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The planned Becker gas plant is on the negotiating table for Minnesota lawmakers along with myriad policy and funding provisions as the DFL-led House and the GOP-led Senate seek middle ground for the next two-year budget.
Education funding is up for debate. Police reforms are in the mix. And there s been a big divide on whether to create a fifth tier income tax rate and raise taxes on the state s top earners.
DFL leaders said Wednesday that tax increases are now unlikely.
The regular Legislative session must end by Monday, but state leaders have not yet agreed on overall budget numbers. Conference committees organized by topic have been meeting to reconcile Senate and House budget proposals.
Rep. Dan Wolgamott promised that he would fight for us in St. Paul but he recently voted to kill electronic pull tabs. By doing so, Rep. Wolgamott betrayed our local charities, bars and restaurants.
To add insult to injury, Rep. Wolgamott voted this way at a time when our charities and their small business partners are just starting to dig out from the wreckage of the pandemic.
Rep. Wolgamott and other politicians voted for HF 2366. The bill requires that games “may only display symbols typically associated with paper pull-tab tickets, may not include continuation play, bonus games, or additional screens … and may not display or simulate any other form of gambling, entertainment, slot machines, electronic video lotteries, or video games of chance.” Now the bill is in the Senate, where its companion is SF 1863.
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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.”
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