Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
General education aid calculation cleanup passes House
By Nick Longworth
As a part of its funding, a school district must adhere to a statewide general education aid calculation.
Under current statute, a district's general education aid equals it...
Gambling in Minnesota: Betting big
By Ricky Campbell
Year state voters approved a constitutional amendment to authorize the lottery
Percentage of adults in 2016 who bought a lottery ticket ...
Week in Review: April 24-28
By HPIS Staff
A week heavy on conference committees continuing to work through differences between House and Senate bills ended with an announcement from legislative leaders that they want th...
House, Senate agree to budget targets — now seek common ground with governor
By Ricky Campbell
The House and Senate Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their realigned budget targets as the clock ticks toward a May 22 constitutional deadline for completing legislative w...
Less than $1 million in total funding separates House, Senate Legacy bills
By Jonathan Mohr
Members of the omnibus legacy conference committee learned Thursday they won’t have a large funding gap to bridge as nonpartisan staff walked them through a side-by-side overview of the respective House and Senate bills during the group’s first meeting.
House tries again to rein in ‘drive-by’ disability-rights lawsuits
By Chris Steller
The House has taken another stab at stopping so-called “drive-by lawsuits” filed under statutes meant to protect the rights of people with disabilities.
Rep. Dennis Smith (R...
House acts to freeze property owners’ ‘duty of care’ to trespassers
By Chris Steller
The proposed statute would lock current restrictions on lawsuits in statutory and common law into place.
House wants children in foster care to know their rights
By Chris Steller
Those as young as age 10 who don’t waive their rights would get free legal representation.
House hems in condo-owner litigation over construction defects
By Chris Steller
Condominium associations and similar organizations would have to clear a higher bar before they file lawsuits over construction defects.
The House passed HF1538, sponsored b...
House votes to allow cancellation of condo purchases via email
By Chris Steller
You could use any agreed upon form of electronic communication to call off buying a condominium or a unit in a cooperative, under a bill was passed by the House 131-0 Thursday.
Tax provision making ‘zapper’ use a felony passes House
By Lee Ann Schutz
Department of Revenue seeks minor changes to tax law, but pushes for sales suppression use to be a felony. The maximum punishment for the felony conviction would be up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
Changes to MnDOT land conveyance process pass the House
By Jonathan Avise
HF859 would amend how MnDOT can sell excess trunk highway land and would turn portions of some state highways back to a pair of Greater Minnesota counties.
Governor, legislative leaders remain at budget impasse
By Jonathan Mohr
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday that legislators must reconcile differences in major House and Senate omnibus bills before final negotiations with him can begin, while House Rep...
Both savings, spending measures differ in HHS omnibus bills
By Tory Cooney
Both the House and Senate omnibus health and human services bills contain cuts intended to rein in spending, but they differ in how much should be cut and where.
Sponsored b...
Conferees on jobs and energy begin to iron out their differences
By Chris Steller
Bills include a matching mishmash of topic areas — everything from priming the pump on economic development to guiding where pipelines run and how the state returns unclaimed property to owners.
