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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House DFL Press Conference 2/4/26
Transcript Highlights:
- Paul, Minnesota.
- The truth is we have every single law that we need in the state of Minnesota to protect this care.
- We have the Minnesota Human Rights Act. We have the Trans Refuge Law.
- We have every single law that we need in the state of Minnesota to protect this care.
- We have the Minnesota Human Rights Act. We have the Trans Refuge Law.
Summary:
State lawmakers, the attorney general, advocates, and parents held a press event responding to Children’s Minnesota’s announcement that it would pause some gender-affirming care for minors. Speakers, including Rep. Lee Finke, Hannah Edwards of Transforming Families Minnesota, and Jess Braverman of Gender Justice, said the pause was driven by federal pressure and threats from the Trump administration and HHS, not by medical best practice. They emphasized that gender-affirming care remains legal in Minnesota under the state’s Human Rights Act, Trans Refuge law, and insurance protections, and argued that interrupting care harms trans youth and families, especially those who moved to Minnesota for protection.
Testimony focused on the emotional and practical impact on families: loss of trust in providers, delays in treatment, travel and intake wait times, and the stress of having to scramble for continuity of care. Speakers described the care as evidence-based, medically necessary, and life-saving, and said the federal government was using coercion and misinformation to intimidate hospitals and doctors. The attorney general said his office and coalition partners are litigating related federal threats, including a separate RFK Jr. declaration and proposed federal rules, and that Minnesota officials are working to preserve access and enforce state protections.
In response to questions, speakers said the state’s legal tools are strong but limited against federal action, so they are relying on court challenges and enforcement of existing state law. They said Children’s Minnesota had been specifically targeted by federal officials and that the hospital’s pause was tied to that pressure. No votes were taken; the event ended with a call for continued public and institutional support for trans youth and for Children’s to resume care as soon as possible.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/23/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> protection under the law. protection under the law.
- </c> guaranteed under the law. guaranteed under the law.
- Uh, we're not going to have Jill Hasday, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and following
- of Minnesota Law School.
- >> Minnesota law already protects against >> Minnesota law already protects against sex<00
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25 - Part 1
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm the policy director for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, or ILCM.
- Julia Decker identifies herself as the policy director for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, or ILCM
- My name is Ben Gleckel, and I'm a removal defense attorney at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
- <c> we</c><00:46:47.800><c> are</c> Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota we are Immigrant Law Center of
- Paul, Minnesota, where I specialize in the areas of immigration law, public benefits for non-citizens
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- By law, these grants must be matched with funds from Minnesota-based contributors.
- The bill would require Minnesota law to apply to all of the contracts entered into by the state.
- The bill would<01:03:23.000><c> require</c><01:03:23.400><c> Minnesota</c><01:03:23.960><c> law</c><01
- :03:24.320><c> to</c><01:03:24.560><c> apply</c><01:03:25.120><c> to</c> would require Minnesota law
- to apply to would require Minnesota law to apply to all<01:03:25.800><c> of</c><01:03:25.880><c> the<
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Commerce committee hearing on HF2149, the 'Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act' 3/26/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Enacting HF249 would enshrine protection from price discrimination in Minnesota law.
- It would help Minnesota's Minnesota law.
- Minnesota has a vibrant culture of law.
- Equally concerning is the bill would put Minnesota in direct conflict with federal law.
- Equally concerning is the bill would put Minnesota in direct conflict with federal law.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 5/6/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a set of protections, pretty strong protections in Minnesota law, to protect trade secrets, to
- </c><01:19:46.080><c> trade</c> in Minnesota law uh to protect trade in Minnesota law uh to protect trade
- <01:21:02.800><c> year</c><01:21:03.120><c> and</c><01:21:03.520><c> 10</c> Minnesota law for the last
- Um, let the law as it exists protect all Minnesota workers and, uh, um, please vote yes.
