Talking Points: State Leaders Look Ahead To 2020 Election
With Minnesota being the only divided legislature in the country, both parties are looking ahead to the next election.
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With Minnesota being the only divided legislature in the country, both parties are looking ahead to the next election.
The state legislature passed a bill this session that will fine drivers who don't move over for faster vehicles.
House Democratic and Senate Republicans negotiators blamed each other side for how the proposal was dropped.
The bill would have provided a free emergency supply of insulin to anyone unable to afford skyrocketing prices.
The Minnesota Legislature has ended its special session after passing a $48 billion budget to fund state government for the next two years. The House and Senate passed the last of their budget bills Saturday morning and adjourned around 7 a.m.
The Minnesota Legislature ended its special session Saturday after approving a $48 billion budget to fund state government for the next two years.
As veteran Sen. Tom Bakk puts it, the 2019 regular session at the Minnesota Capitol ended with a whimper.
Two lawmakers on the conference committee who lost children to opioid overdoses have been working on prevention and treatment.
The bill also allows families to place a hidden camera in an assisted living facility starting in January 2020.
The budget deal does not include any gas tax hike. The health care provider tax that Republicans opposed remains, classrooms get a 2% funding boost for each of the next two years and there's a middle-class income tax cut beginning in 2022.
Several initiatives to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence are in play as Minnesota's legislative session nears an end, ranging from a potential overhaul of the state's sexual assault laws to making it easier to sue for sexual harassment.
Budget talks collapsed again late Tuesday at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill repealing a Minnesota law that prevented prosecutors from filing rape charges against people accused of sexually assaulting their spouses.
The House transportation bill, which includes the gas tax hike, passed the House Monday evening with a 74-58 vote, but it will likely stall out in the Republican-controlled Senate.
A bill requiring drivers to use hands-free phones took a major step forward Monday at the Minnesota Capitol. It could become law as soon as Aug. 1.
The bipartisan compromise, which was approved by both the House and Senate last Thursday, gives school districts more flexibility for making up all the days they canceled.
Legislative leaders have agreed to undo what critics called an improper raid on an environmental trust fund that depends on Minnesota Lottery proceeds.
The Minnesota Legislature braced Wednesday for its first hearing this session on gun control, with testimony scheduled on bills to require universal criminal background checks for gun purchasers and to let families and police ask courts to take guns from people judged to pose a threat to themselves or others.
The Minnesota House has voted to eliminate a defense that prevents people who rape a spouse or domestic partner from being prosecuted for criminal sexual conduct.
Democratic lawmakers are preparing to unveil their first 10 bills soon after they take control of the Minnesota House next month.
After Democrats retook control of the House in the November elections, the incoming speaker, Melissa Hortman, said the button must go.
The dust is settling after Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the biggest bills of the 2018 Legislative session: the tax and budget bills.
Dayton accused the bill of "misguided priorities that give tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy over the education of our children."
Sen. Chris Eaton of Brooklyn Center says Republican leaders bent under pressure from drug companies, who caused the epidemic.
The bill lines up our taxes with the new Federal law so that at least 800,000 Minnesotans don't end up paying more.
