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Several bills did not make it across the desk before the midnight deadline, including a bonding bill, a sports betting bill, and a bill to put an Equal Rights Amendment on the State Constitution.

(KNSI) - House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) and Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson (R-East Gra...

By RON HUBBARD, Session Daily

The Legislature ran right up to its midnight deadline Monday with a shoutfest at the end. Many plans passed in one bill, but several others got left behind.

(KNSI) - The 2024 session of the Minnesota Legislature ended in chaos at the midnight deadline as the clock ra...

The 2024 session ended in a flurry of recriminations that will surely be central to the campaign that ramps up Tuesday with candidate filing.

"I would have liked to have seen it end differently," DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman said. GOP leaders called it "an absolute sham."

They say the last-minute deal will prevent the companies from leaving Minneapolis on July 1.

Lawmakers on Saturday night came to a last minute deal to keep the rideshare companies, Uber and Lyft, in the state.

Gov. Tim Walz also talked about the unfinished business left in the waning hours of the 2024 legislative session.