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Minnesota lawmakers prepare to push it to the finish line, move several budget bills
With a little more than a week left before a crucial deadline, lawmakers advanced several omnibus budget bills through the Capitol. 4:54 pm, Jun. 22, 2021 ×
Demonstrators hoisted signs, chanted and clanged cowbells at the Minnesota Capitol as members of the Senate prepared for a special legislative session on Monday, June 14, 2021. (Dana Ferguson / Forum News Service)
ST. PAUL Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday, June 22, continued hammering away at a state budget as the clock continued to wind down on a special legislative session.
The Minnesota Senate approved a pair of agriculture and commerce and energy spending bills, sending the measures to the governor s desk for approval.
Now that the regular session is over, conference committees will turn to informal workgroups and lawmakers will be able to craft 13 or 14 budget bills laying out specific funding for schools, roads and bridges, public safety and other areas of state government. And they ll reconvene in mid-June to take up the proposals.
The budget is the one thing lawmakers
must do before they call it a year. The Constitution requires it, and if they can’t figure out a compromise by June 30, the state could face a government shutdown.
COVID-19 and peacetime emergency
Gov. Tim Walz speaks in Duluth, Minn. last fall in this file photo. (Tyler Schank / Forum News Service)
Now that the regular session is over, conference committees will turn to informal workgroups and lawmakers will be able to craft 13 or 14 budget bills laying out specific funding for schools, roads and bridges, public safety and other areas of state government. And they ll reconvene in mid-June to take up the proposals.
The budget is the one thing lawmakers
must do before they call it a year. The Constitution requires it, and if they can’t figure out a compromise by June 30, the state could face a government shutdown.
COVID-19 and peacetime emergency
Gov. Tim Walz speaks in Duluth, Minn. last fall in this file photo. (Tyler Schank / Forum News Service)
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