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State Representative Tim Faust
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-0518
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FAUST CO-AUTHORS "FOCUS ON THE BASICS" LEGISLATION
Bills focus on Education, Health Care, Tax Relief, and Good Government
ST. PAUL - On the first day of bill introductions in the House, State Representative Tim Faust of Mora and other lawmakers introduced five bills focusing on education, health care, tax relief for working Minnesotans, and good government.
"Minnesotans have always prided themselves on a 'State that Works'," said Faust, a first-term lawmaker. "The last few years at the Capitol haven't reflected that so it's time to go back to basics."
Faust's five bills are:
· A Cover All Kids Bill, that extends health care coverage to every Minnesota child.
· A Full-Day Kindergarten Bill that would make voluntary full-day kindergarten available in every school district in the state.
· An Increased K-12 Funding Bill that will increase the basic formula by 3% in 2008 and 3% in 2009 without raising property taxes.
· A Lights-On Bill that will prevent government shutdown.
· A Federal Tax Conformity Bill that provides $20 million in tax relief to Minnesota taxpayers, including college students and their families, teachers and military personnel.
Faust said these bills focus on issues that all Minnesotans care about and should carry bipartisan support in the Legislature.
"These are bills that both Democrats and Republicans can get behind," Faust said. "We can get state government working again."
House DFL leaders have promised each bill full committee hearings.
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