Permanent Rules of the House Index
A
absences, 2.01
absent members, call of the house, 2.02
abstracts for payment of money, 7.01
adjournment
motions for, 3.10
and motions to reconsider, 3.14
motions to fix time, 3.10
administrative rulemaking, 4.13
advancing a bill, motion to suspend the rules, 5.02
agriculture and rural development finance bills, 4.03, 4.13
agriculture and rural development finance committee, 6.01
agriculture policy committee, 6.01
alcoves, 2.40
amendments, article 3
after third readings, 1.30
amendments to, 3.20
entry in journal, 3.01
exceeding fiscal limits, 4.03
germaneness, 3.21, 6.21
in committee, germaneness, 6.21
increasing appropriations or taxes, 3.22
motions for, 3.10
re-referred bills, 1.30
written, 3.01
appropriations
amendments increasing, simple majority, 3.22
bills (see finance bills)
roll call vote, 2.03
articles, bills with, 4.01
authors
addition, 1.12
chief author, request/demand to return bill from committee, 4.31
limit of 35, 1.12
removal, 1.12
signatures, 1.10
B
biennium
committees, for, deadlines, 6.02
bills
changing to resolution, prohibited, 4.02
copies, 1.10
form approval, 4.01
recall from committees, 4.30
blanks, filling in, 1.30, 3.02
boards, appointment of members to, 6.03
bonding bills, 4.12
breach of confidentiality, 6.10
budget of the house (see house budget)
budget reserve and cash flow account, 4.03
budget resolution, 4.03
C
calendar for the day
bills from general register, 1.21
bills on, 1.15
contents, 1.21
continuing on, 1.21
order of business, 1.03
striking from, 1.21
calendar, consent (see consent calendar)
call of the house, 2.02
motion for the previous question, 3.13
call to order, 1.01, 2.30
campaigning activities, 9.05
capital investment committee, 4.03, 4.10, 6.01
negligible effect on debt obligations, determinations, 4.12
capital projects, jurisdiction over, 4.11
censure
members called to order, 2.30
offensive words in debate, 2.31
chair, speaker as, 1.01
chamber
admittance to, 2.40
control by speaker, 7.01
leaving or walking across, 2.33
smoking in, 9.40
chaplain, prayer by, 1.01
chief clerk
abstracts for payment money, 7.01
amendments, copies to, 3.01
calendar for day, publication, 1.21
comparison of house and senate files, 1.15
duties generally, 7.10
general register, publication, 1.20
journal of preceding day, reading, 1.02
notice of intent to move to reconsider, 3.14
offensive words in debate, reporting, 2.31
persons by desk during roll call, 2.34
reprinting of amended senate files, 1.15
tape recordings of floor proceedings, 2.15
civil law committee, 6.01
commerce, jobs, and economic development committee, 6.01
commissions, appointment of members to, 6.03
committee bills, 1.13
committee deadlines, department bills, introduction ten days before first deadline, 1.10
committee on rules and legislative administration
bills proposing memorials, 4.14
campaign activities, 9.05
chair, temporary speaker, 7.02
code of conduct, 9.01
committee budgets, 8.10
committee reports, 6.30
constitutional amendments, 4.15
employee vacancies, filling, 8.20
expenditure of house funds, 3.30
generally, 6.01
house budget, approval, 8.01
meetings during session, 6.20
reports, timing, 1.03
resolutions by, 2.21
second readings, 1.21
committees (see also names of specific committees)
announcements, posting, 7.10
chairs
charges against budget, approval, 8.10
three-session time limit, 6.02
conference committees (see conference committees)
expense budgets, 8.10
meetings
during session, 6.20
in retiring room, restrictions, 2.40
late night meetings, prohibition, 6.20
open, 6.21, 6.23
quorum, 6.21
scheduling, 6.20
minutes, 6.21, 6.24
motions before, order, 3.02
re-referrals to, 1.11, 1.30
recall of bills from, 4.30
reconsideration, 6.21
referrals to, 1.11
reports
adoption by house, 6.30
conference committee reports (see conference committee reports)
deadline for submission, 6.30
deadline on house files, 4.30
fiscal statements in, 4.03
form, 6.30
minority reports, 6.32
placement on consent calendar, 1.23
re-referrals to finance committees, 4.30
re-referred bills, 1.30
substitution of bills, 6.31
select committees, reports, order of business, 1.03
special committees, committee bills, 1.13
