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
House labor finance bill would increase spending by $9.5 million
By Brian Basham Modifying combative sports rules. Allowing University of Minnesota workers more flexibility in collective bargaining. Peace officer grievance arbitrator training. Those are ...Supplemental public safety spending ‘a Band-Aid,’ committee chair warns
By Tim Walker
Rep. Kelly Moller (DFL-Shoreview) is very clear that the $9.56 million in the supplemental finance bill approved by the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee Tuesday ...
Family courts shouldn’t disregard the abilities of parents with a disability, bill supporters say
By Tim Walker
Everyone deserves their day in court.
But activists say people with a disability too often don’t get fair treatment in family law courts when decisions are made about their ...
Children and families budget bill takes steps to fund tech fixes, fight food insecurity
By Jonathan Mohr
Money to modernize the antiquated system used to track and manage child welfare case work and funding for a summer program to feed families are the big-ticket items in the child...
Capitol Mall improvements, repeal of ban on plastic bag restrictions part of state and local government bill
By Mike Cook
A reimagined Capitol Mall is a target of supplemental spending in the state and local government policy and finance bill.
Unveiled to the House State and Local Government Fi...
House passes commerce policy bill packed with proposed consumer protections
By Tim Walker
A bill proposing to beef up a host of consumer protection laws took a big step forward late Monday.
The House passed a commerce policy bill containing provisions ranging fro...
House passes human services policy bill that would end subminimum wage program
By Miranda Bryant
People with a disability who legally earn less than minimum wage under a federal program would see that program end under a bill hotly debated Monday.
Amended to include the...
Local control over wetlands roils waters as House passes environment policy bill
By Margaret Stevens
Preparing the way for digital licenses, distinguishing between native fish and invasive species, strengthening manure management and setting up barriers to a possible invasion o...
House Property Tax Division completes its work
By Rob Hubbard
If where you live has the word, “township,” in its name, aid from the state would increase. Small resorts could get a break on their property taxes. Seven Minnesota cities could...
Supplemental education finance bill would provide $33 million for READ Act
By Brian Basham
Public education received an appropriations increase of $2.26 billion, or 10.8% over base, in 2023.
Now, in a supplemental budget year, a wide-ranging education finance bill...
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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...
