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House receives Senate message: joint convention to receive Gov. Tim Walz set for April 28
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Summary
The House received a Senate message naming its committee to meet with a House committee to receive Gov. Tim Walz at a joint convention April 28, 2026; the chamber also registered several Senate files and referred them to the chief clerk for comparison by unanimous consent.
The Minnesota House, meeting in Saint Paul on April 27, received a message from the Senate announcing a joint convention to receive the honorable Tim Walz, governor of the state of Minnesota, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. The clerk read that the Senate had appointed Senators Herr, Hemmingson, Yeager, Hoffman, Curran and Nelson to act with a similar House committee at the joint convention.
The clerk also announced that the Senate had passed and transmitted several senate files to the House. For each senate file read for first reading, a House member moved that the senate file and the corresponding house file then on the general register be referred to the chief clerk for comparison; the motions were moved by members identified in the record as Scott, Hewitt, Hicks and Mueller and each was ordered after the presiding officer stated "hearing no objection."
Why this matters: joint conventions are the formal mechanism for the legislature to receive the governor for addresses or messages, and the appointments of members set who will represent each chamber in that proceeding. The referrals to the chief clerk for comparison are routine clerical steps that align Senate and House versions of measures for further processing.
The House continued with routine business after the announcements and later recessed to the call of the speaker on a motion from Representative Niska.
