Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Lawmakers choose three new University of Minnesota regents
By Rob Hubbard
If the proposed merger of the Fairview and Sanford health care systems results in the University of Minnesota’s hospitals and clinics being returned to the oversight of the stat...
House passes bill to help stanch rise in retirements among Minnesota first responders due to PTSD
By Tim Walker
Peace officers and firefighters are retiring at record rates, in large part due to post-traumatic stress disorder they develop because of the considerable job-related trauma the...
Omnibus jobs conference committee starts work on reconciling a $70 million appropriations gap between House, Senate versions
By Steve Abrams
Last week, the House amended and passed the omnibus jobs, economic development, labor, and industry finance bill.
The amendment to include House language in HF3028/SF3035* d...
Environment, energy conferees discuss differences in House and Senate bills
By Rob Hubbard
Judging from Monday’s stop-and-start meeting that began early and was scheduled to end late, the environment, natural resources, climate and energy conference committee plans to...
House, Senate negotiators begin work on reconciling state government and elections bill
By Mike Cook
Monday afternoon was kind of like preparing to go to the polling place for 10 legislators.
Conferees for the omnibus state and local government and elections finance bill be...
Early education conferees compare House, Senate bills
By Jonathan Mohr
Conferees on the omnibus early childhood finance bill learned Monday that although the House and Senate bills would both appropriate $300 million in new spending during the upco...
Judiciary, public safety conference committee touts ‘historic investments’ to keep Minnesotans safe
By Tim Walker
The omnibus judiciary and public safety conference committee began its work Monday with words of encouragement from the Senate sponsor.
“I for one am very excited to be on t...
Seed money for grain indemnity fund included in House, Senate bills as omnibus conference meets
By Margaret Stevens
A new grain indemnity fund seems assured in the next few years as the program to compensate grain farmers when an elevator fails has support from both chambers of the Legislatur...
Proposal to help more Minnesotans retire with greater financial cushion passes House
By Mike Cook
An idea aiming to help Minnesotans as they get grayer received enough green votes.
Establishment of a Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program is the genesis of HF782 to b...
Conferees commence work on omnibus education bill
By Steve Abrams
Minnesota should dole out $2.2 billion in new funding for K-12 education.
On this, the House and Senate are in agreement. How to spend those billions – and what policy chang...
Conferees reach agreement on omnibus veterans, military affairs bill
By Jonathan Mohr
The House and Senate versions of the omnibus veterans and military affairs finance bill were just over $20,000 apart to begin with, so it didn’t take a conference committee long...
Week in Review: April 24-28
By HPIS Staff
Conference committees are unpredictable, can start or stop with very little notice, and their work is sometimes hard to follow. But after the last two weeks of long floor debate...
House approves omnibus tax bill with $3 billion in cuts, tax increases for top earners
By Rob Hubbard
The checks are almost in the mail. Raising kids could become a tad more affordable. And three-fourths of those receiving Social Security income wouldn’t pay taxes on it.
Suc...
House passes $64.2 million omnibus commerce finance bill
By Tim Walker
The Department of Commerce oversees more than 40 industry areas in Minnesota and licenses more than 250,000 professionals and businesses to ensure that their services and produc...
House lawmakers OK $7.1 billion omnibus health bill that seeks to purge restrictive abortion statutes
By Tessa Pieper
The topic of reproductive health care often generates heated debate. And Wednesday night on the House Floor was no different.
With House language substituted in an earlier c...
