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After nine bills are combined and passed amidst chaos, 2024 session is all over but the shouting

By Rob Hubbard
House Majority Leader Jamie Long and House Speaker Melissa Hortman confer at the rostrum prior to the start of session May 19. (Photo by Andrew VonBank)
House Majority Leader Jamie Long and House Speaker Melissa Hortman confer at the rostrum prior to the start of session May 19. (Photo by Andrew VonBank)

Minnesota’s legislative sessions have had some chaotic conclusions, but nothing quite like Sunday night’s final hour.

While the tax bill is quite often the final bill off the floor at the end of a session, the 2024 edition was something else entirely.

Shortly after 10 p.m. — with a midnight deadline looming for completing the Legislature’s business — the taxes conference committee amended into its final bill, HF5247, the language of eight other bills that had been tabled over the course of the week. Many were supplemental budget and policy bills from other areas.

Approved 8-1 by conferees, it went to the floors of both chambers, where it would be a gross understatement to say the compendium of multiple bills was not well received by Republicans.
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