Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson R

State Representative
Minnesota House of Representatives District 12A
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
2 Neutral 3 Total

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Photo URL: https://www.house.mn.gov/hinfo/memberimgls94/12A.gif?v=112221

On Record (59)

Bill Agriculture and Agriculture DepartmentAppropriationsBondsUniversity of Minnesota
Sep 17, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Animals and PetsOccupations and Professions
May 19, 2026 · source · details / share
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Liability for all corporate donations for death or injury to a participant resulting from the inherent risks of livestock activities limited.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grant funding provided to support developing markets for oats, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Meat cutting and butchery training grants funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provisions relating to the practice of veterinary medicine and veterinary technology modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Use of the grain indemnity account modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Farm down payment assistance program modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Pope County; 210th Avenue reconstruction funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Rebate from the solid waste management tax for materials removed from the waste stream for recycling, composting, or reuse required; and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Sales and use tax exemption for agriculture processing materials modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Biofertilizer innovation and efficiency program established, rulemaking required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Certain uses of B100 fuel included as a carbon-free energy technology.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Transfer of unused water-use permit gallons allowed, irrigators allowed to use excess water in drought conditions, and additional water use allowed for cover crops.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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One-half of an agency's advertising expenses required to be paid to local news organizations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Agriculture and broadband development policy and finance bill.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Property tax; special agricultural homestead requirements modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Animals; rabies and livestock sale provisions repealed.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Ammonia, hydrogen, and renewable energy certificate tracking system funding provided; reports required; and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Food certificate payment provisions modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Farmed Cervidae premises location data classified as private.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Threshold for the required submission of audited municipal liquor store financial statements to the state auditor amended.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Definition of public official in a city or county modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Green ammonia power generation technology research and development funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Department of Agriculture principal offices required to be located outside the metropolitan counties.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Farm to food shelf program funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Swift County; requirements for the number of board members of a hospital district modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Funding provided for mental health outreach and support and farm safety grant and outreach programs, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Shareholder limit for entity-owned agricultural property increased.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Zoos exempted from fur farm requirements.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Property tax exemption allowed for certain leased land.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Advanced biofuel production incentive modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Public television grants provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Beardsley; water quality project funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Money transferred from the general fund to the agricultural emergency account.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Grain buyers financial reporting requirements modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Employee definition modified for purposes of earned sick and safe time.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Board of Animal Health funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Freeport; Interstate Highway 94 new interchange funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Biofuel financial assistance funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Electricity generated outside the state exempted from the requirement that a proportion of retail electricity be carbon-free by certain dates.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Agricultural education and leadership council grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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General fund money transferred to the University of Minnesota for the Forever Green Initiative.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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American Indian mascot requirement exemption amended.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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American Indian mascot prohibition repealed.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Estate tax; general subtraction amount increased.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Hydroelectric capacity that qualifies as an eligible energy technology under the renewable energy standard modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Biofuel infrastructure grant funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Definition of sustainable aviation fuel modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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County agricultural inspector grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Biofuel sales volume incentive program established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Paynesville; wastewater industrial pretreatment facility expansion funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Funding provided for water infrastructure funding program, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, and the Office of Broadband Development budget established; policy and technical changes made to agricultural and broadband provisions; rulemaking authorized; reports required; and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Crossposts (77)

