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The Ninety-fourth Minnesota Legislature is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state of Minnesota, composed of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives. It convened in Saint Paul on January 14, 2025, [ 1 ] following the November 2024 elections for the House as well as a special election for Senate ...
The list provides an overview of each session, including the dates they were convened and adjourned and the preceding elections. The legislature meets at the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul . Prior to statehood , there were 8 territorial legislatures (1849 to 1857).
And we can't forget about Minnesota's 2024 legislative session. To help you keep track of where things are in the state's political calendar, here's a timeline of key dates as we move through the ...
The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senators are elected from 67 single-member districts. In order to account for decennial redistricting, members run for one two-year term and two four-year terms each decade.
Minnesota lawmakers failed to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment that would have enshrined protections for abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in the state Constitution as the 2024 legislative session ...
House Democrats in Minnesota's legislature are threatening to skip out on the first two weeks of the legislative session starting Jan. 14, deepening political discord, the Minnesota Star Tribune ...
This was the first legislature to be fully DFL-controlled since the 88th Minnesota Legislature in 2013–15. During the first session (2023), the body passed a number of major reforms to Minnesota law, including requiring paid leave, banning noncompete agreements, cannabis legalization, increased spending on infrastructure and environmental protection, modernizing the state's tax code ...
DFL Representatives announced they would boycott legislative sessions until the special election was resolved, in an attempt to deny the Republicans a quorum. [12] During the first session of the House on January 14, 2025, Republican leader Lisa Demuth was elected Speaker of the House in a controversial vote with no DFL representatives present.