Lawmakers approve flurry of bills in final hours of 2025 legislative session

Most of MN budget unfinished as Legislature reaches final hours of session

With just hours remaining in the regular 2025 legislative session on Monday, Minnesota lawmakers still hadn’t granted final passage to major pieces of the upcoming two-year state budget, including bills on taxes, education and health care spending. A special session will be required to enact last week’s $66 billion or so budget framework agreement reached by Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor majority Senate, and DFL and Republican leade…

Regular Session To End Tonight in St. Paul, Special Session Likely

ST. PAUL (KVRR/FOX9) — Time is going to run out for the Minnesota Legislature to pass the next two-year budget. The regular session must end at 11:59 tonight. Leaders say a special session seems likely. Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders had announced a roughly $67 billion budget agreement heading into this weekend. Lawmakers in both chambers passed several bills including for veterans, agriculture, housing and tougher DWI laws. The closure o…

A ‘last day’ arrives for Minnesota lawmakers that will be anything but a conclusion - Austin Daily Herald

By Clay Masters and Peter Cox Monday is adjournment day for the 2025 Minnesota legislative session, but lawmakers aren’t done with their work just yet and won’t be by midnight. Leaders expect to roll straight into a special session — with the hopes of wrapping up a new budget before Memorial Day. State lawmakers chipped away at their to-do list over the weekend in a Capitol lacking the usual intensity to beat the clock. The roadmap for a session…

A ‘last day’ arrives for Minnesota lawmakers that will be anything but a conclusion - Albert Lea Tribune

By Clay Masters and Peter Cox, Minnesota Public Radio News Monday is adjournment day for the 2025 Minnesota legislative session, but lawmakers aren’t done with their work just yet and won’t be by midnight. Leaders expect to roll straight into a special session — with the hopes of wrapping up a new budget before Memorial Day. State lawmakers chipped away at their to-do list over the weekend in a Capitol lacking the usual intensity to beat the clo…

Legislature wheezes toward the finish line with the hardest work still to be done • Minnesota Reformer

Dark clouds loom over the Minnesota Capitol on May 15, 2025. Photo by Michele Jokinen/House Public Information Services.The House and Senate were able to pass several non-controversial bills on the second-to-last day of the legislative session, but lawmakers continued negotiating behind closed doors on major budget bills to fund human services, education, transportation and more. Education alone comprises roughly 40% of the general fund budget. …

Lawmakers approve flurry of bills in final hours of 2025 legislative session

A short special session is expected to finalize the budget deal announced last week by Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota House and Senate.