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Three more omnibus bills — plus pension changes — rolled into single package

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...

House, Senate negotiators begin reconciliation of drought relief assistance bills

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...

Omnibus agriculture, housing and broadband bills combined; headed to House Floor

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...

House DFL majority sets $7.4 billion supplemental biennial spending target

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 ...

Week in Review: April 4-8

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...

$259 million omnibus health finance and policy bill gets committee approval

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.

House human services committee approves wide-ranging omnibus package

Addressing deep poverty, homelessness, mental health issues, community living and, especially, workforce shortages in caring professions are part of a wide-ranging omnibus bill ...

Transportation panel OKs omnibus bill proposing funding boost for state's roads, transit and smaller cities

With billions of dollars going to the states through the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, it is historic times for transportation. “We’ve seen nothing like th...

Divided committee approves amended omnibus public safety package

Despite disagreements over individual provisions in the omnibus public safety policy and finance bill, the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Com...

Tax bill focused on targeted cuts advances in House

Should tax cuts be simple and sweeping? Or should they be numerous and targeted? That will be the tax policy debate going forward at the Capitol this year. On the day that o...

Omnibus environment and natural resources bill advances on party-line vote

A House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee that’s been divided all session stayed that way Thursday as it approved its omnibus environment and natura...

House passes $1 million measure to combat avian influenza outbreak

With two days remaining before the Legislature’s annual Easter/Passover Break, the House moved quickly to pass funding to address the breakout of highly pathogenic avian influen...

Move to renewables could accelerate under approved climate and energy omnibus

Rising energy prices and the increasingly daunting challenges of climate change framed much of the discussion in this session’s meetings of the House Climate and Energy Finance ...

House panel OKs bill to expand affordable child care, provide learning opportunities for infants

A proposal to make child care more affordable, help child care providers and provide learning opportunities to the youngest Minnesotans, cleared its first hurdle Thursday. F...

Divided panel approves omnibus state government bill that DFLers deem critical, GOP pillories as pork

DFLers say changes are necessary to better operate state government, but Republicans say a bill to do so is also laden with pork. And to the surprise of no one, Thursday’s 8...


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