standing committees (see standing committees)
testimony, 6.22
time limits to consider bill, 4.31
communications, presenting (see also messages; petitions; reports)
order of business, 1.01
comparisons, house and senate files, 1.15
compensation, denial, 9.30
complaints
conduct of members, 6.10
open meeting violations, 6.23
conduct
code, 9.01
complaints about, 6.10
conference committees, reports, 1.03, 6.40
conflicts, joint rules with house rules, 5.05
congressional representatives, admittance to chamber, 2.40
consent calendar
bills on, 1.15, 1.23
bills on, during interim, 4.20
committee bills, 1.13
order of business, 1.03
placement on, noncontroversial bills, 1.23
striking from, 1.23
constitutional amendments, 4.15
contracts, 8.01
controller of the house, 7.01, 8.01, 8.20
controversial bills, striking from consent calendar, 1.23
convening, time of, 1.01
conversations during speeches, 2.33
copies
amendments, 3.01
bills for introduction, 1.10
noncontroversial bills on consent calendar, 1.23
crime prevention committee, 6.01
criminal convictions of members, 9.30
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W
daily business, generally, article 1
deadlines and time limits
adjournment, reasons against, 3.11
calendar. placement of bills on, 1.21
committees for biennium, 6.02
committees, consideration of bill, 4.31
department bills, introduction, 1.10
ethics committee investigations, 6.10
motion to place bill on calendar, 1.21
motion to reconsider, 3.14
moving the previous question, 3.13
requests to house to hear finance ot tax bills, 1.22
submitting bills for introduction, 1.10
debate
members called to order, explanations, 2.30
motion to suspend rules, 5.01
offensive words in, 2.31
prohibitions, excuses from voting, 2.05
questions of order after motion for the previous question, 3.13
resolutions, notice of intent to debate, 2.21
roll call votes, discussion prohibited, 2.04
speaking more than twice on same subject, 2.32
statement of motion by speaker, 3.01
debt, bills affecting, 4.12
decorum, article 2
definitions, 5.03
department bills, deadline for introduction, 1.04
department heads, admittance to chamber, 2.40
departments and agencies, establishing or reorganizing, 4.13
desk (see chief clerk)
discussion (see debate)
division of a question, 3.03
divisions
list, 6.01
recalling bills from, 4.30
doors, closing, call of the house, 2.02
education policy committee, 6.01
elections, votes on, 2.10
electronic voting system, 2.10
employees (see house employees)
engrossments
chief clerk, 7.10
unofficial, senate files amended, 1.15
enrollments, chief clerk, 7.10
environment and natural resources finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
environment and natural resources finance committee, 6.01
environment and natural resources policy committee, 6.01
equipment, use for campaign activities, 9.05
ethics committee
complaints about member's conduct, 6.10
generally, 6.01
open meeting requirement violations, 6.23
referrals to, cases of accepting honorarium, 9.20
resolutions by, debate, 2.21
even-numbered year
budget resolution, 4.03
designation of bills for calendar, deadline, 1.21
notice of intent to reconsider, deadline, 3.14
excused members, names, listing, 1.01
excusing from voting, 2.05
expenditures of house, reports on, 8.01
expenses, reimbursements, 9.20
family and early childhood education finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
family and early childnood education finance committee, 6.01
finance bills
capital projects, finance bills affecting, 4.12
combining by ways and means committee, prohibited, 4.03
consideration at request of ways and means chair, 1.22
moving the previous question, 3.13
referrals to finance committees, 4.10
referrals to governmental operations committee, exception, 4.13
referrals to ways and means committee, 4.03, 4.13
spending limits for, 4.03
finance committees
negligible fiscal effect, determination, 4.10, 4.11
reconciling finance bills with resolutions, 4.03
first assistant chief clerk, 7.10
first readings of bills
at introduction, 1.04
house bills, order of business, 1.03
fiscal calendar
bills on, during interim, 4.20
consideration of bills on, 1.22
