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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.

Legislative leaders react to Dayton tax plan

Legislative leaders react to Dayton tax plan

Republican legislative leaders are ramping up their criticism of DFL Gov. Mark Dayton's tax reform proposal.
by Tim Pugmire

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Lawmakers to weigh in on license plate readers

Lawmakers to weigh in on license plate readers

They're on squad cars and street lights, and they track where you're driving. Across Minnesota, police and sheriffs have been using automated license plate readers for years to find stolen cars and aid investigations. Their spreading use and questions of data security, fueled by recent breaches of statewide databases, has focused attention on the lack of regulation.

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Business fights back on Dayton's sales tax plan

Business fights back on Dayton's sales tax plan

Some Minnesota business leaders say the governor's sales tax proposal is a terrible idea that would hurt the state's economy.
by Mark Zdechlik

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Bill would fund spine, brain injury research

Two DFL lawmakers are proposing to create a state grant program that would dedicate $4 million each year to spinal cord and traumatic brain injury research.
by Lorna Benson

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Not all cities see LGA gain in long run

Not all cities see LGA gain in long run

Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposed formula for helping Minnesota cities with Local Government Aid makes the metro area a bigger winner than outstate in the long run.
by Dave Peters

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Education gets big boost in Dayton's budget proposal

Education gets big boost in Dayton's budget proposal

All levels of education, from preschool to higher ed, would receive increases in funding under Gov. Mark Dayton's budget proposal.
by Tim Post

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DFL lawmakers hold off on endorsing Dayton budget plan

DFL lawmakers hold off on endorsing Dayton budget plan

Committees in the Minnesota Legislature will start holding hearings Wednesday on the plan that overhauls the state's tax code, erases the projected budget deficit and increases spending by $1 billion.
by Tom Scheck

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Q & A: Local government aid, property tax changes in Dayton's budget proposal

Q & A: Local government aid, property tax changes in Dayton's budget proposal

Among the proposals in Gov. Mark Dayton's budget plan are of number of changes to the state's local government aid formula and local governments' collection of property tax.
by Tom Crann

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Dayton's budget plan includes higher taxes, spending

Dayton's budget plan includes higher taxes, spending

Calling for an end to "gimmicks and fiscal games," Gov. Mark Dayton Tuesday proposed an overhaul of Minnesota's tax and budget system that would raise hundreds of millions more from high-income taxpayers and high-dollar clothing sales, and pump much of the new money into education and property tax relief.
by Tom Scheck and Paul Tosto

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Dayton unveils 2013 budget proposal

Dayton unveils 2013 budget proposal

Gov. Mark Dayton will unveil his much-anticipated budget proposal Tuesday. We'll dig into the details with health care and non-profit leaders.

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