House, Senate hear supplemental spending bills Legislative update

Publish Date

April 25

The state House and Senate continue to hear the supplemental omnibus spending bills.

The Senate Finance Committee will be rolling all of the bills into one vehicle bill, Senate File 3656, which may be heard on the floor sometime next week. The House will be combining several supplemental omnibus spending bills together in the Ways and Means Committee, sending multiple bills to the floor. The House and Senate positions are vastly different and it is unclear how the bills will be reconciled.

Neither chambers included the pensions reform bill in these. It remains in the House Government Operations and Election Policy Committee, where it has yet to receive a hearing.

MAPE will post updates to the website and social media as they occur.

April 18

The House State Government Finance Committee released the delete-all amendment to House File 4016, its omnibus supplemental finance bill late Monday evening. While the bill did not include the mess of anti-labor provisions present in the Senate companion, Chair Sarah Anderson instead is proposing deep, unspecified budget cuts to most state agencies. These cuts include:

  • $9.7M cut across all state agencies in FY19, shifting that amount to pay for MNLARS.
  • $718K reduction to the LEAN program and Historical Preservation Office at the Department of Administration in FY19 and $1.2M in FY20-21.
  • $3.9M operations cut to Department of Revenue in FY19 and $7.8M cut in FY20-21.
  • $1.4M operations cut to Department of Human Rights (except the Saint Cloud office) in FY19 and $2.8M in FY20-21.
  • $518K operations cut to Cosmetology Examiner’s Board in FY19, and $1M in FY20-21.

The bill also transfers positions in the Data Practices Office from the Department of Administration to the Office of Administrative Hearings, and mandates that Enterprise Software projects be outsourced to a third-party vendor.

The Senate omnibus E-12 supplemental finance bill, Senate File 3928, includes a one-time $125,000 cut to the Perpich Center. This is a budgetary gimmick to shift spending in other areas without actually having to invest new money.

We will update the MAPE Action page as the supplemental spending bills make their way through the markup process.