flag, pledge of allegiance to, 1.01
floor (see chamber)
floor proceedings
generally, article 2
tape or other recording, 2.15
form approval, 4.01
former governors, admittance to chamber, 2.40
galleries, 2.41, 7.01, 9.40
general fund expenditures and revenues, limits, 4.03
general register
bills demanded to be returned from committee, 4.31
bills on
comparison with senate files, 1.15
during interim, 4.20
committee bills, 1.13
contents, 1.20
re-referred bills, 1.30
recall of bills from committee, 4.30
ten days on, 1.21
germaneness, 3.21, 6.21
governmental operations and veterans affairs policy committee, 4.13, 6.01
governor, admittance to chamber, 2.40
guests, seating near rostrum, 2.40
health and human services finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
health and human services finance committee, 6.01
health and human services policy committee, 6.01
hearing rooms, 9.40
higher education finance committee, 6.01
higher education, finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
Historical Society (see Minnesota Historical Society)
home detention of members, 9.30
honoraria, acceptance, 9.20
house budget, 8.01
house employees
appointments, 8.10
campaign activities, 9.05
reassignment, suspension, or discharge, 8.20
reimbursement of expenses, 8.01
house funds, expenditures, 3.30
house rules
conflict with joint rules, 5.05
illness, 2.01
incarceration of house members, 9.30
index clerk, 7.10
interactive television
notice of use to conduct meetings, 6.20
interim
introductions of bills during, 1.14
return of bills to standing committees, 4.20
introductions of house bills
committee bills, 1.13
congratulatory resolutions, exemption, 1.11
first reading, 1.04
order of business, 1.03
quadruplicate, 1.10
recess or interim periods, 1.14
jobs and economic development finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
jobs and economic development finance committee, 6.01
jobs and economic development policy committee, 6.01
joint rules
conflict with house rules, 5.05
conformity with, 6.30
journal
entries in, unless withdrawn, 3.01
errors, correcting, 1.01
identical senate and house files, report, 1.15
index of bills, 7.10
members present and excused list, 1.01
reading journal of preceding day, 1.02
requests/demands to return bill from committee, 4.31
judges, admittance to chamber, 2.40
judiciary finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
judiciary finance committee, 6.01
K-12 education finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
K-12 education finance committee, 6.01
laying on the table, motions, 3.10, 3.12
laying over
committee reports, 6.50
resolutions to be debated, 2.21
legislative days
midnight deadline, 1.50
legislative intent, tapes not admissible for, 2.15
legislative sessions, soliciting contributions during, 9.10
living expenses, 9.30
lobby, 7.01
lobbying, compensation for, 9.10
local government and metropolitan affairs committee, 6.01
local government funding of projects, 4.12
lodging, acceptance by member, 9.10
lounges, 9.40
majorities
fifteen members, roll call votes, 2.03
simple majority
amendments increasing appropriations or taxes, 3.22
continuation of bills on calendar, 1.21
lifting call of the house, 2.02
motion for the previous question, 3.13
orders of business, advancing or reverting, 1.02
placement of bills on calendar for day, 1.21
publication of bill, 1.40
re-referrals, 1.30
recall of bill from committee, 4.30
suspending roll call/call of the house, 2.02
ten members, call of the house, 2.02
two-thirds majority, suspension or amendment of rules, 5.01
unanimous consent, amendments after third readings, 1.30
majority vote, defined, 5.03
Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure, 5.04
media passes, 2.41
media, equal privileges, 2.41
meditation, time for, 1.01
members
present and excused, named in journal, 1.01
memorial resolutions (see resolutions)
memorials
bills for, 4.14
messages from the Senate, consideration, order of business, 1.03
midnight, meeting past, 1.50, 6.20
mileage, 9.30
Minnesota Historical Society, 2.15, 6.24
minority party caucus, committee assignments, 6.02
money, bills directing payment of (see finance bills)
motions, article 3
