House appoints conference committee after Senate refuses to concur on Senate File 1832

The Minnesota House of Representatives agreed to appoint a six-member conference committee after the Senate sent a message refusing to concur in the House amendments to Senate File No. 1832, a bill relating to state government and establishing a biannual budget for jobs, labor and economic development.

The Senate message, read aloud during the House session and signed in the record by Thomas S. Bottern, secretary of the Senate, said the Senate “refuses to concur in the House amendments” to Senate File No. 1832 and requested that a conference committee be appointed. The message named the Senate appointees as Champion, McEwen, Mohammed, Hauschild, Overbating and Dre Heim.

Representative Pinto moved that the House appoint a conference committee of six members to meet with a like committee appointed by the Senate on the disagreeing votes between the two houses. “We’re gonna meet, their 6 with our 6. That is my motion,” Representative Pinto said when offering the motion. The House approved the motion by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

The speaker announced that House members had been appointed to the conference committee, though the transcript did not specify the names of those House appointees.

Later in the session Representative Niska moved that, when the House adjourns, it adjourn until 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The motion passed on a voice vote. Representative Niska then moved that the House do now adjourn; that motion also passed by voice vote and the House stood adjourned until 11 a.m. on May 13, 2025.

The conference committee process is the formal means by which the two chambers reconcile differences on legislation; the House record shows the Senate asked for the committee on Senate File No. 1832 and identified its six Senate appointees, while the House appointed six members to meet with them (names not specified in the House transcript).