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House approves committee reassignments, adopts concurrent resolution and recognizes Minnesota Frost
Summary
On March 20 the Minnesota House approved a series of noncontroversial motions to recall and reassign bills to different committees, adopted a Senate concurrent resolution on adjournment breaks, and passed a resolution honoring the Minnesota Frost.
St. Paul — The Minnesota House on March 20 took several procedural actions on the consent calendar, approved multiple committee reassignments, adopted a Senate concurrent resolution relating to adjournment breaks, and passed a House resolution recognizing the Minnesota Frost women's professional hockey team.
At the start of the session the chamber adopted House Resolution recognizing the Minnesota Frost and observed Women's History Month; members of the team were invited to the House floor. Representative Liz Ryer, Representative Zalesznikar and Representative Purcell each spoke during the presentation. A separate message from the Senate transmitted Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, relating to adjournment breaks; the House suspended the rules to consider and adopt it.
Later the House approved a sequence of motions to recall or re-refer bills to different committees. The motions and outcomes included:
- Representative Zachary Steer moved to recall House File 340 from the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law and re-refer it to the Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy; motion prevailed.
- Representative Freiburg moved to recall House File 1296 from State Government Finance and Policy and re-refer it to Agriculture Finance and Policy (the pet-breeder transparency bill); motion prevailed.
- Representative Robbins moved to recall House File 1921 from Capital Investment and re-refer it to Transportation Finance and Policy; motion prevailed.
- Representative Lee Kaye moved to recall House File 2549 from Workforce, Labor and Economic Development Finance and Policy and re-refer it to Housing Finance and Policy; motion prevailed.
- Representative Verneig moved to recall House File 2459 from Education Finance and re-refer it to Children and Families Finance and Policy (grants for learners birth to age 3 at Metro Deaf School); motion prevailed.
- Representative Schumacher moved to recall House File 2533 from Human Services Finance and Policy and re-refer it to Health Finance and Policy (prior authorization exclusions for certain mental-health drugs); motion prevailed.
- Representative Backer moved to recall House File 2604 from Human Services Finance and Policy and re-refer it to Health Finance and Policy (establishing medical assistance payments); motion prevailed.
Each motion was presented as noncontroversial and approved by voice vote; the record summary in the transcript notes "motion prevails" for each action. The House also approved a set of noncontroversial motions read from the desk and adopted them without objection.
These formal reassignments shift where bills will receive hearings and mark a standard part of House procedure for routing legislation.
