April 7, 2009: Legislative Report #50

Only 2,303 Bills. Are we Reaching Session End?

Tuesday April 7, 2009 the Minnesota House met for the 32nd time. Seven bills introduced today totaling 2,303 bills for the year. One bill is HF #2303, authored by Dave Olin (DFL) District: 01A, appropriates $200,000.00 from the BROKE general fund to create an online high school agricultural education program. Constitutionally, Minnesota has an obligation to educate; I question the timing of appropriating additional state expenses requiring additional revenue generation. In addition, this program is college level materials provided free to high school students, when college students have out of pocket costs for similar courses. When is enough, enough?