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Committee hears testimony, lays over bills to continue and expand Diaper Bank of Minnesota funding
Summary
The House Children and Families Committee heard testimony on two bills (HF 15,81 and HF 11,58) to continue and increase state support for the Diaper Bank of Minnesota. Witnesses described a large increase in need and requested a funding increase from $1.1 million to $2.2 million to expand statewide distributions.
The Minnesota House Children and Families Committee heard public testimony on two bills to continue and expand state support for the Diaper Bank of Minnesota (DBM) and laid both bills over for possible inclusion in an omnibus package.
Representative Hicks, who sponsored the bills related to diaper access, told the panel that diapers are a basic health necessity and that the Diaper Bank had nearly quadrupled distributions in recent years, from roughly 865,000 to about 2.6 million diapers by the end of 2024 after a 2023 state…
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