Adjourned: What the Minnesota Legislature Did and Didn’t Pass This Year

Cannabis tax, EV fees, education cuts: Details from MN’s special session

The Minnesota Legislature met for a special session Monday to finish the final pieces of a $66 billion two-year budget. Lawmakers reduced spending by $5 billion to prepare the state for shortfalls expected later in the decade, but they also made a few tweaks to state policy. While many of the changes got hearings over the past few months, the budget largely came together in private meetings ahead of the special session and passed in just one day…

Adjourned: What the Minnesota Legislature did and didn’t pass this year

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Legislature finished the 2025 session in overtime with a one-day special session that delivered a $67 billion state budget and a $700 million bonding package. Lawmakers were tasked this session with a divided government of 101 Democrats and 100 Republicans, and a tie dynamic gracing both the Senate and House at different points in the session. The June 9 finish line for lawmakers came roughly five months after the Minnes…

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth reflects on 2025 session, historic speakership • Minnesota Reformer

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, was elected to the Legislature in 2018, and she’s served as the House’s Republican leader since 2023. Before Demuth could even grasp the speaker’s gavel, the 2025 legislative session had a rancorous start. A judge ruled one of the newly elected Democrats ineligible for office because he didn’t […]

Area lawmakers happy bonding bill passes, addresses mental health bed needs

(St. Paul MN-) The Minnesota Legislature passed a bonding bill of just over 700 million dollars in the special session this week. Senator Andrew Lang gave it a thumbs up...