- Um, let the law as it exists uh protect<01:36:56.639><c> all</c><01:36:57.040><c> Minnesota</c><01:36
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm also a corporate career lawyer and I teach business law at the University of Minnesota Law School
- </c><00:26:28.880><c> So,</c> University of Minnesota Law School.
- So, University of Minnesota Law School.
- The power to keep corporate and dark money out of Minnesota politics has been sitting in Minnesota law
- The power to keep corporate and dark money out of Minnesota politics has been sitting in Minnesota law
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/25/25
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- and a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association Business Law Section.
- </c> currently um Minnesota law says that and currently um Minnesota law says that and when<00:20:08.360
- </c> pulling from my mind where in Minnesota pulling from my mind where in Minnesota law<00:37:17.040
- /c> otherwise in Minnesota law but we were otherwise in Minnesota law but we were careful<00:37:25.000
- Minnesota Management and Budget, we did have 12 Uniform Law Commissioners.
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House OKs bill to strengthen disability protections in Minnesota Human Rights Act 5/12/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> Minnesota,</c> educational institutions of Minnesota, educational institutions of Minnesota, with
- </c> right now in Minnesota. right now in Minnesota.
- It is the federal law. It is state law.
- It is the federal law. It is state law.
- Maybe the Minnesota Department of Human Rights will try to create law in other areas to tell Representative
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 3/11/26
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- So, using the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the numbers are just under 28,000 veterans here in Minnesota
- , as a commander of the Department of Minnesota.
- This is huge for Minnesota veterans.
- The grants must be paid only to be used for Minnesota veterans, active service members, Minnesota residents
- Minnesota trends mirror national findings.
Committee:
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Representatives Zeleznikar, Baker and Bierman Press Conference 5/12/26
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill enforces a law that Minnesota already passed in 2024.
- ><c> Minnesota</c><00:01:06.080><c> already</c> enforces a law that Minnesota already enforces a law
- Minnesota passed a law in 2024 to protect that. But the law doesn't have any way to make it stick.
- law. what we have seen h in Minnesota law. what we have seen h in other<00:31:02.960><c> states</c><
- </c><00:31:09.760><c> they</c><00:31:10.000><c> are</c> law uh here in Minnesota they are law uh here
Summary:
House File 369 was the main topic, with House authors Rep. Natalie Zeleznikar, Rep. Robert Bierman, and Rep. Dave Baker arguing that the bill would give Minnesota’s 2024 340B law “teeth” by enforcing protections for nonprofit and rural hospitals’ access to the federal drug pricing program. They said the measure costs the state nothing, aligns with similar laws in more than 20 other states, and is needed before adjournment to help hospitals close funding gaps, support services like emergency care, obstetrics, behavioral health, and pharmacy access, and preserve care in remote communities. Several hospital leaders from across greater Minnesota testified that 340B revenue helps keep their facilities viable and that losing it would threaten services and, in some cases, hospital survival.
Witnesses described severe financial pressure on rural hospitals, including reimbursement cuts, workforce shortages, inflation, and rising drug costs. Leaders from United Hospital District in Blue Earth, Lakewood Health System in Staples, Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital, Northshore Health in Grand Marais, Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet, and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby said their hospitals serve as safety-net providers and often operate with thin or negative margins. They emphasized long travel times to other hospitals, seasonal tourism pressures in some areas, and the importance of local emergency, ambulance, inpatient, and specialty services. The Minnesota Hospital Association president also criticized pharmaceutical company messaging and said nonprofit hospitals are working around the clock to maintain access.
In response to questions, Zeleznikar said she had considered other enforcement approaches but now supported using the original Senate-passed bill, citing concerns about fraud and the difficulty of alternative enforcement mechanisms. She and hospital leaders distinguished this bill from a separate hospital stabilization-grant proposal, saying both are needed but serve different purposes. No vote was taken at the meeting, and the speakers repeatedly urged House leadership to bring the bill to the floor before session ends.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/13/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a Minnesota values bill, and now it's a Minnesota values law.
