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May 22 4 tweets 3 min read
Senate Majority Leader @jeremyrmiller says his caucus doesn’t want a special session #mnleg
House Minority Leader @kdaudt, newly empowered as special session talk commences, says he wants spending bills reined in.

“I am not optimistic about there being a special session, and I think that’s OK.”

“We can pick that work up right away in January of next year.”
#mnleg
GOP Senator @jimabeler on status of the HHS bill, which would be the place where long-term care/nursing home money and child care assistance dollars would land:

“It has a remote chance to exist.” #mnleg
UPDATE: 45 minutes later, Abeler says that there's still a chance, a longshot one. "I remember the story of Rich Strike. We're going to be Rich Strike."

Hundreds of pages of policy were pulled into a separate bill, so the finance items could be assembled more quickly. #mnleg

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May 22
NEW: @melissahortman says #mnleg is beyond the point where all bills can be closed up, written and voted on by midnight.

She says negotiators will work to seal up agreements and she will ask @GovTimWalz for “a brief special session” to process remaining bills if deals sealed.
Still not finished: Health and Human Services, Public Safety, E12, transportation, and bonding.

Some of the completed bills could get votes today.

Only governors can call special sessions but duration dictated by #mnleg, especially minority caucuses due to rules suspensions.
Worth noting, yesterday House Taxes Chair Paul Marquart told reporters that the tax-cut deal would be the same in a special session. (Quote below)

Senate Taxes Chair Carla Nelson said she hoped for Sunday passage (her birthday).

But tax bill will be among last to pass #mnleg
Read 4 tweets
May 20
State employee contracts bill ratified by Senate, which appears to be identical to a bill approved by the House in March. #mnleg
There might need to be one more House vote. But it'll sail there.
House passes the state employee contracts bill again. On to governor. #mnleg
Read 4 tweets
May 20
What is this 2006? House Speaker @melissahortman going on @wccoradio to talk end of session with ex-Gov @TimPawlenty (who is guest hosting the time slot opened by @CoryHepola run for #mngov).

Hortman has had a low profile in the last week after contracting COVID19.
Hortman: "We've got some stubborn people who all think they should get 75% decision making in any deal that gets made. They need to get realistic."
"I know they've made fantastic progress on the tax bill. I can't tell you what's in it because I don't know."

They're having a "stickier" time with the spending bills," Hortman tells Pawlenty.
Read 5 tweets
Apr 26
Minnesota House is moving to take up an unemployment replenishment bill (the Senate version) under a rules suspension. #mnleg
Bill would put $2.7B toward a fix -- part to pay off a federal loan and part to add a cushion to avoid any additional business assessments.

But there is an amendment to alter where the money comes from and to credit employers that have already paid at a higher rate.
Now the House is moving to add the previously approved $1B pandemic worker pay bill (up to $1,500 per check) to the bill.

All of it means that both will wind up in a conference committee, unless the Senate accepts the amended bill. #mnleg
Read 7 tweets
Apr 4
Here is the House DFL tax bill #mnleg house.leg.state.mn.us/comm/docs/-Aii…
And the House research fiscal analysis house.leg.state.mn.us/comm/docs/6Yy8…

Bill summary house.leg.state.mn.us/comm/docs/7eNA…
I don't see that @GovTimWalz's rebate/direct check proposal made it into the bill (point it out if I missed it), but there is a rebate-style giveback with a far lower eligibility cap than Walz recommended and an adjusted dependent care credit among the income tax items.
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Apr 4
The Senate GOP tax bill has been posted #mnleg senate.mn/committees/202…
The bill would cut taxes by $3.38B in this budget and $5B in the next two-year budget. #mnleg senate.mn/committees/202…
A distributional analysis over who would see what reductions under the Senate tax bill.

Two main provisions are:
-A lowering of the bottom rate 5.35% to 2.8% (all taxpayers pay that on first segment of income)
-100% exemption of Social Security income.
senate.mn/committees/202…
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