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
Week in Review: April 1-5
By HPIS Staff
Focus started to shift this week with members beginning to spend less time in committee meetings and more time together as a body on the House Floor. That trend should continue ...
House greenlights transportation policy bill
By Margaret Stevens
House members who voted in favor of a bill that allows registration of flying cars can make a strong case the transportation policy bill is looking toward the future. Those...
House passes proposed changes to state’s early education programs
By Jonathan Mohr
Two similar state programs that work to achieve the same goal of helping prepare young children for school would be merged under a bill passed by the House Thursday.
Members...
Higher education policy bill gets high marks in House
By Rob Hubbard
If Minnesota’s 2023 higher education law was the biggest budget bang that public colleges and universities and student scholarship programs had ever seen, then you could call th...
Staggered child tax credit payments among Walz tax recommendations
By Rob Hubbard
Among the many pieces of legislation signed into law in 2023, few are more universally praised than the child tax credit. More than one legislator has called it the most consequ...
Funds to treat water included in state’s agriculture supplemental budget ask
By Margaret Stevens
In November, the Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter that directed state agencies to take action in southeastern Minnesota to protect human health from nitrates. Earli...
Religious exemption language added to gender-affirming care bill
By Miranda Bryant A religious exemption has been added to a bill that would guarantee health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. Sponsored by Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul), HF2607...Bill proposing referendum that could create full-time Legislature, redistricting commission clears second committee
By Mike Cook
A bill approved Thursday in the House State and Local Government Finance and Policy Committee would also ask voters to weigh in on a proposed constitutional ban on legislators serving as lobbyists while in office.
Proposed pilot program would incentivize student reading with free pizza
By Brian Basham
Read more books, get more pizza.
The Slice for St. Paul Kids literacy incentive program would do just that, offer students a pizza for meeting their reading goals.
Spons...
Bill to increase penalties for swatting goes to House Floor
By Tim Walker
Making a false emergency call that a serious crime is underway is a crime in Minnesota.
But a lawmaker wants to toughen those penalties when a swatting call sends first resp...
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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...
