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State Representative Ilhan Omar Contact Information: 337 State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. St. Paul, MN 55155 (651) 296-4257 [email protected] www.house.mn/60B 2017 LEGISLATIVE REPORT REP. ILHAN OMAR: Advancing Equality & Justice for All Minnesota Families Fighting for Our Community Helping Our Families Fighting for Employment & Better Labor Standards: Access to Affordable Childcare: Increased funding Throughout this session, Republicans sought to pass for the Child Care Assistance Program by $18 preemption legislation that would have handcuffed million to expand access and improve service. local governments from passing earned sick time Paid Family Leave: Ratified paid family leave rules or higher minimum wage laws. Rep. Omar access for thousands of state employees and helped lead the fight to remove or veto these harmful pushed to pass statewide policies that were provisions that hurt working families in Minneapolis. blocked by Republicans. Fighting for Quality Education: Summer Enrichment Programs: Passed legislation Rep. Omar opposed cuts to schools which would to fund summer enrichment programs for low have reduced programming, forced teacher layoffs income students who may be unfamiliar with a and increased class sizes. She fought for an increase in higher education experience. funding for E-12 education this year and next year. Funding to Stop the Spread of Measles: Passed $5 million to support Measles education and Fighting for Student Parents: prevention programming to increase awareness Investments that will Improve As a member of the Higher Education Conference about the importance of vaccines. Committee, Rep. Omar successfully passed legislation Minneapolis to expand childcare for parents who are college Supporting Our Elders After several years without one, the legislature students and provide access to a student parent 'bill passed a robust bonding bill that will invest of rights' so they can succeed in college and finish Social Security Tax Subtraction: Cut Social Security income taxes for 284,000 seniors. nearly $1 billion in critical infrastructure. This on time. Rep. Omar's legislation increased childcare important tool leverages our collective borrowing grants to $3,000 and extended eligibility for up to ten Protecting Transit Services for Seniors: Fought power as a state to improve the physical assets of semesters. Students will also now receive up to a $500 to restore funding cuts to Metro Transit for Metro institutions on which the public depends. Here student loan tax credit. Mobility and essential bus service we depend on. are some of the ways the City of Minneapolis will Investing in Affordable Housing:Passed $77 benefit: million in Statewide Affordable Housing and Homeless Infrastructure bonds to improve •Minneapolis 10th Avenue Bridge - $31.875 housing, including $10 million for Public Housing million Rehabilitation. •U of M - Health Sciences Education Facility (Medical School) - $66.667 million Aging in Place: Funded services to allow seniors •Brian Coyle Center - $330,000 to stay in their homes and maintain independence. •I-35 W - Lake Street Transit Access - $25 million •Minneapolis Veterans Home Truss Bridge - $7.851 million •Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery Fence - $1.029 million •The Family Partnership - $1.6 million Celebrating Our Culture: •The People’s Center - $2.2 million The 2017 Omnibus Legacy Bill included legislation •Minneapolis Norway House - $5 million dedicating $400,000 to the Somali Museum & Arts •Hennepin Center for the Arts - $3.0 million Grants authored by Rep. Omar. Rep. Omar also •Minneapolis American Indian Center - $155,000 authored legislation to fund $330,000 for redesign and •South Minneapolis Workforce Center Asset expansion of the Brian Coyle Center as part of the Preservation - $1.342 million 2017 Bonding Bill. For more information, please call Rep. Omar’s Capitol office at 651-296-4257.