Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Proposed Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson gets committee OK
By Mike Cook
Committee approval was given to a bill that would create the Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson and Board of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson.
House passes measure to provide emergency staffing, COVID-19 waivers
By Margaret Stevens
The Department of Human Services could continue some COVID-19-related program modifications and waivers, under a bill passed Thursday by the House. Many of the provisions were a...
House panel considers $73 million plan to aid early child care providers
By Pratik Joshi
The COVID-19 pandemic was the proverbial last straw for some Minnesota child care providers with financial and personal challenges leading to many business closures.
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Public safety panel approves $3 million for inmate job training, education programs
By Tim Walker
Of people incarcerated in Minnesota prisons, 95% will one day be back living in our communities, according to the Department of Corrections.
Use of lead in fishing, hunting focus of proposed Minnesota Swan Protection Act
By Brian Hall
Taking another look at lead being used in fishing and hunting and its devastating impacts on native waterfowl, lawmakers could establish the Minnesota Swan Protection Act.
Reducing barriers to disability services goal of proposed task force
By Margaret Stevens
A bill to create an accessibility task force and pilot programs to identify and address access to disability services was held over by a House committee.
Bill aims to cut into weatherization assistance backlog
By Rob Hubbard
The state’s Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income residents would need 291 years to address the needs of every currently eligible household.
House panel OKs proposed ‘Maya’s Law’ to give child abuse victims more privacy in interviews
By Tim Walker
Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn (DFL-Roseville) sponsors HF3971, also called “Maya’s Law,” which would ensure interviews by child welfare investigators take place outside the presence of an alleged abuser.
Proposed stadium refinance fund seeks to save state millions of dollars
By Mike Cook
Rep. Michael Nelson (DFL-Brooklyn Park) sponsors HF3542 to create a stadium refinance fund to be filled at the end of fiscal year with the greater of excess money after stadium-related expenses or $44 million.
MN AG: Now’s time to strengthen state’s anti-competitive statutes
By Margaret Stevens
HF4142, sponsored by Rep. Steve Elkins (DFL-Bloomington), would prohibit price discrimination when the result harms competition.
Education panel advances bill proposing free breakfast, lunch for all MN students
By Pratik Joshi
HF1729 would ensure schools provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting information about their household incomes.
Property tax relief could be on the way via boost to annual refund
By Rob Hubbard
Minnesota’s property tax refund program is intended to keep low-income households from becoming overloaded with tax burden, just as a circuit breaker is designed to keep electric circuits from being overloaded with energy.
Legislation would fund in-home health care for infants, expecting families
By Tim Walker
Doctors haven’t made house calls since the middle of the last century, but nurses and other health care practitioners could do health checks at the homes of some Minnesota families expecting or caring for an infant.
Bill seeks to help schools better cover high cost of special education needs
By Pratik Joshi
HF3963 would create a new category of special education aid, called “high-cost services aid,” to provide additional special education funding for certain school districts.
White-tailed deer farmers could get financial help after feeling impacts of movement bans
By Brian Hall
Chronic wasting disease has forced the Department of Natural Resources to impose movement bans on farmed white-tailed deer in Minnesota.
