You, the people will be getting daily
updates from the People's House.
Now is the deadline is next
Monday to end the session,
and the folks there are debating and passing
and dropping laws at a fast and furious rate.
What's done and what isn't will change
by the hour from here on out.
And nothing makes it to law witt
Governor Walz's signature.
Knowing that, we thought it wash
time to get Governor Walz on record on
rebate checks, gun control legislation,
the Mayo exception and taxes.
Here's Kent.
Janna we caught up with the governor in
Saint Paul after he signed a bill that
provides $240,000,000 to removed
replace lead pipes across our s.
Now afterwards, he said he is ao
excited to sign off on recreatil
marijuana and the public safety budget,
which features long sought
gun safety legislation,
including expanded gun backgroud
checks and a red flag law that
would make us the 20th state.
To enact such a law, we
couldn't even get a hearing forr
years and I I find it just stunning to me,
the people who voted against this said, well,
this hasn't been vetted, it's been vetted.
Of course, there are still
a lot of big question marks,
including the status of a massive tax bill.
Legislators are set to
expand the child tax credit,
though a final dollar amount and
income thresholds for families e
still being discussed. Meanwhil,
the governor says he has a dealo
send $250 rebate checks to individuals
making up to $75,000 a year.
The amount could more than double for
couples who make up to $150,000 per year.
It will include children,
each member of your family.
OK, so two parents and they two children.
That's $1000 that they'll get.
Back on the rebate side, though
he admits that's far less than the Socalled
Walls checks he originally called for.
It'll be a little smaller
than what we wanted,
but I think there's other things we got
for that trade that'll help families.
The child tax credit will clearly be,
I think, the most felt of anything that
any state has done around taxes maybe.
In in a generation,
that's going to happen here in Minnesota.
So they're they're getting it,
they'll work it out.
One of the more controversial is
still remaining is the status oe
nurse staffing bill that we discussed
at length on this show yesterda.
The Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act,
which would create committees of executives,
nurses and other leaders to dece
staffing levels and hospitals,
was thrown into uncertainty last week
when the Mayo Clinic threatened to move
billions of investments out of our state
if the bill passes in recent da,
legislators announced.
That they were working on a compromise
that would essentially carve oun
exception that would apply onlyo
the Mayo Clinic Rochester hospi.
Now, as you can imagine,
that received pushback from nurs
and all other Minnesota hospitas
who say this will hurt them as .
So we asked the governor where
he stands tonight.
I have said very clearly I represented
Mayo Clinic area for 12 years in Congress.
They are a unique medical institution
because of their teaching side
of things and their global reac.
I have said and spoken very cley
on that that I need think we ned
to make accommodations on that.
But I am open for what I believe
is not an us versus them,
nurses versus healthcare side of things,
but there's a compromise to make it work.
I think that's what's happening
if that entails
carving out something different
for the Mayo Clinic a lot of.
Hospital saying hold on a minut,
we've got concerns about
what this will mean. Rural
hospital. I will answer that question
when it gets to me.
I I what I would tell all folks
involved in this and I have faco
face that we're in this togethe.
Our primary responsibility is
delivering high quality healthce
to every corner of Minnesota.
There are valid concerns on
both sides of this discussion.
I believe there is a working solution.
To put things in place where
nurses have a voice at the
table to make this happen,
but the healthcare systems understand
that there's unique situation.
So I think they're still
trying to work that out.
Now again, as of yesterday,
that work on a compromise still
only included the Mayo Clinic,
so we'll see where that lands, Janet.
One other item that the governor
said does not appear to be making its
way to his desk is sports betti.