Report for Minnesota

The state originally enacted the $75 annual surcharge in 2021 to replace the money electric vehicle owners would normally pay in gas taxes, which contribute to road and bridge construction and maintenance.

As of April, there have been 70 confirmed human cases in the U.S., with the first reported death in January of this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Student-Parent Support Initiative, or SPSI, passed in the 2023 legislative session and gives money to programs that help students with children succeed in higher education.

The program, established in 2023, helped 600 families become homeowners in the first seven months of its existence, according to Rep. Esther Agbaje, DFL-Minneapolis.

The bill would spend $250,000 in each of the next two fiscal years on the project, which is meant to create a repository for a variety of seeds grown in MN before 1970.

The $3.66 billion budget bill the House passed on April 25, 2025, increases state spending for the next two years by $50M for public safety and $30M for courts.

The bill would have prohibited eligible centers from encouraging or providing abortions to pregnant women.

The bill contains nearly $10 billion in spending over the next two fiscal years for roads, bridges, transit and airports. But some of the sharpest debate came over provisions that didn’t make it in.

The bill also proposes legal restrictions on the possession of sex dolls resembling children under the age of 12.

The bill would allow THC beverages to label 10 milligram drinks as a single serving instead of the current requirement of two servings in the state of Minnesota.