Let\u2019s see. Where were we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last time the DFL held the House Taxes Committee chair, it was May 2024 and marathon conference committee negotiations with the Senate reached a conclusion that was both anti-climactic and something of a bold crescendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anti-climactic in that the bulk of the final House tax bill<\/a> was cast aside in the session\u2019s final hours in favor of making the tax bill a 1,400-plus-page vehicle for everything else that had been tabled in the House over the previous week. But that spurred quite a dramatic finale, infuriated Republicans howling in protest<\/a> as the legislation was approved along party lines with minutes to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what happened to all of those measures in the 2024 House tax bill that didn\u2019t make it out of conference committee? Well, almost all of them have been picked up off the cutting room floor and reassembled into HF2274<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On her first day as co-chair of the House Taxes Committee after the body reached a 67-67 split on Monday, Rep. Aisha Gomez<\/a> (DFL-Mpls) decided to go big. She\u2019s sponsoring an 80-page bill full of changes to Minnesota\u2019s tax code that looks a lot like a first offer to the committee\u2019s co-chair, Rep. Greg Davids<\/a> (R-Preston), and his fellow Republicans in negotiations over how a 2025 tax bill should look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As amended<\/a> and amended again<\/a>, the bill is a smorgasbord of changes in tax law, ranging from individual and corporate income taxes to property taxes to sales taxes to local government aids and beyond. It was laid over for possible omnibus bill inclusion, but Gomez emphasized that it was intended to launch the conversation about what should go into such a bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLast year, we were able to get four or five provisions from our 2024 tax bill passed in the final agreement,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cBut there was a lot that was left on the table. So we\u2019re just rehearing these to get them into the committee\u2019s jurisdiction for our negotiations at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIs this normal?\u201d asked Rep. Wayne Johnson<\/a> (R-Cottage Grove). \u201cIn other committees, I see previous bills rewritten and then we hear them individually. \u2026 It\u2019s kind of overwhelming to know what each of these are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n