adjournment, when in order, 3.11
calendar, placement on, 1.21
call of the house, 1.21
division, 3.03
entry in journal, 3.01
expenditure of house funds, 3.30
filling blanks, order of motions, 3.02
germaneness, 3.21, 6.21
intent to have voted or voted differently, prohibited after roll call vote, 2.04
laying on the table, 3.12
members called to order, allowing to explain, 2.30
order of business, 1.03
order of precedence, 3.10
re-referral of bills demanded to be returned from committee, 4.31
recall of bill from committee, 4.30
reconsideration, 3.14
rescinding, not in order, 3.15
suspension of rules to advance a bill, 5.02
suspension or amendment of rules, 5.01
withdrawal, 3.01
motions and resolutions, order of business
generally, 1.03
motion to recall bill or resolution, 4.30
motion to suspend or amend rules, 5.01, 5.02
notice
intent to move to reconsider, 3.14
motion to place bill on calendar, 1.21
special committee meetings, 6.20
odd-numbered years
budget resolution, 4.03
designation of bills for calendar, deadline, 1.21
notice of intent to reconsider, deadline, 3.14
request to hear finance or tax bills, deadline, 1.22
offensive words, 2.31
officers, article 7
offices, 9.40
omnibus capital investment bill, 4.03, 4.13
omnibus tax bill, 4.03, 4.13
oral amendments, 3.01
order of business, 1.03
parliamentary procedure, 5.04
party caucuses
meetings, 6.21
minority caucus, committee assignments, 6.02
passing, motions for, 3.10
permits, 2.40
petitions, order of business, 1.03
pledge of allegiance, 1.01
political contributions, soliciting, 9.10
postponement, motions for, 3.10
prayer, 1.01
presiding officer
order of consideration of bills on calendar for the day, 1.21
order of consideration of bills on consent calendar, 1.23
speaker (see speaker)
press, admittance to chamber, 2.40
previous question, motions for, 3.10, 3.13
privacy, ethics complaints, 6.05
property tax division, 6.01
putting the question, 2.33, 3.02, 3.21
questions
division, 3.03
putting the question, 2.33, 3.02, 3.21
re-referrals
bonding bills, 4.12
majority vote, 1.30
recall of bills from committee or division, 4.30
recess (see interim)
recognition by speaker, 2.20
reconsideration, 3.14, 6.21
redistricting committee, 6.01
referrals
finance bills, 4.10
tax bills, 4.11
referrals, motions for, 3.10
regular session
budget limits effective during, 4.03
regulated industries committee, 6.01
reporting of bills, 1.04
reports of standing committees (see also standing committees)
order of business, 1.03
resolutions
authors, limit of 35, 1.12
budget resolution, 4.03
changing to bill, prohibited, 4.02
congratulatory, 1.11, 4.02
entry in journal, 3.01
expenditure of house funds, 3.30, 4.02
finance and revenue bills, budget limits, 4.03
form approval, 4.01
introduction, 1.10
joint resolutions
form of bill required, 4.02
notice of intent to debate, 2.21
memorial resolutions
authors, limit of 35, 1.12
contents constituting memorial, 4.02
notice of intent to debate, exceptions, 2.21
votes not required, 2.05
moving the previous question, 3.13
notice of intent to debate resolution, 2.21
order of business, 1.03
re-referrals, 1.30
recall from committees, 4.30
requiring signature of governor
form of bill required, 4.02
notice of intent to debate, 2.21
specific funds, budget limits for, 4.03
retiring room, 2.40, 9.40
revenue bills (see also tax bills)
capital projects, revenue bills affecting, 4.12
combining by ways and means committee, prohibited, 4.03
consideration at request of tax committee chair, 1.22
moving the previous question, 3.13
re-referral to governmental operations committee, exception, 4.13
spending limits for, 4.03
revisor of statutes, form approval, 4.01
roll call votes
amendments increasing appropriations or taxes, 3.22
committees, 6.21
explanations of votes, 2.04
persons by chief clerk's desk during, 2.34
when required, 2.03
roll call, of members
at start of business, 1.01
call of the house, 2.02
rostrum, seating of guests near, 2.40
Rules committee (see Committee on rules and legislative administration)
rules of the house
amending, 5.01
motions to amend, 3.12
suspending, 5.01
seats
keeping, 2.20
voting, 2.10
second readings
at reports of standing committee, 1.04
