Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
With supply short, lawmaker wants homes sold to prospective homebuyers — not investors
By Tessa Pieper
Increasing access to homeownership by prohibiting certain corporations, real estate developers and residential building contractors from purchasing single-family homes to rent i...
Lawmakers move to block ‘forever chemicals’ from kids products
By Margaret Stevens
PFAS are sometimes called “forever chemicals” because they break down so slowly and can build up in the environment.
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are presen...
Health panel considers bill requiring more medical, dental cost transparency
By Tessa Pieper
Current standard charges for certain medical and dental practices could be accessible public information.
HF293 would do that and more.
It would also require the Departm...
House committee approves measure to free MN workers from restraints of non-compete agreements
By Steve Abrams
Ever show up on the first day of a new job and been asked to sign a piece of paper promising not to work for the competition if you leave the company?
These agreements are k...
Bill proposes expanding state’s working family tax credit
By Rob Hubbard
The term, “working families,” has been a staple of campaign stump speeches for at least the last five years. But those words have been part of state tax policy since 1991, when ...
Education committee hears funding pitch to kickstart novel schooling model
By Steve Abrams
A full-service community school could be coming to a district near you.
The innovative educational model would receive a significant funding boost under HF21, a proposal lai...
Beefed-up background checks may be coming for peace officer applicants
By Tim Walker
Criminal background checks are common during pre-employment investigations of a job seeker’s past.
Such checks are especially important when an applicant is applying to beco...
Bill aims to establish Minnesota as a ‘Trans Refuge’ state
By Tim Walker
Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul) wants to protect transgender people, their families, and medical practitioners from legal repercussions for traveling to Minnesota to receive gen...
Special education funding gap would disappear under massive spending proposal
By Steve Abrams
Seventeen percent of Minnesota’s students qualify as needing special education. A federal mandate has been in place since the 1970s to ensure students with special needs are giv...
Inflation, scholarships and safety are focus of U of M budget request
By Rob Hubbard
The state of higher education in Minnesota is something like a math problem. One that school leadership and a lot of legislators are gazing at like a complicated theorem on a wh...
Driver’s license applicants could volunteer demographic info under bill that gains committee OK
By Margaret Stevens
Policymakers have learned anecdotally and through information shared by local law enforcement that there’s a disparity in terms of which drivers get pulled over and what happens...
Grants to lessen disparities among kids could become permanent — and receive $50 million
By Jonathan Mohr
A pilot program created in 2019 to improve development and reduce racial disparities among young children would become permanent and receive $50 million in funding under a bill ...
House gives go-ahead to 'Driver's Licenses For All'
By Margaret Stevens
Driver’s license for all has been proposed before. The House has passed it before. After a lengthy debate Monday, the House did it again.
HF4, a bill that would eliminate th...
VA budget proposal includes money to open doors at three new veterans homes
By Jonathan Mohr
Funding for Minnesota’s veterans would receive a significant boost as part of the biennial budget proposed by Gov. Tim Walz last week.
The Department of Veterans Affairs see...
Medical Assistance would cover home care and homemaker services under new, bipartisan bill
By Tessa Pieper
Many people in need of home care services cannot get them.
Staffing also poses a problem due to low wages and reimbursement rates for providers.
Sponsored by Rep. Ginny ...
