The House voted to give the Minnesota AG's office a quick $269,000 from the state's $17.6 billion budget surplus and an extra $2 million a year thereafter.
The House voted 73-55 Monday night to give the attorney general’s office a quick $269,000 from the state’s budget surplus and an extra $2 million a year thereafter.
Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to both beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison's office to prosecute violent crime and the state's public defender system to relieve the staffing shortages that nearly led to a strike last year.