1. Jamie Long was born on December 19,1981 and is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019.
55 Facts About Jamie Long
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From 2023 to 2025, Jamie Long served as the Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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Jamie Long attended Carleton College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2004, and George Washington University, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 2007.
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Jamie Long has worked as an environmental attorney, an energy and transportation aide in the United States Congress and worked for Sheldon Whitehouse and Diana DeGette.
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Jamie Long previously worked as former US Representative Keith Ellison's deputy chief of staff and legislative director.
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Jamie Long managed Ellison's 2017 campaign for Democratic National Committee chair.
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Jamie Long was chair of the Linden Hills Neighborhood Council and a board member of Minneapolis Climate Action.
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Jamie Long was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2018 and has been reelected every two years since.
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Jamie Long first ran after eight-term incumbent Paul Thissen announced he would not seek reelection in order to run for governor of Minnesota.
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From 2021 to 2022, Jamie Long chaired the Climate and Energy Finance and Policy Committee.
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Jamie Long served as an assistant majority leader of the House DFL caucus and as vice chair of the Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Committee from 2019 to 2020.
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Jamie Long was mentioned as a potential candidate for majority leader after the 2018 election.
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Jamie Long spoke in support of high-profile bills to protect abortion rights, provide driver's licenses to undocumented residents, make Minnesota a refuge state for transgender people, and provide funding to the attorney general to hire more prosecutors.
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Jamie Long said he was concerned about proposals to eliminate the Social Security tax for "very wealthy" Minnesotans.
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Jamie Long has supported efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing reliance on coal plants and investing in solar panels, wind energy, and electric vehicles.
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Jamie Long has called for addressing emissions in the transportation and agriculture sectors, and called for more investment in weatherization, energy capacity and electric infrastructure.
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Jamie Long has supported legislation to help low-income, residential customers participate in solar programs and programs to place solar panels on public schools.
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Jamie Long pushed legislation that would allow cities to move faster on updating building energy codes.
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Jamie Long has opposed deregulation of the energy market, and said it is a "false choice" to say Minnesota needs to mine for copper to combat climate change.
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Jamie Long criticized House Republicans in 2019 for voting against an amendment declaring that human activity is a key cause of climate change and said Senate Republicans refused to support the green energy job sector.
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Jamie Long called the session's final compromise climate legislation "definitely a disappointing outcome for the climate and moving clean energy forward".
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In 2021, Jamie Long authored the Energy Conservation and Optimization Act, which included an expansion of the state's energy conservation program, particularly to low-income households, and made it easier for gas utilities to use "renewable" natural gas and carbon-free hydrogen.
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Jamie Long called the bill "the biggest piece of energy legislation we have passed in several years".
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In 2019, Jamie Long authored legislation to set a 100 percent clean energy goal by 2050, saying "the crisis is urgent".
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Jamie Long introduced the proposal again in 2021, this time moving the goal up to 2040.
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Jamie Long said that the new goals, which would be among the nation's most ambitious, were updated "because we've seen that we're failing to meet our greenhouse gas goals".
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In 2023, Jamie Long said the "100 percent by 2040" bill would be a caucus priority for DFLers.
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Jamie Long has supported Walz's efforts to use his rule-making authority to adopt stricter car emission standards, and pushed for a state rebate program for electric vehicle purchases.
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Jamie Long has not supported efforts to fully ban the sale of gas cars, instead calling for more incentives to spur the adoption of EVs Jamie Long has authored bills to require EV-ready spaces in or next to new commercial and multifamily structures.
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Jamie Long supported legislation to provide matching funds for electric vehicle infrastructure provided by President Joe Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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Jamie Long founded a bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Caucus in the Minnesota legislature, and pushed for automatic expungement of certain low-level crimes.
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Jamie Long supported Governor Walz's criminal justice reform proposals, and wrote a bill to create a clemency review commission staffed by appointees from the governor, attorney general, and chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and replace the requirement for a unanimous vote for a two-thirds majority.
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Jamie Long supported requiring judges to issue "sign and release" warrants instead of arrest warrants for certain offenses after the police shooting of Daunte Wright.
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Jamie Long authored a bill to limit the use of shackling children in court, and a law that would reform the use of jail informants.
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Jamie Long wrote legislation that would allow candidates for office to shield their home addresses due to safety concerns from protests at the homes of legislators.
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Jamie Long led a criminal justice reform roundtable for 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary candidate Elizabeth Warren, and praised her policies on use-of-force standards and plan to end private prisons.
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Jamie Long wrote a bill that would limit probation terms to five years, and legislation requiring the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission to establish recommended probation guidelines.
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Jamie Long has said, "lengthy probation terms don't have any real relation to our goals of rehabilitation, fairness, and just punishment".
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Jamie Long has spoken out about the need to reduce probation terms to help promote rehabilitation and reintegration.
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Jamie Long authored legislation that would mandate PTSD training for public safety workers and change the process for police receiving state duty disability benefits.
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Jamie Long has spoken out about the number of Minneapolis police officers seeking disability benefits, saying it could lead to some avoiding the normal disciplinary process.
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Jamie Long has called for legislation to open access to presidential primary ballots, allowing candidates to be listed if they file an affidavit and pay a fee.
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Jamie Long supported legislation to make voting easier and safer during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing for expanding voting by mail and placing ballot drop boxes outside government polling places.
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Jamie Long supports moving Minnesota from a part-time to a full-time legislature, saying the change would get rid of the need for last-minute special sessions, lessen the need for massive omnibus bills, and lead to more bipartisan discussion and agreement.
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Jamie Long authored a bill that would put the measure on the ballot for voters to decide.
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Jamie Long sponsored legislation in 2023 to expand MinnesotaCare, the state's healthcare program for low-income Minnesotans, saying it would help small business owners, self-employed workers, and undocumented immigrants.
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Jamie Long co-authored legislation to increase funding for efforts to ensure every Minnesotan was counted in the 2020 census.
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Jamie Long supported efforts to rename Lake Calhoun in his district, named after John C Calhoun, to its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska.
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Jamie Long wrote a bill to create uniform state rules for how cities can create municipal identification cards.
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Jamie Long spoke out about the lack of childcare options near the state capitol and the difficulty of being a new parent in the legislature.
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In July 2019, Jamie Long accepted a $50,000 paid research fellowship at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment's Energy Transition Lab.
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Jamie Long called the allegations "politically motivated" but resigned from the job in September 2019.
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Hortman said she would review the allegations, requesting the documents related to Jamie Long's hiring at the university.
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Jamie Long disclosed that she had previously been employed by the university, and taught classes alongside Anderson, and asked for House nonpartisan research to retain outside counsel to look into the matter.
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An independent investigation by law firm Ballard Spahr concluded that Jamie Long's conduct was "consistent with state laws and rules governing legislator conflicts of interest and lobbying activity".