Minnesota House adopts committee reports, refers two Senate bills to Ways and Means and recesses

The Minnesota House of Representatives on April 24, 2025 adopted standing committee reports by unanimous consent, received two messages from the Senate and referred both senate files to the House Ways and Means Committee, and recessed to the call of the speaker.

The actions set the chamber’s immediate agenda: the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration designated several bills to be placed on the calendar for Friday, April 25, 2025, and established a pre-filing requirement for amendments to the listed House files. The House also recorded first readings for a group of newly introduced house files and took up formal second readings of several bills.

A committee report read under the rules of the House designated the following House file numbers to the Friday calendar and established pre-filing requirements for amendments as announced on the floor: "House file numbers 24 32, 30 20 2, 20 5 60 3, 13 50 4, and 25 51." The report cited House rules 1.21 and 3.33. The transcript did not provide additional descriptive titles or substantive text for those files; details for each file were not specified on the floor.

The clerk announced messages from the Senate transmitting Senate File 1959 and Senate File 2216; both were given first reading on the House floor and were referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The clerk also read first readings for House Files 3232 through 3240; the transcript recorded their first reading but did not include bill summaries or sponsors on the floor.

Earlier on the agenda the clerk read second readings for House File 2431, House File 2438 and a second reading for Senate File 2847. No final action on those specific files was recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.

Representative Niska moved the chamber into recess "to the call of the speaker." The motion was approved by voice vote, recorded on the transcript as "Aye" with no roll-call tally. "Representative Niska moves a recess to the call of the speaker," the transcript records. The House then stood in recess.

During announcements, Representative Pérez-Vega (Ramsey) encouraged members and visitors to attend Latino Day at the Capitol hosted by the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs between 2 and 4 p.m., as noted on the floor. That announcement was informational and did not constitute formal legislative action.

Because most items on the floor were procedural—readings, referrals and unanimous-consent adoptions—the substantive text of bills referenced on the floor was not provided in the transcript excerpt. Where the transcript listed bill numbers without summaries or sponsors, those items are reported here as "not specified."