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Week in Review: April 22-26

By HPIS Staff
The House Ways and Means Committee met in a State Office Building hearing room filled to capacity for an April 25 meeting. (Photo by Andrew VonBank)
The House Ways and Means Committee met in a State Office Building hearing room filled to capacity for an April 25 meeting. (Photo by Andrew VonBank)

Members got back to work after a Passover break this week that meant official House business didn’t begin until Wednesday, when committees convened and members gathered for a floor session to continue passing bills off the floor.

Conference committees also ramped up their work and the House Ways and Means Committee began merging bills to better align them with their Senate counterparts as this year’s legislative session closes in on its final phase.

Marathon floor sessions may soon await — perhaps as early as Monday. Eight bills are on the days' Calendar for the Day, including three — HF4300, HF601 and HF2609 — that involve firearms. Another bill, HF4444, concerns misclassification of employees and has provoked lengthy discussions on its path to the floor.

Have a good weekend and here’s a look back at what happened over the last few days.
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Recent Dailies

Week in Review: April 22-26
By HPIS Staff
The House Ways and Means Committee met in a State Office Building hearing room filled to capacity for an April 25 meeting. (Photo by Andrew VonBank) Members got back to work after a Passover break this week that meant official House business didn’t begin until Wednesday, when committees convened and members gathered for a fl...
Transportation policy bill flies through conference committee
By Margaret Stevens
The conference committee on the transportation policy bill meets April 25. (Photo by Andrew VonBank) Flying cars could be able to drive legally on Minnesota roads in the not-so-distant future following action by a conference committee Thursday. Provisions allowing registrat...
Labor, industry conferees begin work on striking agreement
By Brian Basham
Co-chairs of the labor and industry policy bill conference committee — Sen. Jennifer McEwen and Rep. Michael Nelson — confer during the April 25 meeting. (Photo by Michele Jokinen) With only a few major differences between House and Senate language in the labor and industry policy bills, HF3947/SF3852*, conferees walked through side-by-sides and began disc...
With finish line in mind, ways and means committee melds eight supplemental spending bills into three
By Rob Hubbard
Rep. Liz Olson, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, presides over a packed hearing room April 25. (Photo by Andrew VonBank) There was a lot of merging traffic at Thursday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing. With less than four weeks remaining in the 2024 session, the agenda was designe...
House workforce panel approves proposed updates to paid leave law
By Tim Walker
Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Matt Varilek testifies April 24 before the House workforce committee in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Cedrick Frazier, left, to modify Minnesota paid leave law provisions. (Photo by Andrew VonBank) It’s been nearly a year since the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act became law, and officials from the department in charge of implementing it are asking for changes to help man...
Bill to update law around family court proceedings about ‘what’s best for the kids’
By Tim Walker
(House Photography file photo) Corporations have mission statements defining its business, objectives, and how it will reach those goals. The state may create something like a mission statement to guide f...
House passes protections for renters embroiled in utility disputes
By Rob Hubbard
If you’re a renter, how you pay for your power, heat and water can be problematic if your landlord does the billing instead of the utilities. There have been instances in wh...
Education policy conference committee lays out differences in House, Senate bills
By Brian Basham
Sen. Steve Cwodzinski opens the April 24 meeting of the Conference Committee on SF3567, the education policy bill. (Screenshot courtesy Senate Media Services) With a laundry list of differences, the education policy conference committee met Wednesday to walk-through the differences between the House and Senate bills. Largely, the ...
Northern MN helium discovery prompts proposed regulatory framework for gas, oil production
By Margaret Stevens
Joe Henderson, director of the DNR’s Lands and Minerals Division, testifies April 24 before the House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Dave Lislegard, right. (Photo by Andrew VonBank) Perhaps best known for filling party balloons and causing Mickey Mouse voices, helium is a critical element for many industries ranging from semiconductors to fiber optic cables...
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
Hundreds of veterans and their supporters rallied in the Capitol Rotunda for Veterans Day on the Hill April 17. (Photo by Michele Jokinen) A look back at what happened in the Minnesota House of Representatives the week of April 15-19.
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