Excluding trans kids from playing sports is not protecting sports. It’s about denying our kids the opportunity to participate with their peers, it’s about denying a sense of community and belonging, it’s about denying kids the opportunity to gain the life-long lessons and skills sports give our youth to take into adulthood - teamwork, overcoming adversity, and striving for excellence.
This bill only serves to bully trans kids while ensuring ALL girls face unnecessary barriers to sports. It’s a bad bill. It won’t become law in Minnesota, but we‘ll unfortunately need to spend time making sure that’s the case when we could be working on bipartisan bills that support our kids instead.
Find Your Missing Money & Unclaimed Property
People lose track of their money or financial property because of a change of address, a death, or because they inherited something they didn't know about. The good news? The Minnesota Commerce Department is committed to reuniting Minnesotans with money that has gone missing.
Each year, Commerce receives millions of dollars in unclaimed property from businesses and organizations that have lost contact with the owners. The Department is responsible for safeguarding the funds or property until claimed by the rightful owners or heirs. This can include dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks, unclaimed wages, insurance claim payments or benefits, stocks or bonds, or safe deposit boxes.
I encourage everyone to check out this tool from the Commerce Department. It is quick and easy and I myself even found close to $1,000 in unclaimed money from old accounts my parents and grandparents set up in my name but went forgotten for decades.
You can check out the Minnesota Commerce Department Unclaimed Property Division here.
Legislature 101 - How to follow along with the Minnesota House
As a new legislator, there’s been a lot to download in these first couple months, and I want to bring you along with me as I learn more about the Minnesota Legislature and our state government.
To start with, it’s important you know about the various ways you can follow along with the sometimes fast-paced work of the Minnesota House. I do my best to keep you informed, but these emails would be novels if I covered everything.
A fantastic resource is the Minnesota House of Representatives’ nonpartisan Public Information Department, which offers recaps of high-profile bills, committee hearings, and floor sessions with their Session Daily publication. You can subscribe to receive these here.
There’s also the ability to track bills of interest as they go through the legislative process - I encourage you to utilize the MyBills feature.
You can also visit my House of Representatives website, which serves as a home base for everything I’m working on. There, you can see what I've been up to, which bills I am authoring, as well as bills I have joined on to co-author, meaning I support those bills that other members have authored. I have joined on to support and help pass bills for issues such as raising taxes on extremely wealthy CEOs, expanding healthcare access, protecting our environment, and more.
I highly encourage you to check out these resources, and to always feel free to reach out to my office with any questions you have on staying in the loop! You can reach me at rep.alex.falconer@house.mn.gov or 651-296-3964. You’ll either hear back from me or my Legislative Assistant, Jared. I also encourage you to also follow along on my legislative Facebook page.
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