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- Legislative
House closes 2024 session in chaotic fashion, trading bonding for budget boosts
After 2023 produced a record $72 billion in biennial funding, Minnesota’s legislative leaders were dampening expectations for anything resembling an encore. Tweaks and bonding seemed to be the chief items on the agenda.
Session Daily
- Legislative, Politics
After nine bills are combined and passed amidst chaos, 2024 session is all over but the shouting
Minnesota’s legislative sessions have had some chaotic conclusions, but nothing quite like Sunday night’s final hour.
Session Daily
- Politics
House passes changes to paid leave law amid chaos at close of vote
On the first day of 2026, a state-run insurance program is scheduled to begin p
Session Daily
- Legislative
Time pressure builds on Minnesota lawmakers as pace of bill consideration picks up
Minnesota lawmakers picked up the pace Wednesday, moving through several sprawling bills and other measures with three voting days left before their adjournment deadline.
MPR News
- Education
Minnesota lawmakers OK school policy changes on cell phones, book bans, literacy
Minnesota lawmakers on Wednesday backed an education policy bill that prohibits book bans, requires schools to implement cell phone policies and adjusts requirements on literacy instruction.
MPR News
- Legislative
Crunch time at the state capitol: What’s left in the Minnesota Legislature before adjournment next week
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Legislature has less than a week left to complete its work before lawmakers must adjourn next Monday and the desired to-do list from Democrats in charge is still long, despite the clock winding down.
CBS News
- General
DEED says Minnesota paid leave program will start with 25% higher payroll tax than first proposed
Minnesota’s new paid family and medical leave program will require a 25% higher payroll tax when it launches in 2026 than originally anticipated when the bill was passed last session, an assistant commissioner with the Department of Employment and Economic Development told lawmakers on Monday.
Minnesota Reformer
- Education
95% of teacher contracts settled after slowest negotiation cycle — and other labor news
Most teacher contracts settled It’s been the slowest negotiating cycle for public school teacher contracts in the 20 years that the state teachers union, Education Minnesota, has been keeping track. But they’re nearly all settled now.
Minnesota Reformer
- Legislative
Week in Review: May 6-10
It was another long week with hours of debate on supplemental budget bills that have now, mostly, been passed off the House Floor, meaning conference committee season has fully arrived.
Session Daily