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Legislature ends 60-day session with millionaires tax, three budgets and a string of public-safety and health measures
Summary
Senate and House leaders said the 60-day session produced three adopted budgets and a suite of bills including a millionaires tax, election-data protections, a masking bill for law enforcement, and measures on law-enforcement impersonation, immigrant rights and school meals; vote tallies were not specified in the transcript.
Senate Majority Leader Jamie Peterson summarized the legislature’s work at the close of the 60-day session, saying lawmakers "landed all of our three budgets" and passed a package of bills he said will protect residents and improve affordability.
The session produced what leaders called the "millionaires tax," which Peterson said will remove sales tax on everyday items including groceries, over-the-counter medicines and diapers, and create revenue the legislature can use for investments the public values. "We passed the millionaires tax, which is gonna make sure that people are not small businesses are getting the biggest tax break in history," Peterson said…
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