
Billion dollar surplus anticipated for new biennium
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Legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton are expected to have more than a billion additional dollars at their disposal.
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Legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton are expected to have more than a billion additional dollars at their disposal.
The House on Friday passed the omnibus supplemental budget bill 75-55.
While Minnesota Public Radio touts the conventional talking points about this year’s session in What the 2014 Legislature did for you, Bluestem is finding all sorts of goodies in the supplemental budget bill, and we’ll be posting more about them in the coming week. Continue Reading
On the menu at the Minnesota Legislature right now is a three-course fiscal feast. The $1.23 billion General Fund surplus forecast earlier this year for the current biennium provided the fixings for a tax bill, supplemental spending bill and bonding bill.
Aside from the University of Minnesota’s multimillion-dollar request for construction and upkeep projects throughout its five-campus system, more state dollars are on the line this session.
As the conferees for the supplemental budget bill began their work on Tuesday night, the House and Senate chairs had a sense of déjà vu.
After years of being mired in large budget deficits, the House on Thursday dived into the unfamiliar territory of advancing hundreds of millions of surplus dollars.
Public colleges and university buildings could get some much-needed repair and three civic center projects could be constructed — but funding to continue State Capitol renovations is up in the air.
A state fund that helps pay for MinnesotaCare is estimated to face an increasing deficit in the coming years, the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee learned during its first hearing on its omnibus bill Tuesday.
An increase on the school funding formula and more dollars for English language learners are key pieces to the omnibus education finance bill.