Report for Minnesota

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 program offers STEM education kits and access to free resources and programs. One of its offerings is a 5-day field trip for fifth-grade students to learn about STEM careers.

The bill would require more transparency on where animals come from to make sure they are ethically sourced, aimed at combating inhumane practices of puppy mills and backyard breeders.

If a bill by Rep. Ben Bakeberg, R-Jordan, becomes law, only students enrolled in high-demand programs would be eligible to receive the North Star Promise scholarship.

Legislation would allocate $600K from the state’s workforce development fund to the Rural Cancer Institute for a program exposing med students to oncology care in rural Minnesota.