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• Minnesota? Minnesota?
• </c> already um supported here in Minnesota already um supported here in Minnesota to<00:59:17.280><c
• </c> and Minnesota care eligibility changes. and Minnesota care eligibility changes.
• ,</c> partner to the University of Minnesota, partner to the University of Minnesota, training<01:25:
• and practice in Minnesota.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• Line 10 is the Minnesota Indian base.
• Line 15 is the MINEP Minnesota program.
• </c> start with Minnesota start with Minnesota [Music] [Music] [Music] state.<00:14:21.279><c> So</c>
• </c><00:20:14.640><c> Mayo</c> entire University of Minnesota Mayo entire University of Minnesota Mayo
• </c> potentially go up by 18% at Minnesota potentially go up by 18% at Minnesota State<00:59:51.920><

Summary: The committee took up House File 2312 and first adopted the DE1 amendment, after which the amended bill was discussed. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the spreadsheet and explained the bill’s higher education budget changes, including increases for state grants and tribal college assistance, unchanged funding for several existing programs, and reductions or eliminations for items such as state work study, summer academic enrichment, student loan counseling, concurrent enrollment, and the student parent support initiative. Staff also noted transfers to special revenue funds, the cancellation and reappropriation of ALS research funding, and a new licensing/registration revenue item. The committee was told the bill met the committee’s zero target overall, with a net general fund change of zero relative to the February forecast, while also adding some non-general fund expenditures for program licensing and registration. Members asked several questions about the transfers and specific line items, including whether any new special revenue accounts were being created, the foster care wraparound services line, and the treatment of the University of Minnesota and Centric Care partnership. Staff explained that the transfers generally did not create new accounts, that some items were not in the base, and that the U of M/Centric Care partnership was a one-time appropriation in the prior bill but was now being built into the base at a different amount. The University of Minnesota section also included new or continued funding for medical school development, health training restoration, emergency assistance grants, ALS research, and a weather resiliency program, while the Mayo Foundation section eliminated funding for Mayo Medical School and the Mayo family medicine residency program. The policy portion of the DE1 was then introduced. It included a maximum tuition and fee amount for state grants, direct appropriation of emergency assistance grants to Minnesota State, a juvenile justice appropriation for Metropolitan State University, and the ALS research reappropriation to the University of Minnesota. It also contained repealers for unfunded programs, including a delayed repealer for the student parent support initiative. In the higher education policy article, the bill would allow Minnesota State to offer applied doctoral degrees in cybersecurity, make technical changes to hunger-free campus and sexual misconduct procedures, extend pregnant and parenting student protections to private institutions, allow OHE to retain up to 10% of certain competitive grants for administration, consolidate reports, change the state grant formula so negative FAFSA contributions count as zero, and reduce the state grant lifetime credit cap from 180 to 120 credits. The Northstar Promise provisions would limit tuition and fees to resident rates and require MnState, and request the University of Minnesota, to ensure eligible students receive the benefit.

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• We don't have the transportation systems that run as long as I do in the metro and outstate.
• I've seen it play over and over and over again in rural Minnesota, time and time again.
• You know, I don't think we took serious the number of doctors we can graduate here in Minnesota.
• </c> here in Minnesota. here in Minnesota.
• doesn't come to terms with its Minnesota doesn't come to terms with its issues<00:13:14.680><c> with

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• She lived independently in Minnesota until my two siblings and I convinced her to move back to Minnesota
• </c><00:51:09.280><c> And</c> programs in the Minnesota House. And programs in the Minnesota House.
• </c><01:15:22.560><c> are</c> people throughout the mi Minnesota are people throughout the mi Minnesota
• Um, in order to transport vehicles.
• Minnesota down by South Dakota where Minnesota down by South Dakota where they<01:20:17.520><c> might

Bills: HF2216 , HF1978 , HF2354 , HF1963 , HF1994 , HF1995 , HF1894

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

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• I just got back a little while ago from Minnesota.
• I just got back a little while ago from Minnesota.
• I just got back a little while ago from Minnesota.
• I just got back a little while ago from Minnesota.
• I just got back a little while ago from Minnesota.

