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2025 Minnesota legislative session

MPR News is your source for updates on the 2025 Minnesota legislative session. Whether you’re looking for information about a new law or want an update on state funding decisions, you can find it here.

Legislature sends heating aid bill to Dayton

Lawmakers, in a series of unanimous votes, moved the heating aid quickly through the process in the opening days of the legislative session.
by Brian Bakst, Associated Press

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Propane aid outpaces tax relief on Minn. Legislature's first day

Propane aid outpaces tax relief on Minn. Legislature's first day

A propane fuel shortage this winter, combined with the relatively late start of the legislative session, prompted lawmakers to take some extra quick action.
by Tim Pugmire

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Minn. mayors praise boost in state funding

Several Minnesota mayors are praising the boost in state funding that's coming their way after several years of budget austerity.
by Tim Pugmire

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Along ND border, Minn. business owners say higher taxes hurt

Along ND border, Minn. business owners say higher taxes hurt

Business owner Brady Olson criticizes state legislators for increasing property, sales, gasoline and cigarette taxes. Olson and other business owners in northwest Minnesota say those higher taxes make it difficult for them to compete with businesses in North Dakota, where the booming economy has allowed legislators to cut taxes.
by Dan Gunderson

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After legislative inaction, changes could loom for sex offender program

After legislative inaction, changes could loom for sex offender program

The future of Minnesota's sex offender program may become clearer this summer. The state has long been criticized for its program, which indefinitely holds sex offenders whom judges in county courts think might commit new crimes, even after the offenders have served their sentences. Lawmakers did not change the program during the session that recently ended, and that could mean the federal courts will soon force the state to act.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Republicans eye 2014 run for Minn. 6th District seat

Republicans eye 2014 run for Minn. 6th District seat

At least eight Minnesota Republicans are considering a run for the 6th District congressional seat that Rep. Michele Bachmann is leaving at the end of her fourth term.
by Tom Scheck

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Mike McFadden steps up against Sen. Franken

Mike McFadden steps up against Sen. Franken

Minnesota business executive Mike McFadden announced today that he'll be a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014. He is the first GOP candidate to announce he will try to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Al Franken.
by Tim Pugmire

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Minn. child care union fight shifts to court

A group of in-home child care providers and a conservative group plan to file a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at stopping a new law that allows state subsidized child care providers and personal care workers to unionize. Gov. Dayton signed the bill into law last week after a contentious debate in the Legislature.
by Tom Scheck

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GOP pokes at Peterson on healthcare and the IRS

GOP pokes at Peterson on healthcare and the IRS

U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson is one of four House Democrats who are the target of a Republican campaign this week to draw attention to the Internal Revenue Service scandal while also getting a hit in on the federal affordable care act.

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Dayton signs union bill; opponents prepare lawsuit

Gov. Mark Dayton has signed into law a bill that allows government-subsidized in-home child care providers and personal care assistants to unionize. One of the main groups that opposed the legislation says it will likely file suit Wednesday.
by Rupa Shenoy

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