The Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee met April 23, 2026, and referred two bills to the general register: House File 1082, a public safety package that includes a one-time $12,000,000 appropriation for victim services and several law-enforcement-related provisions, and House File 4252, a higher education bill including $1,500,000 for enrollment-fraud detection software and a small tree-replacement appropriation for Bemidji State University.