By HPIS Staff
Rep. Tony Albright (R-Prior Lake) is resigning from the House effective Friday.
“It has been an honor and privilege of a lifetime to serve Prior Lake, Jordan, and surroundin...
By HPIS Staff
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 Monda...
By Tim Walker
Facing a deadline of midnight Sunday, the omnibus health and human services finance and policy supplemental budget conference committee ran out of time to overcome major disagre...
By Mike Cook
At a press conference last Monday announcing a framework to finish out the legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders were asked a number of times for more detai...
By Tim Walker
While many high-profile omnibus bills this session stalled when they missed the end-of-session deadline, a mental health omnibus package assembled late Sunday did make it across the finish line.
By Margaret Stevens
A bill that left the House as a Commerce Department technical bill returned with provisions and appropriations coming from a conference committee.
The bill includes the tech...
By Mike Cook
At a press conference last Monday announcing a framework to finish out the legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders were asked a number of times for more detai...
By Brian Hall
Quick work by a conference committee to reconcile the annual appropriations from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund took another step late Saturday when the House repassed the bill.
By Margaret Stevens
With a General Fund target of $37 million compared to an ask of $460 million, there’s no doubt funding for workforce, economic development and energy would fall short of many Ho...
By Brian Hall
With time to work dwindling, a conference committee working to reconcile agriculture bills came to an agreement on several appropriations and policy changes Saturday.
T...
By Rob Hubbard
The “dream big” approach seems to have worked in forging a compromise tax bill.
The two tax chairs came in with one highest-priority item on each of their to-do lists, and t...
By Margaret Stevens
The House debate on the omnibus liquor bill agreement began shortly after 5 p.m.
On a Friday.
Cue Jimmy Buffett.
It does not address Margaritaville, but a provision ...
By Pratik Joshi
It’s that time of year when diplomas are handed out, tassels switch sides on a cap and collegians become alumni of the institution of their choice.
A conference report passe...
By Jonathan Mohr
With just over 60 hours until the work of the 2022 regular legislative session must end, House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) is optimistic lawmakers still have eno...
By Pratik Joshi
The omnibus higher education conference committee has reached consensus on how best to spend an additional $20 million in the current biennium.
Conferees approved the report...