
Transportation, housing and labor package passes House
By Margaret Stevens
Proponents of the transportation, labor and housing supplemental budget bill say it will result in a safer, cleaner, more affordable state with provisions that would mitigate th...
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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 ...
