A bonding bill is still in the works for the second special session of the Minnesota Legislature. House Agriculture and Food Finance Committee Chair Jeanne Poppe says a super majority vote is needed to pass the bill, but lawmakers aren’t there yet. “The minority leader has indicated he wants peace time emergency declaration to go away and/or to have the governor’s powers to be changed. I know negotiations are taking place on how that could be and what this entails,” says Poppe. “We hope the conversations move along so on Monday we can have a bill and pass it in the House.” Section 179 conformity is part of the bargain in the pending legislation. “It’s part of what’s already been negotiated between the House Democrats and Senate Republicans. We just need to get enough House Republicans to vote on this bill to send it on to the Senate. There’s a lot of effort going into the negotiations in order to get it done.”
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