House set to craft $200 million bonding bill
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, said today (March 27) that the House capital investment committee next week will begin crafting a $200 million bonding bill.
The Senate has already acted on a $367 million bonding bill.
The House bonding bill will focus on basic items, Kelliher explained.
House DFLers hope that a bonding bill could clear the Legislature by the second half of April, Kelliher explained.
They don’t want the bill caught up in late session global budget negotiations, she opined.
Asked if Gov. Tim Pawlenty would accept such an approach, Kelliher said that if she were chief executive of the state and had two Metrodomes full of people who were unemployed, she would think of speedily turning out a reasonable bonding bill to get people back to work.
On another topic, Kelliher indicated that the House would take up the Green Acres conference committee report on Monday (March 30) on the House floor.
