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Rules committee adopts supplemental calendar over objections about missing fiscal note for House File 11
Summary
The Minnesota House Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration voted 8-7 to adopt a supplemental calendar that schedules three bills for floor action March 10, 2025, after members raised procedural concerns about House File 11 lacking a completed fiscal note when it left the committee of jurisdiction.
The Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration voted 8-7 to adopt a supplemental calendar that adds three bills for consideration on Monday, March 10, 2025.
Representative Lee Long, a committee member, objected to moving House File 11 to the floor without a completed fiscal note and requested a roll call vote. "So due to the procedural irregularities and not having the fiscal note when it was moved out of committee, I'll ask for a roll call and ask for a no on the calendar," Long said during debate.
The committee chair made the motion "to move the adoption of the supplemental calendar for the day pursuant to rule 1.21" and identified the three bills scheduled for the supplemental calendar as House File 11, House File 23, and Senate File 1552. Representative Paul Anderson, the chief House author for Senate File 1552, told the committee, "the intent is to take the Senate language of the bill. It was amended and we agreed to the amendments and it came back from the Senate the way we'd like to have it passed." Anderson spoke to confirm the authors’ intention to retain the Senate language.
Lee Long said the procedural sequence was irregular: House File 11 had moved from the Jobs committee to Ways and Means without a completed fiscal note, and then was advanced again before the fiscal note was available to the committee of jurisdiction. Long noted that the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) had told a committee during the process that paid family and medical leave implementation "is on track and going well," an item that arose in a post-referral hearing for context on implementation.
The roll call produced eight ayes and seven nays, and the motion to adopt the supplemental calendar prevailed. The committee did not record a second to the motion in the transcript.
Votes at a glance - Motion: Adopt the supplemental calendar for the day pursuant to Rule 1.21; designate Monday, March 10, 2025 for adoption of the supplemental calendar. - Outcome: Approved, 8–7. - Tally: Ayes — Chair (unnamed), Vice Chair Engen, Representative Jacob, Representative Nash, Representative Schultz, Representative Scott, Representative Steer, Representative Zolensa Carr. Nays — Representative Lee Long, Representative Coulter, Representative Frederick, Representative Hollins, Representative Howard, Representative Cagle, Representative Purcell.
What was calendared - House File 11 — author not consistently recorded in the transcript (transcript references both "Nash" and "Baker"); bill text and fiscal note details not specified in the transcript. - House File 23 — author listed as Robins in the transcript; bill details not specified in the transcript. - Senate File 1552 — chief House author identified as Representative Paul Anderson; committee said it would keep Senate language for this file.
The committee concluded its business and adjourned after the vote. The transcript does not show further debate on the substance of any of the three bills during this meeting; the discussion focused on the procedural question of calendaring and the status of the fiscal note for House File 11.
