(St. Paul, MN) — A second committee hearing in the Minnesota Senate was held on Wed. afternoon on a bill that aims to clarify when school resource officers are allowed to use restraining holds on violent students. Just over three days after the fatal shootings of two officers and a paramedic, legislators and the group Protect Minnesota lay out their goals (11am) for gun violence prevention legislation this session. Lawmakers in Reproductive Freedom Caucus talk about their agenda (230pm) for 2024. There’s a House hearing on a bill that would allow 17-year-olds to serve alcoholic beverages in establishments with on-sale licenses. And a House panel debates a bill that would allow school boards to go to a four-day school week without approval of the state Department of Education. Senate is also taking up the A possible one-thousand-dollar fine for unruly fans at sporting events is the penalty in a bill that Minnesota House lawmakers are working on. Rosemount Representative John Huot (HEW-ott) says, “It’s not that fan that maybe questions the judgment of an official or yells out ‘bad call’ or talks about my eyesight.” But he says fans should be fined if they yell profanities or racist comments from the stands, or even come down on the floor and strike a player, coach or official. And Huot has another bill that would make it a gross misdemeanor for an assault on a game official that does not cause serious harm.