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- Legislative
Minnesota’s legislative sessions have had some chaotic conclusions, but nothing quite like Sunday night’s final hour.
Session Daily
- Politics
On the first day of 2026, a state-run insurance program is scheduled to begin providing Minnesota workers with up to 20 weeks per year of paid time off to deal with family or medical issues.
Session Daily
- Legislative
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 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
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
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
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
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
- Legislative
The education supplemental budget bill committee has some homework to do after its initial meeting Friday.
Session Daily