By Rob Hubbard
The projected budget surplus isn’t the only thing that grew during the past year’s unexpected economic recovery. So did sales tax revenue in the state. And that means that the L...
By Tim Walker
The omnibus judiciary and public safety bill advanced to the House Floor Monday, but because it differs so much from the Senate’s bill, what version of judiciary and public safe...
By Rob Hubbard
Minnesota’s winters are getting warmer and wetter, and are likely to get even more so. What is now snowfall will more often be rainfall. And those dreaming of a white Christmas ...
By Brian Hall
With the Senate already passing its omnibus environment and natural resources bill, the House moved closer to finalizing its version on Monday.
In the House Ways and Means C...
By Rob Hubbard
There’s been a paucity of pomp to Gov. Tim Walz’s last two State of the State addresses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he delivered one via video from a room at the governor’s r...
By HPIS Staff
Lawmakers returned from their Easter/Passover break this week and spent the last few days making mostly procedural moves to get omnibus bills aligned.
Aside from the House p...
By Brian Hall
Voting on a proposal that received the highest scores from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, the House passed the yearly appropriations bill from the En...
By Pratik Joshi
The House Ways and Means Committee added two sections of the omnibus early childhood bill into the omnibus education finance and policy bill before approving HF4300, as amended, on an 18-10 party line vote.
By Mike Cook
Merging is something drivers do when, ideally, they get up to speed and enter a freeway or interstate.
In Capitol-speak, merging is what happened Wednesday to the House bill...
By Brian Hall
Trying to decide the total appropriation, how it’s split and how much each farmer could receive are part of the responsibility of a conference committee weighing the House and S...
By Brian Hall
Representatives from both sides of the aisle questioned the combining of omnibus bills in the House Ways and Means Committee, but the process continued and the three bills becam...
By Mike Cook
Before beginning its dig into supplemental funding bills for many areas of state government, the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a budget resolution Tuesday for proposed ...
By HPIS Staff
There are times when the pace of work around the Capitol seems to follow a hurry-up-and-wait pattern, while other times things move so swiftly it can be tough to keep up. The la...
By Tim Walker
With a sizable budget surplus at hand, now is the right time to make expansive investments to improve health care for all Minnesotans, says the sponsor of the omnibus health finance and policy bill.
By Margaret Stevens
Addressing deep poverty, homelessness, mental health issues, community living and, especially, workforce shortages in caring professions are part of a wide-ranging omnibus bill ...