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Legislative Update

Hello friends,

Last night we heard two very important bills on the House floor, HF24 [ [link removed] ] and HF25 [ [link removed] ]. HF24, also called the Born Alive Rollback, provides legal protections for infants who are born alive after an abortion procedure and mandates that they get the life saving care that they need. HF25, also known as the Supporting Women Act, is a bill to provide funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which support mothers and babies in a challenging time of life. Both of this bills were debated, eliciting passionate discussion on both sides of the aisle. When they came down to a vote, however; every single Democrat voted against both of these bills. Rather than choosing to affirm life and give expecting mothers support and the gift of choice, House Democrats chose to make these political issues and voted against these bills. House Republicans are committed to fighting for these rights, and hope to reconsider the bills later in the session.

Updates from the Capitol

My bills:

HF6 [ [link removed] ] - Education Priority Bill. Although I am not the chief author, this bill is our most important and holistic education bill. *This bill was heard in committee and tabled for future consideration.*

HF629 [ [link removed] ] - Bonding for Blooming Prairie

HF630 [ [link removed] ] - Extension of Short-Call Substitute Teacher Program. *This bill was heard in the Education Policy Committee, and then referred to the Education Finance Committee. It will likely be heard on Tuesday next week.* 

HF877 [ [link removed] ] - Amending the Read Act. *This bill was referred to Education Finance, and I am currently working with other representatives so that it will be ready for another hearing in the future**.*

HF1128 [ [link removed] ] - Requiring public high schools to participate in the direct admissions program

HF1170 [ [link removed] ] - Bonding for the Minnesota BioImaging Center of the Hormel Institute

HF1178 [ [link removed] ] - Bonding for the Mower County FAARM program

HF1381 [ [link removed] ] - Out-of-field permissions exempted from limit on renewals

HF1456 [ [link removed] ] - Austin; local sales and use tax authorized

HF1538 [ [link removed] ] - Teacher apprenticeships funding provided, report required, and money appropriated. *This bill was heard yesterday in the Education Finance Committee [ [link removed] ]. Its next stop is in the Labor and Workforce Development Committee.  *

HF1959 [ [link removed] ] - Teacher preparation program grant eligibility modified. *This bill was heard yesterday in the Education Finance Committee [ [link removed] ] and laid over for possible consideration in the future. *

HF1960 [ [link removed] ] - Displaced homemaker programs funding provided, and money appropriated.

HF2246 [ [link removed] ] - Civic education grants funding provided, and money appropriated. For Youth in Government.

HFXXX - Coming soon: Allowing high school students to earn the Minnesota Civic Seal on their High School Diploma. Expected to be introduced in the next week, I will provide updates when I have them!






Mueller Minute

In this weeks Mueller Minute, I talk about my bills that went through committee this week and Minnesota civics.

Quick clarification: I misspoke about co-chairs and vice chairs in the video. I should have said that Rep. Youakim is a co-chair of Education Finance and Rep. Josiah Hill is a co-vice chair of Education Policy.




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MN Civic Seal and YIG

I had an awesome opportunity to meet with Landon, from Pacelli, and other Youth in Government students and supporters to introduce my upcoming bill in a press conference [ [link removed] ]. Landon and other students are excited about the opportunity to have the MN Civic Seal on their high school diplomas upon graduation. I am proud of these students for being involved in the legislative process and working for this bill that they want!

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AMSD Board Meeting

Last week I had the chance to go to the Association of Metro School Districts (AMSD) Board Meeting. By attending, I was able to speak directly with board members about some of my bills and the state of our education system overall.

AMSD
Events

St. Finbarr Fish Fry [ [link removed] ]: Friday, March 14th, 4:30 - 7:00 pm

Smashing Cancer Demo Derby [ [link removed] ]: Saturday, March 15th, 1pm. Mower County Fairground.

Benefit for Ehmke House Fire [ [link removed] ]: Saturday, March 15th, 2pm

Bingo [ [link removed] ]: Saturday, March 15th. 7pm at Dexter Fire Hall. 

Lost in Austin [ [link removed] ]: The band Lost in Austin will be at the What's Up Bar on Saturday, March 15th from 7 - 10pm.

Save the date: Blooming Prairie Education Foundation's annual auction [ [link removed] ] will be on Saturday March 29th!

Get your tickets to the Austinaires: Country Roads [ [link removed] ] Performance. Tickets are on sale for April 10-12th.

Shoutouts

Shoutout to Austin High School basketball player Cole Hebrink for earning an award as an all-conference player this season!

Congratulations to Austin's Brent Dahl, who competed in the state tournament last weekend and won the 100yd backstroke! 

 

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Shoutout to the Grand Meadow Girls Basketball team for making it to the section finals this season!

Shoutout to the Southland Boys Basketball team on their impressive season, with a regular season record of 29-1. That is a seriously impressive record!

Shoutout to the Blooming Prairie Boys Basketball for making it to sections this season! They fell in the quarterfinals, but it was a great season overall!

Congratulations to the Austin High School Ag Mechanic team for earning 1st place at the Region 8 qualifier. Shoutout to Luke on the team for earning top individual.

Congratulations to these three students that placed in the Grand Meadow Geography Bee:

1st: Beau Curley, 2nd: Kellan Unverzagt, 3rd: Ben Bellrichard.






Please Contact Me

Please continue to reach out if I can be of any assistance to you. You can reach me by phone at 651-296-4193 or by email at [email protected] 

Have a great weekend! 

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