2024 LEA Report on Minnesota Legislature Released

Legislative Evaluation Assembly of Minnesota

LEA reports on 2024 session, announces honorees

Download 2024 LEA Announcement Flyer (.pdf)

Download 2024 LEA Report (.pdf)

2024 Honorees:

Senators Bruce Anderson, Cal Bahr, Steve Drazkowski, Justin Eichorn, Steve Green, Je Howe, Mark Koran, Bill Lieske, Eric Lucero, Paul Utke and Nathan Wesenberg

2024 honorable Mention:

Honorable Mention Senate: Gene Dornink, Rich Draheim, Glenn Gruenhagen, Jason Rarick Honorable Mention House: Shane Mekeland

St. Paul, MN, October 18, 2024 — Legislative Evaluation Assembly of Minnesota (LEA) is releasing its report on the Minnesota legislature’s 2024 session. The 2024 LEA report rates the votes of all 201 legislators on 16 selected bills. The report summarizes these bills and analyzes them in more depth and detail than seen in the popular press. In 2024, LEA calls particular attention to many changes in Minnesota statute, including election laws, many insertions of discriminatory language, and statewide price controls, especially tennant/landlord regulations.

In 2024, LEA again felt the need to expand its printed report from 12 to 16 pages pages to adequately summarize and evaluate 16 bills. “The 2024 legislature continued to push the envelope with a large number of major, radical changes in policy, statutes and appropriations.” noted LEA President Don Lee.

2024 St Croix Review Annual Dinner

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The 2024 St Croix Review annual dinner is being held at the Lowell Inn October 25th, 2024. More details can be found Here.

LEA will be there. Come visit us and talk about the Minnesota Legislature’s performance in 2024.

Overview of the 2023 State Legislative Session and Comparison With 2013

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Before the legislature returns to session for 2024, it is useful to review the massive changes passed by the legislature in 2023 that became law.  A number of organizations have created lists; this comprehensive list was put together while doing research for the 2023 LEA Report.

– Compiled by – John Augustine – LEA board VP
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First Look at LEA 2023 report

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The 2023 Minnesota legislative session is over May 22nd, and with the last few bills passed or defeated, the Legislative Evaluation Assembly has a complete list of legislative actions to evaluate on its report and scorecard. Below is the press release that has been sent to over 200 media outlets to announce our efforts and give a sneak peek of what is to come.

The press release can be found here.

2023 LEA Banquet News and Photos

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Our 2023 LEA awards banquet was held on February 21st 2023, and despite the snowy weather, we had a good turnout and enjoyed the presentations by our speakers, and a good dinner. Only one of our 5 honorees attended the banquet. The reason is that three of our honorees are now in the Minnesota senate, they were caught having to be present in St Paul, in the senate, voting on tight votes. They did their jobs rather than attend our photo-op. The LEA approves.

You can see below a few photographs of our banquet

.Many thanks to Mark T Bitner Photography for the great images

Our Banner
Power Couple
Shiela Qualls
Shiela Qualls
Kendall Qualls
Thank the Speaker
Dinner
Getting chow
Rep Munson and his award

Video was taken of the entire banuet, which is on our YouTube channel here.