Senate Floor Session - 03/16/23

A $1.5 billion bonding bill failed to garner enough votes to pass the Senate Thursday, March 16. According to the Senate sponsor of HF 669, Senator Sandra Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, the infrastructure package represents a good mix of rural, urban, GOP and DFL projects. Capital improvements bills that rely on state borrowing require a three-fifths majority, meaning seven Republicans needed to join with the thirty-four member DFL majority. The final vote was 34-32.