Regular Session Ends The Minnesota Legislature adjourned the 2025 Regular Session on Monday night, but a special session looms on the horizon as legislators failed to pass a complete budget. Despite meeting through the weekend and on Monday, little progress was made to get to final resolution. Each caucus held a press conference or media ...
Governor and Legislative Leaders Agree to Budget Targets On Thursday of this week, the Governor and legislative leaders announced that they had reached agreement on budget targets, a copy of which can be found here. While this deal is welcome, it comes too late for any realistic hope that the budget work will be completed by ...
Budget Status Summary With the end of the 2025 legislative session fast approaching, legislators are working to approve the omnibus finance bills necessary to implement a FY 2026-2027 Biennial Budget. Legislative leaders and the Governor continue to work behind closed doors on global targets with rumors swirling that a deal is within grasp. However, as ...
State of Affairs With the constitutionally-mandated end of session just over two weeks away (Monday, May 19), much work remains to be done in order to pass a two-year budget. The first conference committee appointments have just been made, but no conference committees have even had an opportunity to schedule a meeting yet, and several ...
It’s All Budget Bills Following a weeklong break for Passover and Easter, the legislature is back to work and quickly moving omnibus bills through the legislative process. Finance committees had to pass their two-year budget recommendations before break. This week, those bills have been passing through the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and ...
Winthrop will be attending the Star of the North Dental Conference April 24-26, 2025 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. The Star of the North Meeting is open to dentists, dental residents, dental students, dental therapists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental office staff, lab technicians, and guests of dentists. The event brings the best clinicians and ...
April 24-26, 2025
Deadlines! It has been a busy week at the State Capitol. In both the House and Senate, committees raced to meet the first and second bill deadlines of Friday, April 4 (collectively), while finance committee chairs in both bodies met behind closed doors to work on omnibus finance bills. The Senate DFL majority released budget ...
Governor Revises Budget On March 21, Governor Tim Walz released a revised FY 2026-2027 biennial budget, which incorporates the impact of the latest budget and economic forecast released on March 6. The revised budget includes just under $250 million in budget reductions that carry over into FY 2028-2029. Also included were small, primarily one-time investments ...
Legislature Reaches Full Complement— For about three days this week, all 201 legislative seats, 134 House members and 67 Senators, were filled for the first time in 2025. The week began with David Gottfried, the winner of the 40B special election, being sworn into the House on Monday. Gottfried’s swearing in brought the House to ...
DFL Wins 40B Special Election The most important event impacting the State Capitol this week occurred in parts of Roseville and Shoreview, where DFLer David Gottfried defeated Republican Paul Wikstrom by almost 6,000 votes in Tuesday’s District 40B special election. Gottfried is expected to be sworn in on Monday, March 17, at which time the ...
February Forecast Shows Worsening Budget Outlook Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) delivered the delayed February budget and economic forecast yesterday. While MMB projects a $456 million surplus for the FY 2026-27 biennium, this projected surplus is now $160 million lower than estimates from the November Forecast. In a statement, MMB said the “budget outlook has been ...
No Committee Deadlines While House and Senate committees met and heard a variety of policy and spending bills this past week, legislative leaders again failed to agree on setting committee deadlines. DFL leaders have been advocating for later deadlines because they expect the House DFL to return to parity with the House Republicans after the ...