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• the Mississippi River that runs just right there behind us is 2,350 miles long and stretches from Minnesota
• In Minnesota, there is a resolution identical to this one that is being read right now in Minnesota for
• SCR 62 by Senator Hodges urges the Department of Transportation and Development to evaluate impediments

Bills: HB410 , HR310 , HR314 , HR316 , HR317 , HR321 , HR275 , HR276 , HR279 , HR282 , HR286 , HR289 , HR292 , HR295 , HR302 , HR319 , HR307 , HR273 , SCR59 , SCR61 , SCR62 , SCR68 , SCR69 , SCR70 , SCR54 , SCR55 , SCR64 , SCR75 , HCR32 , HB776 , HB42 , HB119 , HB159 , HB302 , HB1017 , HB1028 , SB217 , SB283 , HB953 , SB208 , HR74 , HB998 , HB901 , HR20 , HCR65 , HCR71 , HCR98 , HB284 , HB306 , HB341 , HB366 , HB393 , HB458 , HB577 , HB603 , HB605 , HB614 , HB625 , HB646 , HB733 , HB752 , HB773 , HB798 , HB911 , HB955 , HB996 , HB1035 , HB1069 , HB1113 , HB1140 , HB1180 , HB1191 , HB1240 , HB1255 , SB82 , SB89 , SB97 , SB123 , SB237 , HB36 , HB74 , HB75 , HB258 , HB259 , HB414 , HB459 , HB784 , HB848 , HB956 , HB1095 , HB1220 , HB1252 , SB469 , SB479

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, the pledge, and a national anthem performance, then moved through several personal privileges and recognitions. Members welcomed a student cancer survivor and entrepreneur, Bella of Brave Bella Bead Company, and also recognized a new legislative assistant, a page leaving for college, and a resolution honoring National Mississippi River Day. The chamber also received conference committee reports and enrollment reports, and returned some previously failed measures to the calendar, including H.R. 119 and H.B. 410. The main floor action centered on a series of Senate concurrent resolutions, most of which were adopted overwhelmingly. These included SCR 59 on re-evaluating flood maps and insurance rates tied to the Comite River Diversion Canal, SCR 61 urging higher reimbursement for behavioral health crisis centers, SCR 62 calling for review of school-zone safety and speed limits, SCR 68 creating a blockchain and digital innovation task force, SCR 69 encouraging continued research to reduce sugarcane burning, SCR 70 supporting the Major Richard Star Act for medically retired combat-wounded veterans, SCR 54 supporting the Mississippi River Basin Fishery Commission Act, SCR 55 designating the Peggy Martin Rose as the official state rose, SCR 64 creating a construction manager-at-risk task force, SCR 75 studying a Louisiana maneuvers museum and trail, and SCR 80 creating a task force on the minimum foundation program and long-term teacher pay funding. Most passed with little or no opposition, with SCR 84 on earthquake seismic activity in several parishes amended to adjust task force membership before final adoption. The House also heard a personal privilege statement honoring the late Ponder P.C. Clinton Jr., a noted Black farmer, cattleman, and community leader in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood, and expressed condolences to his family. Later, members received a hurricane-season reminder from Rep. Jay Galle about disaster response procedures and the need to work through parish emergency offices. The transcript ends as the House moves into additional concurrent resolutions returned from the Senate with amendments.

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• </c> Minnesota. This bill does two things. Minnesota. This bill does two things.
• </c> has been endorsed by the Minnesota has been endorsed by the Minnesota Leadership<00:08:38.080><c
• </c> special transportation. special transportation.
• </c> state of Minnesota. state of Minnesota.
• </c> to the state of Minnesota. to the state of Minnesota.

Bills: HF3526 , HF3375 , HF3469

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

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• I ran a bill that tried to address the transport emissions that were coming into the state, which...
• ...that tried to address the transport emissions that were coming into the state, which, depending on
• Aside from that, the reason I'm asking this question is Zeldin's decision on transport emissions: how
• Aside from that, the reason I'm asking this question is Zeldin's decision on transport emissions: how
• And we can give perfect examples of what's happening in Minnesota... ...and we need some protections

Bills: HB2013 , HB2026 , HB2056 , HB2098 , HB2113 , HB2156 , HB2158 , HCM2011 , HCR2057

Committees: Senate Natural Resources , Senate Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference

Keywords: air pollution, wildfires, environmental standards, public health, Arizona Revised Statutes, assured water supply, groundwater, commingling, commingled water, water supply, Arizona Department of Water Resources, ADWR, active management area, AMA, subdivision plat, development approval, water rights, municipal provider, private water company, certificate of assured water supply

