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(KNSI) – The Minnesota Legislative Session is coming down to the end of overtime, and some lawmakers are more optimistic than others that the work will get finished before a government shutdown.
Members of the Minnesota House and Senate have been in Special Session since June 14 after Democrat and Republicans couldn’t hammer out a projected $52-billion operating budget by the mandated deadline.
Lawmakers have three funding bills left, including a State Government and Veterans Bill, a Tax Bill, and the Public Safety and Judiciary proposals.
St. Cloud Representative Dan Wolgamott says there’s still plenty of work to be done on those three bills.
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(KNSI) – The eviction moratorium off-ramp, which Republicans had been asking for, passed the Democrat-led Minnesota House late Thursday night.
A statement from the Minnesota DFL caucus says the bill provides a roadmap to transition off the current residential eviction moratorium by ensuring renters have enough time to access federal funding for rental assistance when the COVID-19 related peacetime emergency ends and provides clarity to the process.
Representative Alice Hausman, chairs the Housing Finance and Policy Committee, says the bill “provides a realistic timeline for both landlords and tenants to access the rental assistance that will keep people in their homes.”