Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
New laws take effect Aug. 1
By HPIS Staff
Come Aug. 1, if your pet isn’t a service animal don’t try passing it off as one.
That day sees a wave of new state laws take effect, including one that makes it a crime to k...
Dayton — reluctantly — signs bonding bill into law
By Mike Cook
Not thrilled by the bonding package put on his desk, Gov. Mark Dayton has nonetheless put his signature on a nearly $1.46 billion capital investment law.
House Majority Leader Joyce Peppin announces she won't seek re-election
By Mike Cook
If Republicans keep control of the Minnesota House this November they'll have a new majority leader in 2019.
Dayton vetoes supplemental budget and tax bills, says no special session
By Jonathan Mohr
In the days leading up to the end of the 2018 legislative session May 20, Gov. Mark Dayton repeatedly pledged to veto major pieces of legislation that included provisions he wou...
Task force would be ‘first step’ in addressing violence against Native American women
By Melissa Turtinen
Minnesota lawmakers are attempting to create a task force to study violence against indigenous women.
Departing House members say goodbye from the House Floor
By Jonathan Mohr
As is tradition, once members have finished months of debating one another over myriad bills, House members who have opted not to seek re-election said goodbye to the body early Monday at the conclusion of the 2018 session.
Session adjourns with new funding, tax conformity hanging in the balance
By Ricky Campbell
'A very successful session?' Or, 'a debacle?' The reviews are mixed in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 session.
House OKs technical changes to education loan forgiveness programs and labor agreements
By Rachel Kats
The House voted 127-4 Sunday night to add clarifying language and make technical changes to higher education loan forgiveness programs and certain labor agreements.
Bonding bill going to governor exceeds $1.4 billion in total spending
By Mike Cook
The infrastructure-heavy plan contains $1.43 billion in total appropriations; $825 million of which would be general obligation bonding.
With minutes left, House passes pension stabilization bill
By Melissa Turtinen
Sponsored by Rep. Tim O'Driscoll (R-Sartell) and Sen. Julie Rosen (R-Vernon Center), the bill would help stabilize pension plans for more than 500,000 Minnesotans, including teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public employees.
Updated bonding bill exceeds $1.5 billion in total spending; waits for House action
By Mike Cook
As the clock ticks closer to midnight on the last day of the legislative session, the House and Senate have yet to pass a capital investment bill that can head to the governor’s office. A bill is ready for their review.
House agriculture committee adopts resolution that could delay nitrogen rule
By Jonathan Mohr
The House Agriculture Policy Committee adopted a resolution Sunday that may block a controversial groundwater protection rule from taking effect until the end of next year’s leg...
Conference committee offers second crack at wild rice water quality bill
By Michael Strasburg
An effort to replace Minnesota’s long-standing wild rice water quality sulfate standard may get a second chance, following a conference committee agreement on the final day of t...
Safe schools funding added to revised tax conformity bill
By Rachel Kats
With only hours left of the 2018 legislative session, lawmakers met Sunday morning to make revisions to the tax reform bill in hopes that this go-around it will garner Gov. Mark Dayton’s signature.
Supplemental budget bill — all 989 pages — heads to governor and expected veto
By HPIS Staff
A session that began three months ago has largely been boiled down to a large bill that doesn’t appear to have gubernatorial support.