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• Chairman, Representative Stoll-Hamilton, yeah, Riverview is based in Minnesota, and... ...and I have
• talked to people in Minnesota who are also having issues with Riverview, and I suspect that has something
• water, and they have changed their systems to transporting water.
• they've Systems to transporting water.
• I know a friend of mine that has raised her family and has had water being transported over to her house

Bills: HB2167 , HB2168 , HB2169 , HB2171 , HB2790 , HB2905 , HCM2005

Committees: House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs , House House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee of Reference

Keywords: attorney general, nuisance action, consumer fraud, damages, civil penalty, public nuisance, nuisance abatement, abatement action, injunction, superior court, county attorney, city attorney, board of supervisors, obscenity, obscene materials, adult materials, pornography, schools, parks, residential district

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• Minnesota Power Light made $12 million.
• :32.639><c> on</c><00:04:32.800><c> the</c> should Minnesota rateayers be on the should Minnesota rateayers
• ,</c> Excel Energy is based here in Minnesota, Excel Energy is based here in Minnesota, but<00:07:58.160
• ,</c> organization, but I live in Minnesota, organization, but I live in Minnesota, and<00:09:52.000>
• </c> the Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota the Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota in<00:10:43.519>

Summary: The committee heard House File 76, as amended by the adopted A1 amendment, and the chair moved the bill to be re-referred to the general register. The bill would limit the amount investor-owned utilities can charge ratepayers for executive compensation, capping recoverable pay for the top 10 executives at the governor’s salary. Representative Greenman argued the measure would protect customers from paying for lavish executive pay and said it would not affect what executives are paid, only what can be recovered from ratepayers. She cited recent Public Utilities Commission action and ongoing rate cases as evidence the issue is real and recurring. Supportive testimony came from a Minneapolis resident describing financial hardship and rising utility bills, a local worker who said customers have no choice of utility provider and should not fund monopoly executive pay, and advocates from the Energy and Policy Institute and Utility Reform Now, who said ratepayers should not subsidize excessive compensation and that the bill is a targeted reform. Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy opposed the bill’s premise by defending the current regulatory process. Their representatives said the PUC already reviews executive compensation in rate cases, generally allows only limited recovery, and has used that process for decades. Xcel also emphasized its affordability programs and said executives help secure savings and investments for customers. Members discussed whether the legislature should set a bright-line rule or leave the issue to the PUC. Representative Greenman said the bill is needed because the PUC process can take years and the legislature should establish a clear standard for all investor-owned utilities. Some members supported the bill as a response to an affordability crisis and the lack of consumer choice, while others said the legislature should focus on broader energy-cost issues and existing regulatory tools. The committee did not take a final vote on the bill in the portion of the meeting provided, but the amendment was adopted and the bill was moved for re-referral to the general register.

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• Even beyond geography, patients face barriers like transportation, work schedule, Geography, patients
• face barriers like transportation, work schedules, and mobility challenges.
• States like North Carolina, I will also highlight Minnesota, are asking that the entities receiving 340B
• We do have some idea because Minnesota, which aggregated certain data from covered entities within that
• We do have some idea because Minnesota, which aggregated certain data from covered entities within that

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services

Summary: The committee held a lengthy hearing on a large docket of pharmacy and drug-pricing bills, with most testimony focused on PBM reform, 340B drug discount program protections, specialty medication access, and medication adherence. Chair James Murphy and Senator Paul Feeney opened the hearing and took testimony from legislators, patient advocates, pharmacists, health center leaders, industry representatives, and policy groups. Several speakers described delays, denials, high out-of-pocket costs, and pharmacy closures tied to PBM practices, while others emphasized the importance of community health centers and independent pharmacies in serving patients. On the 340B program, supporters including Senator Eldridge, Senator Payano, Community Care Cooperative, Fenway Health, the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, and several community health center leaders argued that bills such as H. 1107 and S. 819 would stop discriminatory PBM and manufacturer practices, preserve contract pharmacy access, and protect safety-net providers that say they reinvest savings into care, pharmacy expansion, interpreter services, behavioral health, and other services. Opponents including PhRMA, the Community Liver Alliance, and a public policy analyst argued the program lacks transparency and accountability, has grown beyond its original purpose, and may benefit large hospitals and for-profit entities more than low-income patients. They urged more reporting and oversight rather than expanding protections. On PBM reform, testimony supported bills including H. 1157, H. 1234, S. 724, S. 831, and related measures that would require rebate pass-through, ban spread pricing, limit steering to PBM-owned pharmacies, and improve reimbursement for community pharmacies. Independent pharmacists and patients said current PBM practices raise costs, create administrative burdens, and threaten access to local pharmacies. PCMA, representing PBMs, opposed the reforms, arguing PBMs lower costs, that plan sponsors choose to contract with them, and that the Health Policy Commission and CHIA should complete their ongoing study before new mandates are adopted. The committee also heard support for H. 1322 and S. 734 on specialty medications, and for H. 781 and H. 1305 on medication synchronization to improve adherence. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.

