Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
Omnibus workforce bill focuses on worker shortage, wealth gaps
By Margaret Stevens
The omnibus workforce and business development finance and policy bill would direct $180 million in spending with an emphasis on addressing worker shortages and wealth gaps as t...
Education finance panel begins walkthrough of omnibus E-12 education bill
By Pratik Joshi
Increasing learning opportunities for all to help eliminate opportunity gaps and racial disparities in education is a central focus of the omnibus education finance and policy b...
House lawmakers unveil ag omnibus bill that features new opportunities for farming, food processing industries
By Brian Hall
Creating new and additional opportunities for farming, meat processing, developing winter-hardy crops, eliminating noxious weeds and soil health initiatives are major provisions...
Week in Review: March 28 – April 1
By HPIS Staff
The Session Daily staff wrote 41 stories this week, highlighting a fraction of bills heard, debated, approved and passed over the last few days.
The House will begin its Eas...
Legislation would steer funds toward boosting metro bus service
By Margaret Stevens
Improvements to the Twin Cities bus system could give riders 40 hours of their lives back.
That’s the estimate of annual time savings per rider with signal priority systems ...
Health panel considers bill creating state board to address high health care costs
By Tim Walker
Rep. Jennifer Schultz (DFL-Duluth) sponsors HF4430 that would establish a state board to monitor health care costs, set targets to limit those costs, and step in to issue fines if those targets are exceeded.
Joint hearing considers funding to help inmates better connect with family
By Pratik Joshi
HF4191 would create a family support unit within the Department of Corrections focused on providing meaningful connections between incarcerated individuals and their families.
State fairgrounds could get a temporary boost from tax receipts
By Rob Hubbard
It’s been a tough couple of years for the Minnesota State Fair. Canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, the fair returned in 2021, but the delta variant was on the upswing and att...
Bill proposes updates to state’s air quality laws, pollution standards
By Brian Hall
(CORRECTION: Premature deaths in the U.S. exceed 60,000; the original story said 6 milion)
In 1985, the Pollution Control Agency started to include air toxic provisions on ...
House re-passes reinsurance bill as amended by conference committee
By Margaret Stevens
The state’s reinsurance program seems certain to continue after the House voted 106-25 on Thursday to pass a conference committee report that would reauthorize the Minnesota Premium Security Plan for five years and fund it at $890 million for three years.
Updated budget proposals would invest more in human services workforce
By Margaret Stevens
Investing more in the human services workforce and transitioning to a post-COVID world is behind much of Gov. Tim Walz’s $568.8 million supplemental budget proposal for the Department of Human Services.
Wagers on horse races could help competitors later in life
By Mike Cook
HF3545 would allow fund dollars to also be used to support the adoption, retirement and repurposing of racehorses.
Tax law fiber fix could speed up broadband efforts
By Rob Hubbard
Taxes can be complicated, but sometimes tax law makes things more complicated than they need to be. Take, for example, the Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program t...
Legislation proposes $97 million for new voluntary prekindergarten program
By Pratik Joshi
Sponsored by Rep. Dave Pinto (DFL-St. Paul), the bill would serve as the House Early Childhood Finance and Policy Committee's budget proposal for 4-year-old pre-kindergarten programs.
Policy and technical changes could be coming to many DNR statutes
By Brian Hall
A series of changes aimed at altering recreational opportunities could come from a bill that would adopt a number of policy and technical proposals sought by the Department of Natural Resources.
