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Highlights
- Protections for newborn information (new law)
- Fund transfers to end in 2015 (new law)
- Fire sprinklers in new construction (veto)
- Annuity assurance changes (veto)
- Business solicitation restriction (new law)
- Licensure clarification for closers (new law)
- Licensing for satellite installers (new law)
- Contractor insurance law modified (new law)
- More judges can perform marriages (new law)
- Conciliation court claim limit upped (new law)
- Protection against coercion (new law)
- Alcohol permitted at Gopher games (new law)
- Portable electronic device insurance (new law)
- Demolition loans, ombudsman office (new law)
- Administrators board can enforce fees (new law)
- Omnibus education law signed (new law)
- Trust land management overhauled (new law)
- Education pilot program OK’d (new law)
- Digital learning grad requirements (new law)
- No extra academic oversight (veto)
- Teacher layoff policy won’t change (veto)
- Election changes now law (new law)
- Disclosure requirements for utilities (new law)
- HAVA appropriations (new law)
- Disclosure of settlement information (new law)
- Pension changes now law (new law)
- Fighting employee misclassification (new law)
- Union contract changes vetoed (veto)
- Labor contract changes vetoed (veto)
- Energy efficiency funds available (new law)
- Easing co-op regulations (new law)
- Omnibus environment law signed (new law)
- Stopping aquatic invasive species (new law)
- Council sunset dates extended (new law)
- Trust accounts plan gets vetoed (veto)
- No licensing for abortion clinics (veto)
- Administering an abortion pill (veto)
- Request to join compact denied (veto)
- Miscellaneous health policies (new law)
- Registration for dental labs (new law)
- MRI services need accreditation (new law)
- Electronic prescriptions permitted (new law)
- Bonding, textbook, changes (new law)
- Grants to EMS providers (new law)
- Time limit for termination hearing (new law)
- Appointments for disabled veterans (new law)
- Honor guard stipends increased (new law)
- Contract preference expansion (new law)
- Genital mutilation enhanced penalty (new law)
- Fighting synthetic drug sale, use (new law)
- Explosives background check (new law)
- Capitol area security (new law)
- Fireworks expansion is a dud (veto)
- Card clubs, simulcasting can expand (new law)
- Annual claims law (new law)
- Council, board sunsets delayed (new law)
- Protecting private data (new law)
- Statute clarification and correction (new law)
- Rulemaking oversight (new law)
- Redrawn lines to stay as is (veto)
- Rulemaking stays as is (veto)
- Salvage title requirements (new law)
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