- It's a Minnesota values bill, and now it's a Minnesota values law.
- It's a Minnesota values bill, and now it's a Minnesota values law.
- It's a Minnesota values bill, and now it's a Minnesota values law.
- It's a Minnesota values bill, and now it's a Minnesota values law.
Bills:
HF1976
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It is a bill that would unmask law enforcement agents in the state of Minnesota, whether they are local
- that law enforcement cannot be conducted in this state on the citizens of Minnesota in the manner in
- enforcement agents in the state of law enforcement agents in the state of Minnesota,<00:09:33.360><c
- </c> Minnesota for local and state level law Minnesota for local and state level law enforcement<00:12
- Anyone who's gone through the process to become well educated and understand the laws in Minnesota.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 03/03/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans
Transcript Highlights:
- Current Minnesota law requires individuals who offer veterans benefit services to clients in exchange
- Lewis and his law firm, many years ago because of the current state of the law in Minnesota, where we
- which has been illegal in of law which has been illegal in Minnesota<00:46:35.200><c> since</c> Minnesota
- </c> inside of the Minnesota law most of them inside of the Minnesota law most of them uh<01:21:12.360
- attorneys in the state of lawful attorneys in the state of Minnesota<01:23:45.880><c> that</c><01:23
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House/Senate Press Conference 3/25/25
Transcript Highlights:
- right now Minnesota is facing a law enforcement workforce shortage that directly impacts the safety
- The state of Minnesota needs to use every single tool in its toolbox to address this law enforcement
- here in Minnesota.
- of Minnesota, correct?
- to the state of Minnesota to be in<00:18:53.159><c> law</c><00:18:53.480><c> enforcement</c><00:18:54.480
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- of PAS on our laws here in Minnesota<00:10:32.640><c> that</c><00:10:32.959><c> we've</c><00:10:33.360
- Minnesota.
- </c> communities across northern Minnesota. communities across northern Minnesota.
- If Senate File 2290 were to become law, it would propel Minnesota to having the second highest top tier
- Childare Minnesota is average Minnesota.
Committee:
Senate Taxes
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- law the law is disposed of but with the law the law is what<00:42:17.920><c> I'm</c><00:42:18.119><c
- Minnesota DNR could utilize low-cost options such as crowd sourcing, using game cameras, or law enforcement
- we've</c> across Minnesota all of Minnesota we've across Minnesota all of Minnesota we've been<01:04
- House File 1531 is before you today because Minnesota law is about to sunset a provision that temporarily
- law today because Minnesota law is<01:20:25.360><c> about</c><01:20:25.760><c> to</c><01:20:26.280><
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 1/21/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- of Minnesota 1994 chapter 641.
- of Minnesota 1994 chapter 641.
- of Minnesota 1994 chapter 641.
- of Minnesota 1994 chapter 641.
- The 1994 law authorizing cask storage also put a nuclear moratorium in the law in 1994.
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/07/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- And when I talk about civil rights laws, I often ask, hey, when you think about Minnesota and when it
- I often ask hey when you think laws I often ask hey when you think about<00:03:11.400><c> Minnesota<
- This law was actually passed a few years after Frederick Douglass was in Minnesota and was prevented
- This law was actually passed a few years after Frederick Douglass was in Minnesota and was prevented
- There's examples of this across the state that you've seen, of course, under Minnesota law.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: New Data Supporting Minnesota’s Equal Rights Amendment - 02/18/25
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> executive to dor for outfront Minnesota executive to dor for outfront Minnesota our<00:02:32.360
- We recognize that an Equal Rights Amendment here in Minnesota would not supersede federal law, but it
- </c><00:07:37.360><c> law</c><00:07:37.800><c> and</c> and protection under Minnesota law and and protection
- under Minnesota law and this<00:07:38.280><c> constitutional</c><00:07:39.360><c> amendment</c><00:07
- in Minnesota or um ra Minnesota is a in Minnesota or um ra Minnesota is a member<00:24:03.960><c> of