Minnesota Lawyer

The House and Senate have wildly divergent approaches to election reform, as two major bills recently heard in committee amply demonstrate.

In the 2021 legislative session’s early going, George Floyd’s presence is being powerfully felt—at least in one chamber.

In the Hopper is a summary of Minnesota legislation of interest to the legal community.

With the first volley of 2021 legislative bills now introduced at the Minnesota Capitol, we’re getting some sense of the legislative session’s early priorities.

If it gets signed into law, its author says, a bill passed unanimously by the Senate on Monday would be the state’s first major data-privacy legislation in about six years.

In the Hopper is a summary of Minnesota legislation of interest to the legal community.

First responders infected with COVID-19 need not prove that their illness resulted from the job, now that a bill naming the conditional as presumptively work-related has passed into law.

With only four dissenters in the entire Capitol, lawmakers last week passed a $331 million COVID-19 relief package that, from the perspective of lawyers, may be as notable for what is missing as for what is present.

A Senate bill that gives extraordinary powers to the Department of Human Services commissioner during the COVID-19 crisis moved through one committee last week.

House and Senate caucus leaders announced that they effectively are shutting down the Legislature for almost a month.