THE Space and Time AGENDA

The Living Wage Minimum Standards Act replaces the fixed statutory minimum wage with a transparent methodology tied to the actual cost of living in Minnesota. It has been reviewed by Professor John Budd at the University of Minnesota, and Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Economic Development.

The commissioner calculates the wage using an established cost-of-living standard, publishes the result, and implements it through a phased schedule for larger and smaller employers. The initial phase begins 60 days after publication and no later than 90 days after enactment.

The bill is designed to establish the income floor before the rest of the agenda begins.

The Minnesota Digital Ownership and Consumer Sovereignty Act establishes that when a digital good is represented as bought, purchased, or owned, the consumer receives a permanent right to use it.

The act requires clear disclosure when digital access is temporary, revocable, or dependent on remote servers, and prevents sellers from later converting a completed purchase into a subscription, rental, or revocable license.

If purchased digital content or essential server support is discontinued, consumers must receive continued access, a retainable copy, a lawful replacement or preservation method, or a refund. The act also permits noncommercial consumer-operated replacement servers where lawfully authorized.

The Bank of Minnesota Act creates a publicly owned state bank. It has been reviewed by the Public Banking Institute.

The Bank provides financing, refinancing, guarantees, participations, revolving funds, liquidity, acquisition finance, and other public-purpose financial tools.

It serves as the financing institution for the housing, utility, agriculture, workweek, and other public investment programs authorized in 2029.

The Minnesota Personal Data Sovereignty Act establishes personal data as subject to the continuing and inalienable rights of the individual.

It gives Minnesotans control over how their data is collected, used, inferred, sold, shared, retained, and processed.

The act protects sensitive data, regulates data brokers and automated decisions, and creates a secure public portal for exercising data rights.

The Minnesota Housing Sovereignty Act establishes the Sovereign Homes Program and related public housing production and financing systems. It has been reviewed by the Center for Sustainable Building Research.

The program supports at-cost home construction, resident ownership, anti-speculation protections, public land use, long-term financing, and public recovery of repayments for future housing production.

The Minnesota Public Home Protection Act establishes a statewide public option for residential property and tenant protection.

The program provides coverage for homeowners, renters, condominium and cooperative residents, manufactured homes, and multifamily housing, with public claims administration, prompt payment standards, temporary housing support, tenant relocation protections, and a right to return after repair or reconstruction.

The act also funds loss mitigation, coordinating with the Minnesota Housing Sovereignty program, and using the Bank of Minnesota for reserve management, catastrophe liquidity, reconstruction credit, and other public financial support.

The Public Utilities Sovereignty Act creates pathways for public, municipal, cooperative, regional, household, and tribal ownership or control of essential utility systems.

The bill establishes the Minnesota Public Utilities Transition Authority, authorizes public acquisition finance, supports distributed renewable infrastructure and microgrids, protects ratepayers from large-load cost shifting, and restricts private hyperscale data-center development.

The Family Farm Modernization and Land Restoration Act supports independent family farms through refinancing, modernization, diversification, public procurement, regional processing, land restoration, and anti-consolidation protections.

The bill also creates a ten-acre small-farm viability and residence pathway, a voluntary planning tool, farmer-owned produce hubs, and flexible and adjustable public financing through the Bank of Minnesota and Rural Finance Authority.

The Life Readiness and Critical Thinking Curriculum Act establishes statewide instruction in reasoning, media literacy, financial literacy, civic knowledge, practical decision-making, and adult life preparation.

The bill is intended to make practical competence and critical thinking a standard part of public education.

The Childhood Foundations Act establishes universal childcare and prekindergarten through a statewide system of public, school-based, tribal, nonprofit, cooperative, family-childcare, and other qualified providers.

The bill provides full-day and full-year care, including evening, overnight, weekend, emergency, summer, and school-break coverage where needed. It also creates a year-round child nutrition program providing free breakfast and lunch to children during weekends, prolonged holidays, summer vacation, emergency closures, and other periods when schools are not in regular session.

The act finances new and expanded childcare facilities, sets provider payment and workforce standards, supports transportation and disability access, and phases in universal access statewide.

The Workweek Liberation Act reduces the legal full-time workweek in phases.

The standard falls to thirty-two hours in 2030, twenty-five hours in 2035, and sixteen hours for larger employers in 2039.

The bill protects base compensation and benefits, prohibits work intensification, establishes employer transition finance, and creates the Automation Dividend.

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