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Legislature gets its funding back

After Gov. Mark Dayton used a line-item veto to block legislative funding in 2017 and an intra-government lawsuit ensued, an appropriation for the Senate, House and both chambers’ staffs that allows operations to continue through the remainder of the biennium was quickly enacted in 2018.

Sponsored by Rep. Sarah Anderson (R-Plymouth) and Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer (R-Big Lake), the law allocates $64.76 million for the House, $64.4 million for the Senate and requires both chambers to return borrowed funding to the Legislative Coordinating Commission. The amount is the same as the funding approved by the Legislature last session before Dayton’s veto.

The law is effective retroactively to July 1, 2017, superseding and replacing funding directed by the court.  

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