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• Coming up, Senate Spotlight is produced by the Minnesota Senate and Senate Media Services.
• Minnesota Management and Budget's latest financial forecast for the state is out.
• If that happens, Minnesota policymakers would be faced with very difficult choices.
• </c> something we can address now Minnesota something we can address now Minnesota is<00:03:09.760><c
• </c> within the boundaries of Minnesota within the boundaries of Minnesota attended<00:26:29.279><c>

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• Uh so Minneapolis to Baxter, Minnesota.
• ><c> Hospital</c> Aert with the Minnesota Hospital Aert with the Minnesota Hospital Association.
• </c><00:05:10.080><c> have</c> and federal courts Minnesota have and federal courts Minnesota have rejected
• </c> investigations under Minnesota law. investigations under Minnesota law.
• We represent the uh Minnesota.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

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• We do see a lot of demand from low-income Californians for clean transportation.
• If the city has adopted climate plans and offers sustainable transportation options.
• At the same time when we were studying in this work group, so was Minnesota.
• The Minnesota report came out in December. The Minnesota report came out in December 2025.
• The transports were either burn or trauma received from the jump.

Committee: House Housing and Community Development

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• Um, as we all know in Minnesota and across the country, political violence is all too real and, uh, we
• I remember hearing that in transportation.
• You know, the things that we experienced in Minnesota, not just electeds, but in general, were things
• 44.399><c> in</c> know, the things that we experienced in know, the things that we experienced in Minnesota
• , not just electeds, but in Minnesota, not just electeds, but in general<00:13:46.959><c> were</c><00

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• </c> in the state of Minnesota. in the state of Minnesota.
• These groups include the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Power, Minnesota Mining, the Minnesota
• Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the M Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the M Minnesota<06:02:27.920><c>
• Power, Minnesota Mining or Minnesota Power, Minnesota Mining or Mining<06:02:30.160><c> Minnesota,</
• , the Minnesota State Mining Minnesota, the Minnesota State Building<06:02:32.000><c> and</c><06:02:32.400

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• If they work 30 minutes away Minnesota.
• There's no<00:27:53.360><c> bus</c><00:27:53.679><c> transportation.</c> ...no bus transportation.
• Um, Senator Liur, Minnesota Housing Finance and other state entities administer the program in Minnesota
• <c> over</c><00:50:26.079><c> 32,000</c> in Minnesota we have over 32,000 in Minnesota we have over 32,000
• Minnesota Constitution, the legislature Minnesota Constitution, the legislature can't<00:54:47.839><c

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

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• 2018,</c><00:59:18.799><c> Google</c> Here in Minnesota, in 2018, Google Here in Minnesota, in 2018,
• It's time for Minnesota to take action. It's time for Minnesota to take action.
• Go ahead and ACLU of Minnesota.
• </c> that Minnesota had to outlaw abortion. that Minnesota had to outlaw abortion.
• </c> of Minnesota to justice. of Minnesota to justice. Thank<01:35:59.199><c> you.

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• It was not Minnesota.
• The second draft, as reported in the House, was the Minnesota—we should have started with Minnesota.
• It was not Minnesota.
• The second draft, as reported in the House, was the Minnesota—we should have started with Minnesota.
• across Minnesota.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• director of Minnesota Milk.
• Um, I serve as president of Minnesota Milk and also I operate Sky Vidyer out of Hutchinson, Minnesota
• It Vidyer out of Hutchinson, Minnesota.
• Minnesota, it creates a ripple effect Minnesota, it creates a ripple effect through<00:03:37.200><c>
• The ba the value of the beef Minnesota.