The DFL trifecta-led Legislature made myriad changes across a spectrum of state topics in 2023.
Paid Family and Medical Leave. Abortion rights. Free breakfast and lunch for all K-12 students. A $260 one-time rebate check to low- and middle-income Minnesotans. Record investments in housing. Recreational cannabis. Driver’s licenses for all. Gas and sales tax increases for transportation purposes.
To do so, much of a projected record $17.5 billion budget surplus was needed as the state budget grew to an all-time high of $72 billion for the current biennium, which ends June 30, 2025.
As for 2024?
“We’ll continue, as we did last year, focusing on the things (Minnesotans) care about the most which is strong public education, affordable health care and then economic security for their families,” House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) said in a Wednesday interview. Read more
House passes plan to put ‘Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment’ to voters in 2026 (5/19/2024 4:27:00 AM) House, Senate conferees OK $42 million human services supplemental budget bill (5/18/2024 10:18:00 PM) Licensing bill would usher in seven health professional interstate compacts to ease worker shortages (5/18/2024 10:02:00 PM) Loans for rideshare driver vehicles gains committee approval, heads to House Floor (5/18/2024 1:36:00 PM) House, Senate reach agreement on public safety and judiciary legislation (5/17/2024 10:47:00 PM) Energy, agriculture conferees find green agreement (5/17/2024 8:19:00 PM) Family preservation conference committee finds quick agreement (5/17/2024 7:18:00 PM) Conference committee reaches agreement on funding jobs, economic development programs (5/17/2024 2:58:00 PM) Higher ed conferees ace final, make quick work of blending bills (5/16/2024 5:17:00 PM) House, Senate strike bargain on environment, natural resources supplemental spending bill (5/16/2024 4:52:00 PM) Gun bill conference committee agrees to tougher penalties for straw purchases, ban on binary triggers (5/16/2024 3:27:00 PM)
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House Floor Session - part 2*
Sunday, May 19 2024 5/19/2024 9:30 AM
Watch: Live Event
*Time is approximate as the House is in recess.
CALENDAR FOR THE DAY.
HF5162 (Lee, F.) Capital investment General Fund bill.
HF5220 (Lee, F.) Capital investment bonding bill.
HF4746 (Hassan) Transportation network companies regulated, civil cause of action provided, and money appropriated.
HF5435 (Becker-Finn) Miscellaneous oversights, inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors corrected.
AT THE CALL OF THE CHAIR: Conference Committee on HF5242*
Sunday, May 19 2024 5/19/2024 10:00 AM
Watch: Live Event
*At the call of the House Chair.
HF5242 (Hornstein/Dibble) Transportation, labor and housing supplemental budget bill
AT THE CALL OF THE CHAIR: Conference Committee on HF5247*
Sunday, May 19 2024 5/19/2024 10:00 AM
Watch: Live Event
*There will be thirty-minute advance notice prior to convening.
HF5247 (Gomez/Rest) Tax supplemental budget bill.
Bill Introductions: HF5479-HF5480
2024 Session
The 2024 legislative session must end by May 20. The 2025 session will begin Jan. 14, 2025.
2024 committee deadlines
Member retirements
The Legislative Reference Library maintains a list of members not seeking re-election in 2024.
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