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Senate adopts jobs and labor omnibus after hours of debate on nonprofits, unemployment and workplace rules
Summary
The Minnesota Senate passed Senate File 18-32, a jobs and labor omnibus, after extended debate and votes on amendments covering nonprofit funding, unemployment help for Iron Range miners, grant reporting and penalties for break-time violations. The bill passed on a 35-30 roll call.
Senators passed a combined jobs and labor omnibus, Senate File 18-32, after extensive floor debate on nonprofit funding, employer reporting and new worker protections.
The package includes the Jobs Committee budget and a separate labor article with operating funding for the Department of Labor and Industry and related agencies, plus new statutory language on rest and meal breaks and construction codes and licensing fee alignment. Lawmakers spent several hours debating amendments on direct appropriations to nonprofits, accountability and reporting language, and a targeted unemployment extension for Iron Range miners.
Supporters framed the bill as a mix of budgets and measured policy needed to support Minnesota workers and to modernize several agency programs. Senator Bobby Joe Champion, the bill author and jobs committee chair, described the bill as a budget document with discrete, noncontroversial policy changes added by committee deliberations. Labor chair Senator Lindsey McEwen outlined changes in the…
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