2017 legislative session

February 2017

Session Updates: Bills Introduced Related to Child Welfare

By |2017-02-13T09:26:58-06:00February 13th, 2017|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , |

Over 1000 bills have been introduced in the House so far and nearly 900 in the Senate in Minnesota, and committees have been meeting regularly to determine their priorities for this budget-setting session. Three deadlines have been established for committees. The first, March 10, is the date by which committees must determine which bills they’d [...]

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January 2017

2017 Legislative Session Begins

By |2017-01-17T10:37:40-06:00January 17th, 2017|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , |

Minnesota’s 2017 legislative session began on January 3 with a number of new legislators and a Republican majority in both houses. This year begins a new two-year biennium session, in which the legislature sets the budget for the state for the next two years. And it marks a return to the Capitol, after the majority [...]

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