Minnesota House Bills

Department of Revenue required to designate scholarship granting organizations.

Onetime property tax refund or credit provided, and money appropriated.

Minnesota business recovery loan program established, report required, and money appropriated.

Marked Trunk Highway 13 and associated local road improvements funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Health; reporting provisions changed, contract term limits specified for WIC, members clarified to serve on the state community health services advisory committee, and speech-language pathologist and audiologist licensing requirements modified.

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension required to perform background checks at the request of the Office of the Legislative Auditor.

Public television station block grants eligibility modified.

Classification alignment for Direct Care and Treatment employees established.

Continued enrollment authorized for certain online students with a temporary break in residency, and money appropriated.

Additional school safety specialists funding provided, and money appropriated.

Provisions relating to local unit of government's regulation of cannabis businesses modified.

Methods of emissions measurements, emissions limits, and capacity limits for municipal solid waste incinerators provided.

Independent Use of Force Investigations Unit funding increased, and money appropriated.

Uses of legislative email, telephone numbers, and office space restricted.

Members of the legislative committees on education policy and education finance required to observe a teacher or administrator each year, house and senate required to adopt rules, and report required.

Local optional revenue increased, aid amount increased, and money appropriated.

Use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy services regulated, and civil penalties provided.

Metropolitan Council program, contracts, and reporting requirements to the legislature modified; Metropolitan Council and regional development commission review city housing finance programs removed; and technical corrections made.

Watershed districts allowed to self-insure for certain employee health benefits, and technical changes made.

Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission provisions modified, and availability of previous grants extended.

Prohibition on conversion therapy with minors and vulnerable adults repealed.

Waiver case management labor market analysis required, waiver case management rates increased, and reports required.

Preapplication filings for large water appropriation projects required, permit application information for large water appropriation projects added, level of environmental review for data centers specified, data centers exempted from making financial contributions to an energy conservation and optimization plan, and other data center provisions modified.

Allowable uses of funds in the Minnesota housing tax credit contribution account expanded to include funding supportive services in supportive housing.

Minnesota clearance grant program provided, law enforcement agency solve rate of crimes involving nonfatal shootings increased, and money appropriated.

Information provided for capital project grants to political subdivisions modified.

Professions that may serve as a medical consultant for a community health board modified.

Referendum allowances reduced, local optional revenue authority increased, and money appropriated.

Local government emergency management provided, reports required, and money appropriated.

Health plans required to cover infertility treatment and standard fertility preservation services, medical assistance and MinnesotaCare required to cover infertility treatment and standard fertility preservation services, and money appropriated.

Property tax exemption allowed for certain leased land.

Income and corporate franchise taxes; allocation for the credit for sustainable aviation fuel increased.

Data on fully denied claims required to be submitted to the all-payer claims database, fee schedule for expanded access to data in the all-payer claims database established, and money appropriated.

Stewardship program for circuit boards, batteries, and electrical products established; mercury in batteries prohibited; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.

Brooklyn Park Northwest Metro Regional Athletic Facility funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Human services; various provisions modified relating to Direct Care and Treatment, the Department of Health, health care, medical assistance provider enrollment, aging and disability services, behavioral health, homelessness, housing, and maltreatment of vulnerable adults; housing stabilization supports provisions removed; rulemaking required; release of initial Optum reports required; Optum prohibited from disseminating private data; reports required; and money appropriated.

Deposit limit on the consumer protection restitution account removed, and distribution limits set.

Saint Paul Regional Water Services funding provided for improvements to the Fridley pump station and to replace lead drinking water service lines, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Northfield; marked Trunk Highway 19 intersection roundabout funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Appropriations for local government aid and county program aid increased.

Operation of remote pickup sites from which patients may obtain drugs and devices dispensed by a managing pharmacy authorized, and rulemaking authorized.

Jordan; SCALE regional public safety training facility burn structure and system upgrades funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Sellers required to accept United States currency for purchases.

White Earth Reservation community center funding provided, and money appropriated.

Spending authorized to acquire and better public land and buildings and for other improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions, new programs and modifying existing programs established, prior appropriations modified, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

St. Cloud; Mississippi Riverwalk Connection funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

St. Cloud; 5th Avenue South Campus and Downtown Connection capital project funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

State-funded playgrounds required to use inclusive design standards.

Formulary Committee members with a potential conflict of interest permitted to participate in committee communications and discussions, commissioner of human services required to develop a public comment process for recommendations, and committee required to seek expertise from the Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council.

Requirements for grant administration policies and training added.

Dakota County grant funding provided to study lead exposure, and money appropriated.

Hennepin County authorized to impose local sales tax.

Public nuisance cause of action for certain conduct related to the sale, marketing, importing, distribution, and manufacturing of firearms created.

Monitoring and enforcement of special education case load limits required.

Organizations authorized to use grant awards to pay administrative costs for the Lights On program.

Power of People Leadership Institute for the Girls Taking Action and Boys of Hope programs grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

Clemency Review Commission and Board of Pardons procedures expanded and refined, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.

Commissioner of health directed to join World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.

State employees and legislators precluded from taking employment with grant recipients in certain situations, and definition of serious crime amended for purposes of recalling a state officer.

Tenants provided with a right to repair violations in a residential rental unit, notice required, and tenant permitted to make deductions from rent.