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Dear Neighbors,

Last week was a success! We passed our budget proposals in the following areas: Higher Education [ [link removed] ], Legacy [ [link removed] ], Environment and Clean Energy [ [link removed] ], Housing [ [link removed] ], Veterans [ [link removed] ], Elections, State and Local Government [ [link removed] ], K-12 Education [ [link removed] ], Agriculture [ [link removed] ], Transportation [ [link removed] ], and Early Childhood [ [link removed] ].

These are all great bills, and I?d like to highlight a few for you, starting with a K-12 Education budget proposal. All Minnesota students deserve a world-class education. House DFLers deliver on this promise with historic new investments in education while also ensuring stable funding in the future by tying formula increases to inflation.

Included in our K-12 Education budget is my proposal to invest $25 million for high quality after-school programs, focusing primarily on underserved communities and providing opportunities for academic enrichment. Other notable highlights of our budget include the following:

House K-12 Education Investments
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The Environment and Natural Resources Budget

We passed our Environment and Natural Resources budget proposal this week, which was included with our Climate and Clean Energy plan. This is a crucial component of our overall budget, focusing on building a cleaner, greener Minnesota. There are a lot of important components in this bill.? I?m especially proud of our proposal on the cumulative impacts of pollution. Specifically, the bill requires a cumulative environmental impacts analysis to be conducted for certain permit decisions that may affect an environmental justice area and requires the commissioner to deny a permit application if the analysis shows that issuing it would contribute to cumulative adverse environmental stressors in the area. It?s crucial that we no longer allow our communities to carry the burden of pollution. Other components of the bill include:

House Environment & Natural Resources Investments
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Our Housing Budget

Another important budget proposal we passed this week would invest in Housing throughout the state.

Housing Topline Facts

This budget makes our state?s most significant commitment to end family and child homelessness through the creation of state-based rental vouchers. This innovative form of housing assistance will create housing stability for 7,000 low-income Minnesota families all across the state.

In addition, we?re pursuing the state?s most ambitious agenda yet to create pathways to homeownership and address our state?s racial home ownership gap. The bill includes a new first generation down payment assistance program that will create 4,000 new homeowners.

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State of the State

We paused our work for a brief moment last Wednesday to join with guests and our Senate colleagues to attend Governor Walz?s fifth State of the State Address, which you can watch here [ [link removed] ].

I applaud Governor Walz, and his commitment to working with us to ensure Minnesota is a great state for everyone - regardless of where they come from or what they look like. This is in stark contrast to some of the news we?ve seen coming out of other states, including our neighbors, but it?s crucial Minnesota remains a place where everyone can achieve the American Dream.

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The state of our state is strong and getting stronger.

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Keep in Touch

Please continue to reach out anytime if you need assistance or have questions at [email protected] or 651-296-4255. You can also follow my official Facebook page [ [link removed] ] and the People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus page [ [link removed] ].






In community,

Rep. Cedrick Frazier
Minnesota House of Representatives

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* *Vice Chair* Judiciary Finance and Civil Law [ [link removed] ]
* Education Policy [ [link removed] ]
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* Workforce Development Finance and Policy [ [link removed] ]

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