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Serious Negotiations
The Minnesota legislative session is required to end within ten days. At the beginning of the week, legislative leaders announced that they had given themselves a goal of having a broad global agreement on key issues and budget targets by Friday (today). Following such an agreement, conference committees would need to finalize details within their individual bills.
On Tuesday, Senate leadership publicly shared a document that explained its opening offer to the House for a global agreement on key end-of-session issues. In the days since, there have been no other offers or counteroffers that have been made public. Quiet negotiations such as those happening now is typically a sign that the legislative leaders are conducting serious negotiations.
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Senate votes to strip Walz school powers
School boards would have complete control over when students return to classroom if bill were to pass House and be signed by Gov. Walz. Author: John Croman Updated: 6:24 PM CST February 18, 2021
ST PAUL, Minn The Minnesota Senate wants Gov. Tim Walz to keep his hands off how the state s schools respond to the coronavirus pandemic from now on, and leave those decisions entirely to local school boards.
The Senate voted Thursday afternoon to strip Walz of his peacetime emergency powers when it comes to public schools across the state. The Republican-led effort passed with a bi-partisan 40-to-27 tally after a three-hour debate.