From this site, you can check the daily listing of bills that have been introduced in the House. It lists the bill number, the author (s), and a brief description of what the bill is about.
This site is the starting off point for tracking legislation - bill introductions and for looking up bill numbers, including past bills. If I don't have a site you're looking for already linked, check out this site.
If you've heard about a bill and want to look up information on how it is doing in the legislature, this site will let you find the bill and see how it's doing.
This site will give you a listing of all of the committees in the House and will provide links to find out more about each committee, who the members are, how to contact them, and what bills are coming up before their committees.
This is the only way that you will be able to follow what amendments are being offered on the floor of the Senate unless they are passed, in which case the full version of the amendment can be found in the Senate Journal.
Written record of the daily activity in the MN Senate. Contains the voting records for each day's business on the Senate Floor as well as the legislation dealt with.
This is a glossary of terms that you hear used quite often when referring to the processes going on at the Minnesota Legislature. It will help to sort out what he heck these people are talking about!
From this site you can look up any of the statutes and laws that have been passed in Minnesota, as well as administrative rules. Can look up by statute or chapter numbers or by key phrase.
This is an excellent site for keeping track of what's going on in the House. They have various articles on this site regarding different issues of the day.
This is another excellent site for keeping track of what's going on in the House. It will give you summary's of bill introductions and of some of the legislation as it goes forward in the House.
From this site you can find out how to watch the legislative sessions on the web and when and what will be broadcast. This has come in handy for when they are discussing of something of particular importance to me, but the television coverage has cut off. (Channel 17's coverage usually only goes until 5 pm although it does go later at times.)
Any amendments that are made on the House floor can only be seen (as far as I am aware) by the general public by checking this site. If you are watching either the televised session or the webcast of the session, you can view the amendments being made on the floor by using this site. It really opens up the process!
