As of 11:30 p.m. Monday, the Senate had to pass a tax bill and a bonding proposal funding infrastructure projects before they adjourned, but had approved the budget bills.

Most of the state government only has funding through the end of June after the Legislature failed to pass the majority of the bills that form the roughly $66 billion state budget by the end of

By Peter Cox and Ellie Roth Minnesota lawmakers hope to put a new state budget — and fears of a potential government shutdown — to rest Monday in a special session where bills negotiated largely in private are put up for high-stakes public votes.