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Find out how Minnesota legislators removed nurse staffing regulations from a controversial bill and what the Nurse and Patient Safety Act focuses on.

For just the eighth time in 40 years, a budget session did not require a special session to finish its work. There were many policy changes, too.

The Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act, renamed the Nurse and Patient Safety Act, lost its controversial Mayo exemption and cemented nurse workplace protections.

The Minnesota Legislature has put the final touches on a $72 billion state budget and adjourned for the year. Democrats are celebrating the enactment of an ambitious agenda that ranged

The Minnesota Legislature has put the final touches on a $72 billion state budget and adjourned for the year. Democrats are celebrating the enactment of an ambitious agenda that ranged

The legislation will instead focus on preventing violence against nurses and studying the reasons why they burn out.

DFLers won control of state government in November, and with no Republican Senate majority in the way, have moved swiftly to enact many of their priorities.

Both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature passed what used to be the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act late Monday night following a major change to the bill.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Legislature put the final touches on a $72 billion state budget and adjou...

All session long, nurses and legislative supporters had championed the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act as a way of making sure all hospitals across the state could be staffed in a way that they say would provide the best care for patients.