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Happening today

☀️ Sun and clouds mixed. High temperatures near 70. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning due to extreme fire risk for most of the state. 

🏛️ Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan will join SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff for the National Small Business Week Awards Ceremony and a discussion on federal and state partnerships to grow and support Minnesota’s small businesses. 

🏬 Rep. Dean Phillips will host Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman for a tour of Asia Mall in Eden Prairie. The stop is part of the Biden Administration’s National Small Business Week tour. The Mall opened in late November of 2022.

🏆 Two more FOX 9 Top Teachers will receive their awards today! As a FOX 9 Top Teacher, winners will receive $1,000 from Royal Credit Union for classroom supplies. Papa Murphy’s will also provide them with a pizza party for up to 30 people. 

Minnesota House approves paid family leave bill

• The HF 2 bill was passed Tuesday night on a 68 to 64 vote.
• The bill would now allow up to 12 weeks of partial payments each year to people who need family bonding with a new child or who have a serious medical condition.
• When Gen Zers think about moving to a different state, access to paid family medical leave is one of their top considerations, according to Minnesota House Democrats. So the DFL is trying to make the state more attractive.

“The goal of this plan is to extend the most even safety net across the entire state,” said Rep. Ruth Richardson, DFL-Mendota Heights, the author of HF 2.

The public plan would start distributing benefits in July 2025 while Republicans say their private plan could start this coming January.

But some business owners still believe the public plan is better than any private option.

“The best option would cost 50% more than this proposal, offers only 6 weeks off, excludes coverage for cancer, no maternity leave for adoption, no paternity leave, and would require a health screening, said Sarah Piepenburg, who owns Vinaigrette, a health foods store in Minneapolis.