CapWatch

With only three weeks remaining in the legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz gave his State of the State speech last week.

The legislature returns from Easter/Passover break today with a significant amount of work to do in just four short weeks.

With five weeks to go in the legislative session, the legislature has wrapped up committee deadlines as of last Friday and is currently on a ten-day Easter/Passover break.

With roughly six weeks left in the legislative session, legislators have until this Friday, April 11th, to pass all major omnibus budget bills out of their respective finance committees.

The legislature returns from a short break for the Eid holiday on Tuesday, with only three days until the first round of committee deadlines.

Last week, newly elected state Rep. David Gottfried (DFL-Shoreview), was sworn in as the 134th member of the Minnesota House of Representatives after comfortably winning a special election in House District 40B.

For the second time this year, the balance of power in the Minnesota legislature was in the hands of a single district as voters went to the polls for a special election. On March 11th, the voters in House District 40B overwhelmingly supported Democrat David Gottfried over Republican Paul Wikstrom, electing him as the 134th member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

With legislative deadlines announced and the February forecast in hand, the Minnesota Legislature will look to pick up the pace as it has a somewhat condensed calendar to complete its work on the biennial budget.

The Minnesota Legislature continued to work at an accelerated pace this week as committees heard and considered a variety of budget, policy, and capital investment proposals.

Legislative activity increased significantly this week as members of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives worked through a variety of policy and budget proposals.

This week felt much more familiar at the Minnesota State Capitol as all 201 legislators participated in floor sessions and committee hearings.

On Wednesday, February 5th, legislative leaders in the Minnesota House of Representatives announced a revised power sharing agreement for the 2025-26 biennium that ended the more than three-week stalemate and brought all 133 members of the House of Representative to the chamber for the first time in 2025.