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May 19, 2026 · details / share
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Agriculture policy provisions modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Counties allowed to designate agricultural lands as unsuitable for electric power facilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Greater Minnesota public television station operations funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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University of Minnesota; Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Milk offerings for participants in the national school lunch program clarified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Per diem compensation modified for Minnesota Agricultural Education Leadership Council officers and Agricultural Utilization Research Institute board of directors.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Agricultural Utilization Research Institute grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Female sports team participation restricted to the female sex.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Public employees insurance program regulated, participation by certain school employers required, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Incumbent electric transmission owner rights eliminated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Teachers Retirement Association; age lowered from 62 to 60 for the enhanced early retirement reduction, and postretirement adjustment delay clarified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Special license plate established for solar pollinator programs, and agrivoltaic solar sites made eligible for solar site management practices.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Small employers exempted from requirement to provide paid leave.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Temporary nursing facility rate increase established.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Catholic Charities of St. Cloud senior dining program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Term limits provided for governor and lieutenant governor, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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STEM Ecosystem grant provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Feedlots; county feedlot program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Livestock investment grant program awards modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Farm to school and early care programs funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Minnesota-made fertilizer grant program established, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Income and corporate franchise taxes; allocation for the credit for sustainable aviation fuel increased.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Agricultural asset available credit amount cap eliminated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Minnesota Made Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Alternative grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Agriculture grant program established to promote certain nutrient management practices, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Priority criteria for public land survey system monument grant program amended, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Construction of schools near former landfills prohibited.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Portability of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount provided, and technical changes made and obsolete provisions removed.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Excess money in the grain indemnity account required to be transferred to the agricultural emergency account.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Property tax; shareholder limit for entity-owned agricultural homestead property increased.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Procedures governing cost recovery for public utility electric generation and transmission assets modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Appropriation for soil and water conservation district aid increased.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Public waters definition modified, and appropriation for public waters inventory eliminated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Career and technical revenue increased for school districts, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Unlimited Social Security individual income tax subtraction provided.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Soil health financial assistance program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Sales and use tax exemption for grain bins and related construction materials and supplies and tractor tires provided.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Sales and use tax exemption provided for farm fencing and equipment.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Trespass law modified to allow purple markings.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibition on American Indian mascots modified, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Agricultural Utilization Research Institute funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Net metering; various governing provisions modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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A resolution memorializing Congress to call a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution to impose fiscal constraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for …
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Dairy development and profitability enhancement and dairy business planning grant program funding provided for continuation, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Depredation compensation payment funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Joint Committee on Library of Congress of United States Congress requested to approve replacement of statue of Henry Mower Rice now on display in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, and memorial resolution proposed.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Funding provided for the erection of a new statue in the United States Capitol Statuary Hall, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Statutory appropriation of the pollinator account eliminated, and lawns to legumes grant program repealed.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Property tax credit established for certain acres certified under the Minnesota agricultural water quality certification program, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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SAVI program established for state agencies to encourage innovation and cost savings.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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County fairs funding provided, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Mortuary science internship requirements modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Requirements modified for reciprocal licensure to practice mortuary science.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes grant program established, appropriations reduced, and money appropriated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Born alive infant provisions modified.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Supermajority approval by each house of the legislature required to extend a peacetime emergency beyond 14 days.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Education savings accounts established, and rules required.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Sales and use tax exemption for certain baby products expanded.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Minnesota Personal Protection Act amended, lifetime permits to carry handguns created, and application fee reduced.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Temporary moratorium on certain light rail transit expenditures established.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Duty to retreat before using reasonable force in defense of self or others eliminated.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Minnesota Paid Leave Law implementation delayed by one year.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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State-funded payments to undocumented noncitizens prohibited, and undocumented noncitizens provided to be ineligible for MinnesotaCare and North Star Promise scholarship program.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Fraud reporting required when a state employee has reason to suspect fraud, and grants management requirements strengthened.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Crime of disruption of worship services established.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Criminal penalty for impersonating a peace officer increased, crime of impersonating while possessing a firearm established, enhanced penalties for committing an offense while impersonating established, and individuals presenting as peace officers required to identify themselves.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Licensing requirements amended for graduates of foreign medical schools, commissioner of health authorized to remedy violations by employers of limited license holders, employers of limited license holders required to carry medical malpractice insurance, and limited license holders required to provide …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Teachers Retirement Association; unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 60 with 30 years of service provided, early retirement reduction factors for annuity commencement before normal retirement age modified, postretirement adjustments increased, other various retirement provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Money transferred to the agricultural research, education, extension, and technology transfer (AGREETT) account; grant program and farm business management challenge grant funding provided; reports required; and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Legislative approval required to extend a declared emergency beyond five days, citizen rights protected, legislative enactment required before certain executive orders and rules may have the force and effect of law, terms defined, and criminal penalties repealed.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Law on use of force in defense of home and person clarified, Minnesota's self-defense and defense of home laws codified and extended, common law duty to retreat eliminated in certain cases, boundaries of dwelling expanded for purposes of self-defense, presumption …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Hydroelectric capacity that qualifies as an eligible energy technology under the renewable energy standard modified; electric utility requirements relating to energy, solar, or carbon-free standards delayed under certain conditions; and sales tax exemption for residential heating fuels and electricity expanded.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Public safety; various provisions modified relating to data held by law enforcement agencies; agency bail or bond notice; sex trafficking minimum sentences; reason for dismissing charges; liability and vicarious liability; assaulting a police officer penalty; penalties increased for obstructing trunk …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Imposition and allocation of certain taxes modified, tax analysis required, transportation funding impacts analysis required, retail delivery fee repealed, unlimited Social Security subtraction provided, previous appropriation and transfer modified, reports required, money transferred, and money appropriated.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share