Category: SD36

Hello neighbors and friends and welcome to the final weekly session update for the 2018 legislative session.

I hope this finds you preparing for a safe, enjoyable and meaningful Memorial Day weekend with family and friends. I look forward to participating in events this weekend memorializing those men and women who gave their lives for our nation. As we all pause our busy lives, let us also honor those who have served and thank those wearing the uniforms of our military today. Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Update: May 26, 2018”

 

Above: Hanson Boulevard. The rail grade crossing funding for this intersection passed previously.

Sen. Hoffman supports more funding in the 2018 bonding bill

ST. PAUL, Minn – Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) voted against a shortsighted bonding bill that short-changed Minnesotans. The legislation ignored urgently-needed investments in critical infrastructure and public safety in his district and across the state.

In response, Sen. Hoffman released the following statement:

“This bill was woefully inadequate and ignored too many important projects that would create jobs, help working families, students, seniors and veterans. It is extremely important that we take care of our infrastructure to protect Minnesota’s financial stability – this first bonding bill just did not do that.” Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Statement on Bonding Bill Vote”

Hello Neighbors and friends. Welcome to the week 11 newsletter of the 2018 Legislative session. You will read in my newsletter the highlights of the session this past week as well as the picking of a new Regent for the University of Minnesota.  Some good news for our district is my work on the 169 and 101st exchange in Brooklyn Park was included in the Bonding proposal for the Senate. This collaborative effort will help ease traffic and expansion for Brooklyn Park and Champlin.

As Minnesota lawmakers we are expected to put forth big, bold ideas, especially in the form of a bonding bill that covers our infrastructure needs throughout the state.  The current bonding plans within the House and Senate are roughly 825 million while the Governor is asking for 1.5 billion in investments.  Now is the time to invest more as I am concerned if we continue to ignore the growing backlog of public works requests from local governments, Minnesotans’ quality of life will decline as a result and businesses will look to other states to invest and create jobs. A strong economy is possible when the private and public sectors work together hand in hand, but the current plans need a little boost to get closer to the Governor’s request. Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Update: May 11, 2018”

Hello Neighbors and friends. Welcome to the week 10 newsletter of the 2018 Legislative session.  I hope you had a great weekend and addressed all your to do list activities.  I know I still have a long list to get to and am even late in getting this past weeks newsletter out for you.  We had a busy and active week voting on the Senate Tax plan, discussing clean water, DWI penalties and working on Opioid crisis response. We only have a couple of weeks left to get our work done this session and I am committed to working together to get our work done. Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Senator John Hoffman  Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Update: May 7, 2018”

Welcome to week nine of the 2018 Minnesota Legislative Session. This week went by fast and was highlighted with a 12.5 hour Senate Floor Session on Thursday where we heard the Supplemental Finance Omnibus Bill.  The Bill had many articles outlying those bills that had made their way through the various committees representing the one large Omnibus Bill. Lots of work went into the development of those articles and I touch base about some of those in this weeks newsletter. The timing is important because the Legislature faces a May 21 constitutional deadline to complete its work, meaning just three short weeks remain to hold public discussion on sweeping proposals that will impact nearly every Minnesotan in one form or another. Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Update: April 27, 2018”

Welcome to week 8 of the 2018 Minnesota Session. This was another deadline week with finance bills getting marked up and voted on to move eventually into an omnibus bill to be presented to the floor. We did vote on 5 bills this week in the Senate and moved those on to conference committees to be worked out and sent to the Governor:  A bill for an act relating to transportation; designating a section of U.S. Highway 12 as Officer Bill Mathews Memorial Highway, A bill for an act relating to business organizations; regulating business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies; providing for conversions and domestication, A bill for an act relating to public safety; establishing a crime for misrepresenting an animal as a service animal, A bill for an act relating to public safety; modifying motorcycle operating requirements for individuals possessing a two-wheeled vehicle instruction permit, A bill for an act relating to bio diesel; allowing the minimum bio diesel content level for diesel fuel to be modified during certain times of the year; extending Number 1 diesel exemption. Finally, A bill for an act relating to commerce; modifying licensing requirements for mortgage loan originators. Continue reading “Sen. John Hoffman (SD36) Update: April 20, 2018”