Rep. Paul Torkelson
Republican · Minnesota District 15 · House · MN
Voting record
- Participation: shows up to vote 100% of the time.
- Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 97.6% of the time.
- Alignment with the district's political lean: 47.5%.
Recent votes by Rep. Paul Torkelson
- Voted Yea on Names Ramsey County highway for Master Sergeant Amor — Local highway designations provided, and portion of Ramsey County State-Aid Highway 96 designated as "Master Sergeant Nicole Amor Memorial Highway".
- Voted Yea on Omnibus Human Services policy bill
- Voted Yea on Minnesota adjusts human services program budgets — Department of Human Services and Department of Children, Youth, and Families forecasted program adjustments made.
- Voted Yea on Minnesota expands police benefits, strengthens public safety laws — Public safety; time extended to use appropriations; public safety officer and survivor benefits provided; sale or transfer of law enforcement vehicle, assault of hospital or clinic security guard, and grooming prohibited; crimes of impersonating a peace officer and theft modified; task forces and grant program established; MINNCOR policies modified; domestic violence case process modified; personal information protections provided to public safety officers; criminal penalties provided; reports required; and money appropriated.
- Voted Yea on Appropriates federal funding for Civil Air Patrol — Civil Air Patrol funding provided, and money appropriated.
- Voted Yea on Banks and firms can hold cryptocurrency for customers — Virtual-currency custody services allowed to be offered and performed.
- Voted Yea on Allows rounding payments and standardizes RFP templates — Rounding of a payment or transfer of case authorized, and commissioner of administration required to provide a standard template page for request proposals.
- Voted Nay on Replaces Henry Mower Rice statue in Capitol — Joint Committee on Library of Congress of United States Congress requested to approve replacement of statue of Henry Mower Rice now on display in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, and memorial resolution proposed.
- Voted Yea on Funds safety and security measures — Safety and security measures appropriation
- Voted Yea on Classifies district heating systems as public infrastructure — Thermal energy networks designated as public improvements and waterworks.
- Voted Yea on Clarifies how coroners handle deceased persons' belongings — Decedents' personal property disposition by coroners and medical examiners provisions modified.
- Voted Yea on Expands benefits for Secret War Laos veterans — Laos war; veterans benefits relating to the Secret War in Laos modified, veterans affairs commissioner directed to establish an eligibility process, technical changes made, appropriation canceled, and money appropriated.
- Voted Yea on Minnesota veterans funding and policy changes — Omnibus Veterans policy and supplemental appropriations
- Voted Yea on Expands who can be buried in state veterans cemeteries — Honor guard detail provided, and eligibility modified for burial in state veterans cemeteries.
- Voted Yea on Tighter rules for Minnesota veterans grants — Veterans affairs department standards established for legislatively directed competitive and direct grants, and report required.
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