LEGISLATIVE SUCCESS
Together, we successfully moved a bold agenda because we worked in a deep relationship with our community.
Kozlowski’s efforts center on urgently writing a future worthy of Minnesotans and generations to come:
Where housing and healthcare are human rights, every worker earns thrivable wages and the protection of a strong union.
Where our clean air, land, and water are safeguarded for all.
Where our communities are free of violence in all its forms, universal childcare and public education unlocks every child’s potential, and infrastructure binds our communities rather than fractures us. Catch my 2025 End of Session Report out from the Capitol.
PREVIOUS LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS
Securing 2SLGBTQIA & Human Rights Protections
I was proud to work on establishing a Task Force on Preventing Violence Against Latine Women, Girls, and people, champion of the bill to provide grants to public schools for the creation of Gender Neutral Bathrooms, established the MMIR Reward Fund, and more. I was proud to co-champion the Trans Refuge Bill and work to pass protections around Gender Affirming Care for trans youth and adults.
SAFETY
I passed HF 774, investing $1,500,000 to supplement the $2 million First Witness Child Advocacy Center is raising on its own to address child abuse and provide support for families. Duluthians and communities across the state can begin their path toward healing, justice, and ending cycles of violence in a space that is designed with dignity, respect, and whole family care.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
HF7 is a big one. This bill, co-sponsored by me, modifies electric utility renewable energy standard obligations, ensuring renewable energy is accessible and safe.
ECONOMIC Justice
I introduced two bills during the 2023 session, HF 4193 and HF3783. The first would enable the University of Minnesota to fully move forward with the agreement to return the land encompassed by the Cloquet Forestry Center (approximately 3400 acres) to the Fond du Lac Band. The second would provide Tribes with a Right of First Refusal for tax-forfeited parcels within the boundary of the reservation. I also presented HF 4050, a bill to standardize minimum wage, in the Labor and Industry Finance and Policy Committee. Virtually all employees would be entitled to the state’s current minimum wage for large employers of $10.85 an hour.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
I’m a proud member of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus and co-author of legislation to protect and expand bodily autonomy, such as HF1, the Protect Reproductive Options Act establishing the fundamental right to reproductive health.
HOUSING for all
Though the legislature passed a historic $1 billion investment to spark more development of affordable and work force homes. The 2023 Housing Budget was the largest in state history - including $35.5 million worth of investments in single family homes and apartments in Duluth. The budget funded initiatives including housing infrastructure, first-generation homebuyers assistance, the “Bring It Home” rental assistance program, community housing stabilization, homelessness prevention, workforce housing development, and manufactured home lending grants.
In 2025, we passed the Housing and Homelessness Prevention Bills. We also passed our bipartisan Housing Budget. These packages includes my Tenants Rights reforms, $2M investment in the Challenge Fund Program, $800,000 secured for the Wilder Homelessness Study/Census to end homelessness with human centered data and unhoused relatives at the center, and policy provisions to help spur the creation of more homes, and our new locally-owned social Housing program to restore housing from a private commodity, back into a public good. This legislation makes vital investments that will help prevent family homelessness and build more homes that Minnesotans can afford.
EDUCATION
I was beyond thrilled to sponsor HF5, providing free school lunch and breakfast provided for students, and money appropriated.