bills demanded to be returned from committee, 4.31
general register, 1.20
order of business, 1.03
placement on consent calendar required for, 1.23
publication of bills after, 1.40
re-referred bills, 1.30
seconds, moving the previous question, 3.13
select committees, reports, order of business, 1.03
Senate
bills
amendments, unofficial engrossment, 1.15
disposition, 1.15
referral for comparison, 1.15
second readings, order of business, 1.03
members
admittance to chamber, 2.40
presence in retiring room, 2.40
messages from
order of business, 1.03
passage of bills, 1.15
sergeant at arms
appointment, 7.01
call of the house, 2.02
chief sergeant at arms, media passes, 2.41
clearing alcoves, 2.40
duties generally, 7.20
retiring room, 2.40
sessions
legislative sessions, soliciting campaign contributions during, 9.10
televising, 2.41
signatures
authors of bills, 1.10
committee chairs, committee reports, 6.30
controller of the house, 7.01
singular and plural, 5.03
smoking, 9.40
speaker
amendments exceeding fiscal limits, 4.03
call to order, 1.01, 2.30
committee meeting schedules, 6.20
committee procedures, 6.21
complaints to, open meeting violations, 6.23
contract approvals, 8.01
duties generally, 7.01
emergency committee meetings, authorizing, 2.40
excusing members, call of the house, 2.02
members' conduct toward, 2.33
noon Friday meetings of standing committees, approval, 6.20
notice to, motion to place bill on calendar, 1.21
oral amendments, permitting, 3.01
permission for absence, 2.01
recognition by, 2.20
referrals to committees, 1.11
rostrum, seating of guests near, 2.40
signature, 7.01
statement of motion before debate, 3.01
subcommittee appointments, 6.04
successor to, 7.02
vacancies, 7.01
speaker pro tempore, 7.05
special committees, committee bills, 1.13
special session, motions to recall bill from committee, 4.30
standing committees (see also committees)
chairs, three-session limit, 6.02
committee bills, 1.13
list, 6.01
minority members, 6.02
noon Friday meetings, 6.20
referrals to, senate bills, 1.15
reports of (see also committees, reports)
order of business, 1.03
return of bills during interim, 4.20
state government finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
state government finance committee, 6.01, 8.01
strike and insert, motions, 3.03
subcommittees, 6.04, 6.24
submitting 24 hours before session, 1.04
substitution of senate files, 1.15
tables of contents in bills, 4.01
tabling (see laying on the table)
talking, 2.33
tape recordings, floor proceedings, 2.15
tax bills (see also revenue bills)
consideration at request of tax committee chair, 1.22
omnibus tax bill, 4.03, 4.13
referrals to tax committee, 4.11
tax committee, 4.03, 6.01
chair, request to hear finance bills, 1.22
referrals to, 4.11
taxes, amendments increasing, 3.22
television
interactive television, notice of use to conduct meetings, 6.20
television stations, 2.41
third readings, requirement, 1.04
titles, amendments, after third reading, 1.30
transportation finance bill, 4.03, 4.13
transportation finance committee, 6.01
transportation policy committee, 6.01
transportation projects, 4.12
travel expenses, mileage, 9.30
travel or lodging, acceptance by member, 9.21
trunk highway fund capital projects, 4.12
unanimous consent, to amendments after third reading, 1.30
United States of America, flag, pledge of allegiance, 1.01
unofficial engrossments, 1.15
urgency, 5.02
vacancies, 7.01
vote of the house, defined, 5.03
votes
calendar for day, placement on, 1.21
changing, prohibited during roll call votes, 2.04
electronic voting system, 2.10
immediate interest in a question, 2.05
required unless excused, 2.05
roll call votes (see roll call votes)
voting, article 2
ways and means committee
budget resolution, 4.03
chair, request to hear finance bills, 1.22
fiscal statements on bills, 4.03
generally, 6.01
limits for major money bills, 4.03
negligible effect on debt obligations, determinations, 4.12
negligible fiscal effect, determination, 4.10, 4.11
referrals of finance bills to, 4.10, 4.11
wells, media representatives in, 2.41
withdrawal of amendments or other motions, 3.01
withdrawal of bills, house files identical with senate files, 1.15