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House bows to convention, passes stripped-down Legacy bill

Just as custom and practice leads legislators to call odd-numbered years “budget years” and even-numbered ones “bonding years,” so is the divvying up of monies from the four Leg...

House repasses conference agreement to add law enforcement supervisors unit

Conferees agreed quickly to changing possible legislation regarding a new law enforcement supervisors unit, and the House passed the conference committee report Thursday. Sp...

South St. Paul post office could be named for officer killed there 89 years ago

Officer Leo Pavlak was killed in the line of duty by the infamous Barker-Karpis gang during an Aug. 30, 1933 robbery outside the South St. Paul post office. Sponsored by Rep...

Conference committee toasts deal on omnibus liquor bill

Backers of “Free the Growler” may soon be able to celebrate with a large cold one. A provision that would raise the cap on growler sales is included in the omnibus liquor bi...

Preventing harassment from false liens the aim of bill passed by House

Protecting Minnesotans from bad actors who use state resources maliciously is behind proposed legislation passed by the House 114-14 Wednesday. HF3400 would the give secreta...

Lawmakers and omnibus bills: A love-hate relationship

Finally, spring is in the air, heralded by early blooming flowers popping out of the ground to bring relief to winter-weary souls. Springtime at the Capitol is also the seas...

Governor, legislative leaders agree on budget targets

Conference committee members who have been wondering how much they can spend on their part of the budget got an answer Wednesday morning when Gov. Tim Walz and the leaders of th...

House OKs bill with aim to help emancipated youths obtain restraining orders

Rep. Athena Hollins (DFL-St. Paul) admits the bill she sponsors won’t apply to a lot of people, but that doesn’t lessen its importance. “This is a very small bill that will ...

Bill to bar discrimination of tissue donors passes House

A bill that aims to help prevent economic harm to living tissue donors was passed by the House 126-8 Tuesday. HF1829 would prohibit life, long-term care and disability insur...

Conference committee finds common ground on technical issues — but no deal yet on paid family leave, earned sick time

Though the House and Senate are far apart on issues such as paid family leave and earned sick time, the conference committee on the omnibus climate and energy, commerce, labor a...

Environment conference committee takes small step forward, OKs policy agreements

With time running short and still major hurdles to overcome, the conference committee trying to sort out the differences in the environment and natural resources supplemental fi...

House moves closer to overhaul of LCCMR, using lottery proceeds for housing

The House moved closer to reforming the makeup of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, while also approving a plan to increase revenue in the state’s Envir...

How deep is your tax cut? Conference committee starts talking

Have the House and Senate cut a deal on tax cuts? Well, the two sides have evidently compromised on the parameters around the total size of a cut, but details are still to be ha...

House passes omnibus pension and retirement bill, sends back to Senate

A couple changes were made to a group of largely non-controversial bills approved by the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement before the entire package received str...

Bipartisan framework of session-ending deal includes education investments, tax cuts

On Monday in St. Paul, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leader have reached agreement on a framework to end the 2022 legislative session.


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