Minnesota Legislature
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
Many committees held their final meetings this week with members marking up, debating and voting on comprehensive supplemental budget bills in advance of Friday’s final deadline for those bills to have had favorable action taken on them in order to proceed.
That deadline does not apply to the taxes, bonding or ways and means committees, however, so they will take center stage in the weeks to come as tweaks and procedural moves are made and, of course, a capital investment bill is likely assembled and debated.
A reminder that their will be no House activity Monday and Tuesday of next week in observance of Passover. Legislative happenings will resume April 24 at noon.
Have a good weekend, stay warm, and here’s a look back at what happened over the last few days.
Recent Dailies
Education finance bill gets passing grade in committee
By Brian Basham
The House Education Finance Committee passed its comprehensive finance bill along party lines Wednesday.
The bill would appropriate $43 million in supplemental public educat...
From fish to forests, House panel approves $239.4 million Legacy fund budget
By Miranda Bryant
What do invasive carp deterrents, puppets, veterans memorials, and forests have in common? All and more would be funded in fiscal year 2025 under a $239.4 million supplemental b...
House workforce panel begins work on supplemental finance bill; vote expected Friday
By Tim Walker
It wasn’t quite like speed dating, but close.
The House Workforce Development Finance and Policy Committee heard 13 bills Wednesday, giving presenters just two minutes to ta...
Ranked choice voting, local assistance highlight elections supplemental funding bill
By Mike Cook
The Office of the Secretary of State is expected to receive about two-thirds of supplemental funding allocated for elections functions.
Much of that would tie into a policy ...
Supplemental housing bill proposes $10 million in new funding
By Miranda Bryant A 2-year-old provided a moment of levity amidst an otherwise serious matter of reviewing the supplemental housing budget bill Tuesday. His mother, Shylah Johnson of Duluth, ...Addiction recovery facility threatened with closure spared under proposed human services supplemental spending bill
By Miranda Bryant
The only all-woman residential substance use disorder facility in the state would be saved from closure if the supplemental human services finance bill meets with success.
T...
Nitrate treatment represents bulk of spending proposed in ag finance, policy bill
By Margaret Stevens
One of the first orders of business in the House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee this year was an Environmental Protection Agency directive to address drinking water co...
Environment panel to consider a budget, policy bill with ‘spice,’ sponsor says
By Margaret Stevens Waste not, want not could be the theme of this year’s environment and natural resources finance and policy bill. The House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Poli...House’s final climate, energy bill explores more carbon-free options
By Rob Hubbard
What’s new in renewables? A 2023 law requires Minnesota residents be using entirely carbon-free electricity sources by 2040. Meanwhile, electrification is afoot, with an increas...
Bonding boost, bridge rededication part of military and veterans affairs bill
By Jonathan Mohr
The House Veterans and Military Affairs Finance and Policy Committee did not have any money to work with when the session’s 2024 budget targets were released at the end of March...
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Ways and Means Committee OKs proposed $512 million supplemental budget on party-line vote
By Mike Cook
Meeting more needs or fiscal irresponsibility is one way to sum up the differences among the two parties on a supplemental spending package a year after a $72 billion state budg...
Minnesota’s projected budget surplus balloons to $3.7 billion, but fiscal pressure still looms
By Rob Hubbard
Just as Minnesota has experienced a warmer winter than usual, so has the state’s budget outlook warmed over the past few months.
On Thursday, Minnesota Management and Budget...
