Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called the state legislature into special session starting today. (Friday). He says there’s a need to preserve emergency powers he’s been using to manage the COVID 19 pandemic. Minnesota Farm Bureau’s Public Policy Director Amber Hanson Glaeser is hoping lawmakers will be able to also pass tax and bonding bills and conform the Section 179 expensing for agriculture.
She says it’ll likely be a week later however before the legislature would be able to fund both the tax and bonding bills.
Glaeser says Minnesotans have been at a major disadvantage by not having the Section 179 expensing conformed with the federal rules.
Glaeser says the only real agriculture related issues are the tax and bonding bills. She says legislators will also talk about some other non ag issues related to COVID 19 relief funding and the emergency powers request by the Governor.
