Tag: Minnesota Senate
‘Equal Rights Amendment’ headed to House floor Monday
A controversial “Equal Rights Amendment” bill is headed to a floor vote in the Minnesota House of Representatives on Monday.
DFL legislative leaders in the House Rules...
Sen. Hauschild confirms he’s a ‘no’ vote on safe storage bill
A DFL senator who often is under the microscope as a potential swing voter in his Iron Range district has confirmed he will be...
Fate of several controversial proposals in hands of conference committees this...
With less than two weeks remaining in what DFL leaders said would be a relatively politically quiet legislative session, the 2024 non-budget year in...
Legislature votes to restore long-standing religious freedom protections
Both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature voted unanimously to restore long-standing religious freedom protections in state law. Passed on Tuesday by the Minnesota Senate...
DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell pleads the Fifth at ethics hearing for...
Democratic Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell didn’t speak once -- with the exception of saying “I do” when she was put under oath -- when...
Democrats pass ‘safe and secure storage’ gun control bill in Minnesota...
In a marathon session of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Democratic legislators passed new gun control legislation known as the "safe and secure storage"...
House Dems scale back (again) a ranked-choice voting bill, then advance...
Jeanne Massey won’t give up her well-funded push to make Minnesota a ranked-choice voting state, even if it means the DFL legislators she’s partnering with continue to whittle...
Confusion surrounds Sen. Mitchell’s status in DFL caucus
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, sought to clarify Wednesday that Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, remains a member of the DFL caucus...
Conferees take some of the bite out of Walz’s ‘ban on...
Gov. Tim Walz’s “ban on book bans” proposal lost a bit of its bite at the Minnesota legislature this week. But that didn’t come without some back-and-forth tense...
House Democrats approve surrogacy legislation, gun control bill
Democrats in control of the Minnesota House of Representatives passed surrogacy legislation that has been strongly criticized by religious groups and social conservatives in...