The Minnesota Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met at the State Senate building on Monday, October 22, 2018. After introducing new task force members and reviewing the role of the task force, the first item on the agenda was testimony from Jamie Sorenson, Child Safety and Permanency Director at the Department of Human Services [...]
The Minnesota Legislature is working with Governor Dayton to determine their budget targets for the passage of the next biennial budget. Committees have chosen the bills that will make it into their respective omnibus bills, and the House and Senate have discussed their versions. The bill we’ve been tracking most closely is SF 800 / [...]
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 [...]
Updates on the Legislative Task Force on Child Protection The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met on September 28, 2016, to continue seeking input and monitoring progress of the recommendations set forth by the recommendations of the Governor’s Task Force on Child Protection. KSTP reporter Katherine Johnson was there to observe the discussion, and [...]
The Legislative Task Force on Child Protection met on July 27, 2016, to hear an update from DHS on the work of the Implementation Work Group and the grants that were recently awarded to projects designed to reduce racial disparities in child protection. Senator Kathy Sheran opened the meeting by saying that the legislature elected [...]