Across the regular scheduled session and one-day special session, lawmakers struck major deals on health care, infrastructure, labor and taxes — while deferring action on housing and sports betting.

The change was a sticking point during negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, for whom repealing that law was a top priority in the divided Legislature.

Rep. Kaohly Vang Her tells Minnesota lawmakers she's an undocumented immigrant who fled post-war Vietnam, explaining how her father at the US Consulate altered paperwork.

Representative Melissa Hortman was the top Democratic lawmaker in the Minnesota House, and a former Speaker of the House. Hortman, as well as Minnesota Sen. John Huffman, seems to have been the target of a political assassination attempt in Minneapolis.

Minnesota lawmakers will return to the capitol on Monday to begin what Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders hope will be a one-day special session to pass the rest of the next two-year state budget.

In the end, Minnesota lawmakers managed to pass a $66 billion two-year budget through the most closely divided Legislature in state history, addressing a looming deficit and averting a partial government shutdown.

The change is expected to save the state around $57 million in the next two years, according to a health and human services budget spreadsheet.

The Minnesota Legislature approved the remaining pieces of the next state budget overnight Tuesday during a special session, after lawmakers failed to complete their work in May.The House adjourned around 10:40 p.

Wisconsin Legislative leadership sent a statement on Saturday, following two Minnesota lawmakers who were shot in their homes by a man impersonating a police officer.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.